After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists ( Read more... )

GOD ENJOYS A GOOD LAUGH ( Read more... )

This will be, admittedly, a long, emotional, rambling, tedious post. Skip now if you want ( Read more... )

Happy Easter!

Ours was sponsored by Market Day. The only way to go - heat and eat.

Today it was reported that Duncan and Jack Connolly (now going by their mother’s last name Leichtenberg) were found in a remote part of Putnam County, IL (near LaSalle-Peru). They have been missing since March 8 and are from LeRoy, a small sleepy suburb of Bloomington-Normal. They were ages 9 and 7 and were discovered dead in their father’s car ( Read more... )

EDIT: this as written this afternoon.

Roland Burris is an asshat and should resign. He paid to play.

We need a special election now to get a new senator from IL.

IL is sinking to new political lows every moment, and the fact that the President is from here cannot even solve it.

I have a 5 page paper due and I want to get it done before the Super Bowl for my mental health, so I'm off to do that in a minute. Actually our group has this due, but whatever ( Read more... )

I'm proud to be from Illinois. While we can claim Grant and Reagan as presidents from our state, it's really all about Lincoln. We are the Land of Lincoln after all. At least that's what it says on my license plate.

And now it's about Obama. WOW.

I'm off to class (now that I remembered what room I'm in). We're under some sort of winter weather advisory/blizzard thing.

Lucky me.

And let's just leave it at that ( Read more... )