I never write about my work to stay out of trouble, and besides, who wants to hear me bitch about my life? I work in banking and so I get e-mail alerts from various banking organizations. Honestly, sometimes there is no industry that is so pompous and deserving of being “taken down” than banking. Today, […]

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I took some time off this holiday season and spent a lot of it chasing the Indignant Children and watching movies, both in theaters and at home on video. A lot of stuff happened, so let’s go over it: • The well deserved Chicago Bear house cleaning by George McCaskey didn’t go far enough. Ted […]

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Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and family stuff is paramount. So, I bid each and every one of you a Happy Holiday season and a Happy New Year. If I get the opportunity, I will post something here, but I can’t say for certainty that I will.

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Someone contacted me and asked why I never wrote about Major League Umpire Dale Scott came out as a gay man, and there’s a simple reason – it wasn’t news. True equality is when it is no longer news that someone is gay. Only the fundamentalists cant deal with a changing world. Love who you […]

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I do love comedy movies, but I admit that the current fart/dick/gross out movies haven’t done anything for me. I like wit move than “Jackass,” and have not been much of a Seth Rogan fan (although “This Is The End” with Rogan and James Franco was hilarious). I personally cant wait to see “The Trip […]

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I have not posted about police violence against black men since the Ferguson, MO decision/protests, so I have not written on the Eric Garner decision, but one of the more asinine comments on the cause of the incident has come from Sen. Rand Paul. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t dignify his comments with a response, and I […]

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It’s been a week since the Grand Jury failed to indict Darren Wilson in the murder of unarmed black teenager Mike Brown, and while the rioting seems to be over, the protests comtinue including some in downtown Chicago last weekend. On my way to see the David Bowie Is exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary […]

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