Eric, not in response to anything in particular, but (as a 40 year resident of LGP, now FL) when I read your stuff and JK’s stuff, I usually think: Ilinois: You gotta be kidding me!?
That photo of Putler with those words are perfect!
What's truly baffling are all the members of the former virulently anti-Communist Republican Party who now love Russia & Putler & want him to destroy the nascent democracy in Ukraine & then overrun all the former satellites of the now wonderfully extinct Soviet Union & turn them into satraps of his, along with invading NATO countries, which the fat orange bastard, seditionist & outright traitor would never help defend, despite the existence of Article Five of the NATO treaty, in which we pledge to help out any other member of NATO that's invaded & which the other countries of NATO did just that with this country after September 11, 2001!
Mary's column reminded me of Al Gore's SNL monologue reviewing the first 6 years of his presidency 2000-2006. It's gut-wrenching to think how closely we sometimes miss out on great opportunities. I guess this is what inspires time travel Sci fi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMOGYipQeyM
"Some 87% of you are age 60-plus, which is what inspired the joke nameplate above. Twelve percent are in the 45-59 age bracket, and just 1% are under 44."
Literally made me laugh out loud. Didn't think it would be that extreme. I'm 33.
Thank you for Mary’s unpublished column about Hillary Clinton winning the election! It reminded me of how elated I was to vote for her that year, made especially memorable with my granddaughter going to the polls with me to vote in her first election. From elation to devastation in one day — the election results were beyond heartbreaking as are the conditions and stupidity that continue to reign in our country. Talk about an election that altered the course of history! ALSO, would love to know your view on when did the teacher’s union leadership become so combative? Gates, along with Brandon, could benefit from compassionate conversation training! Love your writing and your Mincing Rascals podcast. Keeps us up to date on the ever-fascinating political happenings and personalities in Chicago.
I'm not suprised about the age and political makeup of the survey, though I, too, miss our conservative friends from CoS. We disagreed often, yet respected each other (most of the time).
Forgive me while I play Captain Obvious. Brandon Johnson campaigned on one thing and did another after getting in? Duh!. It's called being a politician. The new governor of North Carolina is a racist sexist pig? Duh! Like we don't all know someone that says stuff like that in private when they think they are safe from public view! I constantly credit Trump for making people comfortable saying su h things in public. The mayor of Dolton now wants to be Vladimir Putin. Note how she had the cops waiting around to get rid of the opposition. Caitlin Clark and Pistol Pete? I have always pooh-poohed comparing athletes from different eras. They can only compete against those with them at the time. That's the main problem with choosing people for halls of fame based on stats.
Moderately Conservative over 60 here. If anyone here is taking a Republican ballot in IL 14 (Lauren Underwood’s district) I’m on the ballot as a Christie delegate. At this point, our votes don’t matter for presidential nominee. Might as well try to give the orange man the middle finger from Illinois. If anyone is interested in knowing how Christie found me and others it’s an interesting (?) story.
I was browsing women’s basketball, reading about Caitlin Clark when I came upon stories concerning the University of South Carolina Women’s basketball team.
They did not lose a game last season, and they have not lost this season..yikes!
Basketball is a team sport and undefeated teams are rare and iconic (Bobby Knight comes to mind).
Why so little hype here and so much on Caitlin? Expect these two teams will meet, it will be interesting to see who wins.
Michael Jordan was a great player and scorer, but needed Scotty and the rest to become the iconic Bulls Champions. Wilt Chamberlain won all kinds of scoring records, but Bill Russell won all the NBA championships with his iconic Celtics teams.
I am much more impressed by winning teams rather than individual scorers. It is nice to rack up points, but the main idea is to win the game!
Unlike this week's VTotW, the regular TotWs this week were "meh". I found 3 amusing, including the 2 (current) top vote getter. (That Store Tweet really hits home - and is not far from the truth.)
