What day is it?
Thursday is the second anniversary of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, an occasion marked by a visit this week from Chinese President Hu Jintao. Think of it as a courtesy visit from your landlord when the lease is half up.
Homeland security
Imagine you’re Hu Jintao, dropped into Chicago amid the Bears-Packers hoopla — stories of divided families, interloper fans and simmering tensions along the state line. Why, it’s enough to make you wonder why there’s not a Great Wall along the Illinois-Wisconsin border.
News released
Everybody knows a marketing opportunity when they see it. A sampling of the Bears/Packers-oriented pitches in our inbox this week: Bears-colored doughnuts at Dunkin’ Donuts, a wager between the heads of animal shelters in Chicago and Wisconsin (the familiar “loser wears the other team’s jersey”), best songs ever performed by Bears and Packers, etc. All of which can only mean one thing: PLAY THE DANG GAME ALREADY!
And finally
Once-again Playboy boss Hugh Hefner says the company will soon bring its uncensored material to the iPad, including new and archived issues of the magazine. How he’ll do that is unclear, given Apple’s ban on pornography in its apps. Regardless, just when we’d gotten used to the name, leave it to Hef to make “iPad” sound icky again.
The number
$14,309.51
Tuition and fees paid by University of Colorado at Boulder student Nic Ramos entirely in $1 bills, in protest of the rising cost of education.
— Rob Manker
