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Saturday, January 20, 2024

Sports Illustrated is dead and I'm not feeling so hot myself

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         Whenever I try to convey the bounty that the Chicago Sun-Times offers its readers every weekend with the Sports Saturday wrapper, ...
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Friday, January 19, 2024

Swirling in the vortex

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           As someone fascinated by the 1912 sinking of the Titanic — who isn't? — you'd think the 1997 blockbuster movie "Tita...
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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Room with a view

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    View from Room 237, Sky View Lodge, Sedona Arizona.      My wife and I don't usually pop for a room with a view. The idea being that...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Won't it just get stolen again?

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          So ... in case you missed it. Two-thirds of Republicans in Iowa told pollsters they believe the 2020 presidential election was sto...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Mentor is a city in Ohio

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    Too much of my stuff is cringingly confessional. TMI, as the kids say. But believe it or not, there are actually pieces that I write, th...
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Monday, January 15, 2024

Flashback 2007: He can't Trump us — It's hard to believe Chicagoans could really fall for The Donald's nonsense

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      Roseanne Barr is an alarmingly stupid person. She hasn't always been that way — I remember her original appearance on Johnny Carso...
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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Flashback 2013: Hello, I’ll be your flu for today . . .

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     A lot of illness going around: flu, COVID, RSV — that last one being some kind of lung infection. Whatever it is, I went to get the vac...
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