Archive for July 29th, 2004

In my first journalism class, the professor kicked that old cliche, “Man Bites Dog…That’s news.” But this…this is just sick.

A suburban Chicago man is in court today facing charges he raped a female dog, facing up to nine years in prison and $75,000 in fines if convicted.

Joyner faces one to three years in prison and fines up to $25,000 if convicted on each of three charges.

The dog, which suffered physical injury during the attack, is reportedly recovering in its owner’s care.

What I wanna know is, what was he on? I’ve seen guys leave the club with “dogs”, but I’ve never seen one go into the kennel to pick her up.

This is the quote from Mayor Harold Washington’s second inaugural address that basically sums up what I think the NAACP should be, substituting racial differences for political and ideological differences. If the NAACP can’t be this, then maybe we should make something that can.

Chicago in four years has brought together black and white, Asian and hispanic, male and female, the young, the old, the disabled, gays and lesbians, Moslems, Christians and Jews, business leaders and neighborhood activists, bankers and trade unionists–all have come together to mix and contend, to aruge and to reason, to confront our problems and not merely to contain them.