Gather your family, tell all your friends, shushh the dog and listen to my conversation on WGN-AM 720 with host John Williams at 11:33 a.m. Chicago time. Listen live link: wgnradio.com/on-air/

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Filling out the Quip of the Week poll keeps the doctor away ericzorn.substack.com/i/193730073/...
Finalists include
@frovo.bsky.social
@itsabbyyep.bsky.social

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Incoherent grandstanding over tipped wages in Chicago and Washington ... and a strange Supreme Court ruling on political gratuities has sprung two defendants in the ComEd Four case

Tips/gratuities played a role in THREE of the stories I comment on in today's new Picayune Sentinel. ericzorn.substack.com/i/193730073/...

Fresh off the digital presses Thursday morning. No paywall!

Fresh off the digital presses Thursday morning. No paywall!

Incoherent grandstanding over tipped wages in Chicago and Washington ... and a strange Supreme Court ruling on political gratuities has sprung two defendants in the ComEd Four case

Tips/gratuities played a role in THREE of the stories I comment on in today's new Picayune Sentinel. ericzorn.substack.com/i/193730073/...

Filling out the Quip of the Week poll keeps the doctor away ericzorn.substack.com/i/193730073/...
Finalists include
@frovo.bsky.social
@itsabbyyep.bsky.social

Be sure to share so at to GOTV

Hmmm, anyone specific you have in mind?

Set aside whatever presumptively vital thing you are doing and tune in to my conversation on WGN-AM 720 with host John Williams at 11:33 a.m. Chicago time. Listen live link: wgnradio.com/on-air/

You’ve heard of Stockholm Syndrome.

Welcome to Budapest Envy.

I said good day!

Yukon vote for as many jokes as you like in the Picayune Sentinel's Quip of the Week poll, including finalists @frovo.bsky.social
@kipconlon.bsky.social
@stevesuckington.bsky.social
@itsabbyyep.bsky.social
@saltymactavish.bsky.social

Big new issue out today, no paywall.

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It’s not “chickening out” if you were just bluffing in the first place. Yet as a long-term strategy, rattling a sword that your foes don’t believe you’ll ever actually unsheathe will have diminishing returns. For more on Armageddon Interrupted, see today's Picayune Sentinel.

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My thoughts on Richard Roeper's new gig at
@nbcchicago.com in today's Picayune Sentinel

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My thoughts (and the thoughts of others) in today's Picayune Sentinel on the view of Earth "From a Distance"

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The great Steve Chapman has in interesting take in today's Picayune Sentinel on the Auriemma/Staley set-to after UConn lost to SCarolina in the women's semi-final last week.

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Do away with jump balls? The Picayune Sentinel today reports on how readers voted on that proposed rule change for basketball and six others

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Yukon vote for as many jokes as you like in the Picayune Sentinel's Quip of the Week poll, including finalists @frovo.bsky.social
@kipconlon.bsky.social
@stevesuckington.bsky.social
@itsabbyyep.bsky.social
@saltymactavish.bsky.social

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JD Vance sings "Hail to the Viktor."

Absolutely repellent embrace of an autocratic thug -- in other words totally on brand for the vice weasel.