The Indignant Wife and I like to go to SPACE, a music venue close to our home. We have seen great concerts there including our neighbor Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, my friend Graham Parker, Glenn Tillbrook, and this weekend, we are going to see The English Beat. It is a great small venue to see […]

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Anyone who reads this blog knows that I am a proud Liberal. My politics skew VERY far Left. My heart bleeds as much as anyone’s. Also, I grew up in the Englewood community of Chicago, once a low-to-moderate income area which is now very poor and in many ways the equivalent of Bagdad in terms […]

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I’m not a fan of NASCAR by any means, but just a week removed from having positive PR of the first woman in history to hold the pole position at the Datona 500, NASCAR just can’t catch a break. According to the Sports Business Journal, the National Rifle Association has reached an agreement with Texas […]

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There were a series of radio commercials run several years ago with a tagline that I have made into my personal philosophy: “Life is too short to drink bad beer.” I believe in that saying, and now that I have the financial wherewithal to not have to drink cheap beer, I no longer do so. […]

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Everyone remembers the riot that ensued after the Boston Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks in the Stanley Cup Finals a couple of years ago, and here in Chicago, we feel that the Canucks are the cheapest NHL team this side of Raffi Torres. Who knew that boorish behavior is not limited to the big league […]

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I couldn’t help but think of Robert DeNiro playing fighter Jake LaMotta preparing for his show at the beginning of Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece “Raging Bull” just before the lights dimmed for a one man show by former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson this past Saturday night at the Cadillac Theater here in Chicago. The pre-show music […]

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In the greatest comic story of all time – “Watchmen,” one of the key phrases is “Who Watches The Watchmen.” In the more famous words of Lord Acton – “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This is what I thought about when I heard the story of the NCAA’s seemingly botched investigation […]

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