Jon Shay | jfshay@gmail.com | 3 posts
Jon Shay has been teaching high school English in Chicago since 2001, and was inspired to do so after reading Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal." Satire is all that keeps him sane.
Friends and relatives of Chicago based ice cream truck driver Mohammed “Mo” Khawaja have grown concerned in recent weeks about how his job has started to negatively affect him. Specifically, he seems incapable of saying anything unless it matches the rhythm and cadence of the song “Pop, Goes the Weasel.” “At first, I didn’t even notice. [...]
Image via Wikipedia A shocking report released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lays out the dangers that drivers create while talking on a cell-phone, namely, that it results in confused, distracted conversation, poorly-spelled text messages, wasted cell-phone minutes, and even the demise of friendships. Norm Nimeta, a 17-year old with both a car and a [...]
CHICAGO — Rodney Stuckney was forced to reevaluate the recent purchase of a Chevy Suburban after seeing a bumper-sticker of the comic-strip character Calvin urinating on a Chevy logo. “At first, I didn’t realize what I was seeing. I mean, I could recognize Calvin, even though his features were a little different from what I remembered,” [...]
