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If you think you have a crappy piece of work so to speak, consider for a signification those individuals who have to clean the portable toilets stationed in the parking allotments at U.S. Cellular Field. After visiting single in kind of these units after Tuesday's Sox-Yankees game, I can single say: Jeez.

As I approached the tumult of units between Lot A and hazard B just north of the park, a woman emerg from the same and said, "Don't even go on foot in there. I couldn't equable 'go.' It was too disgusting."

in such a manner I entered another stall -- and exited 12 secondarys later.

I've been to my share of plots and ballgames and other outdoor issues where the port-a-bathroom is the merely option. I can take it. I don't reckon upon the stalls to be as pristine as the Men's latitude at the Ritz-Carlton in Paris. if it were not that the stall in question was in the same manner defiled, so foul, so strewn with . . stuff that it was impossible to on the same level consider staying in there extended enough to do anything.

You gotta figure that each stall is clean each night before the gates are make opened Somewhere along the line, however, it acquires really, truly nasty. You'd think wild animals had raided the place.

population let's try to at least hit the target. If the Sox pitching staff had restrain that bad, they'd be 30 games public of first.

This just in: It's darker at night!

The Wall road Journal notes that in promo for her upcoming gig forward the "CBS Evening News," Katie Couric sports "a more serious expect than the colorful, trendy outfits she frequently wore to cover light topics for many years forward the 'Today' show."

Really. In other breaking recently made knowns Couric often wears pajamas and goe barefoot when she be stills but she dons outfits with shoe and everything when she attends a dinner party.

Of course Couric is going to wear more conservative clothing when she's reading the latest just discovereds from Iraq at 5:30 pm as oppos to dealing with a frisky marmoset that's dancing upon her head at 7 a.m. The sole thing amazing about the Wall road Journal story was that a person of consequence thought it was a story.

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Just asking: When are the "Short Ships" coming to Navy Pier?

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I was near Columbus and Illinois the other day when I saw the latest inlet in the offensive T-shirt sweepstakes. A dowdy was wearing a shirt that proclaimed:

"GO F--- YOURSELF."

I think he could have meant it ironically. Still, we've really made a certain progress from "HAVE A NICE DAY," haven't we?

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However, I did gain a kick out of the sign wielded from a young, female, Konerko-loving fan at the Sox game the other night, equable if it might offend about Southern Caucasians:

"THIS CRACKER WANTS A PAULIE."

And they say the kids aren't creative with the language any more.

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Just asking, Part II: Do the Men of the Square Table at all times go out and try to fitting women, or do they just sit around debating whether it's OK to "touch bottoms"?

What's unsuitable with having an agenda?

E-mail of the week, signed by way of Jim and Carole Cooke of Rockwall, Texas:

"Ann Coulter is a journalist, not a hatemonger. She is pointing on the outside the after-the-fact use of their widowhood to elevate a political agenda and that is shabby."

undivided of the most amazing things to me about the never-ending Ann Coulter debate is that many conservatives agree with her assessment that there's something morally objectionable about 9/11 widows using their status to advance a political agenda. (If in fact they're level doing that.)

Why? wherefore in the world is that a "shabby" thing to do?

John Walsh's son was slayed -- and he turned that tragedy into a lifelong crusade, co-founding the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and putting play the sycophants in jail via "America's greatest in quantity Wanted."

Christopher Reeve was paralyzed -- and his late wife used his celebrity status to fight for branch cell research.

Thousands of Vietnam veterans answered home convinced the war was unfair -- and they used their status to advance their anti-war cause.

Lance Armstrong survived cancer -- and he used his international celebrity to create a foundation dedicated to coping with and fighting cancer.

That's for what reason it works. If you're famous, or if your personal experience gives you a measure of fame or status, you'll be able to draw more attention to your "agenda," whether it's political, medical or social.

Question for the Cookes: If 9/11 widows used their status to campaign FOR the war and to support conservative causes, would it still be "shabby"?

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