Author: DXO
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Second City Cop Calls it Again
News item: The father of a city alderman has been charged in an alleged fake documentation scheme following a recent raid in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. Federal prosecutors allege that the discount mall photo studio operated by Elias Munoz, 62, was at the center of a multi-million-dollar counterfeit ring that produced thousands of fake documents.…
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Froot Loop Fascism
Froot Loop Fascism, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s country singer LeAnn Rimes getting all patriotic on the back of a box of Froot Loops. God bless us all. Froot Loop Fascism, originally uploaded by juggernautco.
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Reading Fluency Sheets
Reading Fluency Sheets, originally uploaded by juggernautco. So this year I helped Christian’s teacher to grade the Reading Fluency Sheets. It is a pretty interesting method of assessing and improving a kid’s ability to read and comprehend what they read. The kids would administer the assessments to each other, marking down how far their partner…
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Section 60
Section 60, originally uploaded by juggernautco. This image and caption from the New York Times today, Memorial Day, is a horror story to me. A crushing, intimate, stunningly obscene image of a young woman laying on her fiance’s grave, on the patchy starved grass, hair up in a bun, bottle of water near. Jean jacket…
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Apparently You Can’t Kill 7 People Before Midnight and get Away With it in Palatine, IL
So a little more than a decade ago I wrote a verse essay called, "Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-Destruction". One of my obsessions at the time was the Brown’s Chicken Massacre, where 7 people were killed in a suburb of Chicago as they were closing a fast food restaurant. It…