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Five years ago I started a weblog . At the time, I only knew a couple of bloggers, mostly the original crew over at Midwest Mindset . While ...

On why voting for Chicagoans comes easy: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing      so proud to be alive and coarse and str...

Three Loves We do love Thomas Friedman around here. "Given that Times columnists are not allowed to “formally” endorse candidates and ...

Once upon a time, when this blog was updated near-daily, with weird Larry-King-like posts , I wanted to see John McCain run for president, s...

I love Sarah Palin . She's basically every mom of every friend I had growing up in the Midwest, only way hotter. She's the new face ...

Oh, man, political blogging is dead. Ever since the markets imploded, I've basically stopped listening to Tweedle-Dum and Cranky-Pants-D...

I had been working on a post yesterday about a recent op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman, titled " Green the Bailout " -- A little dit...

Not only have I been (sort of) live blogging the debate, but in the spirit of Tony Reali's Around the Horn, I will dole out points arb...

Ha! Ha! I shamed McCain into debating tonight! Booyah!!! More to come this weekend. Yezzir. EDIT : Now let the game of lowered expectations ...

Seriously America. Let's all take a deep breath and read . Issue Is Payback, Not Bailout (NY Times) Take it away, David Leonhardt : ...