Every goddamn day: 06/16/25

       So Mayor Brandon Johnson, in that by-now-trademark fashion of his to deny everything he isn't taking credit for, says he first le...

Office dogs at PCB Linear in Roscoe, Illinois       I noticed this 2000 column while looking for something else, and had to share it, just b...

Not in Toledo.      Q: What's the difference between a newspaper column and a blog post?      A: You can miss a newspaper column.      A...

     Computers of course are binary. Everything we see on a screen, from a full length Hollywood movie to a text message to the period at th...

       For the past 20 years or so, we've hosted Thanksgiving. Big boisterous events packed with food and family. But this year we had a...

I bought the Virgil quote button from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers in Wauconda.         Homer's  Iliad  and Odyssey are far greater wor...

My boundless professional respect and personal admiration for Sen. Dick Durbin has nothing — nothing! — to do with the fact that he sometime...