For the offended

▼

What is this?

▼
Thursday, December 4, 2025

'The Carrot Seed'

›
       The Thanksgiving holiday began early in my household this year, with the arrival of my older son, daughter-in-law and their 5 month o...
19 comments:
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Is this 'rage bait' if I'm not provoking you deliberately?

›
       Unlike you, I actually own a full set of the Oxford English Dictionary. A dozen massive volumes — each a foot tall and weighing about...
30 comments:
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Maybe if we put on a better show they wouldn't hate us so much.

›
      Lots of feedback to Monday's column  about the Chicago Quantum Exchange at the University of Chicago, interviewing its director, D...
18 comments:
Monday, December 1, 2025

Chicago's quantum computing center a benefit of tolerance

›
     Seeing that Chicago is the epicenter of a major effort in the future of technology, at the very moment our government is waging a glitt...
19 comments:
Sunday, November 30, 2025

How to unfreeze a cheesecake

›
      "Ross is making us cheesecake," my daughter-in-law announced bright and early Saturday, as the snow gently fell. "The b...
7 comments:
Saturday, November 29, 2025

'The worst of the worst'

›
"Public Notice 3," by Jitish Kallat (Art Institute of Chicago)       This is the Golden Age of Stupidity. Or is it the Renaissanc...
24 comments:
Friday, November 28, 2025

Flashback 2012: This Christmas, give the gift of jerky

›
 ;     My brother and I drove to the Upper Peninsula in early October, as usual. And, per tradition, stopped at Held's in Slinger, Wisco...
8 comments: