Your business.sucks: The URL suffix ".sucks" goes up for sale to the general public June 19, but prominent Chicago brands including McDonald's, Edelman, and the Blackhawks have already called dibs so you can't shame them online, reporter David Matthews is reading in Crain's. Online registrar Vox Populi will sell the domains for $250 each, a rate one corporate lawyer told Crain's is "rather extortionistic." But McDonald's and other companies paid ten times that amount to pre-emptively claim their domains. For what it's worth, ".rocks" domains cost merely $8.99 from GoDaddy.com.
Kim Kardashian West poses with fans June 2, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. [Getty/Rick Diamond]
Kween Kim: Love her or hate her, there's no denying Kim Kardashian has the pop culture world wrapped around her pinkie finger. And frankly, reporter Ariel Cheung probably wouldn't turn down a chance to be her — at least for a day. But after poring over Elle magazine's four-part series about a reporter mirroring Kim's lifestyle, she's not completely sure she could handle it. From the skin-tight fashion to the dieting and butt zaps, perhaps we're all better off chowing down on pizza and binge-watching "Orange is the New Black," leaving Kim to be the perfectly sculpted life-sized Barbie doll we all know and, at the very least, put up with.
Hillary's Painful Past: Political junkies like reporter Heather Cherone spent most of Friday picking their jaws up off the ground after reading the New York Times' story about the painful childhood of Hillary Rodham Clinton's mother, Dorothy Rodham, who raised the former first lady/presidential candidate in Park Ridge, making her an honorary Northwest Sider. Sent away by her parents at 8 years old, Dorothy Rodham was forced to work as a maid for $3 an hour before being rejected again by her mother. Clinton's speech Saturday kicking off her campaign will focus on how her mother's hardscrabble upbringing will make her a champion for the working poor and middle class as president, the Times reports.
Simpsons Separation Freak-Out: In a recent Variety article, it was revealed that in Season 27 of The Simpsons Homer and Marge will get become separated after he falls for a pharmacist played by Lena Dunham. Reporter Linze Rice wants people to stop freaking out over this likely episode-long development, breathe deeply, and harken back especially to Season 8's classic 'A Milhouse Divided'. In that episode, Bart's gooney best friend Milhouse finds out his parents are divorcing, causing Homer to become worried Marge may also be harboring secret resentment toward him after all his years of shenanigans. By the episode's end, he surprised Marge with not only a divorce, but subsequent second wedding where he describes his love for her as "in impotence and in potence, in quiet solitude or blasting across the alkali flats in a jet-powered, monkey-navigated" flying machine. The point being: It's happened before and it will all be okay.
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