The time is right to bring back "mountebank" as a serious pejorative.

I wrote a research paper about one of these things for a 400-level international relations course called "Foreign Policy Decision Making." Guess which.

Barley is underrated, as a food. I mean, it's rated, but barely.

GIF that pops up when I type my name.

All corporate "town hall" meetings: "We are the best place to work, and that's the fat, stinky, skanky, skunky, dank truth. God would stop being God and become a mere mortal if that's what He had to do to be an employee here."

Donald Trump has never done as much as flush the toilet twice without complaining.

I ❤️ Waukegan. (My almost home town.)

I listened to the arguments in the tariffs case. Everyone knows the one. As usual, I was hung up for about the first five minutes about how they always call the Solicitor General "General," as if it's a military position. I will never be able to accept that tradition.

A gift from Weasel Walter to all who might partake, available as a free download on Bandcamp: Chicago No Wave Audio Documentary, various artists

I'll be your bat mirror

New Rankin/Bass animated special dropped in Chicago, titled "The Year the Leaves Didn't Get Picked Up," starring Dick Shawn as ICE Miser. Feds protecting white america from dangerous landscrapers.

Going bold with the "oops forgot my pants" look. And the strategically placed napkin.

Don't give me a cactus I want some nice snacks, sis And that's what the facts is

It's always Halloween season for Wednesday Addams the cat, here enjoying the afternoon gloom with her buddy Yorick.

Here's a nice clip only a few days old about the Horseshoe Curve, which I have visited several times. It's cool. Coincidentally, I am wearing my Altoona Curve (baseball team) t-shirt today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiyG...

The sound of choppers Circling over I'm getting used to it now (apologies to David Byrne)

So now we pretty much know that "the law" is whatever one wants it to be, as long as one has the physical might to back it up. Right? I began suspecting as much during my first year of law school, but it no longer feels like callow cynicism.

When an ad tells me I have a "complimentary gift waiting," the redundancy irritates me. If they have such a thick dossier of info about me, they should know that ahead of time.

If the Brewers face the Mariners in the World Series, I'd like to see Milwaukee wear throwback Seattle Pilots uniforms for at least one game. Seattle vs Seattle.

Nineteen-hundred sixty-eight is over, it's over Nineteen-hundred eighty-one is over Future is now! - Nina Hagen

The brutality is real and an outrage, a tragedy. But the interactions between pols & parties are "works," a la pro wrestling. Pritzker decries federalization of the Nat. Guard but looks the other way as state cops help the fascists. Then Trump threatens to arrest JB, which wins him sympathy points.

Thune has a higher opinion of the Democratic Party than I do. Because I don't believe they'd do any of these things. Doing good is not their style.

The Nobel Peace Prize should be like membership in Oulipo. If you ask for it, you are permanently disqualified.

Justin Turner leading off for the Cubs tonight is so crazy it just might work. Hahahahahaha!! Just kidding. It's completely insane. Craig Counsell has gone full Monty Burns. youtu.be/abq9Y7YVDWA?...

Every time I see the word "waffles" around here lately, I think of this. For some (or no) reason.

I guess there's just gonna be helicopters circling around every night now. Choppers are the new cicadas.

The bloom really seems to be off the rose around here.

POTUS JB Pritzker ... What (probably) could (not) have been, but definitely will not be now.

I'm trying not to have pet peeves about word things, but this is one of mine that I haven't been able to squelch.

In an era of political lies, this is a particularly juicy one. Chef's kiss. Time for progressives to move on to the next false savior.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Pat Hughes: There's a lot of baseball left today! Me: Yeah. Unfortunately. #Cubs #Aughhh

To paraphrase Geraldo Rivera, "I'm someone who is ashamed *for* the Cubs."

Job applicants sometimes tout their "contagious enthusiasm." I'm the Typhoid Mary of enthusiasm. I don't exhibit any outward symptoms of it myself, but people around me mysteriously get enthusiastic.

Today's game should have been much more lopsided in favor of the Cubs. Really frustrating number of men left on base. And I am me, a person who finds the shitty lining in every silver cloud.

I kinda don't think either the Cubs or the Padres are very good. There, I said it.

Refusing to move Ian Happ down in the lineup because it would hurt his confidence is very Cubs. What should hurt his confidence is sucking. His confidence should be microscopic by now.

When the 1st of October rolls around, I often wonder what Rod Stewart ended up deciding to do: collect his books and head on back to school, or steal his daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool? Perhaps he found himself a rock and roll band that needed a helping hand.

"Hatch Act? We don't need no stinkin' Hatch Act!"

I've never been less enthused about a Cubs playoff team. Any of these players could be traded and I'd forget about them in five seconds.

So this two-person shop has become a load-bearing element of Chicago's coverage of what's happening with the ICE raids. The least you can do is support em: unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

When you clinch a wildcard berth and then don't win a game for another week, is that a breech berth? Ha ha ha. Ha. Ha ha. Chicago Cubs!

There is no Donald Trump. He exists even less than the flavor in La Croix.

Wildcards are lame, in all sports. Win your division or go home.

I suppose that after his unhinged rant about acetaminophen and the dangers of using it as a painkiller, Bobby's next move is to extol the virtues of opiates. And that is definitely something about which I'll accept Bobby as an authoritative source, for once.

RFK: "We're gonna cut off your johnson, Johnson & Johnson!"

Is Trump gonna pardon the person or persons who put the cyanide in the Tylenol in the Chicago area in 1982, and who the authorities have never identified or caught? Can't get autism if you're dead.

Too little, too late, Disney.