Why listen to Meh?

Beautiful day in the city. #Chicago #wickerpark

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:43:04 -0400

Beautiful day in the city. #Chicago #wickerpark

My scorecard from Weds cubs game. #chicago #cubs

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:01:28 -0400

My scorecard from Weds cubs game. #chicago #cubs

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Fri, 17 May 2013 12:59:22 -0400

"I feel like all my kids grew up and then married each other. It’s every parents dream."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:50:46 -0400

“I feel like all my kids grew up and then married each other. It’s every parents dream.”

- Michael Scott (via roadmovies)

UGH Wake up feeling blessed up…

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:10:44 -0400

UGH Wake up feeling blessed up…

ichaseunicorns: holy. shit. SO FUCKING STOKED FOR RIOT FEST....

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:27:10 -0400

ichaseunicorns:

holy. shit.

SO FUCKING STOKED FOR RIOT FEST. How is it this damn good?!

We’re excited to announce “Toy Story of TERROR!” a new animated...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:12:47 -0400

We’re excited to announce “Toy Story of TERROR!” a new animated short coming to ABC this Halloween!

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Thu, 16 May 2013 10:46:43 -0400

At Wrigley for the first time in a couple years! #chicago #cubs

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:31:19 -0400

At Wrigley for the first time in a couple years! #chicago #cubs

att: Who gives the best hugs? Moms do of course. Happy Mother’s...

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:35:23 -0400

att:

Who gives the best hugs?

Moms do of course. Happy Mother’s day, Mom!

Art is happening. #Chicago #artinstitute

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:12:21 -0400

Art is happening. #Chicago #artinstitute

Private tour of the Picasso exhibit for collaboraction working...

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:52:27 -0400

Private tour of the Picasso exhibit for collaboraction working the AfterDark. What is my life?! #Chicago #artinstitute

Jeff Buckley is taking over my life.

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:26:15 -0400

Jeff Buckley is taking over my life.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 21:08:30 -0400

I designed a poster literally printed in the thousands!...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:14:49 -0400

I designed a poster literally printed in the thousands! #collaboraction #designfolyfe

Designed by yours truly. Wassup snitches! #collaboraction...

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:48:51 -0400

I forgot to post this on Sat. The ladyfriend took it when i...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:52:00 -0400

I forgot to post this on Sat. The ladyfriend took it when i wasn’t paying attention. Not going to lie i think i looked top drawer. I do wish we had gotten a picture together because she looked pretty fabulous herself.

She does this thing where she has my phone and waits until i’m not paying attention and then takes a picture of me and posts it to my instagram with a horrible description that makes me look like a dope. This one was titled, “So many thoughts…”

"She argues there’s another way to fight crime. “We ought to invest a lot more in our public schools...."

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:40:54 -0400

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She argues there’s another way to fight crime. “We ought to invest a lot more in our public schools. You know, feed the kids breakfast, lunch, and dinner; have after-school activities; keep the schools open until nine o’clock in the evenings and on weekends; invest in things like the Boys and Girls Club and the Park District—I mean, everything, basically, to dramatically ramp up the investments in our children.”

But even in Democrat-dominated Cook County, it’s hard to imagine that happening. “I was at an event last week, a fund-raising event, actually, where somebody said, ‘All my neighbors are Republicans—people who live on my block who I like, who wouldn’t support the idea you were just promulgating,’” Preckwinkle recalled. “And he said the people on his block he knew would rather pay to keep somebody incarcerated than to support music lessons or soccer team memberships or basketball team uniforms for kids in poor neighborhoods. “We’ve got in this country such distorted values. In the last 30 or 40 years we’ve invested all this money in our prison system, and our schools are starving for money.”

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- County board prez: Why are we closing schools and packing the jail? | Bleader

that first paragraph up there—the stuff about investing in after school activities and keeping the schools open until 9pm, etc. —I’m thinking about that in context to of the Emergency Managers in Michigan. And how if they were *really* invested in fixing economic problems rather than privatization, they’d be figuring out ways to do *exactly* what she is suggesting. Making the schools an essential part of the community means that youth don’t drop out and people don’t transfer to other districts. it means that people *move into* that district.

another example, what would happen if community groups were trained and paid to go to houses in the community and clean up lead? not only would it provide jobs, but when there’s a proven correlation between lead levels and low achievment in school—what effect would it have on student’s test schools and ability to focus and stay in school if their bodies aren’t being poisoned? there are seriously NO foundation grants for this sort of thing? why aren’t city mayors, councils, EMs, etc working their asses off to find foundation grants and corporate investment in cleaning up lead so that public schools can stay open—instead of building a whole new building to stick a charter school in?

(via iinventedeverything)

“people on his block he knew would rather pay to keep somebody incarcerated than to support music lessons or soccer team memberships or basketball team uniforms for kids in poor neighborhoods.”

Next time I hear that we should fight racism with cool, calm logic, I will be thinking about this.

(via jhameia)

As a Chicago native, I am so, so disappointed in what’s happening with the school system there. The county board president goes on to say that she and a lot of other people suspect that officials are trying to weaken public schools in order to pave the way for charter and contract schools. That is truly unconscionable.

Funding education should be the number one priority in America. NUMBER. ONE. Right now it makes up 3% of the federal budget. Education fights crime. Education fights poverty. Education fights income inequality. Education encourages people to become the small business owners that drive many local economies. Investing in education is an investment in our children, our workforce, and our economy. But the people who run this country - both the politicians and the people who donate the most to them - stand to gain from private prisons and welfare programs and military contractors, so fuck all those little kids and their struggling families, right?

If schools provided all three meals, families would save money on food and kids who wouldn’t have had a breakfast otherwise will learn better. if schools stayed open til 9 - or even 6 - parents would save money on childcare and be able to work more hours. These would be incredibly boons to local economies. When I think about how we could have things like this but we don’t, instead we have two wars and corporate welfare, it just makes me fume.
(via stfuconservatives)

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