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People line up as workers prepare food boxes for pickup at the food pantry at New Life Centers in Chicago Dec. 14, 2021.

Column: Chicago oligarch caught infiltrating holiday food drive in attempt to make handsome columnist look bad

December 16, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I have terrifying news to share. A noted Chicago oligarch has once again infiltrated the Insult-A-Columnist Holiday Food Drive and is attempting to generously rig the results. Before I get...

Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington.

Column: Hi, I’m Donald Trump’s failed coup. Thanks to Democrats and the media, nobody’s afraid of me!

December 14, 2021 at 11:23 a.m.

Hi, everybody! I'm the coup former President Donald Trump and his lackeys attempted to pull off in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. BOO! Hah, did I scare you?...

The site of a burned Christmas Tree in Washington Park on Dec. 8, 2021, in the median at East Garfield Boulevard and South Martin Luther King Drive.

Column: Washington Park kids again see Christmas tree torched. Let’s show them some holiday goodwill.

December 10, 2021 at 12:30 p.m.

In the weekly deluge of news, you may have missed this: A towering Christmas tree in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood was torched by some ungrateful wretch just hours after a...

Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett enters the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Dec. 9, 2021, in Chicago where he was found guilty on five of six disorderly conduct charges.

Column: Jussie Smollett is guilty. Good. Let Chicagoans never speak of him again.

December 9, 2021 at 7:16 p.m.

Here in Chicago, let us never speak of Jussie Smollett again. What a ridiculous drama. What an insult. A Cook County jury late Thursday convicted the former "Empire" star of...

Security guard Alan Morgan checks on proof of vaccination for Michael Pelikant, second from left, Margaret Kokot-Hart and Tim Hart as the group lines up to enter Metro in Chicago on Aug. 7, 2021.

Column: With delta surging and omicron arriving, Chicago should make proof of vaccination the norm

December 9, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I would go out of my way to eat at a Chicago restaurant that required proof of COVID-19 vaccination for entry. Same with a movie theater, or a store, or...

Justin Meyer carries a tree to a customer's car at the Christmas tree at 94th Street and Stony Island Avenue in Chicago on Dec. 3, 2021.

Column: Christmas tree decorating tips from a renowned expert. First step, admit you’re doing it wrong.

December 6, 2021 at 3:12 p.m.

For those who celebrate Christmas, this is peak tree-decorating time, a joyous part of the season when families wrap a technically dead and highly flammable fir tree in cheap electrical...

Students hug at a memorial at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, on Dec. 1, 2021. Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at the school, killing four students and wounding seven other people.

Column: Michigan school shooting doesn’t happen without a gun. Why can’t America connect these dots?

December 3, 2021 at 12:30 p.m.

As Americans watched yet another deadly school shooting unfold in Michigan, we were again (guns) left to wonder (guns) what could be to blame (guns) for a seemingly unstoppable problem...

Volunteers load boxes and bags of food from the Greater Chicago Food Depository for residents.

Column: The Insult-A-Columnist Holiday Food Drive is back — with a shot at celebrity Zoom chats — to help with a lot of need

December 1, 2021 at 9:36 a.m.

Nothing says "It's the holidays!" quite like a chance to publicly humiliate someone while also helping people in need. In this case, the "someone" is me, and the opportunity to...

A woman receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a center in Soweto, South Africa, on Nov. 29, 2021. The emergence of the new omicron variant is a reminder of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines.

Column: A message from the omicron variant: ‘I promise I won’t hurt you. Let’s go, Brandon!’

November 29, 2021 at 5:16 p.m.

Through some well-placed sources in the virus community, I was given a missive penned by the newly discovered omicron coronavirus variant. Apparently it had some things it wanted to get...

ICU nurse Samantha Lazzara heads into a COVID-19 patient's room at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital on Oct. 1, 2021.

Column: On Thanksgiving, gratitude for vaccine takers, science embracers and attorneys who bankrupt Nazis

November 24, 2021 at 11:41 a.m.

It's the time of year when we are constitutionally required to ponder the things we are thankful for, so I slipped on my pondering hat (which I am thankful to...

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