They say you get the politicians you deserve. But what if we got the President we wanted? Who would you vote for? Air Force One President: James Marshall (Harrison Ford) Vice President: Kathryn Bennett (Glenn Close) U.S. Senator from California, 1993-1997, Vice...
As a blogger, this article about the continued decline in newspaper circulation constitutes my daily dose of schadenfreude. “For the 507 newspapers reporting in this period, daily circulation slipped 4.6% to 38,165,848 copies. For the 571 papers, Sunday dropped...
COME you, cartoonists, Hang on a strap with me here At seven o’clock in the morning On a Halsted street car. Take your pencils And draw these faces. Try with your pencils for these crooked faces, That pig-sticker in one corner–his mouth– That overall...
It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations. Among other things they...
Philip D. Armour’s Grandchild, Now Two Years Old, a Sturdy and Pretty Child. Chicago, November 20, 1898. — Lolita Armour, granddaughter of Philip D. Armour, just two years old, although an incubator baby, is one of the sturdiest girls of her age in...
