March 27, 2008 Cold Tap Fresh Spring Faucet Water Chicago tap vs. bottled water. I vowed for years that I would never buy water in a bottle, that I would never actually pay…
March 26, 2008 Where I’m At About a (half?) year ago (or whenever this too-long primary season all started) I was expecting Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee, even…
March 25, 2008 Bush’s War I watched part one of Frontline last night and part two is tonight: Bush’s War. Like everything, you can watch it online too. What…
March 25, 2008 Floor It An amazing thing has happened: R.E.M. has returned from the dead! I am on my first listen of the new album, “Accelerate,” and the…
March 24, 2008 Five Years Gone Five years, 4,000 U.S. deaths, and over 80,000 Iraqi civilian casualties later, I think it is important to read a slew of mea culpas…
March 20, 2008 Toasty I keep hearing certain right-wingers say that Obama is “toast.” Anyone who thinks anyone is “toast” in March of an election year has 7…
March 20, 2008 View from The Tower The Chicago Tribune on Obama’s speech: It’s not exactly like answering the phone at 3 a.m. to handle a national security crisis, but Sen….