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Right? The penalty for being a suspected drug dealer isn’t instant execution!

The penalty for being an actual drug dealer isn’t instant execution, either!

BRING BACK DUE PROCESS & THE RULE OF LAW

Latest: The U.S. military says it killed 11 more people overnight in strikes on boats it suspects of drug smuggling at sea, this time bombing targets on both sides of the Panama Canal.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

"Suspects." They aren't even sure. Not that that would make it any less disgusting.

Black cyber truck taking up way too much room in a parking garage. The license plate holder says "Jesus Loves You."

Jesus Loves You but does he want you to drive this stupid-ass thing?

Looking east at the Chicago skyline, dominated by the Sears Tower (always) just right of center. A 4-story white building, "Rush Specialty Hospital," is also right of center, closer to the photographer than the Sears Tower. The sky is gray and gloomy.

Looking southeast from the same building, you can see rows of red brick townhouses, many with gable roofs (in the center), others with flat roofs (at the right). At far left in the background is the 77-story NEMA apartment complex.

View from from the new Rubschlager Building at Rush Medical Center, Chicago

And everyone thinking he was a dumb as a box of rocks.

Ah

Torvill and Dean skating to Ravel’s Bolero

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

Seems pretty standard for Chicago

"This is a 2.5-story single-family residence in the Tudor Revival style with Prairie School influences built in 1905. The building is cruciform in plan. The structural system is masonry and stucco. The foundation is poured concrete. Exterior walls are original brick and original stucco and wood half-timbering. The building has a gable roof clad in replacement asphalt shingles. There is one center, exterior, brick chimney. Windows are original wood, 6/1 doublehung sashes. There is a single-story, full-width open screened characterized by a flat roof with square brick posts on square brick piers. Side entry to front porch. The main block has a one-story projecting sunroom with square posts with concrete capitals, wooden dentils, and a flat roof. Above is an exterior chimney, stucco and half timbering, and two gables, each with a projecting window bay." From the Historical Resources Inventory Form

Another Tudor Revival from Oak Park, built in 1905. The position of the chimney seems kind of odd.

"This is a 2-story single-family residence in the Tudor Revival style built in 1904. The building is rectangular in plan. The structural system is frame. Exterior walls are original brick and stucco and wood half-timbering. The walls of the first floor are brick. The second floor and gable ends feature the stucco cladding with wood half-timbering that is characteristic of the Tudor Revival style. The building has a hip roof clad in wood shake with wide and Five gabled dormers. There is one side right, side slope, brick chimney. Windows are , 9/1 sash. The house also features a number of single-pane, casement windows. There is a single-story, full-span open porch characterized by a shed with gable roof clad in wood shingles with square stuccoed posts on square brick piers. The porch posts are grouped in twos and threes and feature decorative wood trim near the top. The porch roof is a shed roof on the right side and a gable roof on the left, above the entrance. The gable end features stucco and half-timbering matching that on the rest of the house. The front door is located within the front porch, slightly left of center." Historic Resources Inventory Form

126 S. Euclid, Oak Park, 1904

Part of the side of a brick building. There is a white door to the right of center with the words "BE A HORSE" on it. There is a drawing of a long-necked dinosaur, graffiti that says IUP, and some pink lettering that I can't read. Part of a fire escape is visible across the bottom of the photo.

For the Year of the Horse--be a horse

I want to post this again. The vintage photo that I posted is not the same house! It's William's father's house and was a block north on Ashland on the other side of the street. Same architects, though.

Black and white photo of a big, boxy Italianate mansion with the arched hooded windows and the eaves and the brackets and the cupola and all that.

Randomly ran into this photo of Harrison's home while looking for something completely different

📸 CHM/Charles Clark (1907)

Fantastic!

That's so nice of you. Thanks.

Three-story Second Empire brick building built in 1887. It has a mansard roof with multiple gabled dormers. The turret is the showstopper. It's polygonal in shape with a truncated pyramidal roof. There are round windows in the roof with a bracketed cornice below them. The entire turret is decorated with foliage, festoons, and other gingerbread.

Four-story buff brick Italianate? style building with a polygonal turret on the corner. The windows on the second and third floors and in the turret have rusticated limestone lintels. The fourth floor windows are arched. there is a heavy bracketed cornice across the top of the entire building, bay windows on the side, and a fire escape traveling down the building at the right.

How often do the Lunar New Year, Mardi Gras, and #TurretTuesday occur on the same day? These turrets are in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. I wish I had one in Chinatown.

July 1887.

The father's was built a couple years after the son's. I'm assuming he didn't want to be outdone.

I screwed up royally. The vintage photo is a totally different house. It's William's father's house. The Thomas Chalmers house was at 179 S. Ashland, at the southwest corner of Adams and Ashland. It is no longer standing.

So the Epstein files are bringing down everyone except those in the United States, do i have that right?

Replying to @dmercer.bsky.social:
A skating possum! I once tried to skate upon a frozen puddle and landed most soundly upon my back. I should much rather watch the geese dance.

The windows in the center of the second floor are different, too.

I hope it means that justice will rain down on the White House.

I had no idea, either. That block was full of homes for swells.

Gray and white possum walking across a frozen pond

Two brown, white, and black Canada geese, each standing on one foot on a frozen pond

Beautiful day at Columbus Park. The possum was skating and the geese were dancing.

Amazing, isn't it?

You're too kind. What's funny is that I found all this stuff and THEN found a couple of websites that had put it all together before me. Oh, well--the research is the fun part!

They removed the porch and moved the entrance. I'm guessing that might have happened when it stopped being a single family home