Every goddamn day: 03/30/26

       What was America's longest war?      Not the Civil War — that was the bloodiest, 620,000 dead, with Americans falling on both sid...

Calbert Wright      When Calbert Wright began work at the Ford Motor Company's Chicago Stamping Plant in Chicago Heights in 1963, the fa...

     Not living in the city, I probably like buses more than Chicago residents do — familiar enough to grab one when convenient; not familia...

       No column in the paper today. I was on assignment for the Sunday editor, and wrote a larger piece that's running this weekend.   ...

       A central hazard of aging is the risk of beginning to notice what isn't there more than you notice what is. I pondered  this last...

Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (YouTube)       I wrote this assuming that the paper would dash out the word...

     The rain raised a question: should we stay home?       Actually, it was my wife who posed it, as dinnertime approached Sunday night an...