The big story in the NFL is the looming lockout/work stoppage and while Commissioner Roger Goodell and MFLPA chief DeMaurice Smith have been saying publicly that the sides have to come to an agreement soon, it really looks grim. The owners walked out of the last meeting, and the league later filed an unfair labor […]

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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who has regularly brutalized the English language, amusing and embarrassing audiences for decades, announced that he has retained an agency to book him for speeches nationally and internationally after he leaves office in May. According to the Chicago Tribune, Daley has signed with the Harry Walker Agency, a company that sets […]

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My stereotypical portrait of a college bowl official is an overweight, white, balding man in bad clothes who has a bag of money that he dips into to pay off the NCAA and colleges and universities. Morals? Not important. Scruples? HA! Well, maybe this one is closer to the truth than I realized. The CEO […]

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Not funny – 51-year-old Rebecca Wells died while working in her cubicle last Friday, but no one noticed for quite some time. Ms. Wells was found by a security guard on Saturday afternoon slumped over her desk in the L.A. County Department of Internal Services. I wonder about her co-workers. I think that if someone […]

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I got a lot of positive feedback on my comments about the hyper-driven act of the “Chicken Little” weathercasters. Last week, they were right for once, calling correctly the 20 inch snowfall here in Chicago. And while we are in the middle of an Arctic blast of cold weather, the hyperbole is out in force […]

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The big story in Chicago and around the U.S. today is the huge winter storm that is expected to bring 1 to 2 feet of snow here in the next 28 hours. Unfortunately, due to the hyperbolic level of the local weather casters, especially WGN’s Tom Skilling, many people always low ball what the forecasters […]

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I cannot understand the ignorance of some people. In my opinion, if you know nothing about a subject, you should probably be quiet. One person who obviously believes in parading his ignorance for all to see is Georgia Republican Rep. Jack Kingston. A conservative, he regularly shows up on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” […]

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