Every goddamn day: 03/31/26

Truth in advertising — the Waterlily Tulip, a central Asian flower is known as being first to bloom in the spring and, good to its word, was...

"The Last Yankee," 1888      Journalism is failing America.      At least mainstream media, newspapers and TV networks and such, t...

          Is AI writing advertising now too? I saw the above over Wordle, and instantly thought that, then decided, no, it sounds more like ...

Sign, San Ignacio, Belize.        Turns out Jack Clark and I have more in common than I thought. Back in the day, we both took a dim view of...

Protesting pollution on LaSalle Street, 1970.      In 1889, the American correspondent for the Allahabad Pioneer arrived on the shores of La...

          If you're not careful, trying to solve one problem, you end up creating a worse problem.      House sparrows, such as these bl...

Columbus monument, Barcelona, Spain.      Certain issues just seem to belong to Chicago. Dibs, for instance. That peculiar tradition of tryi...