Wonkette
- People have been rioting in Greece because police killed a teenager. (Apparently it is common practice in Greece for teenagers to fight with police, but usually people do not get shot over it.) [New York Times]
- Oh hey it’s the long-awaited death of print! The Tribune Co., which owns the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Cubs, appears to be looking into bankruptcy proceedings. [Chicago Sun-Times]
- Militants in Pakistan torched 150 NATO supply trucks headed to Afghanistan. [Pakistan Dawn]
- Barack Obama must find a way to simultaneously throw a massive inaugural bash for the exuberant MILLIONS who will be in DC for the event while also appearing modest and respectful of the difficult times “ordinary folks” are going through. [AP]
- Chris Dodd says General Motors is in the worst shape of the Big Three automakers, and maybe CEO Rick Wagoner should just get lost already. [Reuters]
- Sudanese leaders are among a minority of leaders in the world who will miss George W. Bush, because he was nicer to them than Barack Obama will be. [Washington Post]
- Your editor is striving valiantly to get from one place in America to another place in America via Chicago, which is of course impossible, so she will be stuck on planes or in airports probably until OH FOREVER. So do not whine if it takes several hours until one of your other editors signs on and starts posting silly jokes about Bill Kristol.
NOT O’HARE - OH GOD NOT O’HARE - whatever god you’ve offended, Sara, kiss and make up quick….not even Wonkette editors deserve such punishment…
which is of course impossible
Milliway’s set up shop in Chicago?
Not to worry, Sara. If you’re not out of O’Hare in a week, we’ll send in a search party. In the meantime, you can almost survive on watered down drinks and hot wings at Chili’s Too.
The good thing about being stuck in an airport is that people will think that you just got off a long flight, so your body clock is set to 5:00pm when they see you drinking at the bar at 7:00am.
Duty free in ORD is a frickin’ joke. Except for cigarettes and booze (name brand mass market brands only), everything else is more expensive than the non-duty free shops elsewhere there. And you’re still better off buying smokes and booze in 3rd world countries.
let’s hear it for priorities in the third world: bottle of rum $3, Cigarettes $2…head of old broccoli $5.
dougbob: I am failing to see the complaint here.
NotAnEvilLobbyist: Disregard that, not had my coffee, misread that.
Sounds like someone’s going on a job interview somewhere else.
Good luck SKS, we hardly knew ye.
ps…If your layover is extra-long, maybe you could buy the Cubs and Tribune while waiting.
Ahhhh, Chicago O’Hare, it’s like Atlanta Hartsfield without the “charm.”
The Ryan Dempster signing is totally responsible for bringing down the Tribune Co.
Obama should give all the plebes who attend the inauguration a recycled cardboard box, big enough to live in. Practical, inexpensive, and eco-friendly!
Print is dead. And you killed it.
That’s what you get when you fly blogger class. What are the restrooms like at O’Hare?
waaaaaaaa, Sudan, a tiny violin is playing to accompany your tears over an end to genocidal regime
Don’t worry Khartoum, your new boyfriend China will help you get over the pain.
How long does it take to think of a silly joke about Bill Kristol, anyway?
I watched the Vikes Sunday, and there was one ad after another for gignormous pickup trucks (not even the smaller Ranger, that’s actually made here), So, yeah, bail out the automakers, but send the CEOs to political reeducation camp if they want to keep their jobs.
Barry could save a lot of money at the inauguration–and set a better tone–by substituting DJs for a live band.
The demise of the Tribune couldn’t have happened to a finer guy than owner Sam Zell, Republican douchesack and Real Estate
BillionaireMillionaire.I always drink beer when I’m going through O’Hare.
Rick Wagoner? Sounds like a faith healer, or Lyle Waggoner’s less successful brother (notice he lost a ‘g’ because of his patheticness): speaking of which…
WadISay: I think the Constitution requires that the Decemberists play for 2 hours before the swearing-in.
Story in the local paper yesterday about Obama inviting the Lawn Rangers to march in the big swearin’ in parade. That should class up the place. Precision drills with mowers and brooms…Those guys frickin’ ROCK!
WadISay:
Maybe some bagpipes instead? I hear they work below union scale.
Take an O’Hare of the dog that bit you.
Scribbling snarky phrases on newspapers and leaving them on the train just isn’t the same.
pondscum: He’s already marched with them as a rookie-in-training in Chicago’s 2003 St. Patrick’s Day Parade:
http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2008/11/the-making-of-a.html
Well, that’s what happens when you let people drink ouzo at pretty much any hour of the day.
qwerty42: Good luck if you’re ever stuck at Hartsfield on a Sunday.
Hey Barry, while you’re firing folks in Detroit, is there any way you can take the Lions away from Ford? We’ve suffered enough.
Heh - it never occurred to me that something like The Terminal could
happen inside the country, on purely domestic connections. But then, the one time
I had to go through O’Hare, the delay was only 11 hours - relatively painless!
There was a hilarious comment on a news website this weekend saying that while lots of the shops along Ermou street had been vandalized & smashed, the snack shops at the top of the street (the ones near Syntigma square) were untouched.
Implying of course that the anarchists were trashing shops then going for a nice snack at McDonald’s/Goody’s/Everest/Pita Pita*
*it might be a chain but they make some damn good Slouvaki
One of the many advantages of living in Chicago is that you never have a connecting flight at O’Hare.
Borat: Ah, here we go:
“No serious injuried were reported in Saturday night’s violence. And while clothing shops — the majority of Ermou Street outlets — and banks were heavily damaged, the numerous snack bars were all left intact and were full of customers in the early hours of Sunday.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/07/europe/EU-Greece-Riot-aftermath.php
I’ve been travelling by air to client sites for more than 10 years, and the best advice I ever got when I started was to never go through through O’Hare.
Knock on wood, I’ve been able to pull steer clear though I’ve been 60-70% on the road through those years. Hopefully my luck will hold for another 10 years when I may still have the opportunity to become an impovershed pensioner.
But the advice to give Chicago a wide berth is like the “Tropic Thunder” admonishment to “Never go full retard.”
I can find great steaks in plenty of other places.