The reason healthcare coverage is tied to employment in this country is an accident of WWII wage controls. Henry Kaiser was having problems getting enough workers for his expanding West Coast Shipyards & California steel mill. So he came up with free healthcare for his employees, which wasn’t covered by the wage…

If you want to see a monstrosity of a tomb for someone that isn’t dead yet, look at the Roland Burris tomb. He’s a corrupt hack of a Chicago politician.

Except that some cemeteries, usually called “memorial parks” require flush to the grass stones so that the lawnmowers can go right over everything.

It’s soccer, so no sane American gives a shit!

It’s just the chopped off hand of the Pillsbury Doughboy with jelly in the middle.

But Eisenhower’s class, the Class of 1915 is known as the Class The Stars Fell On, as 36% became generals.

You do realize that the plane that hit the building just flew north & made a slight left turn to the west & was only 300 feet above ground when it hit the building.

As a Chicagoan, good fucking riddance to Meigs. I remember when a plane flying north from there hit an apartment building at Hollywood & Lake Shore Dr.

If you had checked the FAA N Number database, that shows the registration expired on 1/31/2016.

The only reason this occured is because some moron at NSA refused her request for an encrypted Blackberry when she became Secretary of State. So a week later, she did what Colin Powell & Condi Rice did, she set up her own server.

What happens to the stealthy rubber coating on the sail when it pushes up through the ice? Is it damaged & need replacement when they return to the base?

“How to make oatmeal good again”

Wrong! Gasoline in Saudi Arabia is 24¢ per liter or less than half of that in Venezuela

Maybe 20 years ago in Chicago, Halpern was also dismissive of accusations of being an accomplice to murder against Helmut Hofer, the male lover & male prostitute of one of the country’s top patent lawyers, Dean Olds, who was believed to have murdered his wife. The Hofer fled to his native Germany after being acquitted…

Nice shoutout to Sturgeon’s Law. I wish more people knew of it.

Do you mean the sonar kills dolphins with words? Because that’s what you’re saying when you misuse “literally” in that sentence. Next time, please use “actually”, instead of “literally”!

When I go to the doctor at the huge university clinic, there is a constant line of pharmaceutical saleswomen & I’ve never seen one lower than a 8! Every one of them dresses exactly the same way: Somewhat tight white blouse with an even tighter jacket over it, dark mini-skirt & 3" heels, towing a wheely bag filled with…

O’Malley’s chief advisor was John Coale, the $cientologist husband of $cientologist Greta va Susteren.

One other reason is the ship is built on a flat surface, as opposed to an inclined one. That makes the assembly simpler, as there isn’t a need to take that angle into account in construction.

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