Spouses Spice
— April 20, 2016I’m among those who believe that when a political figure puts forth his or her spouse or grown-up children to appear on his or her behalf, those adults should be subjected to…
Tag: Winnebago County Chronicle
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Cruz or Bust
— April 20, 2016If the Republican Party is to be saved from Donald Trump, Ted Cruz’s runaway victory in Wisconsin will have been the inflection point. If you thought this service to the GOP would…
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Do Not Fear the Chalk
— April 13, 2016Students at the University of Michigan called police the other day — because someone had written Donald Trump’s name in chalk. No arrests were made. The episode is part of a…
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Wives and Other Candidate Victims
— April 6, 2016What a presidential-election choice we have, America! That is if you enjoy political tactics that are so low, they would be better suited for a limbo contest than a campaign. We are…
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Budget impasse creating license-plate renewal woes
— March 16, 2016It’s bad enough that the Illinois budget battle is critically injuring education and vital social services for children, and Illinois’ poor, ill, hungry and homeless. But…
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Who’s afraid of the astynomia?
— April 13, 2016Astynomiaphobia. I think I’ve got it. Astynomiaphobia is fear of police — “astynomia” means police in Greek. And “phobia” is fear of. Fear of police. I was happily ignorant…
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Trump’s Accidental Truth Flirtation
— April 13, 2016Now that Donald Trump has decided to occasionally tell the truth, he might want to reconsider. It’s gotten him in all kinds of trouble. The subject of abortion really twisted him…
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Dial back on violence, End Times
— March 30, 2016On any day of any week of any year you can read on the internet that we are living in End Times, that this is the year the world will end. I always scoffed, as probably do you. But…
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