21 Comments - just sayin' - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 11:44 am: Barton, you’re doing a fine job. But must we be subjected to Dan Proft’s constant train of thought on basketball etc. over on the Twitter feed? Is there no subject that guy’s not sick of hearing himself pontificate about? Because we are. - amalia - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 11:57 am: yes, Proft Twitter feed! agreed. but, apparently Proft is not true to his school….nothing about NW on the Twitter feed. he is a NW grad, right? granted, it’s not the NCAA tournament, but you’d think the guy would be loyal, right? oh, and Barton, thanks for being so here for us, the CapFaxAddicts. - GMatts - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 12:34 pm: Is he gone cheering the Sox or jeering the “Cubbies” - Way Way Down Here - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 12:46 pm: Cubs 8, Sox 7 - Ghost - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 12:53 pm: so the superntedents say theState will lose grant money if they and certain offices are elminated. Thats an easy fix, have each supeintedent show that they have obtained grant money equal to or greater then the cost of their entire office. If so they will be the situs for the consolidated office. The little known truth is these superintendents and their offices are massive overhead. Cut them out and give the money to the schools to pay for teachers and programs on the local level. The superintedent system is bereucratic overhead run amok; way to many administrators at the cots of the front line programs andteachers. Plu you have communties with a median income of 40,000 with superintedents getting their statutory pay over 150k and statutory raises plus te deputy superintendents and hen the office staff tc etc. - Rich Miller - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 1:17 pm: Proft Tweets in the early morning when nobody else does. Don’t see the harm in keeping it. I missed the first game on Wednesday because my flight was diverted to Las Vegas. The vacation didn’t start off well. Was supposed to arrive in Phoenix early Wednesday evening. Didn’t get to Vegas until after midnight (their time) and Southwest had lost our luggage. They also put us up at a crummy hotel. Got to Phoenix early afternoon yesterday, and couldn’t get the convertible top to work on the rental car. Ugh. Hotel room had tiny bed and what sounded like a loud handball game being played in the room above. Double ugh. Then came game time. Couldn’t find a place to park because it was Sox at Flubs. Drove around for 20 minutes. Yeesh. Finally got in and Sox were getting clobbered. But things started to change. Back to back home runs by Sox made things a bit more even. A few Old Styles with some trash-talking Cub fans in the bright, warm sunshine made events much more pleasant. And then after the game I figured out how to rig the convertible top. Ahhh. Took a pleasant nap (handball game was over), then dinner at Bobby-Q, a fantastic little spot. Double Ahhh. Two games today. Angels at Athletics and Sox v. Diamondbacks. I’m feeling the vacation take over my being. Breakfast by the pool. Go Sox. - wordslinger - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 1:27 pm: You picked a good time to go. Winter is delivering its last kick (hopefully) in the nether-regions, as it always does. In the 20s this a.m. - wordslinger - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 1:28 pm: I had breakfast this morning by the frozen birdbath and was attacked by starving rabbits and squirrels. - Emanuel Collective - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 1:52 pm: =Anybody with a brain and the means has left Illinois!= I don’t think we’ll have to worry about a brain drain to florida - wordslinger - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 1:57 pm: –Anybody with a brain and the means has left Illinois!– As your post demonstrates, Florida is a regular Algonquian Round Table. - Rich Miller - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 2:04 pm: –Anybody with a brain and the means has left Illinois!– So, the brain-cash drain has stopped! Good to hear. We certainly couldn’t afford to lose more doofuses like you, dude. Sheesh. - wordslinger - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 2:41 pm: Just noticed this on The Dome, from the BND: –The former state trooper who slammed into a car at triple-digit speeds, killing two teenage sisters, has filed for a review of his denied workers’ compensation case.– –Mitchell drove at 126 mph on Interstate 64 in St. Clair County on the day after Thanksgiving in 2007, writing emails on his in-car computer and taking a personal phone call before crossing the median into oncoming traffic, striking a Mazda and killing Jessica and Kelli Uhl, of Collinsville, and seriously injuring Kelly and Christine Marler, who was eight months pregnant at the time.– As an Illinois citizen, I’d be happy to kick in extra to help Mitchell join the Florida drain brain. Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2011/03/25/1644203/mitchell-appeals-compensation.html#ixzz1HdqmXGBV - Six Degrees of Separation - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 2:55 pm: Word, I’d guess IL’s workers comp policy is one thing that keeps people here. In FL, the ex-trooper might get his pee-pee whacked by the bailiff at his hearing, ala Cheech and Chong. One of the many blessings, counted and uncounted, of our fair state. - wordslinger - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 3:03 pm: Six, the BND has done a whale of a job on workman’s comp in regards to public employees. It’s up to us demand changes. I’d think law enforcement on some level might want to get involved at some point, too, for some of the outrages exposed by the BND. Here’s hoping there’s a Pulitzer in their future. Outstanding work, what journalism is supposed to be about. - Patrick - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 3:53 pm: NOTE: The BND are also the ones who did an award-winning series about Tamms Correctional Center (supermax). It didn’t get nearly enough play, but it was an equally important story. And even more courageous: http://www.bnd.com/600 - amalia - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 4:10 pm: thanks for the update, Rich. soak up the sun, and the Sox, for the rest of us! - Excessively Rabid - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 4:19 pm: Looks like somebody needs to post some Friday music, so here, this is for Rich: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9-FOLG-iA I apparently lack the necessary skills, intelligence, or permissions, so you may have to cut and paste the link into your browser. Happy Friday. - Excessively Rabid - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 4:20 pm: OK, it works, I’m just dumb. Man bites dog. - CircularFiringSquad - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 5:15 pm: Wow we reallt feel terrible about CaptFax vaykay launch…crash landed in Vegas….tinybed…top won’t down. Let all send the Capt 100 smackers to cope with this crisis….Is it us or is he starting to sound like Chris Christy? Watch Proft tweet also remind us that his life has been all a bed of roses too. Maybe he could wander over to the IL Policy Institute for a game of Factchex with the Myth Merchants - CircularFiringSquad - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 5:19 pm: BarTon: Here is another way to celebrate the weekend. Trib loses again (Crain’s) — Actor Warren Beatty can keep his rights to comic strip character Dick Tracy, something Tribune Co. was looking to reclaim. A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Thursday that Mr. Beatty held up his end of a contract when he filmed a Dick Tracy television special in 2008, according to a Bloomberg News report. Mr. Beatty directed and starred as the title character in 1990’s “Dick Tracy,” a film that also starred Madonna and Al Pacino. Mr. Beatty bought the rights decades ago from Tribune. The Chicago media company sought to take back the television and movie rights, but Mr. Beatty sued in 2008 to prevent it from doing so. Tribune claimed that Mr. Beatty had lost his rights to the character when he failed to produce a movie or television show by a certain date. Mr. Beatty countered that his Dick Tracy special had started filming before the deadline, Bloomberg reported. - Barton Lorimor - Friday, Mar 25, 11 @ 8:50 pm: @Rabid: Music tomorrow when I shut down comments, but the more the merrier. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.