Every goddamn day: 09/05/25

Digital display technology check at Watchfire Signs, Danville, Illinois      Sometime it takes a while for the media to catch up. I see the ...

      Whenever I look back on my old Sun-Times stories, I'm amazed at how consistent my voice is. I wrote this almost 40 years ago, when...

           Almost exactly 60 years ago, on Aug. 2, 1965, comedian and political activist Dick Gregory led protesters on a five-mile march fr...

      Random thoughts bubble out of nowhere.       Such as:      Are pogo-sticks fun?      Is there anybody out there who has pleasant memor...

     Celebrity is the cheapest coin, the shakiest currency. Debased to begin with, it loses value quickly. Today’s Taylor Swift becomes tomo...

           Over the past six weeks, I've been to three funerals. My mother; the son of my wife's late parents' last living frie...

Danielle Carter-Walters      The president sat in the Oval Office Friday, praising the National Guard. In mid-August, he deployed the D.C. g...