That is a line from the film “Jaws” when the mayor of fictional Amity wants to keep the beaches open on July 4th even as he knows that there is a shark in the water. This is my reaction when it became public that Drew Peterson, under suspicion for the death of his second wife […]

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Just when we thought that the Chicago Tribune might actually be joining a “post-partisan” world, a piece was posted on the paper’s website yesterday that shows that stirring up the religious. The article begins: “Sorry we missed it last week, but what with the Tribune Co. bankruptcy and that Blagojevich thing, we kind of took […]

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I know that we have a little over one month before the George W. Bush presidency, and I know that it’s like kicking a dying dog, but my new hero is Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, a reporter with Cairo-based network Al Baghdadia Television. Mr. Zaidi chose a traditional Muslim form of insult when he and […]

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A coworker showed me a joke today: White Sox fans go to the White House (Obama); Cub fans go to jail (Blagojevich).

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Pin-up legend Bette Page died Thursday night. I never knew her; in fact, I never even knew of her until the late Dave Stevens started drawing her in the pages of his comic “The Rocketeer.” But since then, I learned about her photos, nude and clothed, conventional and bondage; the pictures she took for Irwin […]

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It’s funny that as some people are trying to get former Governor George Ryan out of prison, the Feds are arresting current Governor Rob Blagojevich. After months of investigation and rumor, Blagojevich was arrested today in his North Side home accused of charges he conspired to sell the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect […]

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As I wrote after the American election, I was very pleased with the outcome of the Presidential and many of the Congressional races, but I was very disappointed with the passage of anti-gay marriage legislation in California. Well, here comes another mixed message. Switzerland, which has the world’s most comprehensive legalized heroin program, saw the […]

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