I was (but shouldn't have been) a little surprised at the results of your poll and your readers' self-reported demographics. I would have thought you'd have more readers under 44 (1%?).
I had never seen "Mother Lover" before - but I liked how they tied it into DiaB. Is that Patricia Clarkson as the other mother? (I'm too lazy to take the 20 seconds to find out.)
I finally pulled the plug on my digital Trib subscription, which is due for renewal later this week, and even when the live (I presume Philippines-based) operator offered me a 6 month renewal at 25 cents a week. There's just so little relevant content, and much of the content is quickly stale. You can tell that Alden has cut actual newsgathering staff to bare bones. I know you still have friends there EZ, and I have very fond memories of the Trib - especially of the late '80s and early '90s, and the 2-1/2 inch thick Sunday paper. (The Trib even had a musical TV commercial about how "thick and fat" the Sunday edition was IIRC.) 'Tis sad.
The recent hoopla regarding Tom Skilling's retirement brought to mind his brother Jeff Skilling - of Enron infamy. I'm curious to know what ever happened to him.
EZ - you sent out some love to your conservative commenters to the PS, few as they may be. how about your libertarian commenters? 😉
i do enjoy the PS and the comments thereof, for a variety of reasons - incl'g that it is not an echo chamber - even tho content and commentary are dominated by liberal/progressive opinion, consistent with the demographics of the readership.
The elected school board for CPS was a capitulation to the CTU. When Johnson got elected, the appointed/elected transition became irrelevant. So, of course the CTU opted for the cheaper path of having Johnson appoint their preferred candidates and then only have to pay for 10 races in the first election. Future elections will merely be exercises in CTU career management. I don't see outside organizations being stupid enough to waste money on these elections any more than they waste money on any other Chicago or Cook County election.
How is it that the most notorious (and among the most photographed) people in the world has to fake pictures of himself with some Black people?
Just a thought, they should fake pictures of him standing normally.
How about "The [What's that word again? Ah, yes] Sentinel"?
Eric, not in response to anything in particular, but (as a 40 year resident of LGP, now FL) when I read your stuff and JK’s stuff, I usually think: Ilinois: You gotta be kidding me!?
That photo of Putler with those words are perfect!
What's truly baffling are all the members of the former virulently anti-Communist Republican Party who now love Russia & Putler & want him to destroy the nascent democracy in Ukraine & then overrun all the former satellites of the now wonderfully extinct Soviet Union & turn them into satraps of his, along with invading NATO countries, which the fat orange bastard, seditionist & outright traitor would never help defend, despite the existence of Article Five of the NATO treaty, in which we pledge to help out any other member of NATO that's invaded & which the other countries of NATO did just that with this country after September 11, 2001!
He & they make me sick!
Regarding Tweet Madness, #5 & numbers 20-25 were unfair, as both in each of those were excellent.
Excellent group of weekly tweets this week, I liked 7 of the 10!
Mary's column reminded me of Al Gore's SNL monologue reviewing the first 6 years of his presidency 2000-2006. It's gut-wrenching to think how closely we sometimes miss out on great opportunities. I guess this is what inspires time travel Sci fi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMOGYipQeyM
"Some 87% of you are age 60-plus, which is what inspired the joke nameplate above. Twelve percent are in the 45-59 age bracket, and just 1% are under 44."
Literally made me laugh out loud. Didn't think it would be that extreme. I'm 33.
Thank you for Mary’s unpublished column about Hillary Clinton winning the election! It reminded me of how elated I was to vote for her that year, made especially memorable with my granddaughter going to the polls with me to vote in her first election. From elation to devastation in one day — the election results were beyond heartbreaking as are the conditions and stupidity that continue to reign in our country. Talk about an election that altered the course of history! ALSO, would love to know your view on when did the teacher’s union leadership become so combative? Gates, along with Brandon, could benefit from compassionate conversation training! Love your writing and your Mincing Rascals podcast. Keeps us up to date on the ever-fascinating political happenings and personalities in Chicago.
