Letting individuals take their talents directly to the marketplace and earn income based on their skills? SO UNAMERICAN

The biggest problem is the very car-centric infrastructure. I'm lucky here in Chicago, most of the core city was built before the dominance of the automobile, and the city is still very dense by American standards because we never quite gave up on public transit... So the infrastructure here is already pretty bike…

Well obviously biking isn't for everyone, but for probably every person like you who lives that far from work (seriously, though, that is a crazy distance) and has to lug all that crap around, there's probably plenty of people who only need to drive a short distance and can carry all their belongings in a small bag. …

Yeah, exactly, especially in major urban areas. I live in Chicago and the Dept. of Transportation conducted a study that showed something like 50% of the cars on the road were making a trip less than 2 miles in distance. That's nuts.

In cities, sidewalks are not for bicycles unless you're like 8

Absolutely, I'm the same way, when I was in college my go to mixed drink was a Jack or rum and Coke. Then I got a little older and in my mid-20s, my go to was a Jack on the rocks with a splash of Coke. Now, I drink any good brown liquor mostly neat, occasionally with an ice cube or two.

Don't knock it until you try it, I prefer the spiciness of rye whiskey in an old fashioned over the sweetness of straight bourbon because you're already getting the sweetness from the sugar/simple syrup. I can go either way with bourbon or rye neat, but if I'm mixing, 9 times out of 10, I prefer the complexity that a…

And now I just saw that Wade is being held out of tonight's game due to knee soreness.

Native Midwesterners who are Yankee fans are just the worst

Seriously, props to the Heat here from Chicago, they handed our asses to us on a platter, but the Bulls were flat out awful offensively last night. And it's not like guys were getting pressed into taking bad shots from bad angles, they were just missing wide open jumpers. The Heat, meanwhile, shot lights out and…

Ha, yeah, exactly, we gave them mules and free land, racism is over!

Yes, yes, and yes.

I live in a very large city, have eaten at some of the best restaurants in the country, if not the world, but... McDonald's fries are pretty damn good.

Is this really a joke on St. Louis? I think it's complimentary to them, at least they have their priorities straight - Game 5 of what has been a bananas World Series or a horrifically bad MNF game. If you watched the Seahawks/Rams last night instead of the Cardinals and Sox, the joke was on you.

Maybe on a veteran runner, sure, but a rookie, coming in cold in the 9th inning of a World Series game and a pitcher with a deceptively quick pick-off move?

I don't think I've ever seen another white person in Seward Park

The Bears don't have one, either

This is a distinction the "best fans in baseball" don't seem to grasp.

Tired of being yelled at by Coughlin, trying to get him fired

Exactly, anyone who seriously thinks that the NFL is a drug-free zone is crazy, I would bet anything that a far greater percentage of football players are using some kind of PED than baseball players, but look at the cases of Von Miller and Alex Rodriguez. Miller's return was celebrated (how will he make the Broncos…