Saturday, December 15, 2012

Our Cosmic Impiety and The Slaughter of Innocents

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"Well . . . I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties . . . they lead their...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Alvarez Agonistes: "60 Minutes" Had No Time for the Root of Its Interest in Anita Alvarez - David Protess

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Under the spreading chestnut tree/ I sold you and you sold me/. There lie they, and here lie we/  Under the spreading chestnut tree. Orw...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Gay Marriage Grave Dancing on the Closing of St. Gregory

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St. Gregory the Great High School in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood is closing at the end of the school year, the school has anno...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Mel Torme Sings Steely Dan

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Hep cats. Heppest of Cats
Friday, December 07, 2012

"It's a Civil Right! Right Now!"Illinois Gay Marriage Now! A Call from a Capital Voice Piercing His Mom's Floors From the Basement Where He Lives!

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The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live." -- Jane Addams 3:26 AM: Young...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Rahm and the Professors -A Mayor and the Napoleons of Crime

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The law professors, Craig Futterman of the University of Chicago and Locke Bowman of Northwestern, both have brought numerous misconduct...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

What's Wrongful About This Picture?

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Behind grieving relatives stand Chicago's most vigorous opportunists.  What occupied Locke Bowman's and G. Flint Taylor's in...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

Mohair Sam -Le plus cool Guy, qui est ce qui suis

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Two-button Mohair suit, a set of Stacy Adams on the old dogs, pockets full of spending loot and no end of unqualified self-confidence. ...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

You Will Never Catch G. Flint Taylor Doing This to a Homeless Man, Woman, or Child

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NEW YORK  — A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has crea...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Wine Mess - 23nd Illinois Regiment Outside of Lexington, Missouri 1862

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Lt. Aloysius May Why are you so into Pinot*? It’s like a thing with you. Col. James A. Mulligan ( Commanding Officer of Mulli...

Tales of the South Side: The Late Svebjon "Hike" Sorben Returns to Ground

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Svenbjom "Hike" Sorben ( 1939-2012) - Suddenly Fans of low hurdles were saddened to hear of the passing of The Saltatin...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Why Allow Gang Bangers a Church Burial?

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November 26th one dead and one wounded at a gang funeral in Chicago. On Monday, a gang funeral was interrupted by gunfire.  Jesus...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Rest In Peace: John "Jack" Gallapo- A Quiet Hero of Korea

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 Chicago Fireman  John " Jack" Gallapo  (left) and Chief Jim Corbett spent their  wonder years  in Korea as Marines. Here they ...

Puck Fair August 10, 1977 - When I met Hector Piggott

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  I have seen quite a bit in my three score years on the old Terra-   phones went off the wall and into my pocket, slide-rules became ca...