Isabella used to post on Usenet and the rec.arts.comics.dc group a lot. My recollection and understanding was that he claimed he was verbally promised that he had some ownership rights. Given that a) no creator got any such rights for any DC or Marvel work at the time and b) there was no written contract, it always…

No, it was, at best, an attempt at a joke.

Even more serious answer? I’ve lived in Chicago and have never served on a jury, despite being called a number of times. At least twice, I’ve had the same situation as Obama - parties settled or pled out at the last minute. The odds of actually serving in Cook County are very low.

And I guarantee that you can’t predict it. In the ‘80's, I saw 180's in both directions with my and friends’ families. Ultra-religious (literally talking-in-tongues Pentacostals, in one case) that embraced their butch dyke daughter and uber-liberals who were super-accepting with the gays socially until it was their…

Ditto on the fruit bar carts, though they often have ice cream as well. We especially had them in Uptown.

Part of that is the population (most Hispanic) and part of that may be the streets are narrower up here, better suited for the carts than the vans. 

#s stopped being gay in the mid ‘80's, 20 years before Parker was mayor.

I went to Rice and have to give the College (not “College House”) system props also. But the key is not merely that Colleges exist (the Ivys have flavors of them as well), but that frats/sororities (or hazing of any sort) is outright forbidden. Some schools have parallel systems; colleges for everyone plus…