Get thee to a movie theater with a great big screen for “Apollo 11.” Late at night, after Beth retires, I usually channel surf. Most of the time I come up disappointed. Sometimes I run into an old favorite and rewatch it, and then kick myself the next day for staying up too late […]

I met Doug Colbeth back in, oh, well, before the web, before the Internet, before social media—it was when cell phones were really large, didn’t have screens, and they were actually primarily phones. Doug was my boss at a little tech startup that was a University of Illinois spinoff. The company was based in Champaign, […]

I posted about the movie “Green Book” awhile back. I liked the movie then, and I like it now. Whatever you think about the movie, I think there is one inarguably good thing about it: A ton of people who knew nothing about the Green Book before the movie now do know about it. I’m […]

Well folks, it’s Presidents Day, and—who knew—it’s also National Drink Wine Day. Not that we need an excuse to have a glass when we need to do whatever it takes to quell our anxiety during this grave time of national emergency. Anyway, today, I got nothing except a couple or three links that are worth […]

This is a pretty significant Monday here in Chicago. First, the week began with my fair city winning a dubious honor: A study done at the University of Illinois-Chicago found the Chicago metro area to be the most corrupt in the nation. (Again.) That state of Illinois has some catching up to do: The UIC […]