When I went to the driveway this morning, I found newspapers on steroids. Both the Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune were the size of Sunday papers, but unlike the Sunday editions, the actual papers were very tiny, but the rest were nothing but sales fliers for “Black Friday,” the traditional first shopping day of the Christmas […]

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I do like Bill Maher. I watch his HBO show every week; I enjoyed his old show; and I saw “Religulous” at the Toronto Film Festival and laughed out loud. I especially enjoy when Maher brings out the ludicrous, irrational, rantings of Republicans and the overly religious. However, for a couple of seasons now, Maher […]

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My feelings on the University of Notre Dame are well known (you only have to look to the top of the site to gain insight), and, in the immortal words of Malcolm X, “the chickens are coming home to roost.” In other words, the Great White Hope, Head Football Coach Charlie Weis, is failing and […]

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The Chicago Sun-Times, reporting from baseball’s General Manager meeting, printed today that Mark Cuban’s bid to buy the Chicago Cubs has almost no chance of succeeding. You think? “There’s no way Bud and the owners are going to let that happen,” a baseball source told the paper. “Zero chance.” Tribune Company owner Sam Zell hasn’t […]

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For all of the joy we are rightly showing to the Obama victory in the Presidential Election, there is one, very troubling, dark cloud. In three states, propositions to ban gay marriage won. We probably shouldn’t be too surprised that the measure lost in Florida and Arizona, “red” states where such a proposition would be […]

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If all of the polls are correct, tomorrow may be a day that many of us, myself included thought that we would see only much later in our lives, or not at all. By late tonight, we should know whether Barack Hussein Obama will become the 44th President of the United States. In addition, it […]

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On my way to work tomorrow morning, I think I have to play “Chocolate City” by Parliament. Just a thought.

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