The classic dibs-object is a chair, but Chicago Dibs gives us a curbside view of every piece of random crap imaginable. From the logical (bicycles) to the unconventional (vaccuum cleaners) to the just plain trashy (um, bags of trash), it's all there. Chicagoans, we feel for you, but this "dibs" phenomenon is pretty funny. At least it puts a humorous spin on all that blizzardy gloom.

It's humorous until you come home and there six empty spots on the block but all of them blocked off.

I'm sorry, I just find this so enraging. You dug your car out in order to use it, not as some sort of public service. It does not then confer ownership of public property.

I dug mine out to go away for the weekend. You know what I did not do? Block off that spot for an entire weekend so no one else could use it. Because I'm not an asshole.

What I am though, is screwed when I get home.

/t not rational

This reminded me of my favorite New York Times correction of all time: [link]

An article in The Times Magazine last Sunday about Ivana Trump and her spending habits misstated the number of bras she buys. It is two dozen black, two dozen beige and two dozen white, not two thousand of each.

What Baralaba piggery-owner Sid Everingham actually said was “30 sows and pigs”, not “30,000 pigs”

This reminds me of the Kenny Rogers song Lucille, which, as a child, I thought was about the guy and his four hundred children!

This reminds me of the Kenny Rogers song Lucille, which, as a child, I thought was about the guy and his four hundred children!

When that song came out, my brother and I changed the lyrics a bit:

You picked a fine time to let a juicy fart.
Four hungry children and a pot full of beans.

Vendors! Whyfor are you not where I need you to be doing what I need you to do? Production issues, you say? Fie on you!

Male and female narwhals have evolved different flukes.

Jim Henson teaching you how to make a puppet.

There was a correction in the Washingtonian magazine several years ago, something along the lines of "The two women in the photograph in last month's issue identified as Playboy bunnies are actually Congressional aids."

What is wrong with people?

And 74 House Democrats have asked Supreme Court Justice Thomas to recuse himself from any deliberations on the constitutionality of the national health care overhaul, arguing that his wife's work as a lobbyist creates "the appearance of a conflict of interest."

arguing that his wife's work as a lobbyist creates "the appearance of a conflict of interest."

Yep. That it does.

Did you hear that Thomas does not report his wife's income as a lobbyist on his tax returns?

Conservative Supreme Court justices no longer bothering to avoid appearance of conflicts of interest

eta:

This odd practice of routinely lying on forms was brought to light by the watchdog group Common Cause, who also recently wrote a letter to Eric Holder criticizing Thomas and Antonin Scalia for attending fancy Koch-sponsored functions before ruling, in Citizens United, that restrictions on corporate electioneering be lifted. Of course, neither Scalia nor Thomas believe that their personal and professional ties to the conservative movement should cause them to recuse themselves from politically sensitive cases. In fact, their attitude tends to be that everyone should just shut up and stop complaining about it. As Garrett Epps writes in The Atlantic, they -- along with Republican fundraiser-attendee Samuel Alito -- are openly flouting years of judicial etiquette. And they don't really care. Scalia generally acts like he'd be much more at home on talk radio than in the Supreme Court. (Scalia's Constitution lesson for Michele Bachmann and the incoming Tea Partiers was scheduled for today, by the way.)

We heard a lot about the puppy in the mail here, because the idiot was mailing it to Atlanta. The article doesn't seem to mention my favorite part: she went back to the post office to ask for a refund for the postage.