Wednesday, September 21, 2011

No freedom for Drew! Will Rod soon join him? And what about Troy?

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We’d like to think we live in a society where logic and reason always prevails, and where we have control of our raw emotion so that we don...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Everyone wants their own police station

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If the political people were to have their way, the Chicago Police Department would be broken up into 50 districts, each with its own stati...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Percy’s passing marks end of political era that gave us bipartisan compromise

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Although I am old enough to remember the election cycles of 1982 (Illinois governor) and 1983 (Chicago mayor), the first election cycle I w...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Some people don’t know when to shut it

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My guess is that it falls into the category of “screaming ‘fire’ in a crowded film theater.” Or perhaps joking about having a bomb packed i...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Do the Sarah Palin sex tidbits really titillate us? Or are they just droll?

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Now we know exactly why the Chicago Tribune canned the Doonesbury comic strip for the week. Garry Trudeau focused this week’s worth ...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Oh, Pipe down!

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There have been moments during my years as a reporter-type person when someone who I was interviewing was saying something so ludicrous tha...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

What does a company owe somebody when they shoo them out the door?

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I don’t know Pat Bruno – the long-time (and now former ) restaurant critic of the Chicago Sun-Times. And I’m really not interested in writi...