A Chicago Blog

Or maybe they were just high. The Tribune reports:
Six protesters disrupted the beginning of Cardinal Francis George’s homily to shout their opposition to the Iraq war. The demonstrators—who called themselves Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War, despite their male and female membership—squirted fake blood on themselves and nearby worshipers as security guards tried to usher them [...]

I don’t usually defend Steve Rhodes, mainly because he’s usually transparently liberal. But watching Fox Chicago Sunday this morning I felt the pains of fraternity in my heart. Jack Conaty went after Rhodes on the development of the blogosphere and in so doing showed just how little he actually understands about how it works. Conaty’s [...]

Mark Brown is sitting in on the Rezko trial:
But everyone’s ears perked up when Pekin described how Levine told him in 2003 he’d have to share his expected finder’s fee of $750,000 with Mell.
“He said Mr. Mell was somewhat upset because he was not participating in the spoils,” Pekin testified under a grant of immunity [...]

He writes:
It’s time for the proven failures who are running the party to, if not step aside, then build a major league farm system. That means support the promising, bright and honest young candidates with money, organization and enthusiasm.
Finally, it’s time to recruit Democrats with a conscience into the Republican cause. These would be the [...]

No kidding. And it’s not just the academics any more. AP is reporting explosives were found on the UC Davis Campus. It’s rather coincidental isn’t it? A bomb goes off this morning in NYC and a student is taken into custody in California. Good thing Chicago-area campus culture is more reasonable than California’s … oh [...]

John Kass writes: “When the parish priest does right by the patronage boss to protect the mayor who gets endorsed by that great reformer Sir Barack of O’bama, that’s the Chicago Way.”

I must say that, as an ex-smoker, I have found the smoking ban beneficial to my personal needs. I am no longer tempted to light up every time I walk into a smoky bar because there are no more smoky bars. That said, I’m still a staunch supporter of smoker’s rights and business owners rights. [...]

The number one rule in politics? Campaigns matter. You can be the perfect candidate. You can have all the money in the world. But if you can’t run a solid campaign you’ll lose every time. Oberweis is working on losing a record number of campaigns in Illinois because of crap like this. Just about every [...]

I’m heading back to Chicago tomorrow, so I was checking the weather and saw that we’re getting MORE SNOW. This is certainly the snowiest winter since I moved here in 1999 but it definitely isn’t the snowiest ever. Just ask Tom:

There’s some risk in the Cub’s choice to pick up Jon Lieber, but his numbers are good and he knows how to pitch at Wrigley so it’s hard to imagine anything negative about this move. It’s about time Hendry started going after pitching. I hope we can pick up one more vet before March.