• Clan: McTiVo

    Recap: Broken Oxy Morons

    You know how sometimes, you’re aware as soon as you hear a phrase that it’s going to live on in your vocabulary forever? Kind of like, “I’M PACKIN’ IT!”, only more so? Okay. That’s what happened this week with “My ox is broken!” I don’t think I will ever love anything on television, in a sick and wrong kind of way, quite like I loved seeing Colin absolutely self-destruct, to the point where he wound up snarling angrily, “My ox is broken!” Anyway, to provide some context, we start out in New Zealand, where the early Roadblock requires some careful…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    All I Ever Needed To Know About Alligator Wrasslin’

    When Broy and another officer reached the home Monday, they spotted the 5-foot-long, 80-pound American alligator in a wooden enclosure attached to a garage. Inside the enclosure was a hot tub sunk into the ground and filled with 4 feet of stagnant water, and in the water, littered with broken turtle shells, was the alligator. They called the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Royalton Police for a little help. To get the alligator, Scott Ballard of the IDNR pulled on chest waders, stepped into the tub and grabbed the animal. Broy and two others then dragged Ballard and the…

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    Eyes Wide Open: 1000 And Counting

    The multimedia exhibit sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee is ongoing. You can check the schedule and its progress here. When this exhibit was unveiled by our Chicago office in January 2004, there were 504 pairs of boots symbolizing the lost lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. With each passing week, each stop in a href=”http://”>new city, more pairs of boots are added to represent the newly fallen. Alongside the boots stands a wall of remembrance with the names of the more than 11,000 Iraqi civilians who have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion.