People have been protesting her since she was appointed. She was never qualified for the position in the first place, having zero experience or credentials in public education (she and her children attended private schools). She also joked about how the way to solve school overcrowding was for parents to use birth…

Except, sadly, this court just found the opposite of that. In a just and humane world, however, you'd be correct.

I remember when the April Fools Day jokes actually made me laugh.

Partially Irish Chicagoan here (my mom's maiden name is of the "O'..." kind), and I share your loathing. Taking the Red Line up to home on the North Side is awful on St. Patrick's. God damn Loyola kids never learn how to hold their liquor and there's at least one vomit incident on the train. (I've also been witness to…

I'm a little perplexed. He didn't actually insult her...he said in conversation to someone else (that she accidentally overheard) that he didn't like her speech. And this is somehow a "Michelle McGee/Tiger Woods Mistress moment." What?

Well, there are already CEDP chapters in many cities/states across the country. The Illinois chapters will not disband, as there's still much work to—folks in the Campaign here here are still working on both the eventual goal of national abolition, as well as winning justice for torture victims and others who were…

Here in Chicago I've worked with the Campaign to End the Death Penalty for many years. Having met several of the men exonerated from death row after being tortured by police under former commander Jon Burge (and others who weren't tortured but were just innocent and wrongfully convicted), this is a huge victory for…

I've drastically reduced my reading of and comment time on Gawker/Jezebel/IO9, etc since the new design, and, sorry, but these little piddly fixes aren't going to help change that.

Fair enough. I only meant that Spielberg deleted the lesbian sex scenes in the book from the movie and explicitly downplayed the nature of their relationship. Still, a serious omission.

Umm...Whoopi Goldberg in the Color Purple? Again, coded in the movie...though explicit in the book.

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@ihavethesedreams: I feel your pain (18.5 inch calves here...I have legs like a mighty oak.) If you look downthread, lots of people asked for wide-calf boot recommendations, and there seem to be are a lot of great suggestions.

@skittlbrau: Awesome, thanks for the tip!

@luchita: Thanks for the tip! (Wow, ask and Jezebel provides!)

@marlene_forever: Thanks for the tip!

@RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer: Thanks for the tip!

And for those of us with extra-, extra- wide calves? Sadly, I've never found a galosh/tall boot that could accommodate me. (Which especially sucks being in Chicago.)

@francofile001: They're not "shaming" her. The article states they don't have the resources to handle potty accidents-especially not 8 in less than a month.

@NickelMD: It's not about being "tolerant" in this case—it's about that specific school not having the resources and ability to care for kids who are not fully potty trained (there are strict state regulations about day care setups with diapering stations, vs schools that don't have those.) Every time a kid has an…

@breadprincess: I think there's a big difference between day care facilities that are able to handle diapering, etc., and preschools that may not be set up for that. There are all sorts of state regulations that get very specific about sanitation, location of diapering stations, water and location of hand washing…