An article in yesterday’s SJ-R told of puckish Illinois motorists who are attempting to sneak one by the censors in their attempt to obtain risqué vanity license plates. As related in the story, it’s being played as a cat and mouse game between the two sides, but it probably won’t be long before someone […]

The Christmas card letter is a common subject among newspaper columnists this time of year, probably more common than the letters themselves. Hardened scribes decry the rose-tinted recaps of a family’s affairs, finding the good-natured and overly optimistic look back as too trite for their callous souls. Their columns often anguish over the insufferable banality […]

Every holiday season has a unique theme that permanently places a distinguishing mark on it and is immediately recalled when remembering Christmases past. Sometimes it’s based on the hottest new toy; who can reminisce on the Christmas of ‘84 without visions of mutant-faced Cabbage Batch Dolls gaping back at you from under the tree. Other […]

Although late to the game, I thought I’d comment on a topic that my betters in the local blogosphere have been on top of since early last week.
Blogging was a hot topic of coverage in the SJ-R this week, sparked by some gubernatorial campaign chicanery uncovered by Rich Miller at his Capitol […]

People (my wife) often bemoan the negative stories that seem to dominate media coverage and claim that faithful following of the news is nothing but a pathway to terminal despondency. To them (and her) reading the newspaper isn’t akin to the morning’s first cup of coffee*, an eye-opening exercise that prepares you for the day […]