Every goddamn day: 05/12/25

    Treating your employees like crap is not a new concept.      In fact it's very old. Peer into the past and you see it everywhe...

     Before I ever came to Chicago, Chicago came to me, with all its sweet ethnic pride, in the form of Maurice Lenell cookies. I didn...

     This is Part 2 of my visit to the Illinois State Fair. If you missed Part 1, you can find it here.        Pride is a sin, I know. ...

Twilight parade, 2012     The Illinois State Fair opened Friday, and runs until Aug. 23. While I  can't say that I felt an urgent y...

      If you look down enough alleys in Chicago, you will eventually see a cellist in a bowler hat.       I know this is true, based on p...

     August is half over. Which means that school is beginning soon. Here are some young men at ... well, I shouldn't say where they ...

     One evil is so clear to Republicans that it didn't need to be discussed at all during their presidential debate in Cleveland la...