The site: Bear’s Beards in Peoria
That’s all that needs to be said.
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Does anyone else find this video disturbing?
I know that being a police officer can be frustrating. Having to deal with belligerent drunks all day long isn’t any fun. I sometimes wish I had a way to deliver an electric shock to some of the people I have to deal with. I’m sure that convenience store [...]

Yeah, I know. David Lee Roth is the cheesiest performer in America. But Van Halen made some very entertaining videos. It’ll be interesting to see if any decent music comes out of the Van Halen reunion.
So, I thought I’d follow the lead of PeoriaIllinoisan (who’s posting a ton of videos recently) and show one of [...]

The Times of London has an interesting article about Barack Obama’s family. Obama’s father makes Bill Clinton’s father look like a piker in the children-out-of-wedlock department. While Clinton seems to have inherited his father’s behavior pattern, there are no stories out there of which I am aware of Obama having similar issues.

It was 21 years ago today, but I still remember them as if it were yesterday.
Dick Scobee
Michael Smith
Judy Resnik
El Onizuka
Ron McNair
Greg Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe

It’s your turn. Let’s hear what you have to say.

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On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1’s crew–Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee–was killed when a fire erupted in their capsule during testing. Apollo 1 was originally designated AS-204 but following the fire, the astronauts’ widows requested that the mission be remembered as Apollo 1 and following missions would be [...]

The Save The Journal Star Website has an interesting article on job losses, much of it coming after news organizations are sold. The article suggests a lot of it is just plain old union busting. No doubt a lot of it is. A lot if it is the marketplace, too. Ad revenue is down, as [...]

First: I’m still awaiting posts from, well, they know who they are.
Second: Both 11Bravo and Anon E. Mouse have posted anew.
Backstory: I had “fired” both of them. Then 11Bravo snuck one past me. I forgot to revoke his “author” status. I liked the post, so I let it stay. Then I thought it would only [...]

January 27, 1967
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” - JFK, September 1962 @ Rice University

Try to raise the level of discourse this weekend, OK?

Today I went back into Cite Soleil to work. I work with an order of Catholic Sisters who have a large pediatric clinic, a school with 600 kids, a malnutrition program, and a sewing class for hundreds of women from the slum. Only six sisters are present and live across the street from the clinic. [...]

Sometime last week, we sat down to watch the movie Brick. I had first heard about it on NPR and had forgotten about it until I saw it in my local movie rental store. Since I’ve been working on my Dirty Secrets project, I’ve been reading a lot of noirish detective novels and [...]

In 2004, while John Edwards was campaigning for the presidency and then the vice presidency, he talked at length of a problem he called “The Two Americas”. He tried to paint a picture of a country where only the rich got richer and the poor got poorer (even though he was admittedly the son of [...]

Could the headline above the Journal Star’s brief and mostly one-sided article on the effort to get the Peoria Civic Center added to the Warehouse District TIF possibly sound any more enthusiastic about the idea? The headline: “Hotel hopes remain alive.”
Geeze. It sounds like some kid has fallen down a well and everyone’s praying for [...]