Collecting My Thoughts

Don't be fooled.   Equity does not mean equality and it doesn't mean equal treatment, fairness or justice. It's one of the delib...

Mobility is the unique feature of our economy and culture. That's why people want to come here. The Occupiers are not only wrong, bu...

You're a little late to the gate realizing how dependent architects are on the wealthy of this country, and also, I might add, the feder...

Yesterday I got one with great graphics--was supposed to be from the FBI although I don't remember exactly what I was being offered. He...

Recently I came to the railroad crossing on the Lowell Park Road on the way to Dixon, Illinois. The gates were down, the red lights flashing...

What an odd question! How do you justify your work contract? Your "merit raise," your paycheck, your perks that others don't h...

Recent events in science, politics, national security and the economy have caused many of us to completely lose faith in our so called “free...

Because of reality shows on TV, the ordinary people with little talent can now be a star--if they are fat, have a beat up truck, a house fal...

They are predicting snow for Chicago this week-end and they are already skiing out west. Temps haven’t changed in a decade. But politics is...

About 2.5 years ago I wrote about the strange case of the heir of the IBM fortune who had adopted her lover, and then they split up. Honest,...

Now that we're getting all those "clunker" cars off the road (destroying their engines so that the young, poor and entrepreneu...

Year end stories As an information junkie and recovering librarian, I live for these. Especially the science "break throughs." Th...

His money outlived him I've heard or read the name "John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation" tacked on to many stories,...