At the time he went to that Big Mac in the sky, the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington had been betrothed to the love of his life for more than 20 years, a phenomenon known in the Windy City as an "Irish engagement." ...more

July 15, 2008

If you didn't know any better, you would have thought the film footage coming out of the Orient Road Jail, of ham-handed thugs masquerading as guards, was something out of "Cool Hand Luke." ...more

February 14, 2008

If you didn't know any better, you would have thought the film footage coming out of the Orient Road Jail, of ham-handed thugs masquerading as guards, was something out of "Cool Hand Luke." ...more

February 14, 2008

About halfway through the deposition of phony wrestler Dolt Hogan, Pinellas/Pasco Assistant State Attorney Scott Rosenwasser had to be thinking to himself: "This dim bulb has to be dumber than a sack of aardvarks. ...more

December 13, 2007