Eight-armed task masters
It took me a little bit this morning to get back into things, but once I figured out what my notes meant I managed to finish two whole features today. And I still had time to check these out:Marine...
View ArticleBaseball update
Two of the worst teams in baseball played their last home games of the season yesterday, one of them for the last time in their current home.The Chicago White Sox improbably swept the Los Angeles...
View ArticleThey're the GLOAT!
The White Sox lost to the Detroit Tigers last night, their 121st loss of the season and the most losses in Major League Baseball history, to become the Greatest Losers of All Time:After enjoying a...
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Trip photos: Wednesday-Thursday
I meant to post more photos from my trip earlier this month, but I do have a full-time job and other obligations. Plus it took me a couple of days longer than usual to recover, which I blame squarely...
View ArticleEnd-of-quarter news pile-up
Because I had a busy weekend, I had quite a full inbox this morning. After deleting the 85% of it that came from the Democratic Party and the Harris-Walz campaign (guys, you've already got my vote,...
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More photos: London
I can scarcely believe I took these 10 days ago, on Friday the 20th. I already posted about my walk from Borough Market back to King's X; this is where I started:You can get a lovely snack there for...
View ArticleCarter turns 100
President Jimmy Carter turned 100 today, making him the first former president to do so. James Fallows has a bit of hagiography on his blog today, and the State of Georgia has declared today "Jimmy...
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Aix-en-Provence photos
Let me tell you how much I suffered in Aix-en-Provence. I mean, just look at this stuff, starting with the street my hotel was on:The Passage Agard, off Cours Mirabeau:The Fontaine du Roi René at the...
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More Provence photos
A week ago Sunday, my friends picked me up in Aix-en-Provence and took me to their house in St-Martin-de-la-Brasque, about 30 km north, just south of the Luberon massif. I can see the appeal:We then...
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Marseille
I decamped to Marseille on my last full day in France last week, since I had a flight before 11 am and didn't want to add another hour coming from Aix. I will have to visit the city again, hopefully...
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Outdoors weather
I didn't get up at 2am to drive to Mt Rainier like one of my friends, but I did spend almost all day outside yesterday. Cassie and I met friends (one human, one dog) in Elmhurst for a 9-kilometer walk...
View ArticleStuff I just got around to reading
I had a busy Friday and a busier Saturday, so I just got to these this morning:The entire Chicago Public Schools board resigned Friday in the latest salvo in the fight between Chicago Mayor Brandon...
View ArticleFirst Monday in October 2024
The extreme-right-wing US Supreme Court begins a new term today, which we can all expect to continue the trends they have been on for the last 30 years. All we need is a razor-thin margin in one or two...
View ArticleCorruption, corruption, corruption
For once, Chicago's legendary corruption isn't the biggest news story of the day.Let's start with New York, where the Adams administration seems determined to set new standards for public corruption,...
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If only we could turn the street lights down
Following a coronal mass ejection on Monday, tonight's aurora forecast is epic:Unfortunately, I have an event just outside the Loop that ends around 10. By the time I got home, loaded up the dog, and...
View ArticleForgot to do this yesterday
My day got away from me yesterday afternoon, so all this shiznit piled up:In the first of two gobsmacking First Amendment stories this week, the Florida Dept of Health has threatened television...
View ArticleTwo in the Times
Two guest essays in yesterday's New York Times caught my attention. The first, by Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter who wrote the "unintended work of fiction" The Art of the Deal, pivots off the new...
View ArticleLots of history on October 14th
The History Channel sends me a newsletter every morning listing a bunch of things that happened "this day in history." Today we had a bunch of anniversaries:30 years ago, Pulp Fiction debuted.47 years...
View ArticleAbout those pagers
The Post has more details about the pagers that the Mossad blew up, injuring thousands of Hezbollah terrorists:As an act of spy craft, it is without parallel, one of the most successful and inventive...
View ArticleCould have been worse...
A contractor punctured the iron casing around the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in New York City, but fortunately thousands of motorists escaped a horrible death:Workers for the Metropolitan Transportation...
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