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Oh, Yeah, She Got It 28 Oct 2012 | 07:47 am
Stopped at the local "cut it quick" hair salon a couple weeks ago. It was The Day When My Hair Drove Me Crazy, we were getting ready for a long trip to Milwaukee for Cliff's annual check-up and I need...
A Real Easter Bunny 8 Apr 2012 | 01:10 pm
The Husband and I have long foregone religious celebrations and high holy days and what have you. We answer aghast questioners with this clever little line: "Given our success with Cliff's medical exp...
The Assassination of Fred Hampton 3 Apr 2012 | 12:43 pm
On December 4, 1969, just a few months after I moved to Chicago, Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were shot to death by Chicago police who kicked in their apartment door at 4:00 a.m. and fir...
Thank You, Judge Walker 9 Aug 2010 | 08:57 am
And now that I'm going, congratulations California! I was very happy and excited by the recent ruling of Judge Walker declaring Prop 8 unconstitutional. If you haven't read the opinion, it's amazing a...
My Man LeBron 27 Jul 2010 | 08:07 am
One of my friends mentioned that I hadn't written anything lately. It's not been for lack of subject matter or that I've lost my opinionated touch, it's mostly lack of time. But, a couple weeks ago th...
Tiger-Pit 30 Dec 2009 | 11:28 am
Greetings to you all from Tiger! It's been almost a year that he's run the house and he's a real pip. Actually, he's a pit, but "pip" seems to fit him better. And he's one of the funniest dogs we've e...
Dumb and Dumber 23 Sep 2009 | 12:39 pm
I recently received one of those emails that make the top of my head come off. This one was a picture of President Obama holding Fareed Zakaria's book, "The Post-American World" with the following mes...
What About Them? 12 Sep 2009 | 08:51 am
We just returned from Chicago where we saw our very favorite Dr. Love for Cliff's annual check-up at Loyola. Everything looks good, but it was a very stressful three days of tests and doctors and appo...
The Professor, the Policeman and the President 25 Jul 2009 | 11:25 am
Before I start, in the interest of full disclosure, I am married to a retired Chicago police officer, who happens to be black. His first question, upon hearing about the Gates situation was, "Wonder w...
Tea Party Schmea Party 17 Apr 2009 | 10:09 am
I saw a comment crawling along the bottom of Wolf Blitzer's show last night, something to the effect that the infamous tea parties were nothing but an opportunity for disgruntled white folks to show t...