For What It's Worth
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I always have grand plans for what to put up here and (of greater import to would-be judicial candidates and their supporters) on Page One ...

Click on any image to enlarge or clarify. From last Sunday's Brewster Rockit. I think I can guess what his theory is. Can you? ...

Seen on Facebook. Posted there by... I don't know who because Facebook decided it should refresh its page on my screen and send the p...

The Three Kings have dropped off their gifts and are returning to their own countries by a different route, just as they were warned to do i...

Charlie Meyerson's Chicago Public Square had this yesterday , but it's not the first time I've been a day late... or, for tha...

I came late to the writings of C.S. Lewis. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was already a major motion picture before I got around to...

I don't know if the Millennials and Zoomers use antivirus programs; if they do, I suppose they would call them "apps," not p...

We live in a marvelous age. From my computer, or even my phone, I can order almost anything, from almost anywhere, and have it on my door...

When I post an article to FWIW, I generally put up a linking post on X (which you may still think of as Twitter). That's normal self-pr...

September 17 marks #ConstitutionDay , a day to honor the signing of this historic document. On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constituti...

Updated 6/11/25 to add website links from November election.... OK... long past time. But actual voters looking to decide which Cook Cou...

According to this article by Dani Di Placido on Forbes.com , " TikTok's 'Roman Empire' Meme, Explained ," it is now fa...

The first rule of taxes is, once they are invented, they never go away. The proposed increase to transfer taxes by the pols behind the ...

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code sold about a bajillion copies and got made into a Tom Hanks movie, which itself sold about a gazillion ...

Answer the second question first, please. And, obviously, there can be only one answer to that one. But, no, this morning, after being...

The printed circuitry on the faces of Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed is reproduced on all the promotional materials for the Chicago Bar Asso...

I'm not Andy Rooney, but I'm feeling cantankerous and curmudgeonly these days and, like the late Mr. Rooney, I'm not afraid to...

A couple of months ago I paid off my car loan. ( Thank you .) It will come as no surprise to most of you that the actual amount owed on ...

Born of Lakes and Plains , by University of Oklahoma history professor Anne F. Hyde, looks at five different families, over a period of a ...