I'm loving daylight saving time!

But how will I feel in the dead of winter?

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7-16-2026

This week:

• Should the U.S. once again fall back to permanent daylight saving time? — You get to vote!

• Last week’s winning quip — And the narrow runner-up

• What was Darren Bailey thinking, posting a photo from JB Pritzker’s high school yearbook?

• Land of Linkin’ — Where I tell readers where to go

• Squaring up the news — Where Charlie Meyerson tells readers where to go

• Media notes — RIP reporter and columnist Jim Coates, and tsk tsk to the Tribune Editorial Board for calling Kat Abughazaleh a bomb thrower

• Quotables — A collection of compelling, sometimes appalling passages I’ve encountered lately

• How’s that makey-greaty stuff workin’ out for ya? — Millions of children around the world will die

• Quips — The winning visual joke and this week’s contest finalists

• Podcast recommendations from Mike Pesca on his final show

• Good Sports — Yes to the MLB salary cap

• Green Lights — “Trombone” by Nick Lowe

Should we fall back to permanent daylight saving time? The U.S. House just said yes

Once again, I’m loving daylight saving time. Sunday will mark the halfway point in the 105 days of unofficial summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and sunset will be at 8:22 p.m., nearly 15 glorious hours after sunrise at 5:32 a.m.

Without DST, sunset would be at 7:22 p.m., which is just too dang early for all the evening activities we enjoy. And sunrise would be at 4:32 a.m. — a waste of natural illumination for me, even though I’m a relatively early riser.

So I cheered when the U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide. No more first-Sunday-in-November blues when we suddenly lose an hour of daylight and the sun sets here at 4:46 p.m. on its way down to 4:19 p.m. in December.

Americans cheered the same idea 52 years ago when President Richard Nixon signed a bill putting the nation on permanent DST. Approval hovered near 80% in the polls. But a few months later, support had cratered to just above 40%

Why? Stygian mornings. If we stay on DST, sunrise in Chicago won’t be until 8:18 a.m. for nearly two weeks starting at the end of December and will be after 8 a.m. from Dec. 4 until Feb. 3.

Save Standard Time, an organization urging year-round standard time, argues that eschewing DST —

— would improve immunity, longevity, mood, alertness, and performance in school, sports, and work. It can prevent traffic deaths, lower crime, and reduce chronic illnesses. Permanent DST … would increase the need for morning heat and evening air conditioning in homes. It would disrupt worship for those who pray at sunrise.

They are allied with the Coalition for Permanent Standard Time.

On the other side, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan released a statement this week making similar claims for perma-DST:

My bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act will bring us one step closer to ending the outdated and unpopular practice of changing our clocks twice a year. Americans across the country are tired of the biannual clock change, and the evidence is clear that permanent daylight saving time can improve public health, reduce traffic accidents, lower crime and encourage more outdoor activity.

Republicans voted 193-22 to approve the bill, and Democrats voted 114-95 in favor. It now moves on to the Senate.

The Lock the Clock Alliance, which favors daylight saving time but wants states to be allowed to make their own decisions (as provided for in Buchanan’s bill), notes that 28 states have already passed permanent DST laws or resolutions, but federal law has prevented them from implementing the change.

Where are you on this?

Last week’s winning quip

Things are looking up! I asked about my next appointment and the doctor said, “You won’t need one.” — @splendidhobo.bsky.social

Another squeaker this week! This quip edged out the second-place finisher — “Why buy expensive fireworks when you can make your own with ordinary household chemicals?” I said, and the other patients in the ER agreed — @johnlyon.bsky.social — by just one vote out of nearly 1,700 cast.

Here are this week’s nominees and the winner of the Tuesday visual-jokes poll. Here is the direct link to the new poll.

The cringe factor and Darren Bailey

Illinois Republican gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey posted this dig at incumbent Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker on social media on Monday:

I’m very glad that my high school graduating class had north of 600 members and there was no space in the yearbook for these sorts of exhaustive and excruciating lists of weird, sly and retrospectively mortifying in-jokes. This page, evidently from the 1982 yearbook of Milton Academy, a boarding school south of Boston with around 170 graduates each year, is very embarrassing from a distance of 44 years, and I’m sure mine would have been worse.

“Peeping,” “B.M.’s B.J.’s” and “phimpsing” notations on the yearbook page devoted to Phil Robertson and JB Pritzker may well allude to less than wholesome events. And, of course, “drugged for drugs” as Bailey highlighted might not be a reference to an anodyne pharmaceutical palliative. Who knows? More importantly, who cares?

