500,000
Yesterday, the United States officially passed half a million Covid-19 deaths, more than a week before the first anniversary of the first official death:If 500,000 passengers traveled by bus …An...
View ArticleAbout time we learned something
As the night follows the day, now that Republicans have lost power they're once again all a-flutter about deficits. This time, Democrats aren't having it:Twelve years ago, Barack Obama entered the...
View ArticleGood morning!
Now in our 46th hour above freezing, with the sun singing, the birds coming up, and the crocuses not doing anything noteworthy, it feels like spring. We even halted our march up the league table in...
View ArticleCoolest thing I've seen all day
From our local television station, WGN-TV, an amazing video of ice breaking up on Lake Michigan this past Sunday and Monday:
View ArticleLast weekday of the winter
I get to turn off and put away my work laptop in a little bit in preparation for heading back to the office on Monday morning. I can scarcely wait. Meanwhile, I've got a few things to read:The New...
View ArticleOne year later
The first official Covid-19 death in the US happened on 29 February 2020, 508,949 deaths ago. On Weekend Edition Sunday this morning, NPR talked to a few people about when they realized things had...
View ArticleOdds and ends
Just a couple passing stories this afternoon:Chicago lost another pair of major conventions this summer due to Covid-19. In the past year, organizers have cancelled over 200 events representing nearly...
View Article"Just F this guy"
So says Josh Marshall who, after five years of being obligated by his job to listen to the XPOTUS's speeches, finally turned him off this week:Part of this may be fatigue. I want to be done with this...
View ArticleEvening news
Just a few stories:President Biden declared that the US is on track to have enough Covid-19 vaccine to jab every adult in the country by the end of May.That did not stop Republicans in Texas and...
View ArticleGood morning
I'm once more back in my downtown office, and today spotted one of my co-workers: an IT guy who's been here the whole time. I didn't see him Monday because he works on a different floor, and management...
View ArticleThe pandemic is still making us crazy
I read three things to reinforce this today. First, National Geographic acknowledges the global mental health crisis, and how we're procrastinating more as a result:People don’t necessarily...
View ArticleAnd that's the way it is
It was 40 years ago today that Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time:Over the previous 19 years, Cronkite had established himself not only as the nation's leading newsman but as "the most...
View ArticleTop of the inbox this morning
The CDC just released guidance on how vaccinated people should behave. It doesn't seem too surprising, but it also doesn't suggest we will all go back to the world of 2019 any time soon.In other...
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Why I hate the suburbs
As I mentioned in my post about Hailstorm Brewing that went out earlier today, you can have an excellent brewery with a TV-free taproom within 1500 meters of a Metra station and still qualify for the...
View ArticleDeaths in the news today
Three reports of deaths today, two of them institutional. First, the one with the most relevance to me personally, one of the people most responsible for my sense of humor, died yesterday at 91:Norton...
View ArticleTen years ago
This week in 2011 had a lot going on. Illinois governor Pat Quinn (D) signed legislation that abolished the death penalty in the state on March 9th, for starters. But the biggest story of 2011 happened...
View ArticleRecord temperature yesterday
Chicago got up to 21°C yesterday, tying the record for March 9th set in 1974. It's already 20°C right now, close to the record 22°C set in 1955.In other news:One chart shows the difference between the...
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Joe's enormous package
President Biden just signed the largest relief bill in history:Doug Mills/New York TimesPresident Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package into law Thursday, his first legislative...
View ArticleWhen shit got real
Has this really been a full year? March 11th and 12th seem to be the days when everyone realized this was not a drill. John Scalzi:I was on the JoCo Cruise at the time and had intentionally avoided...
View ArticleNice flying, Ace
Sky Candy Studios in Minneapolis shot this amazing drone video to promote a local bowling alley in one take with no CGI:Minneapolis TV station KARE-11 does the "making of:"
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