In Bernie Schoenburg’s column today, he casts light on the dubious number of new Illinois jobs that Governor Blagojevich is claiming will be created by his proposed capital program. The media has become seasoned to his administration’s penchant for passing on their version of the truth as they would like it to be, rather than […]

An AP story in today’s SJ-R reports on the postponement of the execution of Michael Morales in California due to the state’s inability to comply with a federal order to administer the lethal injection in a manner that would ensure that he would not experience pain. Ben Weston, one of the prisoner’s attorneys, said that […]

In honor of this week’s Westminster Kennel Club show, and in memory* of that little whippet who became lost in New York’s JFK airport, this week from the treadmill we review “Best in Show.” This mockumentary, or should I say, “dogumentary”, deftly skewers the world of purebred canines and their fanatical masters.
Directed by Christopher Guest, […]

Jewelers are a cunning bunch, quite astute in associating a pricey diamond with such hard-for-men to express emotions such as love, gratitude, and atonement. They also like to set themselves up as champions of a woman’s need and right to be appreciated. But listen closer to their advertisements, and I think that you will agree […]

Not Your Huckleberry Friend
Probably unbeknownst to most of you, when we bloggers sign-up for our free software, we must agree to act as consumer crusaders and use our miniscule influence to alert the public to acts of commercial malfeasance. So it is with a great sense of duty that I blow the whistle on Huck’s […]