The Des Plaines and Fox rivers will retreat to their neutral corners, threatening the random basement but otherwise waiting until spring to do their usual dirty work ...
... Rod Blagojevich, tailed by television news crews, will be spotted jogging again ...
... and again ... and again ...
... New Year's Eve will come and go without fanfare for most Americans because Dec. 31 will "feel like a Wednesday" ...
... parents who took their kids to see "Marley & Me" without having read the book (which would have told them how the dog ends up) will spend the next week performing acts of household penance ...
... in-denial fans of the Chicago Bears will forget the come-from-behind wins against Detroit, New Orleans and Green Bay that squeaked out a 9-win season, and continue to lament the come-from-ahead losses to Carolina, Tampa and Atlanta (which would have been a highly dramatic come-from-behind to begin with) ...
... and, even upon all this further review, the Bears will still not have made the playoffs.
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