For a few brief, shining moments late Tuesday night, there was a glimmer of hope that the whole damn primary ballgame was really over, even if you view the race through Hillary-tinted glasses.
If for some stupid reason you were in a fighting mood and you saw Antoine Walker or Eddy Curry or Rashard Mendenhall in the vicinity, you wouldn't pick a scrap with one of those big athletes, would you?
Illinois is to become a No Blow Zone. Last week, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sent a letter to the Las Vegas manufacturer of the energy drink called Blow, demanding that the company cease marketing and sales in Illinois.
Just before the start of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, as everyone clutched their bettings slips and/or their selections from the various pools we had going, I went on the record:
I've been hearing from a number of folks claiming "Liberal Bias!" because we didn't review the documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" on the TV show.
There were some interesting insights -- as well as some nutball theories -- in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's appearance at the National Press Club on Monday.
Pop quiz! Which of the following has NOT been an episode on Jerry Springer's show:
The black-and-white video of a 24-year-old Chicago man getting Tasered outside a bar in Ohio is about as inconclusive as a video can be.
Oh, Canada. You've got to be kidding. The News Photographers Association of Canada has awarded first prize in the spot news category to a photo of Conrad Black flipping the bird to the media at his trial in Chicago last summer.
The "question" posed to me by the irate reader was more like a conclusion:
She was blond and fit, and she was wearing shorts and a T-shirt to celebrate one of the first legit spring days in Chicago, and she was cruising along on in-line skates.
Late last week, Chicago Police delivered the news that murders were down for the first three months of 2008 compared with the same period in 2007.
I've been drinking coffee since I was 16. Some claim I've been drinking coffee NON-STOP since then, but I have only about two coffees every day. True, they're coffees the size of R2D2, but nevertheless.
So now 4/14 has come and gone, and the three universities that shut down because of threatening graffiti were spared even the possibility of a massacre on campus.
Whenever I see paintings of the Chicago skyline, there's one element that seems to be missing.
At the services Saturday for R. Eugene Pincham, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright gave Sean Hannity of Fox News a shout-out.
The story always becomes bigger if it's caught on video. How many times has that cheerleader-beating video out of Florida played on local, national, international newscasts this week? Is there a number that high?