Whether Pritzker was a dorky reprobate at prep school or a chill straight arrow has nothing to do with his performance as governor or his fitness for reelection. The fact that Bailey thought it was a good idea to post this — and to raise his eyebrows at an ambiguous reference to “funny things on your knees” — does, however, suggest that Bailey has neither the maturity or judgment to be governor.

We cringe not for the adolescent Pritzker, but for the 60-year-old Bailey who thought it was a good idea to post this image.

Pritzker’s response was deft:

Any year in which one phimpses is, by definition, a great year.

Land of Linkin’

• WGN-TV: “With seven months to go before Chicago’s next mayoral election, a new poll shows that just 14% of city residents want Mayor Brandon Johnson to seek a second term. The survey was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.”

• Robert McCoppin’s terrific Tribune story “Can Indiana pay for a Bears stadium? Analysts ask how it will pay its debt as some residents balk at new taxes” (gift link) persuades me that the idea of building a domed stadium in suburban Hammond is half-baked and will prove to be increasingly unpopular with residents of the area as they realize the load they’re going to have to carry and the risks they’ll be taking.

• The story about the death Sunday at age 102 of Parents for Rock and Rap founder Mary Morello of Libertyville, the mother of Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, brought to mind the column I wrote 36 years ago about her (gift link) when she was 66, two years before RATM released their first album when her son was still playing for a short-lived band called Lock Up. I was mortified to read my description of her as “a sweet old lady,” given that she was two years younger at the time than I am now.

• I am among the last to realize that the Illinois secretary of state’s driver services facilities were semi-officially redesignated some three years ago as DMVs (drivers and motor vehicle services facilities). This deprives me of being the smartypants who sniffs that, unlike other states, Illinois does not have a DMV.

• On this week’s episode of “The Mincing Rascals” podcast, Cate Plys Austin Berg and I joined host John Williams to discuss the news of the past week on the occasion of Austin’s 34th birthday. If you’re not a podcast listener, you can hear an edited version of the show at 8 p.m. most Saturday evenings on WGN-AM 720. Look for the YouTube version that will be posted later in the week. See below for the panelists’ traffic light recommendations.

From the Picayune Plus:

• For the third time, I am using the headline “Don’t make up your mind yet about the sexual abuse accusations against the Rev. Michael Pfleger.”

• I came off as a nervous Nellie 11 years ago warning about drones. But was I right?

• Sen. Lindsey Graham was not merely a “shape-shifter.” He was a craven, hypocritical sycophant.

• In the comment thread, “Mincing Rascals” panelist and former Chicago newspaper columnist and reporter Cate Plys posted a three-part rejoinder to Joanie Wimmer’s defense of trans women in women’s sports. A robust discussion and critique followed.

Squaring up the news

This is a bonus supplement to the Land of Linkin’ from veteran radio, internet and newspaper journalist Charlie Meyerson. Each week, he offers a selection of intriguing links from his daily email news briefing Chicago Public Square:

■ “I had hoped he would live long enough to be tried for treason”: Setting aside his comic tendencies, satirist Andy Borowitz files “a fact-based Lindsey Graham obituary.”

■ In what Law Dork Chris Geidner declares an extraordinary ruling, a federal judge says Justice Department attorneys and private lawyers representing Trump had an improper shared interest in purporting to settle Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS through creation of that “anti-weaponization” slush fund and immunity for Trump from tax prosecution.

■ Law professor Joyce Vance: “In footnote 2 (you always read the footnotes in an opinion like this), the judge crystallizes her view of just how deep Trump’s hypocrisy goes.”

■ Your Local Epidemiologist tackles 10 cyclosporiasis questions—beginning with “Can you just tell me what not to eat?”

■ Snopes confirms: Trump’s administration cut surveillance of cyclospora a year ago.

■ Columnist Jeff Tiedrich: “It may have been a mistake to put our nation’s healthcare in the hands of Mister Excuse Me While I Snort This Heroin Off This Toilet Seat And Oh By The Way, I Have No Idea How Germs Work.”

■ The Wall Street Journal reports that Illinois’ expat billionaire Ken Griffin, who’s glommed his name onto Chicago’s iconic Museum of Science and Industry, has poured $40 million into Republicans’ midterm campaign coffers (gift link). WBEZ’s “Curious City” reminds you that the museum’s founder didn’t want his name on the place.

■ “It’s stupid.” — Pulitzer winner Dave Barry on a new Florida law requiring that kids learn cursive.

■ Will Oremus at The Atlantic (another gift link): One of AI’s most prominent writing tics “is also the most mysterious.”

You can (and should) subscribe to Chicago Public Square free here.

