I live here on purpose.

What’s all this fuss I keep hearing about the straight of whore moose??

The epitaph of Trump’s certainly garish and ostentatious tombstone will read, “The 2020 presidential election was rigged.”

Mayor Richard J. Daley showing off plans to redevelop the West Loop, Chicago 1966.

This was always a witch hunt. But dropping the investigation greases the skids, allowing Kevin Warsh to be confirmed by the Senate as Powell's successor. Brace yourselves for an overheated economy spurred by Trump insisting on interest rate cuts, America. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

“Peace Through Strength” means using soft power for best effect — the exact soft power Kegsbreath abhorred as a National Guard platoon leader.

A Metra station runs through the OG Mars Wrigley site; it’s perfectly suited as a transit-oriented development. But Galewood is gonna Galewood. blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/23/p...

Jonathan Swan on The Daily this morning: Trump doesn’t feel like the Iranians are negotiating (an end to the hostilities) properly. That may be because the Iranians aren’t using Trump’s Playskool Twitter to negotiate?

Drop something from the 1980s.

For the Trumps, the grift is the point.

The Lanai on Lowe is in the midst of a glow up.

I don’t know how much Fred Trump paid Penn to enroll Donald into Wharton, but it was a waste of money.

CNBC’s Sara Eisen angling for Maria Bartiromo’s gig at Fox Business with this performance (and others).

Farewell to Dave Mason, a founding member of Traffic who wrote the immortal “Feelin’ Alright.” My obituary for Rolling Stone.

A fair number of these buildings on the right side of the street still exist.

“With Trump, however, the misconduct is the concern. You might even say that his corruption, like his cruelty, *is* the point.” 🎁🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

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We know that for Trump, lying is an involuntary function like breathing or blinking one’s eyes. But he has been consistent in demanding low interest rates, and for a Fed Chair who will accommodate his demands. Kevin Warsh is lying.

Can we get high-speed rail, instead?

It’s “shirtless old Italian man” season in Bridgeport. It’s also “shirtless old Italian man brings out his fig tree in a trash can” season in Bridgeport.

I recall Hegseth promising to not drink if he was confirmed as Defense Secretary. That promise went well.

I received an email yesterday, updating me on this documentary's progress. I was interviewed for it, 12 years and one apartment ago. Don't know if my thoughts make the final cut, but Art Shay deserves the documentary treatment. I look forward to the finished product. youtu.be/WS2CEVf2NSk?...

It's a toss-up between Dr. Zoidberg telling Amy's dad "I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar" or Zapp Brannigan's "the quickest way to a girl's bed is through her parents."

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

"Cheech & Chong's Last Movie" premieres today (for 4/20, of course) on Paramount+. We reviewed it at SXSW 2024:

Now try that against another warship.

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

I hope she receives more than a tote bag as a gift. (Also, tax billionaires and corporations their fair share.)

my prediction for this game: benetti asks a really thoughtful interview question that makes kruk confess to some kind of crime

Pundits, reporters and columnists who keep trying to ascribe deeper motivations for Trump's vindictiveness forget that he's simply vain and never learned to handle criticism. He's been this way ever since he rose to fame in the mid-1980s. It's that simple. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

On a box?

Cody Rhodes is going full Homelander for his Wrestlemania entrance this evening. Randy Orton is not impressed. Pat McAfee looks like he wants to order Buffalo Wild Wings to the ring.

Next time, do that at Cracker Barrel. You'll be accepted.

I'm OK with that.

Holy SHIT, indeed. Almost feels like sitting on a porch watching Johnson play.

Corporate cross-branding promotion. This is the way.

Stephen A. Smith was booed at Wrestlemania. I can always count on pro wrestling fans to do the right thing.

Me, too. But there was’t much to copy. I did wait to copy what I liked before bringing it up to the IT person. He had no idea file sharing on the network was so lax.

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Ken Griffin arguably spent more to torpedo the progressive tax amendment proposal in Illinois than he would have been taxed under it. But when he moved Citadel to Miami, he took a host of finance bros with him. That was a net positive for Chicago, imo.

Is it because tech companies have proven repeatedly that they can’t be trusted with our personal information?

“Doj’s ethics handbook states that ‘an employee is prohibited from habitually using alcohol or other intoxicants to excess.’” I’m sure this was Neer Beer.

What in the Jack Harlow and Chet Hanks is a “cloud bob?”

“When you add it up, nobody has done what we’ve done.” That is an understatement, and not in the way he’s projecting.

A message of love and compassion in the vein of "this is going to hurt me a lot more than it will hurt you" that abusers use.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay: where Salvador Dali nearly suffocates in a diver’s helmet before Joe Klay frees him. Einstein’s Dreams: the whole damn book.

This makes me irate. Remember when the Defense Department had “use it or lose it” funding to spend last September? They could have spent that money on shelf-stable provisions for deployed solders/sailors instead of on lobster tails, king crab and ribeyes for Hegseth and his cronies.

Busch Latte drafts? I’ll try anything once.but this is pushing it.

That's not a "ballroom;" that's a "bunker."

There’s a lid for every pot, I guess.