As one gets older, one’s priorities change; what would have once been an absolute must, is now just background noise. I am in the midst of a period where this is happening twice. First comes the NCAA Tournament – when I was younger, I used to draw a bracket on poster board, keeping track of […]

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Some people are making a big fuss over a photo of a kiss between ESPN College Basketball analyst Dick Vitale and actress Ashley Judd, a huge supporter of the University of Kentucky basketball. Vitale called it a “fun moment. Under no condition did I plant a kiss on Ashley,” he said in an interview with […]

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Well, the biggest wagering mechanism in all of commerce started last evening: bettnig on the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Admit it, how many of you have done little work this morning because you were researching Wofford? (And don’t discount Wofford – the 5 seed vs. 12 seed matchup always ends up with upsets.) Personally, I […]

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If you are a fan of WXRT, let me apologize upfront: at the heart is, for all of the complaining that I have done about the station – that it is boring, playing the most artists of any station in the Midwest, but the same 3-4 songs by each – it sounds like my commentary […]

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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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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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