Category: commentary
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Wrigley Field
It’s the wonder of holding your dad’s hand, walking through that dark tunnel, and seeing a huge open space where men play a little boy’s game. Billy Crystal, in Ken Burn’s Baseball
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tea and sympathy
This year’s elections are taking shaping as a battle between Tea Party-ers and progressives. One can only hope this means the end of Republicans and Democrats. Probably not. But I love the more starkly drawn line between this year’s combatants: Progressives vs. Tea Partyers.
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Andy Pafko was a local legend.
Star Cub Andy Pafko was a local legend – Daily Herald. By the time I got my Andy Pafko autograph fielder’s mitt when I was about eight, Pafko had already moved on from the Cubs to the Dodgers and Braves. I never knew he was the center fielder on the…
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The Prodigal Sons – NYTimes.com
The Prodigal Sons – NYTimes.com. Great commentary brought to you by my man David Brooks, Tim Keller, and the Gospels. A lesson for our time.
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the freedom to do good
I haven’t seen The Monuments Men movie yet, but I will. I did just see the feature on CBS Sunday Morning and have been following the various interviews with the movie’s stars on Letterman. Several years ago, a rich Texan named Robert Edsel got interested and then got really interested in the…
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learn something today…
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your…
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Cicero, past and present
Guy Cicero grew up in Cicero, Illinois, U.S. of A. Here’s an article about the town’s history from the public radio website at WBEZ.org: Cicero, past and present. Cicero was a good place to be a kid in the 50s and 60s. Great schools and pretty safe neighborhoods helped by…
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the true believer…
Ted Cruz’s true believer rants only remind me of another senator who took us to the brink of a govt. crisis… why are these men smiling?
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Jeff Bezos Does His Part
Reading: Jeff Bezos: A Brief Anthology – NYTimes.com. Let’s face it. Whether you think the Kindle and e-books are a gift from God or the Devil, I hope we can all agree that Jeff Bezos is one great business guy. The same guy who took the broken world of book publishing…
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Viewers Like You
Viewers Like You is PBS’s own fan site. The longer I’ve watched PBS, the more I think of it as a national treasure. One of many.
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get back, Loretta
The Republicans want to take us back to some other time, long ago and far away. You know, when everybody was, or wished they were, evangelical Christians, with family values, 2.5 kids and a Chevy in the garage. Never mind that hidden away to be dealt with in another time…
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a lifelong Republican, no more
I cried when the country elected JFK over Ike’s man Dick Nixon. It’s true; I was thirteen and a lifelong Republican, or so I thought. The Democrats got lucky again when we elected their Georgia peanut farmer, (although he turned out more than OK as an ex-President), and later, a glad-handing,…
Guy Cicero 