Media notes

R.I.P, former Tribune personal computing columnist Jim Coates

On Facebook, Coates’ daughter-in-law Eshanthika Wijesinha posted this:

We lost my legend of a father-in-law a few weeks ago. We use that word a lot, but in Jim’s case, it was stunningly true.

He had a storied 40-year career at the Chicago Tribune, in the last generation of newspaper journalists that used paper. He started as a junior reporter covering the night time crime beat, chasing the Chicago police radio for stories that often included the mob. He moved up to the Washington Bureau, once running to the gates of the Whitehouse carrying a basket full of baby toys for his pregnant wife and throwing it in the guard-shack to be on the lawn for Nixon’s famous helicopter departure. He moved on to be the Trib’s western correspondent, covering events like the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. He wrote a few books, one an exposé on the Mormons about which he would say, “It’s too bad the LDS never banned it. It would have been good for sales!” Another was a deeply researched investigation about the rise of the survivalist right in the 90s and its roots in seeds of racial hate sown in the 80s. The day the Oklahoma City Bombing happened, while most people were still assuming international terrorists were involved, Jim was on CNN educating everyone that there were plenty of Americans that were angry and armed enough to do it, especially given the target.

And finally, in a Hail Mary bid to avoid being assigned the banking beat, Jim turned his early enthusiasm for personal computers into two columns, after convincing his editor they were ushering in a new era that needed coverage. For the last 14 years of his career, his “Binary Beat” and nationally syndicated “Ask Jim” columns put him in the path of folks like Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and into thousands of homes every week.

Owen Youngman, a retired digital-forward editor at the Tribune, sent this along:

I was in charge of the Business section when Jim started writing his Binary Beat column in February of 1993, and he was a real gift to the readers as well as to me. He made us competitive with the Wall Street Journal and Walt Mossberg, and he covered the topic in a way that made it clear this “personal computer” thing wasn’t just a hobby, but a key part of an emerging economy. And he was a great colleague with whom to exchange ideas. A few years later, when I wound up in charge of the Tribune’s emerging Internet business, we built our earliest online feature around him: “Digital Coffee.” He was smart, hilarious, insightful, and fun to edit.

Coates was born in 1943. I will link to a formal obituary when I can find one. His farewell column was published in August 2007. (gift link)

The Tribune Editorial Board characterizes local liberal firebrand Kat Abughazaleh as a bomb thrower.

In a July 5 editorial about the rise of democratic socialism, the Tribune Editorial Board made note of the recent primary race in the 9th U.S. Congressional District to succeed Jan Schakowsky of Evanston, and noted:

Bomb-throwing influencer Kat Abughazaleh, 27, won the portions of that district in Chicago’s North Side lakefront neighborhoods, but suburban votes gave savvy Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss the win.

“Bomb-throwing” was a strange choice of words given that there is a history of political radicals of all stripes literally using bombs to try to advance their causes, and that Abughazaleh had just recently been under a federal criminal indictment for impeding immigration enforcement officers.

Abughazaleh posted that the description of her was “wrong, inflammatory and racist,” with “racist” evidently referring to the fact that her father is Palestinian.

But even “rhetorical bomb-throwing” overstates the nature of Abughazaleh’s political pronouncements. I don’t follow her carefully, but I can’t recall her being quoted advocating violence or incendiary vandalism.

To the editorial board’s credit, it subsequently published three letters in the Voice of People letters section variously calling the characterization “hyperbole verging on libel,” “untrue, crass and petulant” and “unhinged” in a way that “puts into question the validity of the Tribune Editorial Board’s other assertions.”

Leonard Grossman of River Forest added, “Kat deserves an apology.”

I agree.

Editorial Page Editor Chris Jones does not.

“As any reasonable person knows, that was a reference to her preferred rhetorical mode,” he wrote in response to my query. “As we saw when her campaign disrupted our endorsement meeting.”

Here’s the editorial board on that kerfuffle:

(Abughazaleh) has been a frequent presence at protests and in general has behaved more like a performance artist than a congressional candidate. As part of that effort, she made a show of declining (sending a spokesman, for goodness sake) to be part of the editorial board’s endorsement interviews after first informing us she would attend.

That’s her prerogative, of course, but we hope that even those philosophically aligned with her progressive views will agree that sort of behavior won’t produce much of anything positive in Congress.

Reading a statement and walking out are a low bar for “disruption,” as the endorsement session evidently went along as scheduled. Here’s Abughazaleh explaining why she decided not to seek the endorsement.

Kaboom?

From Chicago Public Square

■ In a Twin Cities pilot project, Nieman Lab sees the Times moving toward an Axios-like model that media watcher Simon Owens speculates could lead to a Times presence in all 50 states.

