Today marks the beginning of baseball All-Star break, otherwise known as the worst week for sports all year. Somehow the Mariners would be a playoff team if the season ended today, despite having a ne
Sacha Baron Cohen has a new TV show in which he one again goes in disguise and punks people. This new one is going to be very political, from early reports. Sarah Palin and Roy Moore and others are no
It’s hard to find new words to describe the morally putrescent cancer of the Trump administration on the United States and especially how it treats immigrants. This is just disgusting. Immigrati
Another black man was killed by the Chicago Police Department last night: The shooting happened about 5:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of East 71st Street, according to police and Chicago Fire Department o
One thing that drives me nuts is how conservative state Democrats consistently buy into the conventional wisdom that governing to the right and voting with Republicans is how to win an election. Now,
Well, taking advantage of desperate, angry people and using their money for completely different personal purposes is certainly the perfect culmination to a “career” of counterproductive n
This is the grave of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas. Born in 1874 in Pittsburgh into a pretty wealthy Jewish family, Stein spent a year in Europe as a youngster and then her father became the head of
Rather than talk explicitly about a brewery this week, although I will do that a bit at the end, I wanted to link to this discussion of 5 beer menu rules that all good bars/breweries should ascribe to