Diary of a Newspaper Hawk

They sentenced him to 14 years. Now, to work on real crime. Funny: http://senateseatsforsale.blogspot.com

What's in a rant? I can't tell you. All I know is there are more ranters than solvers. I am tired of do-good sign holders telling me how awful the world is. Fix it. You have carried your sign, now go fix it. Or shut up.

Oprah's TV show is ending. JR was shot. The Korean War ended and Hawkeye went home. The Superbowl will come again in 2012. Big deal. I still see a homeless guy walking by my corner in these windy, cold May days in Chicago. Some silliness revealed. Oprah's Last Show: Rumors We Will Not Hear

The new guy does not impress me much, but you, Mr. Rich Daley, were a class act.

That's the famous picture from the New York Times. A bunch of guys cheering that the USA killed a man in Pakistan. There's Stassi in the middke doing a mix of Richard Nixon and Fonzie, with Wilson, McLeod, Pelosi, Hickey and some other guys trying to figure out what this means. Nobody knows what it means, and lemme tell you I don't know either. I do know Osama bin Laden was a rich brat who used a bunch of kids and dopey lackeys to kill Americans. He was loaded with western money living in the Middle East, blaming America for whatever his therapist told him. Who knows? Now by this time, his death is symbollic. Barack Obama gets to finish what George W. Bush started and this kind of puts them on the same playing field. Nobody is saying these two men agree on much, but they do agree that terrorism from Islam's extreme side is bad and needs to be taken down. I don't know what the right thing to do is, but this could be a big thing, or just another dead Islamic le...

I didn't go see Charlie Sheen. That's something people with money do. No sirree. I got better things to do with my time and my money than to watch some whiny rich boy howl around about why he hired whores. Why, you ask? Because he was rich and ran out of things to spend his money on. I bet ol' Charlie would waste his money on a hooker before he bothered to throw it away at some two-bit Hollywood prima donna's cheap excuse of a show. But that's Charlie Sheen for you and, that's all you chumps forking out $80 for his whore fund. That brings me to another point. Yeah, we've got unemployment. Chicago is turning into another political and financial cesspool like Detroit. I get it. And you aren't buying my stinking newspapers either. So quit griping about the economy. If you have $80 in hooker money (you know Charlie loves 'em) or cocaine money (I hope not), then you got more money than you need. So shut up. Yeah, I'm angry. Go ahead and laug...

This University of Chicago website shows us what evolution has come to. UChicagoHookups.com Plain and simple: students who don't mind having sex with other students they don't know hook up here. Previously, this was a CraigsList.org kind of thing. Or hookers on some tawdry corner. Or a bar floosy and disease riddled man swapping fluids. Or a frat party (or a sorority party). I wonder if Planned Parenthood is co-owner, or provides "see you soon" coupons. An article in the Chicago Tribune here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-talk-huppke-hookup-20110321,0,7363178.story Time for baseball season, don't you think?

Apparently green rivers weren't what the Real St. Patrick in Ireland had in mind. It seems he was more sober than the cartoon Americans have made him into. Rahm Emanuel is now Mayor Emanuel, the guy who pulled a Sarah Palin in Washington DC and left his job to chase another one (which is really the same as President Obama, who left Illinois a mess to chase the White House). Chicagoans had to choose whose rear-end they would kiss. With only screw-ups like Carol Mosely Braun on the ballot, the schmucks had no choice. The new rage is the old rage, and that's the baby laughing while tearing paper video. Expect to get a good laugh in yourself. The Chicago Code TV show. What do you think? Lots of cliches in there. Teresa Colvin (Jennifer Beals) reminds me as a clone of the Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein - see the free download:  'Get Happy' - House musical performed by Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein [HD] ) character on House. The trouble I have is I don't believe de...

How do you like them apples, Jon Burge? http://www.suntimes.com/3425666-418/burge-lefkow-case-police-hobley.html