Don’t flush tampons. They expand to 10 times their size. Trust me, I saw the ones the plumber removed from our pipes.

For fuck sakes, this is why I don’t want any more female tenants. We’ve had two plumbing backups caused by flushed tampons, by two different tenants. College educated, supposedly intelligent females who can’t deal with their menstruation. To be fair, we had a guy who caused one with “flushable” cat litter. Nope. If it…

Funny you should mention that. Rahm’s father was a member of the Irgun, an Israeli terrorist group that was widely believed to have assassinated the Swedish ambassador and also bombed the King David Hotel

Oh, and I forgot about when he was head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He refused to fund some viable Democratic candidates because they weren’t his picks. Howard Dean still loathes him. (their screaming fights are the stuff of legend)

But hand-picked by his powerful father-in-law, Chicago alderman Richard Mell. He thought Rod would be a docile servant to the Machine, underestimating his sheer stupidity.

Yeah, this is all behind-the-scenes gossip, but he was a disaster as Chief of Staff. He alienated a lot of people, especially Valerie Jarrett—a huge no-no with the Obamas.

WSJ had an article about how much big cities are paying out in police misconduct settlements. Chicago paid over $249 million from 2010-2014. That’s over $20,000 per every police officer on our force.

Rahm is a lifetime failure, but he always fails up—a true white man in every sense. He failed out of Congress, and then failed out of the Obama administration, and now he’s failing out of an entire city.

It seems like blatant overcharging. However, I’m not a lawyer, just a longtime observer of the mendacious reign of Anita Alvarez. Chicago keeps its crime stats “low” (no, really) by reclassifying homicides as undetermined deaths, robberies as larceny or theft and so on. The D.A. Office declines to prosecute police…

This is why mainstream Chicago journalists (mostly) are as docile as a petting zoo. If you investigate, they retaliate and cut you off from sources.

Welcome to Bangkok

Advertisers are put off by that content-that’s the real issue.

Pear-shaped, small shoulders, sturdy legs reporting, here: off-the-rack sizing can give you a complex. Once I discovered leggings and empire waist dresses, I never looked back. I can’t wear any off the rack pants without getting them altered.

That is fucking great.

Oohhh, donut burgers

Ugh, that moist, “sexy” glottal sound.

I remember when BB&B stores looked classy, like a slightly less expensive cross between Pottery Barn and Target. I went in to one recently to look (unsuccessfully) for a white canvas shower curtain. What a junky looking dump—it was crammed to the ceiling with seemingly uncurated EVERYTHING.

I sometimes look at OKCupid out of curiosity about the marketplace. It doesn’t look good for over-40s, imo. Men in Chicago do not age well. I presume it’s worse in smaller cities and towns in fly-over country.

Because he has to protect her PURITY until he can GIVE HER AWAY to another male.

I know someone who used to work in retail jewelry; I’m beginning to think these stores cannot function without 24/7 armed security. She was robbed at gunpoint once, and they had several “grab” thefts. Her boss was actually followed into an airport garage after a trade show and robbed and pistol-whipped. There’s just…