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Going negative fast
Thank you, Pfizer-BioNTech, for helping my body recognize and eliminate the SARS-Cov-2 virus in only five days:I've got 5 Brews & Choos stops planned over the long weekend. This helps immensely....
View ArticleWhoo boy
Apparently everyone else got over Covid yesterday, too. Or they're just trying to make deadline before the holiday:Peter Hamby pulls the fire alarm after reading a leaked polling report showing...
View ArticleYou heard it here first, folks
I linked to an op-ed by Lawrence Tribe earlier today in which the constitutional scholar argues for something that first appeared right here in the Daily Parker in June 2020:To repair the profound and...
View ArticleHoliday weekend
I'm about to leave the office for the next 4½ days. Happy Independence Day!And who could forget that the UK will have a general election tomorrow? To celebrate, the Post has a graphical round-up of...
View ArticleSir Keir Starmer, KDB, KC...PM
A few hours ago, HM King Charles III invited Sir Keir Starmer (Lab) to become his Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, and form a government in his name:Keir Starmer has said the “sunlight of...
View ArticleFeeling stuck?
The New York Times had two opinion pieces today that seemed to go together.In the first, literary critic Hillary Kelly notes the prevalence of pop-culture stories about people not so much in dystopia,...
View ArticleTuesday afternoon links
It has started raining in downtown Chicago, so it looks like Cassie and I will get wet on the walk home, as I feared. I still have a few tasks before I leave. I just hope it stays a gentle sprinkle...
View ArticleG7 slams the Israeli government
The G7, meeting today in Washington, strongly rebuked the Israeli government's illegal seizure of Palestinian land:We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United...
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Millennium Park before the millennium
I don't know the provenance of this photo, but it appears to be taken from near the top of the Prudential Building at 135 E. Randolph St., summer of 1968:Here's approximately the same view from last...
View ArticleBuilding a new train to Milwaukee
The High Speed Rail Alliance advocates extending the Metra UP-North (my line) all the way to Milwaukee:Hourly trains departures will bring Chicago and Milwaukee closer together, strengthen the economic...
View ArticleStormy weather
Three celebrities from my youth died yesterday, but for obvious reasons none was the top story on any news outlet this morning.No one should politicize the attempt on the XPOTUS's life yesterday at a...
View ArticleNot even attempting to conceal the corruption
US District Court Judge Aileen Cannon (R-SDFL) has dismissed the classified-documents case against the convicted felon rapist XPOTUS on the clearly erroneous grounds that Special Counsel Jack Smith's...
View ArticleA bit of perspective
Time for another reminder. If you see something on social media that:seems to confirm something you already believed about the "other side,"comes from someone claiming to have inside knowledge,...
View ArticleSome random person in Nebraska
Network security company CrowdStrike pushed a minor update to its Falcon Sensor product around 11pm Chicago time yesterday that managed to take down almost every virtual machine in Microsoft's Azure...
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Playing around with Lightroom
I use Adobe Lightroom to catalog and retouch my photos. Like any complex piece of software, it has a lot of features I haven't learned how to use yet. So I decided to play around this morning. Here's a...
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Democrats in complete array
What a consequential 24 hours we've had.After President Biden's historical withdrawal from the 2024 election, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. So far, dozens of other elected Democrats have...
View ArticlePresident Biden speaking tonight
The President will go on the air tonight at 8pm EDT to explain why he dropped out of the race, and presumably also to endorse Vice President Harris as his successor. This has the XPOTUS so rattled that...
View ArticleWhat a lovely afternoon!
Too bad I'm in my downtown office. It's a perfect, sunny day in Chicago. I did spend half an hour outside at lunchtime, and I might take off a little early. But at least for the next hour, I'll be...
View ArticleLess Sorkin, more Iannucci
One of the many stories that piqued my interest this morning included a rant by the anti-Sorkin himself:Armando Iannucci, creator of Veep and The Thick of It, does not like how "politics has become so...
View ArticleHow you transition to a new government
Watch how new UK Leader of the Opposition Rishi Sunak (Cons.-Richmond and Northallerton) used his first Question Time with new UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Lab.-Holborn and St Pancras) last...
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