I thought that the Ventra contract had been signed prior to Claypool taking the helm, no?

The school-board thing is a core part of that problem, sure. Part of it is also because it's so segregated, thanks to white-/middle class-flight into Catholic schools several generations ago. Oh, and money.

I hear you on the mayor, though. I really feel bad I voted for Emanuel. I should have known better.

What kind of pimp is taking Houston's public transit? Something's wrong with his business plan, unless he's just inordinately concerned with a carbon-neutral sex trade.

Of all the reasons to not vote Emanuel, Claypool wouldn't even show up in my top 25.

Oh, my god. I love cutaneous horns. I once asked my dermatologist about the most f'ed up thing he'd ever seen and he showed me a cell phone picture of an elderly woman with a massive cutaneous horn protruding from her cheek.

I cleaned out my car the other day and found mushrooms growing in it. Literal, actual mushrooms. And many black banana peels.

The LA bus system doesn't have a bus tracker app?

Whatever you think of the CTA and how it is run, CPS is about a gazillion times more frustrating.

Most of the time I've ridden the bus or train around school dismissal time, it's almost exclusively populated with rambunctious teenagers. It's like being in a mobile high-school hallway. He'll be fine.

You know it's not!

All of this … really, all of it … looks like a reason to call out sick for the day with diarrhea. Vodka convention or no.

In the old days, they gave women enemas before birthing. Which is clearly how Mike Francesa came to be.

Fellow forensics nerd here (double ruby what-what!) This sounds like a category we used to have called "thematic interpretation" wherein people select a few excerpts from longer pieces and provide an original introduction.

THAT is where "handicapped" comes from? Wow. I had no, no idea.

Oh, yeah, the movie's gonna be awful.

This song means so much more to me as a mid-30s married mom than it did when I was a teenager.

What used to be cool was when you'd use a cordless phone and accidentally pick up a neighbor's channel. I'd spend HOURS listen to this one lady in my building and her boyfriend at some grad school argue. Better than cable.

I very much disagree with Steve Rubinshteyn. As a committed eavesdropper, I think that situation sounds simply heavenly.

It should, because this statement is awful.

Pitbull. That dude runs a charter school in Miami, too. So, between that and recording square-dancing songs with Ke-dollar sign-Ha, he's pretty busy, but maybe a billion's in his future.

I still don't think that anything Kim Kardashian does actually qualifies her for the designer title, but your point about the sameness of their cover subjects is totally valid.