Bovine Intervention | Bleader

Bleader

Archives | RSS

Share
  |  

Friday, February 5, 2010

Bad News From the Past / We're Old Bovine Intervention

Posted By on 02.05.10 at 09:39 AM

Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe

cow1.jpg
Chicago Tribune, September 26, 1859. The obscene handbills in question could have addressed any number of medical services: cures for STDs, restoration of lost virility (commonly caused by "self-abuse"), abortion. As for the "cow nuisance": what's the big deal, right? Everyone knows cows are placid and harmless creatures.

cow2.jpg
Not to mention the menace that boy cows present to the city's china shops.

cow3.jpg
I love it that a primary argument against allowing cows in the city center is that they mess with people’s gardens. We’re talking about a very different Chicago here. As for the "nearly ruined" child, let's presume ruination here is not meant in the common 19th-century sense of "seduced and abandoned."

cow4.jpg
This herdsman, would he be an employee of the city? Sounds suspiciously like socialism to me.

Tags: , , , ,

Share

Comments

Subscribe to this thread:
By Email
With RSS

Add a comment

More by Cliff Doerksen

  • Listings: Spots for Seafood

    Listings: Spots for Seafood

    From shrimp shacks to supper clubs
    • by David Hammond, Martha Bayne, Mike Sula, Laura Levy Shatkin, Cliff Doerksen, Nicholas Day, Kate Schmidt and Anne Spiselman
    • Apr 14, 2011
  • Into the Friar

    Into the Friar

    An inquisitor poses some tough questions: Where do you get those robes? And can you exercise in them?
    • by Cliff Doerksen
    • Dec 23, 2010
  • Stop The Presses!

    Stop The Presses!

    Viva Las Vegas
    • by Cliff Doerksen
    • Dec 9, 2010
  • More »

Agenda Teaser

08.19.18
Bus Stop
Performing Arts
Bus Stop Athenaeum Theatre
July 19
Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash with Joey Bada$$, Trippie Redd, Vic Mensa, Lil Skies, Ski Mask the Slump God, Lil B, Gunna, Famous Dex, Yung Bans, Mike Jenkins, Wifisfuneral, Maxo Kream, DJ Paul, Felly, Yung Punch, Casey Veggies, Queen Key, and others
Music
Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash with Joey Bada$$, Trippie Redd, Vic Mensa, Lil Skies, Ski Mask the Slump God, Lil B, Gunna, Famous Dex, Yung Bans, Mike Jenkins, Wifisfuneral, Maxo Kream, DJ Paul, Felly, Yung Punch, Casey Veggies, Queen Key, and others Douglas Park
August 19
More Agenda Teaser »

Tabbed Event Search

The Bleader Archive

Popular Stories

Read
Shared
Comments
Copyright © 2018 Chicago Reader

Powered by Foundation