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  1. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    What crime did Harold commit? "A matter for the police?" Ma Lovewell is definitely one of those "I Need to Speak to Your Supervisor/ Manager " types that we now label as Karens.
  2. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    The operative word here being, "kid." I pin this whole mess on the reality that Harold found himself in situations meant to be resolved by a grown man, and because he's "still a kid" he really hadn't developed the spine to let either Lillums nor Lana know what the priorities were as the crisis...
  3. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    The manure impacts the ventilator... or something like that.
  4. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    And in the Daily News... Maine makes its Page Four debut at long last. Stick around, folks, there's plenty more where this came from." You'd think that a physician could show a bit more finesse than garden variety blunt trauma. Indicates a crime of passion rather than deliberative...
  5. ChiTownScion

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Had a friend (a real character, now deceased as well) who was an FBI agent (after he was a Brooklyn cop who attended Fordham Law School but before he became a practicing attorney) while Liddy was one as well. His assessment: "George [Liddy] is an act-tuh. Ya gotta read that into everything that...
  7. ChiTownScion

    Man-on-the-Street, San Francisco, 1 Jan. 1951

    For me, it was November 22, 1963. My childhood (age nine) ended that day- and that's no exaggeration. Any pretense at innocence was a charade from that point on.
  8. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "The boys are between 18 and 34..." I have to tell myself that this was 80 years ago and that it's a different world today.
  9. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I used to say that the only way THAT tune would be performed at my wedding would be if we could afford to hire the full orchestra and chorus to sing it in German the way that the good Lord- and Wagner- intended. So of course, 'twas not to be. Just as well: things don't play out so Happily Ever...
  10. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Didn't I say, "Episcopalian?" Paul definitely looks like a high church vicar, and that collar seems more Anglican than Roman. I could be wrong--- and they rarely throw you specifics on denominations in a comic strip.
  11. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That was a good five years before I was sworn in as a member of the bar, but from what I heard, he lived to a ripe old age and retired with full tenure. I don't think the man had a mean bone in him, so sometimes, I guess, things work out well for decent people.
  13. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was always a pushover with evaluating my undergrad profs. One was not a particularly skilled teacher or expert in his field, but I gave him a glowing evaluation. He had five kids, was a good hearted and charitable individual, and telling the truth could have done harm to someone who really...
  14. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Ever see the movie "Heaven Help us?" It's supposed to be a "comedy drama" but there is one scene where the tables turn during a corporal punishment administered by a brother/ teacher and the kids get the upper hand and fight back. I was watching with my wife and one son and I suppose that PTSD...
  15. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Catholic school. It was the worst of times. It was the best of times. I started out at an urban Catholic school in First Grade with a lay teacher who mainly taught the 45 kids crammed into the class by rote. I'd go home in the afternoon and start homework immediately. A brief break for supper...
  16. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "True greatness has no connection with wealth or position, Little Princess." Mr. Gray's Masonic principles are so thick on this one that you can cut them with a knife.
  17. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Expand the garage and acquire a Foo Car to park next to the Plodge (for trips to & from work, and parades)? The mind boggles.
  19. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I like the mention of Smokey Stover in the 1936 survey: at that time it was still a Sunday only feature and it had only been out for a year, but it ranked a respectable 25. The bad puns and sight gags in that strip always had me howling as a kid.
  20. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    At the very least, no changing of core curriculum or major requirements after a student is enrolled. Changing the damned rules in the middle of the game is flat out dishonest.
  21. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The high cost of higher education in the United States. Not everyone should get a four year college degree, but those who want one should not have to mortgage their future for decades. And I am not one of those who view education solely in terms of future employment possibilities: the man or...
  22. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    He could become an Episcopalian. That's a Presbyterian* who has learned to live off his investments. * A Presbyterian being defined as, "A Methodist with a bank account," of course.
  23. ChiTownScion

    The Era -- Day By Day

    West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) "You owe a debt to the Witnesses that you'll NEVER be able to repay!" My undergrad Con Law professor and pre- law advisor, Charles A. Hollister.

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