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Monday, February 11, 2019

Maybe someday a special beef dish will also be named after Jeff Bezos

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Bust of Wellington, by Sir Francis Chantrey Metropolitan Museum of Art      Arthur Wellesley is no longer famous. Though I imagine his t...
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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Hot Cars in the Coldest Month

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     The Sun-Times has been producing an occasional magazine to enhance our Sunday paper. In December, they asked me to write about manuf...
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Housekeeping note

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     Because the story I'm featuring Sunday, on the history of the Chicago Car Show, isn't going live on the Sun-Times' web ...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

The Saturday Snapshot #26

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      Vanity is a two-edged sword.      One edge is the desire to manifest yourself, to project your ego, which is responsible for most o...
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Friday, February 8, 2019

A woman is marrying her dog on Valentine’s Day — but wait, there’s more to it

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      We get two daily newspapers delivered at home, the Sun-Times and the New York Times. I always read my own paper first — loyalty — a...
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Thursday, February 7, 2019

2007 flashback: Maritime law vs. the love boat

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        I don't want to spoil the opening joke of this column. Just to say, after you read it, and want to immediately act, there is th...
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"Nice country you've got here, shame to have anything BAD happen to it..."

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         I wrote this before I realized I had gotten an old pre-Valentine's column ready to go, months ago. Well, no rules against...
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