You here in Chicago, too? I’m about to roll someone to get the loot for these tix.

+100 for ‘phalanx’

Hahahaha....stop fucking with me! My heart can’t take this shit right now. You mugs are foolish.

Yeah...I am a basic faculty member at a state university where last year our faculty senate delivered a vote of no confidence to our current president and administration. They suck...we know it, they know it, etc. So of course, the BOD extended the president’s contract by two years so that she can be present for our…

was just telling a friend last night that I had been suspicious of Cosby for years. For real. There were little things - like his contentious relationship with Pryor (who is one of my gods) and his curated facade. Then there were big things - like how when his daughter, Erinn, went on a tabloid talk show and accused…

Can you set up a gofundme? Today is my birthday and before I get out into the street and blow cash, I would LOVE to drop a few dollars for Paul.

I second this...Robert’s Rules and all...

I think it’s Pharrell....it smells like Pharrell-spirit.

He did. He and Common both had educator moms who were paid well and lived in an area here in Chicago storied for it’s black middle class.

As far as emergencies, I disagree. An emergency does not have to take up an entire 8-hour shift. By no means. I’ve worked accidents and the like that didn’t require a full shift and these were definitely of an emergent nature (bodily harm, loss of property, hazardous conditions, etc).

Former dispatcher here. Yeah, this is about right. There were plenty of nights when I didn’t feel like it either and I worked the graveyard shift. So that meant a slew of uneven calls/nights...sometimes nothing would happen for days but when it did, it went all the way to shit and could have you on one call for an…

True story - last year, my 63 year-old father (who drove the public bus here in Chicago for 26 years before retirement and used to be a semi-pro boxer in his younger days) got banned for life from LA Fitness for defending himself against an aggressive 50-something who apparently had a nasty habit of bogarting the…

Also, keep looking. Your outer “huskiness” may also be perfection to someone, along with your inner greatness. Also, the time has to be right. This sounds cliche, but I know this from personal experience - having met my husband at work and within a year got pregnant, had a baby shower and wedding all in one weekend…

What the hell else were you supposed to do? Shit, it was Moonlighting.

This is SO true! Russel’s acting was always on point and she basically developed into a type - the smart, brassy dame (Lucille Ball and others followed in this vein even before that disastrous “Mame” remake).

Monique, tell this rank broad that “life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.”

.Actually, living in Arizona at the time, when the suspicious calls would be about whites, they were substantiated more frequently and consistently. I assume for the very reasons you stated above (less diversity in an area). For instance, Apache Junction, Arizona has a rep for being very sketchy in the area:

In a former life, I used to work 911 dispatch for ‘good ol’ Sherrif Joe Arpaio’ and OMFG I hated these calls. I would get about 15 a week and the breakdown was typically 80% Hispanic 15% black and 5% unsure.

Right-o, 7-Up.