Saturday, November 17, 2007

Saturday night's trip around the horn...

On this rainy Saturday night, here's what's rockin' on the blogosphere--from the Great Midwest and beyond....

Iowahawk has a reprint of a 1942 publication by Munro Leaf, My Book to Help America. How things have changed....

I missed this one when it was first put online, but the DePaul student newspaper (Yes, I know it's not a blog) a few months ago found a man who can top both the Republicans and Democrats at the Chicago Catholic University--and that man is Thomas Klocek.

As Graham Chapman once said on Monty Python's Flying Circus, "And now over to me..."

This afternoon, the my alma mater, the University of Illinois, crushed Northwestern 41-22 on the football field. Behind the scenes at the U of I, there's a scandal I've been covering since February. Keep in mind the disclaimer on the left-hand side of my home page, but some of the comments are well, interesting on this post, this one, and especially this one.

Haloscan is a little buggy tonight, but the comments are there.

Eight days from now marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington. Levois at It's My Mind recalls the event, which happened on the afternoon before Thanksgiving that year.

Kentucky blogger Prairie Bluestem is a Nebraska native, and posts about Rudyard Kipling's visit to Omaha. It's safe to say that what the great Englishman wrote will never make it into an Omaha Chamber of Commerce brochure.

Keeping an eye on things in South Carolina is the job of The Palmetto Scoop, and they are welcoming a new contributor, Will Armstrong.

Dan at Outraged Patriots in Oklahoma came across a Washington Times article about a Virginia furniture retailer, which proclaims on a sign outside the store "Credito sin papeles de gringo." In English that means "Credit without gringo papers."

Do you still get credit if you have "gringo papers?"

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