When one thinks of drivers causing accidents, one usually thinks of a person (usually young, usually male) speeding down highways and roads and causing accidents. But, ask a cop as to another version of bad driving that causes accidents, and its driving too slow. Most roads have not only a speed limit, but a minimum […]

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I work for a bank; I used to think that my office was in the Hyatt Center in Downtown Chicago, but it turns out I work in Gitmo, or, as I now like to call it, Pritzker Prison. We are a very secure building. We are forced to place our bags through X-ray machines and […]

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• As Ryan O’Neal’s drug addict son calls him a self-centered jerk, one would ordinarily chalk that up to a family squabble. That is until he reportedly hit on his own daughter Tatum (knowingly? Unknowingly?) at his late girlfriend/wife Farrah Fawcett’s funeral. Creepy? No question. • To all “Birthers” – why don’t you just stop […]

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I don’t like the torture porn horror movies that have come along over the past few years: Saw I, II, II ad nauseum (although Saw I was an interesting concept); Hostel, et al. are all movies I’ve easily avoided. But I know where the next sequel of Saw is coming from, and it might be […]

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I know it’s been over a week since we’ve corresponded, but I have been asked a few times when I would address the Henry Lewis Gates incident. Now’s the time… Unless you have been living in a cave, Dr. Gates, a prominent Harvard professor and outspoken author on race was seen having problems getting into […]

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If there is one man in the world who will never be a finalist in any Father of the Year contest, it will be Joe Jackson. The patriarch of the Jackson family, he practiced his children relentlessly; beat them with belts at the very least, and terrorized the kids to fame and fortune. He was […]

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I took a comment from a friend, Tom Watson (no, not the golfer) that describes my political leanings: when asked if he was a Democrat, we respond “on my most conservative day.” But I have to admit that I have had an anti-government moment this week, and of course, it involves the corrupt, inept Daley […]

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