Mike Royko

I have a couple of friends who work in the movie industry, and I'm going to ask them to do me a favor. No, not just me, but Chicagoans in...

As TV drama, the Simpson trial is starting to sag. We can only take so much of Mister Fung trying to remember if he knows a blood splat from dab...

One quiet afternoon, Angie the Ox did something that made the study room teacher very suspicious. He was intently reading a textbook. That's what he was supposed to be doing,...

After years of soul searching, wavering, and tiptoeing around the issue of the death penalty, I've finally made up my mind once and for all. I'm firmly against it. That...

`I was talking to my bookie," Slats Grobnik said, "and the odds are getting real big that O.J. will beat the rap." That's what most legal experts say-that there will...

In these sensitive times, you would think that a U.S. senator would be hip enough to avoid clumsy attempts at ethnic or racial humor. Especially a senator from New York,...

If you could legally carry a concealed handgun, would you? That's a question I've been asking people lately because it's an idea that seems to be gaining popularity. In Florida,...

Chicago's election results were clearly a victory for "the little guy." And that is unusual in American politics. You surely know who the "little guy" is. He is the person...

Because of the long strike, many baseball fans could have trouble communicating because their special language skills have grown rusty. A fan can't just plunk himself down on a bar...

When the subject is guns, we definitely have a failure to communicate. Those who hate guns seem to believe that those who don't are a lot of lowbrow, beady-eyed, beer-guzzling...