November 20, 2006 Let’s Have a Toast to Barrel Man When will the Bears get their own Barrel Man? We’re gonna need one for the Superbowl run. Don’t make me do it! Nine and…
November 17, 2006 History Will Teach You Nothing Re: Bush in Vietnam, I said: “Bush, meanwhile, is about to make his first-ever visit to Vietnam. Ironic, yes, but educational, no, probably not.”…
November 16, 2006 MaM Tonight at SubT Milk at Midnight rocks Subterranean tonight (2011 W. North Avenue in the beautiful city of Chicago, Illinois). Start the weekend early and stay up…
November 14, 2006 The Rum Diaries Jon Stewart gives Don Rumsfeld a nice tribute on The Daily Show. Meanwhile, the case against Rumsfeld moves ahead: Gita Gutierez, a CCR lawyer…
November 14, 2006 Michael Moore’s Pledge Michael Moore has posted “A Liberal’s Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives” on his website, which begins: We will never, ever, call you “unpatriotic” simply because…
November 10, 2006 In the Air Tonight That’s Chicago from above, in all its grid-glory. Note the red Southwest wing in the upper left corner. “Out of the farmland and into…
November 9, 2006 Mistakes and Regrets This interview with Conrad Keely of …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is particularly depressing to me. I feel exactly…
November 9, 2006 Headlines I Like To See “Religious right a big loser on ballot measures“ That’s a nice one. I like that a lot. It has a nice ring to it….