■ Chicago TV news veteran Jennifer Schulze: “Bari Weiss is hiring more right-wing pundits than journalists at CBS News.”

Quotables

A collection of compelling, sometimes appalling passages I’ve encountered lately

Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist — (People on the left) are not walking around worrying if somebody who’s hopped up on hormones and trans surgery is going to try and kill them. This seems to be a threat that is completely isolated to those of us on the right.

The New York Times Editorial Board (gift link) — Handed the chance to litigate what the party actually believes, Democrats have mostly declined. What is the party’s answer on immigration, moving beyond its proper outrage at President Trump’s methods to include an affirmative account of who should be allowed in and how? What would it do about the cost of housing, beyond lamenting it and suggesting inadequate fixes? What does it want from the public education system? What is its response to the disruption that artificial intelligence is about to send through the work force and society more broadly? On each of these issues, voters keep saying the same thing: They want change, they want action and they are tired of being managed. The discontent reaches the party’s own base. In Associated Press-NORC surveys, many Democrats have described their party as weak or ineffective, and by early this year only about seven in 10 still viewed it positively, well below where it once stood. Among all voters, the party’s favorability rating is below 40 percent. … If Democrats believe government can still work, the way to prove it is to say, concretely, what they would do with power. Refusing to say doesn’t make the party look unified. It makes it look as if it has nothing to say, and it surrenders the language of change to the other side, which is only too happy to claim it.

Neil Steinberg — Trump enters into bloodshed with barely a thought, and continues it for the same reason. Or rather, due to one, rigid thought: He doesn't want to lose, and one way to keep from being seen as the loser you are is to continue playing after the game is actually over.

Fozon Capital — The wall was paid for by us, and the operations to restore the Hormuz Strait back to normal we’ll also be paid for by us. Remember the stupid ballroom? Our tax dollars are paying for that stupid thing, too.

Jake Vig — I’m waiting for the day when the next White House administration posts a photo of all that cheesy gold casino shit piled in a dumpster.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking about the Strait of Hormuz on June 25 — That’s international waterway. There isn’t a nation on Earth that supports having to pay money to go through the Straits.

Donald Trump posting about the Strait of Hormuz on July 13 — The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,’ but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped. (note, he changed his mind the following day)

A flashback quote from Donald Trump on March 21, 2026, for those clutching their pearls at post-mortem criticism of Lindsey Graham — Robert Mueller just died. Good. I’m glad he’s dead.

Donald Trump, oblivious to the fact that the current 12-month inflation rate is 3.5% — Inflation is way down. That means prices are coming way down and we're doing a great job. … Prices are coming way down.

Ty Cobb, White House attorney from July 2017 until May 2018, speaking about his former boss, Donald Trump — “The man is crazy. He is a malignant narcissist. He’s demented. It’s all about self-enrichment. … I spent hours and hours in the Oval or in the office news door working through things with him. I’ve been with him many times … It’s much worse now.

Bruce Levine, the baseball reporter for the Cubs’ Marquee Sports Network in a hastily deleted tweet that was evidently supposed to be a private message to Cubs coaches and a criticism of Cubs baseball President Jed Hoyer and general manager Carter Hawkins — You and the other coaches have been the stars of the team being 12 games over .500. Let’s Hope twinkle dee and twinkle dum don’t sell you guys out like the 2025. Enjoy the t the family time pal.

From Trump’s Social Media feed; not AI

How’s that makey-greaty stuff workin’ out for ya’?

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health:

Recent U.S. foreign aid cuts may lead to more than 14 million additional deaths globally by 2030, including more than 4.5 million children under five.

Quips

In Tuesday’s paid-subscriber editions, I present my favorite tweets that rely on visual humor. Subscribers then vote for their favorite. Here is the winner from this week’s contest:

Anyone can vote in the contest, but to have it delivered fresh to your email inbox each Tuesday morning along with the rest of the Picayune Plus, to participate in the comment forums and to ease your conscience, you can become a paid supporter:

The new nominees for Quip of the Week:

1. When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor length coats, platform shoes and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do. Do they seem disoriented, pale and clammy? Of course they do. But they may also be in distress. — @kenjennings.bsky.social

2. My wife says I remind her of James Bond. I’m not good at following orders, I’m emotionally dead, and she’d like to see the role go to Idris Elba. — @damienowens.bsky.social‬

3. Me: I’m going to eat healthy. Lettuce: I’m going to give you explosive diarrhea. Oreos in the pantry: I would never do that to you. — @BuffaloRon

