The Thinker--or Just Sitting Around?

I've wondered about Rodin's famous sculpture. Is he engaged in deep thought or sitting around wasting time? And why isn't he wearing pants? I ask the same of myself. Here we comment on well, mostly politics. Or we may just sit! If you like it, tell a friend. If not, tell us, but please read the GROUND RULES before you do.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

STILL NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME

The much anticipated House Republican “alternative budget” was rolled out today. It had a nice blue cover and an official looking logo, whic...

Bernice Arndt, Village Idiot

Chicago has experienced a rash of teen shootings this year, in most cases the intended and unintended carnage of gang conflicts. One reader ...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

MEMO TO SENATE CONSERVADEMS

Evan Bayh (pictured below), self-appointed leader of a breakaway caucus of cowardly, traitorous, jelly-spined DINOS (Democrats in name only)...

As per Lula's comment below...

The movie rights have already been optioned!

My Apologies

Thanks to Carlos for keeping things rolling. I am BURIED in a book deadline (and as Carlos could tell you, it will be a real page turner!) a...

Monday, March 23, 2009

Musical Plea to President Obama: Why not the BEST?

Dear Mr. President: Why haven't you enlisted the PEOPLE'S ECONOMIST, Paul Krugman, to take a prominent position in your team of mino...

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Repug Blame-Game on AIG Bonuses set to Explode in their Faces -- Again!

President Obama just got his first full lesson in the Byzantine ways of Washington DC politics from the toxic storm over the outrageous AIG ...

Monday, March 16, 2009

Corner Time

The paper formerly known as the Chicago Tribune gave us this gem from future Nobel Prize winner, Curt P. Schaller of Northbrook: The Tribu...

On AIG, redux

Given that they are AN INSURANCE COMPANY, I am sure they have paid EVERY legal claim without objection or delay. Right.

Memo to AIG Law Department

Dear Sir or Madam: I am assuming that since your title is "Law Department" that you must actually employ or retain "lawyers...

Saturday, March 14, 2009

And today's missing cute girl is..

Note to a large portion of America, pictured below: Do not give your baby girls cute names. No more Caylees. No more Haleighs. No more mar...

Friday, March 13, 2009

So how many more days...

until Michael Steele,pictured below, receives his walking papers?

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

An idea with no "merit."

Dear Mr. President: You mentioned the subject of merit pay for teachers. Did I happen to miss the development of a metric that can accurate...

Monday, March 09, 2009

To quote Etta OR Beyonce...At Last.....

President Obama to Lift Stem Cell Restrictions Obama to Sign Executive Order Reversing Bush Policy By DAN CHILDS and LISA STARKMarch 9, 2009...

Sunday, March 08, 2009

I usually don't do this but...

If you're out and about on Chicago's north side (Belmont near Racine), stop in for a bite and a brew at Joey's Brickhouse resta...

Depression Psychology: Always Darkest Before the Dawn

This is one of those rare moments in our nation’s history in which panic about our economic survival, let alone short-term viability, is beg...

The World's Scariest Haircut

Barring one from him, it would be difficult to imagine a more frightening haircut than the one I had yesterday. I am not hesitant to spend m...

Friday, March 06, 2009

A Modest Proposal, revisited

The great satirist Jonathon Swift proposed with tongue ever-so-firmly in cheek that the Irish could solve its hunger and poverty problems by...

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Stimulee, stimula, stimulee, stimula-haha-ha

So what do I think? I'm a historian by training. I look back to FDR and the nightmare he inherited from his predecessor. What did FDR do...

Pat Leahy's "Truth Commission"

So the senior senator from Vermont wants a truth commission to examine the myriad misdeeds of the Bush years. A commission is an affront to ...

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