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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Louvre is closed.

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     Workers at the Louvre went on strike Monday. Which caused me to send out supportive thoughts of solidarity to any teenagers being dragg...
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Monday, June 16, 2025

WBEZ, longtime Chicago voice for 'respect and joy,' needs help

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     WBEZ and I go way back. In the mid-1980s, when I was freshly fired from the Wheaton Daily Journal and looking for any kind of work, Ken...
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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Flashback 2010: Why were bombs sent to synagogues in Chicago?

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Synagogue in Buenos Aires       Anti-Semitism waxes and wanes, and if I seem nonchalant about it surging lately, that's because, in my v...
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Saturday, June 14, 2025

You can't have our freedom; we're using it.

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Danish crown, Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen        I grew up in an era of protest. People taking to the streets. First for civil rights, then...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

A parade for Trump, but the true patriots will be in the streets

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       I love a parade. Give me a crisply uniformed high school marching band, tall hats smartly strapped under chins, horns held high, play...
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Thursday, June 12, 2025

"No king he"

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                 The Washington Post did a poll this week , asking 1,000 Americans whether it is a good idea for the president to send the ...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Park district shuns an anti-hate ad — and ketchup on hot dogs

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     Regular readers know that I belong to a widely reviled minority; contempt is increasingly heaped upon us without letup or shame.      I...
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