“The smoke grenades fit perfectly in the cup holder.”

How long will your favorite food or beverage stay safe and tasty? What’s the best way to store it?

Created by a retired food safety expert with the Canadian government, I have a feeling this site is going to settle a lot of disagreements in our household.

From The Washington Post:

A House panel looking into a federal bailout program has found that 13 recipients of government funds owe more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, a lawmaker said today.

Mind you, that’s from a survey of just 23 out of 470 total recipients. At that rate, that total amount of taxes owed would be 4.5 billion dollars.

I bet that bastard McGruff was just asking for it.

Just heartbreaking. One of the reasons I will never own a bred dog.

“We handed over most of society’s wealth to our least productive citizens (realtors, mortgage brokers, Wall Street mediocrities). We raised taxes until business moved offshore. We dumbed down our schools until companies could find better educated workers in countries where people live very comfortably on $5,000 per year. Do we seriously believe that Michigan is going to bounce back within our lifetimes, much less within the proposed 52 weeks of extended unemployment payments?”

— Philip Greenspun’s “Extending unemployment benefits”

It’s official: my sister-in-law’s father-in-law is running for the U.S. Senate. http://bit.ly/ganley one day ago

My wife just received a replacement AmEx with only her first name on it. Take that, Bono! 8 days ago

@mtweet408 Hey, Illinois gets the same amount of sunshine annually as those other states, we just compress it into July and August. 9 days ago

@mtweet408 Uh, Michelle: http://bit.ly/aAdfl 9 days ago

@DougWick unless of course you think funneling billions of dollars through the most corrupt government in the U.S. is a bad idea. 10 days ago

just bought tickets for Beastie Boys at Congress Theater on August 6. 10 days ago

2009 MLB All Star Game at Busch Stadium 10 days from now

Smart Home: Green Wired '09 at Museum of Science 21 days from now

Beastie Boys at Congress Theater about one month from now

An Event Apart Chicago at Sheraton Hotel 3 months from now