So it’s come to this

I wrote an earlier post about how I had no NCAA brackets to consult this year. The Final Four has now been set, and there are no VCU-type cinderella stories this year. Louisville, Kansas and Kentucky are among the entrenched elite of college basketball, and even the team that wears scarlet and gray has had

Seeing what Lincoln saw

Kentucky is geographically close to Illinois. In fact, they share a border along the Ohio River. But when you live in Chicago, Kentucky is actually very far away. Anyone who has driven across Illinois from north to south, or vice versa, can tell you how far it really is. The same is true of New