Ancestral homeland opens up
Even thought the Right Honourable Gentleman from Uxbridge and South Ruslip remains a bloviating prat, his ministers did give me a bit of good news this morning:Double-vaccinated travellers from the US...
View ArticleSemi-annual sunrise chart
Not exactly like clockwork, but still at least in the month of July, I've got the latest semi-annual sunrise chart for Chicago. Enjoy.
View ArticleSummertime daftness everywhere
A few examples of idiocy, bad intent, or general ineptness crossed my desk this morning:Apparently Illinois has an "Israeli Boycott Restrictions Committee" of our investment policy board. Despite the...
View ArticleOn this day...
Fifty years ago today, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar put on the Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden:It was the first major charity concert of its kind — the Concert for Bangladesh. In...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo facing impeachment, criminal charges: reports
New York State Attorney General Letitia James released a report yesterday that alleges New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women, including a New York State Police trooper...
View ArticleConsumers really have gotten worse to service workers
Amanda Mull examines why.Because consumer identities are constructed by external forces, [historian Susan Strasser, the author of Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market] said,...
View ArticleJournalism error on NPR
Yesterday, Boston University clinical journalism instructor and WGBH-Boston reporter Jenifer McKim presented a story on NPR's Morning Edition about Grindr, the gay dating app. NPR's Steve Inskeep...
View ArticleSanctions in Big Lie case
United States Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter has ordered that the attorneys who filed a ridiculous case against (I am not kidding) over 10,000 people allegedly involved in a massive conspiracy to...
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BLM mural, one year later
Last August 6th I took some drone photos and video of the Black Lives Matter mural on Clifton Street in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. Here is 6 August 2020:And here is today:It's had some weathering,...
View ArticleVaccines, climate change, and trains
Those topics led this afternoon's news roundup:The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its 6th periodic report on the state of the planet, and it's pretty grim. But as Josh Marshall...
View ArticleTwo big wins for all of us
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation this morning:Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said Tuesday he would resign from office, succumbing to a ballooning sexual harassment scandal...
View ArticleCorny ball games
Chicago's minor-league White Sox will play the New York Yankees tomorrow at a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark adjacent to the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa:The Sox and Yankees begin a three-game...
View ArticleTweaking the environment
If all goes as planned, in about half an hour a Comcast technician will make a change to my service here at Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters that will, in turn, result in Cassie experiencing...
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Light, air, dog
The environmental change I alluded to yesterday went much more smoothly than anticipated.When I moved to my current place, I put Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters (IDTWHQ) in the room that most...
View ArticleHappy birthday, 5150
Today is the 40th birthday of the IBM 5150—better known as the IBM PC:It wasn't that long before the August 1981 debut of the IBM PC that an IBM computer often cost as much as $9 million and required...
View ArticlePrince Humperdink of New York
Reporter Miriam Pawel, who has covered Albany, N.Y., since the early 1980s, explains the critical difference between Mario Cuomo and his son Andrew:Even in those early years after Mario Cuomo was first...
View ArticleAfter 20 years, 200,000 dead, and $1 trillion spent, we get nothing
The Afghan government—or whatever approximation of a government they actually had—has fallen as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country as the Taliban took Kabul earlier today:Abdullah Abdullah,...
View ArticleCrossing the Rubicon
Eric Schnurer outlines the alarming similarities between our present and Rome's past; specifically, the end of the Republic in 54 BCE:History isn’t destiny, of course; the demise of the Roman Republic...
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RPM project proceeds progressively
The Chicago Transit Authority's RPM project has claimed another victim:For comparison, here's the view from 10 days ago:Yep. The Lawrence El station is gone. By the end of autumn, the entire east half...
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