All lead-in music for nationally televised Chicago sports must include a blues guitar riff. Also, transitioning to commercial must include footage of deep-dish pizza, sausage grilling or hot dog toppings. We'll overlook those platitudes as long as no one does the stale "Daaaaaa Bearrrrrrrs" accent bit.
We'll also excuse allusions, as long as they spotlight Orval Overall, the cornerstone of the Cubs s dynasty. Your Cubs playoff bingo card or drinking game coverage also includes the "I love the Cubs so much, I'm such a tortured soul, and why do I willingly sign up for this every season?
The super-prospect storyline may be a novel concept to other markets, but here in Chi-Town pro tip: no one who lives here actually calls it "Chi-Town" , we've been talking about them since There's one exceedingly tired, incredibly predictable Cubs cliche that hasn't been mentioned yet. It's the worst of all, and that's why we won't even say his name. Of course, we'll see footage of him, and that foul ball that careened off Moises Alou's glove in He doesn't do interviews, and he doesn't want attention.
One major difference between a troll and an instigator, I believe, is that a troll typically comments on other people's posts, rather than generating a similar controversy on their own page.
A few names of my social media followers come to mind, but I don't want to spread their venom into this column. Plus, if I did, the social media know-it-all would likely correct me, citing some footnote from a dusty policy manual to prove his or her point.
In many ways, you can get a pretty good idea who many of these digital personalities are in real life, away from the cloak of social media masking. Just like with old-fashioned verbal dialogues, all you have to do is allow them to talk, or to comment in this case. It doesn't take too long to profile them.
Social media addiction is not only accepted as casual entertainment in our society, it's so pervasive that we don't realize it's a problem. It's like one alcoholic at a bar calling another one a drunk.
Either they're in denial or they're too drunk to understand the irony. For many social media users, it's all about escapism, from their marriage, from their kids, from their troubles, from their lives. Trouble is, too often their choice of escapism from their life turns into, well, their life. Just ask any cocaine addict. Twitter jdavich. Skip to content. A man is silhouetted against a video screen with an Facebook logo as he poses with an Dell laptop in this photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica on Aug.
Kimberly Lightford and her husband ». Full disclosure: I would probably be categorized as the instigator. It's very 21st century. It's also very disappointing. Latest Opinion. Quickly: Readers sound off on the issues of the day. Most Read. Politics Up to 15 gunshots reported during carjacking of Illinois Sen. Spectacularly vast stores of natural gas — by some estimates a staggering trillion cubic feet — trapped in shale formations thousands of feet below our nation's surface could endow America with decades of energy independence.
But the method of exacting the natural gas, a process nicknamed fracking, could be the next environmental superdebate. Maybe it won't be as cosmic as the battle over global warming, but it certainly could rival the acid rain hysteria of the s and the '80s.
Already thousands of wells have been drilled and the extraction of natural gas from them has increased exponentially during the past few years. With it has come an abundance of optimism and new jobs. One of the nation's largest repositories is the Marcellus Shale formation, consisting of 65 million acres running deep below Ohio, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and southern New York.
Other large reserves abound throughout the West and the South and Michigan. Because of the environmental advantages of natural gas and its potential as a feedstock for petrochemicals and various other virtues over crude oil, the prospect of such huge reserves is a blessing for the world's most gluttonous energy consumers — us. Not for environmentalists, though. For some, this is a curse that needs to be severely curtailed if not prohibited.
Their target is fracking — short for hydraulic fracturing — a process in which water, sand and chemicals the later consisting of about 0.
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