4. Three-word horror story: “Got a minute?” — @jakevig.bsky.social‬

5. I just recalibrated my bathroom scale with a sledgehammer. — ‪@johnlyon.bsky.social‬

6. Is summer almost over? I can’t suck my stomach in much longer. — @nayele18maybe

7. Whenever I see an iPad at a cash register, I know that I’m about to tip for something I never had to tip for before. — unknown

8. Anybody who thinks I don’t want you to be glad when certain people are dead is utterly unfamiliar with my work. — @TheTweetOfGod

9. Any movie or play can be turned into a musical by adding an exclamation point to its title. “12 Angry Men!” “Goodfellas!” “Midnight Cowboy!” — @WilliamAder

10. At least the man I shot in Reno owed me money. I’m not some monster. — @kipconlon

Vote here and check the current results in the poll.

‘For Chicago, it’s The Mincing Rascals’ and other podcast recommendations from Mike Pesca

In his farewell episode, Mike Pesca, now former host of “The Gist,” a long-running daily commentary and interview podcast, included “The Mincing Rascals” in his list of shows he regularly listens to and recommends to fill the void now that he’s off the air. Here are some of the others he mentioned:

• Conversations with Tyler

• The Ezra Klein Show

• Conversations with Coleman

• Plain English with Derek Thompson

• Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

• The Argument

• The Good Fight

• The Fifth Column

• Making Sense with Sam Harris

• The David Frum Show

• The Journal

• Unhedged

• The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie

• GD Politics

• I Might Be Wrong

• Firewall with Bradley Tusk

• The Lawfare Podcast

• Advisory Opinions

• The Middle with Jeremy Hobson

• The Colin McEnroe Show

Good Sports

Major League Baseball is at odds with the players' union over proposed team salary caps

The players make more money when there’s no salary cap, and there’s more parity in the league when there is a salary cap.

The New York Times/Athletic:

Players have indicated they will fight hard against such a system. The fan survey (including some 8,500 responses) however, showed 57.9 percent of participating fans want a cap-and-floor system. Only 38.9 percent supported the game’s current market system.

Sports Business Journal reports: “Fifty-seven percent of (2,284) Major League Baseball fans would support the implementation of a salary cap, according to data from CivicScience/SBJ Sports Consumer Insights.”

I’m for parity along with the majority of fans.

As The Associated Press reports:

No small-market team has won the World Series since the 2015 Kansas City Royals. The Los Angeles Dodgers, coming off their second straight title, had a $323.3 million opening-day payroll for their 40-man roster and a $163.7 million tax for a $487.1 million total. Cleveland had the lowest payroll at $75.5 million.

I second these motions

Lindy Sports “Stop The Madness -- And Stop Pulling Pitchers From Perfect Games.”

Gettysburg Times: “Pulling pitchers with perfect games? It’s analytic insanity.”

From 1901-2015 exactly 0 pitchers who had recorded six-plus innings of a perfect outing were removed from the game. …That number grew to a whopping 3 from 2016-2025. And now we’ve seen it done twice over a four-day stretch.

Green Lights

Green Lights features recommendations from me and readers of songs, TV shows, streaming movies, books, podcasts, products and other diversions that, with only rare exceptions, can be enjoyed at home.

Johanna and I went to see Nick Lowe perform at the Square Roots festival Sunday night and were impressed with the musicianship and energy of the 77-year-old rocker. My favorite song of the night was “Trombone,” a cut so deep it doesn’t appear on his 25-song “Best of …” CD.

Trombone, come play your song
Make it the one about good love gone wrong
My one true love has flown
So blow somethin' sad and slow for me
Trombone

Lowe did not play “I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock and Roll,” a 1985 hit that had to be played at every wedding reception back then by federal law. We certainly played it at our reception that year. Has that law sunsetted? What about the law that required “Celebration” by Kool & the Gang?

In the Sun-Times, freelance critic Selena Fragassi wrote:

The grand finale of Square Roots weekend rightfully went to Nick Lowe. The British songwriter is unmatched in what he’s contributed to the modern pop-rock pantheon, evidenced by the number of phones that went up to record the performances of his timeless hits “Cruel to Be Kind” and “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.” Across the 80-minute set, Lowe sounded pristine and downright joyful.

I don’t know about “unmatched,” and “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?” felt dated, not timeless.

But yes to pristine and downright joyful.

From ”The Mincing Rascals” panelists

• John — A yellow light for the $425 million infrastructure subsidy Chicago is giving to the Chicago Fire stadium construction project in The 78 neighborhood..

• Cate — A yellow light for the fifth and final season of “The Bear” on Hulu.

• Austin — A green light for the Thursday, 6:30 p.m. free concert by Brazilian singer-songwriter Marcos Valle at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion.

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