Motherlover is nasty...and hilarious. Btw Timberlake's mom is Patricia Clarkson.
I'm not suprised about the age and political makeup of the survey, though I, too, miss our conservative friends from CoS. We disagreed often, yet respected each other (most of the time).
Forgive me while I play Captain Obvious. Brandon Johnson campaigned on one thing and did another after getting in? Duh!. It's called being a politician. The new governor of North Carolina is a racist sexist pig? Duh! Like we don't all know someone that says stuff like that in private when they think they are safe from public view! I constantly credit Trump for making people comfortable saying su h things in public. The mayor of Dolton now wants to be Vladimir Putin. Note how she had the cops waiting around to get rid of the opposition. Caitlin Clark and Pistol Pete? I have always pooh-poohed comparing athletes from different eras. They can only compete against those with them at the time. That's the main problem with choosing people for halls of fame based on stats.
Moderately Conservative over 60 here. If anyone here is taking a Republican ballot in IL 14 (Lauren Underwood’s district) I’m on the ballot as a Christie delegate. At this point, our votes don’t matter for presidential nominee. Might as well try to give the orange man the middle finger from Illinois. If anyone is interested in knowing how Christie found me and others it’s an interesting (?) story.
I was browsing women’s basketball, reading about Caitlin Clark when I came upon stories concerning the University of South Carolina Women’s basketball team.
They did not lose a game last season, and they have not lost this season..yikes!
Basketball is a team sport and undefeated teams are rare and iconic (Bobby Knight comes to mind).
Why so little hype here and so much on Caitlin? Expect these two teams will meet, it will be interesting to see who wins.
Michael Jordan was a great player and scorer, but needed Scotty and the rest to become the iconic Bulls Champions. Wilt Chamberlain won all kinds of scoring records, but Bill Russell won all the NBA championships with his iconic Celtics teams.
I am much more impressed by winning teams rather than individual scorers. It is nice to rack up points, but the main idea is to win the game!
Unlike this week's VTotW, the regular TotWs this week were "meh". I found 3 amusing, including the 2 (current) top vote getter. (That Store Tweet really hits home - and is not far from the truth.)
I was (but shouldn't have been) a little surprised at the results of your poll and your readers' self-reported demographics. I would have thought you'd have more readers under 44 (1%?).
I had never seen "Mother Lover" before - but I liked how they tied it into DiaB. Is that Patricia Clarkson as the other mother? (I'm too lazy to take the 20 seconds to find out.)
I finally pulled the plug on my digital Trib subscription, which is due for renewal later this week, and even when the live (I presume Philippines-based) operator offered me a 6 month renewal at 25 cents a week. There's just so little relevant content, and much of the content is quickly stale. You can tell that Alden has cut actual newsgathering staff to bare bones. I know you still have friends there EZ, and I have very fond memories of the Trib - especially of the late '80s and early '90s, and the 2-1/2 inch thick Sunday paper. (The Trib even had a musical TV commercial about how "thick and fat" the Sunday edition was IIRC.) 'Tis sad.
The recent hoopla regarding Tom Skilling's retirement brought to mind his brother Jeff Skilling - of Enron infamy. I'm curious to know what ever happened to him.
EZ - you sent out some love to your conservative commenters to the PS, few as they may be. how about your libertarian commenters? 😉
i do enjoy the PS and the comments thereof, for a variety of reasons - incl'g that it is not an echo chamber - even tho content and commentary are dominated by liberal/progressive opinion, consistent with the demographics of the readership.
The elected school board for CPS was a capitulation to the CTU. When Johnson got elected, the appointed/elected transition became irrelevant. So, of course the CTU opted for the cheaper path of having Johnson appoint their preferred candidates and then only have to pay for 10 races in the first election. Future elections will merely be exercises in CTU career management. I don't see outside organizations being stupid enough to waste money on these elections any more than they waste money on any other Chicago or Cook County election.