Every goddamn day: 07/17/26

        We stayed at a modest motel in Traverse City on our way back from our son's wedding in July. The place was next to a suburban ne...

Pro-Palestinian protest, Chicago 2014        This is the high octane version of today's column, the way it read when turned into the new...

Bust of Seneca at the University Club (actually, the "pseudo Seneca," as I discuss in a post 10 years ago. The real Seneca, a ric...

     Anne. Dale. Mike. Steve. When I think of my first job at a daily newspaper, at the old Wheaton Daily Journal on Schmale Road, the actua...

       Yesterday morning, EGD hit 10 million pageviews since it began on July 1, 2013. That seemed a big, round number, so I took at screens...

      Yes, we tuned into CNN Thursday night to see how Kamala Harris and Tim Walz did in their first interview after the Democratic National...

The Illinois state flag, below. Just about anything would be an improvement.      Social media gets a bad name. But there are wonders to be ...