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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Flashback 2013: Egg salad (eww) delicious for many

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     Passover ends Sunday, and with it my annual stiff-arm refusal of hard-boiled eggs and all their manifestations.      I don’t like egg s...
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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Blooming blossoms

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  April 6        Long week. Lots of running around, reporting stories that will be in the paper next week. Trying to keep myself distracted....
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Friday, April 18, 2025

Blowing up the government, again

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       Timothy McVeigh was so upset that the government used tear gas on children during the Waco siege that he killed 19 kids in a day care...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Flashback 2012: Classical stars surprise Thompson lunch crowd

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     Wednesday's column on the Department of Motor Vehicles made me wonder what other DMV columns I've run. And while this only ment...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Farcical Real ID regulations swamp Illinois DMV centers

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       While much of the country reels from the federal government being torn apart — jobs slashed, agencies gutted, funding withdrawn — Ale...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

And they got rid of all those historic "Whites only" signs!

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Columbus monument, Madrid.        Sometimes I despair at answering readers — what's the point? If they haven't figured it out by now...
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Monday, April 14, 2025

Americans face history in all its messy complexity

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     Walt Whitman was a nurse in the Civil War. His brother George was wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. The poet rushed from Brookly...
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