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27 days: The Real Barack Obama
Longtime readers of this blog may remember the Hyde Park Herald’s special issue about Barack Obama, published when our junior senator first announced his candidacy for president. It was, quite simply,...
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Calling all crazies
Photo: Brian Ngyuen/The Chicago MaroonA veritable can of intellectually insipid inquiries. The most telling statement in Tuesday’s presidential debate may have been one of the most self-evident. Taking...
View ArticlePresidential Debate 2008: Viewpoints columnists react
“It was boring!” declared the pundits. (It was.) “John McCain looked old!” they added. (He did.) These types of analyses are at once true and unhelpful. The implication is that if a debate lacks...
View ArticleRamada Inn immortalized in emotional campaign ad
Tremendous news today, as the Obama campaign released a new ad featuring footage of the Ramada Inn, which in the absence of the Four Seasons Doctors Hospital, is as close as Hyde Park is ever going to...
View ArticleMore Hyde Park Fun: Ayers Force One
UNLV professor David S. Tanenhaus has a piece in Slate today about his friendship with UNREPENTANT TERRORISTS Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the unrepentant terrorists who once plotted to blow up the...
View ArticleOh. My. God.1
I should start by prefacing that we are all probably going to die, probably by some sort of asteroid careening at a kajillion miles an hour into that new socialist Open Produce store on 55th and...
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Put an end to celebrity endorsements
Photo: Maroon Staff/The Chicago MaroonVapid endorsements at clearance prices! Amid the brouhaha surrounding Colin Powell’s spirited endorsement of Barack Obama Sunday, another endorsement, also by a...
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Pumpkin-demons terrorize Hyde Park
Well, maybe FOX was right. We should question Barack Obama’s associations. This was the scene yesterday, not but TWO HOUSES AWAY from the Obama estate on Hyde Park Boulevard and Greenwood, and HALF A...
View ArticleMore Hyde Park fun: The Babysitter’s Club
Andy McCarthy has a real side-splitter up at the National Review–for the magazine, not the blog–where he spends upwards of 1,000 words pondering why the Los Angeles Times won’t release some video...
View ArticleAnother place to buy a sandwich opens nearby
I was actually pretty excited to see this, because I’m a sucker for places that write their sandwich menu on a chalkboard, and because it’s on 47th street, which was previously bereft of interesting...
View ArticleKay Hagan will take away your Christmas
Maybe you’ve seen this already, but if you haven’t check out Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s astounding attack ad against Kay Hagan, where she calls Hagan “Godless” and suggest that if Hagan is elected,...
View ArticleNate Silver makes us proud
We probably should have blogged about this long ago, back when the site was new and wasn’t attracting zillions of visitors each day, but I would like to duly note, for the record, that U of C alum Nate...
View ArticleThings to do in the neighborhood next week
Long maligned in these parts and elsewhere for its hellacious winters and formerly rotten grocery stores, Hyde Park is actually going to be “hopping” next week, for the obvious reason that our neighbor...
View ArticleTuesday4
Today is now Tuesday, which means it’s election day, which means it’s the biggest thing to happen to Hyde Park, ever. It should be a blast, and we’ll have all/much/lots of the action for you. No word...
View ArticleViewpoints columnists and staff discuss the election
To the other John McCain supporter on campus, I want to use this space to write something encouraging, something to make it worth watching the election results (on FOX!). But if I were to do so, it...
View ArticleObama votes
Well, if you were planning on staking out the Shoesmith Beulah Elementary School to watch the Obama vote, you should probably find a plan B, as he apparently voted first thing this morning. The Tribune...
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Decision ’08: The potato or the cookie
Posters in Stuart Hall–and all over campus–advertising the upcoming Latke–Hamantash debate are taking on a familiar motif. So much for “change versus more of the same.” It should be noted that Obama...
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Candidates of change
If potatoes and cookies aren’t your thing, the Divinity School coffee shop has been offering its own take on the election season, featuring a myriad of compelling races. Here’s Zeus, taking what is...
View Article“Elated!”2
As a quick follow-up to my earlier post about Obama’s voting trip, apparently none other than my geography professor was waiting in line, when the senator showed up and, presumably, cut everyone. The...
View ArticleThe safest block in Chicago1
Over the last 48 hours, the security perimeter around Barack Obama’s slum-landlord-Rezko estate has at least doubled. Hyde Park Boulevard and 52nd Street are closed off from Ellis to University (at...
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