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The Black Hawks Win, and the Gay Pride Parade

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They don't seem to have a thing in common, at first glance. O'Doul's- the non-alcoholic beer But for an addict, they have everything in common. (1) The Hawks I feel pretty lame, and in some ways traitorous, but as a Chicagoan for over half a century, I should have been posting on Facebook like all of my young friends. Haaaawwwwwkkkkkkkssssss!!!!!! OMG!  ANOTHER WIN!!!! THEY DID IT AGAIN!! And I should have been to a game, and I should have been at the rally, a huge Mardi Gras that many are still talking about. The pictures in the paper make me feel that as a blogger I missed a tremendous photo op. Foiled again. The Hawks won the Stanley Cup in 2010, too, and the revelry in the city made the angels in Heaven look down and wonder if perhaps they should attend. Nothing could be better. And indeed, if you looked closely at the celebrations, you would have thought we found Osama bin Laden. No, really, the two don't compare. The only thing that compares with the feeling are o...