Saturday coffee.
In Chicago it is a damp and cloudy Saturday.
The river is green for the Saint Patrick’s day parade.
It is best not to drive on the north side tonight. Last year Anne and I went to dinner in Wrigleyville to celebrate her birthday, forgetting it was Saint Patrick’s day. As we drove down Halsted Street, young green-shirted twenty-something boys literally fell forward – face down drunk – in front of our car. Several times.
This week Chicago has seen a performance of send in the clowns.
It began with the announcement that the union-hating, tax-evading Hyatt Hotel heiress Penny Pritzker was abruptly resigning from the Chicago board of education to go work as Commerce Secretary.
What does a Commerce Secretary do?
I don’t know.
Word on the street was that Pritzker, who served as chief fund-raiser for Obama when he ran in 2008, was kept
The river is green for the Saint Patrick’s day parade.
It is best not to drive on the north side tonight. Last year Anne and I went to dinner in Wrigleyville to celebrate her birthday, forgetting it was Saint Patrick’s day. As we drove down Halsted Street, young green-shirted twenty-something boys literally fell forward – face down drunk – in front of our car. Several times.
This week Chicago has seen a performance of send in the clowns.
It began with the announcement that the union-hating, tax-evading Hyatt Hotel heiress Penny Pritzker was abruptly resigning from the Chicago board of education to go work as Commerce Secretary.
What does a Commerce Secretary do?
I don’t know.
Word on the street was that Pritzker, who served as chief fund-raiser for Obama when he ran in 2008, was kept