Paul Sassone: Indoors is best for domestic cats
It was a beautiful orange tabby cat. It lay there just outside my garage. When it didn't scurry away at my approach, I started to talk to it. And then...
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Paul Sassone: Are plastic grocery bags really that big a deal?
A skeptic might compare it to re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. With air pollution, global warming and all the other imminent and horrible dangers to our very existence, we...
Paul Sassone: Ideas for Oak Park public service announcements
Emerging from their cave when the dark goes away, primitive men notice a huge, tall, rectangular object planted in the ground. They are fearful, but attracted to this thing. They...
Paul Sassone: Donald Trump thinks you are a moron
Politicians often say things that make it clear they think we are morons. But, this is just too much. For the last few days I have been watching stooges for...
Paul Sassone: Who goes to the bank on a Saturday?
Looking a lot like inmates in a southern prison, we shuffled through the rat's maze of ropes and poles movie theaters use to keep us away from everything except the...
Paul Sassone: Visitor dos and don’ts at Oak Park Hospital
No one relishes going to the hospital. But, I confess to a fondness for Oak Park Hospital. I was born there. My brothers and sister were born there. I underwent...
Column: An ode to spaghetti
If you went by the show "Check, Please!'' on PBS, you'd believe that the food people most enjoy at restaurants is enshrouded in dry ice vapor, served in spoon-sized portions...
Paul Sassone: Oak Park and the Airbnb tax
It boils down to money. There are good arguments for both sides over Airbnb in Oak Park. But the root, what makes reasons into a controversy, is money. In case...
Paul Sassone: Is Pokemon Go the culmination of humanity’s progress?
Is it safe to come out? Has Pokemon Go gone? It's hard for me to tell, because I still see people all the time walking or driving while hypnotically staring...
Paul Sassone: Shakespeare in the park is just fine without alcohol
If you need to take a drink to make a Shakespeare play more palatable, why go in the first place? Does liquor have to accompany every activity? I guess so....