Mike Royko

Here is some career advice for anyone who plans on becoming a murderer: Develop your writing skills. This could prove to be far more significant than your choice of weapons...

Judge Ludwig Kuhar has taken some knocks from the media because he ordered a little girl to jail for refusing to visit her divorced father. And Sheldon Nussbaum, the father,...

It is often said that being president of the United States is the most awesome and demanding job in the world. Sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, the...

There seems to be two ways of looking at Ray, a white-bearded homeless man who lives with his shopping carts and four dogs on the sidewalks, alleys and porches of...

Mel Reynolds was on the phone, which I found slightly surprising. By now, I'd have expected him to have developed a phone phobia. He sounded highly indignant. That's the way...

To state the obvious, it's been a miserable year for baseball. Probably the worst since the Black Sox Scandal. Besides last season's disastrous strike and its bitter aftertaste, the usual...

If you have a throbbing social conscience and need something new to worry about, consider computers and the African-American. As a group, blacks are shunning the mad rush to put...

The Washington media stars are upset because they have been tweaked by the United States Senate. It's the kind of Beltway story that normal Americans don't care about, but get...

Most golfers would agree that it was no one's fault but her own when Jeannine Pelletier managed to hit herself in the nose with her own golf ball. That's not...

The battle for the right of the horny individual to look at dirty stuff never ends. Years ago, it was books and magazines. Then came movies. Next, TV. Now it...