FUNG'S HAND-PICKED CANDIDATE???

Illinois Candidate's Name Misspelled As 'Rich Whitey' On Electronic-Voting Machines

There are typos and then there are complete and utter catastrophes.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled "Rich Whitey" on electronic-voting machines in 23 wards -- "about half in predominantly African-American areas." The error only occurs on screens voters would see when they are reviewing their choices (Whitney's name appears correctly on the initial screens), but officials say the error cannot be corrected before election day.

Jim Allen, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections, told the Sun-Times he expects 90% of votes on election day to be cast on paper ballots -- minimizing the number of voters who would see the misspelling.

"I don't want to be identified as 'Whitey.' If this is happening in primarily African-American wards, that's an even bigger concern," Whitney told the Sun-Times. The paper says he's considering legal action. "I don't know if this is machine politics at play or why this happened."

The latest Rasmussen poll shows Whitney drawing just 2% of the vote.

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I'm not a witch!

Bill Maher just dressed me up as one!

Has it really been a year?

Since this happened?

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Your beer and bacon tasting opportunities are limited to six hours a week, so use them well

$20 Beer and Bacon Tasting at Paddy Long's Pub ($35 Value)

This two-hour tasting event will feature a seasonally rotating spread of five bacons and five brews on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays; the schedule is updated regularly, so check back for future dates.
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Really, is anyone named Cheney entitled to an opinion on anything?

"Americans expect our president to do everything possible to defend the nation from attack ... We expect him to use every tool at his disposal to find, defeat, capture and kill terrorists. We expect him to deter attacks by making clear to our adversaries that an attack on the United States will carry devastating consequences."

Well, except for that one time. We all agreed to let that one pass, right?

Empty seats in Chicago this week

Sox vs. first-place Twins
Tuesday: 11,000 empty seats
Wednesday: 10,000 empty seats
Thursday: 13,000 empty seats

Blackhawks practice (not exhibition game, just practice)
Saturday: sold out

Finally, a Christian Google

bacon cupcakes

Chicago Bacon Takedown
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BREAKING SHOCKING NEWS: Mayor Daley will not run again

City Hall just got a lot less interesting...

reality imitates idiocracy (cont'd)

Whitey to Darky - Your culture is not welcome here

BBC Sport - Football - Uefa bans vuvuzelas from European matches

Blago's World: So Much Better Than Reality

ROSEMONT, Ill. (CBS) ― It sounds like the start to a bad joke; Captain Kirk, Batman, the Bionic Woman and Rod Blagojevich. They were among the stars at this year's Wizard World Chicago Comic Con.

I will leave learned comparisons between Chicago Comic Con (Da Comic Con Dat Works) and dat udder Comic-Con to others, but any situation in which Ian Ziering is the grown-up, and gets off the best line, is pretty phokked up.

"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt."
-- Studs Terkel
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Cubs blow annuder one today

Rev. Franklin Graham - born a jackass

Rev. Franklin Graham: President Obama 'born a Muslim'

His problem is that his father was a jackass, and the seed of jackassery is passed through the father. But he says he has renounced jackassery and become a Christian, so I guess we'll just have to accept it as that.

Mmmm. Triple Bypass. Aaaaargh

KFC's New Skinwich -- A Skin Sandwich

Phightin' Phils Phans Rephuse to Yield White Trafh Title to Soxfs Phanf

Man jailed for vomiting on baseball fan

Our Boy's a boxer now!

BBC Sport - Briggs announces fight with Klitschko

YA THINK?!

Cubs Make Carlos Zambrano Available

Aramis Ramirez, Alfonso Soriano, Kosuke Fukudome, etc. and their AWFUL contracts are also probably very available. Call Jimbo at Pizza Hut...

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Movie night

Exactly half of the Lattice "staff" at opening night of Inception together last night. Turns out this blog is just a dream.

Jim "Anchovies" Hendry vote of confidence goes from puzzlingly obvious to eerily foreboding

"The fact is, right now, Jim is our general manager ... I support him, and I think he does a great job. After that, we'll take it one day at a time."