Every goddamn day: 05/11/25

     Abraham Lincoln went from a log cabin to the White House, he freed the slaves and won the Civil War, while writing the most stirrin...

     Sigh.      The Chicago City Council. The aldermen in it. Where do these jokers come from?      Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) specific...

     An alderman spoke out against the tentative title of Spike Lee's yet-to-be-filmed movie, "Chiraq," because it implies t...

      Last week's contest was very satisfying, because the winner was really, really glad to win—a longtime reader who was into the s...

     "What have you done?" God asks Cain, after he slays Abel. "The blood of your brother cries out to me from the grou...

       Maybe the fifth time I heard the commercial I finally snapped.       You probably have heard it too.      They play the damn thi...

     My wife had to leave the house early Tuesday—4:48 a.m., to be exact—because she's an assistant attorney general, and thus half of...