An easy way to help

This evening, I had the nightly internal conversation about what to make for dinner. Since we already had some tortilla chips, some lettuce, and a few small tomatoes in the house, my thoughts turned to taco salad. But a few ingredients were also missing, so I pulled on my low cut Chuck Taylor’s and headed

Link to a post on ChicagoSideSports and in the Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball has been a big part of my life since the mid-1970s, which is as far back as I can remember anything. Twitter, on the other hand, has been in my life for just a few years. What better way to fuse the old and the new but to write about the two subjects together?

The social media president

Over the next four years, there will probably be many instances where I can look at President Obama and say “I like what he just did” It was like that when he sang “Sweet Home Chicago” at the White House recently. When Mick Jagger hands you a microphone, and Buddy Guy wants you to sing,

It’s better than Tebowing

I imagine that life is very good for Clint Eastwood. After all, he’s had a very long and successful career, in an industry that all Americans know of and pay attention to. If there’s a version of American royalty, movie stars are certainly it, even more so than musicians or professional athletes. And Hollywood’s A-list

The Love Curd

Cheese curds are something that may be available outside of Wisconsin, but once you cross into the state, they seem to be everywhere. And buying a bag of cheese to munch on just seems like the thing to do. And so it was when I went to a Culver’s Restaurant in Wisconsin for lunch last

Twitter and the #Newt

As ubiquitous as Twitter is today, it sometimes helps to remember that it’s only been around since 2006. That means that the 2008 presidential election, in which Barack Obama defeated John McCain, is the only one to have occurred in Twitter’s existence. I remember how, in those days back in 2008, candidate Obama had a