Now You Need an ID to Report a Crime in Chicago
2016-05-10 – The other day, a friend of the family had his cell phone stolen on a train here in Chicago. He had a few IDs and credit cards attached […]
Tag Archives: Culture
Election Lottery
2016-05-03 – So tonight, both Hillary and The Donald will inch their way another step toward clinching their parties’ nominations. It could be over in both cases or it could […]
Tut-Tut the Trump
2016-05-01 – So now the pundits are saying they never thought for a million years that Donald Trump could get as far as he has (while they have been not-so-covertly […]
Suggest-a-Veep Matchup
2016-04-27 – Now that Ted Cruz has announced that Carly Fiorina is his choice for Vice President, I wonder if any other former candidates will follow suit. Anyone willing to […]
Organized Capital vs. Organized Labor
2016-04-26 – Have you ever given any thought to why the right for workers to organize a union is controversial but the right of investors to form a corporation is […]
Right Without Left Is Like a Magnetic Monopole
2016-04-24 – Yin and yang. People like to talk about how opposite forces are actually complementary to another . . . but not in politics. The noisiest of us like […]
Tubman on the Twenty—Not In Time for Passover
2016-04-21 – Apparently Harriet Tubman will be on the twenty instead of Andrew Jackson. I like that. If I had one of those Tubman twenties today, I’d give it at […]
Finger Picking
My “career” as a guitarist is notable by the fact that I’ve had very few lessons. If you listen to me play, you might say that it shows. I can […]
Zero Tolerance
2016-04-05 – C’mon Chicago. We just got a nominee for police superintendent in Eddie Johnson. He seemed like a decent pick. And today we learn that Eddie’s fiancé is under […]
Fixing the Chicago Police
2016-04-03 – I’m probably not the most objective person about police. I’ve never been arrested or hurt by a cop, but the many encounters I’ve had have been pretty distasteful. […]
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