Tyrants to the right of them…tyrants to the left of themIn 1854, Crimea was contested by the British and the Russians, and maybe the only bit of beauty that arose from that conflict was the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade. I memorized it in 8th grade for a class…
Chicago Dibs – Are dibs users bad neighbors?
by Cyril Landise
Any “dibsers” on your block?“Dibs” is a newly applied name for the practice of marking a snow shoveled parking space for personal use, usually with old furniture or jetsam from a basement. The more blatant scofflaws use stolen traffic cones. (It’s technically a misuse of the term dibs, because any self respecting native speaker of Chicago-ese…
You can’t touch everyone, but you can touch everyone you touch.