Mike Royko

Have you ever done something so foolish and embarrassing that even your friends hooted and laughed behind your back? Don't feel bad. It can happen to anyone, even those who...

What shocking news. Almost 100 people in the same city suddenly dead. And there wasn't a thing the police or doctors could do to save their lives. Across the nation,...

Like many of today's thrill-seekers, Patricia Jones decided she would learn to surf the Internet and cruise the information highway. So she got herself a powerful computer, a speedy modem,...

Maybe you noticed a brief story in yesterday's paper about two women and a 12-year-old girl being shot while they sat in a parked car at 3436 W. Monroe St....

It seems like only yesterday that the Democratic Party had one foot in the grave and was being given its last rites. Those bright young Republican clones of Newt had...

Here is some advice for those brooding fans in Cleveland and Los Angeles, whose football teams have been carried off by unscrupulous franchise owners. And for those of us in...

Kids in public places can be noisy, irritating, obnoxious. Especially other people's kids. At times, they can make us want to tell them to hush. Or even tweak their noses....

There are some problems for which you can't find neat solutions. Take the unpleasant reality that many cabdrivers in Chicago try to avoid picking up black men as passengers. That...

To hear some sports commentators gasp and moan, you might think that Ryne Sandberg had announced that he was going to undergo sex change surgery. "I'm shocked," said one baseball...

Do all those bizarre TV talk shows threaten our mental health? Are they evidence that our society is falling apart? This is what William Bennett, the Republican moralist, believes. And...