Andymatic

Month: January 2005

  • Chicago's Lesbian Homecoming Queen

    Her classmates said wear a dress, just this once, but Luz Duarte doesn’t wear dresses — or even girls’ pants — and she didn’t think the schoolwide homecoming assembly was the place to start. “You know, what? No,” she said. “If I’m going to go up there, I’m going to go as myself.” That approach […]

  • Top Frauds of 2004

    I love the folks at PR Watch and they’re back with the top fakesters and shysters or 2004: Thanks for the (False) Memories: the 2004 Falsies Awards

  • Chicago Murder Rate Lowest in 40 Years

    Chicago is on target to see the lowest number of homicides in 40 years. Although 445 people were murdered in the city so far this year, this is down from the whopping 884 murders recorded in 1992.

  • DoD Prepares for Lifetime Detentions

    I think this is one reason why I couldn’t sleep last night: The Bush administration is preparing plans for possible lifetime detention of suspected terrorists, including hundreds whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts. The Defense Department plans to ask the U.S. Congress for $25 million to build a 200-bed […]

  • Ron Quit Smoking

    We’re on day one. So far we’ve been eating continuously since 8 pm. I’m trying to keep us on whole foods and luckily the rain is keeping us from a sugar binge at The White Hen. I’m trying to get him to go to the doc and get some Zyban. Now we’re having tea and […]

  • Prohormone Pre-Cursor Ban Goes Into Effect on January 20th

    Attention gym-bunnies: In an ever-growing effort for politicians to grand-stand and parlay steroid abuse into political gain, hormone pre-cursors (which are not steroids – merely the building blocks for them – the body converts them into testosterone-like substances – research is still debatable if they really do anything) will be banned in the U.S. in […]

  • He's Just Not That Into You

    I’d heard about this book bubbling up on the talk shows a few weeks back. It sounded like another version of The Rules. Excerpts from a debunking review: The thesis of the book is that because men are so simple-minded and caveman-ish, they will chase you if they dig you, and therefore if they do […]