Just when you think you’ve made it through the most unbearable of all seasons without any major emotional scarring, a diseased liver, or a divorce
Month: December 2024
A curmudgeon on Christmas – the 2024 edition
I hate Christmas. The mall is full of nothing but women and children. All you hear is, ‘I want this,’ ‘Get me this,’ ‘I have
On the Kane County Clerk’s legendary hospitality
Last Thursday we covered how the Campton Hills Terriers and Three-Headed Beagles conspired to get Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham angry enough to throw them
Quick Hits – December 17, 2024
Because this ain’t nearly as “quick” as I intended it to be, without further ado: Just another mass hysteria The basis for most mass hysterias
The KC Republicans top themselves – again!
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it’s because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t. – Mark Twain Despite being dead wrong too
The day the universe changed!
Per the title, my favorite all-time docuseries is The Day the Universe Changed with James Burke. It first aired on PBS almost 38 years ago
Could it be I’m falling in love…
And now for something completely different! – Monty Python Without fail, I wake up every morning with a song dancing through my upper cranial reaches.
Let the Elgin mayoral festivities commence!
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor. – Clint