Posted by The Eleventh Hour 1 week 2 days ago.
Although, for social reasons, you dont want to have your young children running around saying it (particularly in public), there really is nothing wrong with the word. It doesnt demean or slander anyone. It isnt racist, sexist or any other ist. Its ...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 1 week 2 days ago.
This is the first in a regular series of short summaries of WMAY general manager Kevan Kavanaughs on-air commentaries. Obviously, I dont catch all of them but Ill post as I do. I listen so you don't have to.Shrter Kev: Blago sucks! This time because h...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 1 week 3 days ago.
I was driving by the Springfield AIG building this weekend and this thought quickly passed through my mind: Poor AIG, they spent all that money building this shiny new facility only to hit hard financial times. Then in the news today:The Bush administra...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 1 week 4 days ago.
I'm going to scream if I see that damn Toyota commercial featuring a really bad cover of The Fixx's Saved By Zero one more time! I swear it's in every commercial break on every channel.The worst part is, it's making me hate one of my favorite tunes from ...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 1 week 5 days ago.
I wish the WMAY web site would include transcripts of station general manager Kevan Kavanaughs commentaries. Sometimes I just want to pick them apart. Most of the time I do, really. I think I would start with his rant a few months ago against the kinds o...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 1 week 6 days ago.
The Bloomington Pantagraph has an interesting retrospective of the Hendricks murders that shook that community 25 years ago. The story was followed closely statewide and even nationally. I know I followed all of the details of the case. David Hendricks wa...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 1 week 6 days ago.
Give that man a beer! He's earned it.Story here.People have donated enormous amounts of time this election season to help push their candidates over the finish line. For Sam Chapple Sokol, it came down to what he could personally offer.Im not wealthy, ...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 1 week 6 days ago.
Hey, I was there too (both times); does that make me an artifact
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 2 hours ago.
OK, do we do this now or wait a bitSPRINGFIELD (AP) The election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president has made Springfield's Old State Capitol even more historic.Known as an Abraham Lincoln site, the building now has an important link to a 21st-c...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 2 hours ago.
With all the excitement surrounding the election results, its just now hitting me that Aaron Schock will soon me my representative in Congress. Thats it! Im immigrating to the southeast side of Springfield.
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 19 hours ago.
Assuming Missouri is finally called for McCain and North Carolina for Obama (both of which are likely), then my prediction last June that the electoral college results would be very similar to 1996 will have come largely true. 364 - 174 would be this ye...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 19 hours ago.
Assuming Missouri is finally called for McCain and North Carolina for Obama (both of which are likely), then my prediction last June that the electoral college results would be very similar to 1996 will have come largely true. 364 - 174 would be this ye...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 20 hours ago.
Want to make some money Open a shredding machine and burn barrel store near the White House before January,
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 22 hours ago.
OH NO! I woke up this morning and all my wealth had been redistributed!(I was going to save that joke for inauguration day, but by then we will have all forgotten abut that stupidity.)
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 1 day ago.
Illinois rejects the Con-Con. I was very young, but I remember the 1970 Con-Con. Well, mostly I remember the term Con-Con. As a 10 year-old it had a certain pleasing resonance. Also, I'm delighted that we all think the 1970 era political thinking stil...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 1 day ago.
Wow, Sangamon County went for Obama 51% to 47%. How Democratic of you all.
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 1 day ago.
Ohio called for Obama. It's all over. Congratulations President Obama.
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 1 day ago.
So is voter turnout really going tobe all that much greater nationally this year The media is attracted to long lines of voters like moths to the flame and we see these stories every presidential election. But are they really representaticvve of what is ...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 1 day ago.
So is voter turnout really going to be all that much greater nationally this year The media is attracted to long lines of voters like moths to the flame and we see these stories every presidential election. But are they really representative of what is g...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 weeks 1 day ago.
Heh, JP had a good point. Better tank up. Gas already has gone up around 24 cents a gallon today. Who knows, with the election over, it may be back up to $4.20 by Friday.
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