Tag: politics
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Looking for Distractions
These days, we sometimes need other things to occupy our minds. Nov. 4, 2025 Monday night was opening day for college basketball, with about 240 teams playing their first game of the season. I got season tickets to Loyola again this year, as I have for the past seven or eight seasons. Last night the…
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What are we doing here, folks?
This is escalating pretty quickly. Things are getting pretty testy here in Chicago this week. There’s tear gas being fired at elementary school children, and journalists are getting shot in the face with pepper balls. On election night, when it became apparent that Donald Trump would be elected President of the United States with a…