Constance

AIPAC ran negative ads against the progressive Democratic candidate during the primary. Now we'll get this corporatist as our Congressional rep (assuming she wins). I will not be happy to vote for Melissa Bean.

If you're going to use a hair piece to cover your graying roots, at least have it match the color of your hair extensions.

155 years ago tonight, Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not kick over a lantern and start the Great Chicago Fire.

Sen. Kennedy relishes his Vanna White moment.

The Tech Oligarchs built something without the infrastructure to run it to a society that doesn't want it and people who won't use it.

When I buy meat now, I put it in the freezer for a month while I wait for possible recall announcements.

The dog we watched over the weekend just went home, and our pets are content to have the house back to normal.

We have just laughed our way through the Trump lie speech. What's going on in your house?

Checked the AirNow gov site. Chicago metro, July 16, at noon:

Three summers ago I joined the local pool and began water walking. I hid under a size 18W swim dress. This year: Size 14! I go every day in summer that's not raining.

Listened to my son's advice to bait the mouse traps with peanut butter. Now I have ants in addition to mice.

See you around, Stephen. Bye-bye CBS.

Went for a walk in the woods for Migratory Bird Day today. Used the Merlin app to help identify all the sounds. Results: Birds listed by Merlin: 8 Birds seen: 2 I either need better binoculars or more patience.

I hate the South probably more than I should, but not as much as it deserves.

Chicago: We see your seagulls on a soccer field and raise you one rat on a baseball diamond.

When I see a black (or female) pilot, I figure they are the MOST qualified because they succeeded in an environment that makes it harder for them.

It's Saturday morning, 2/28/2026. Somebody please post cats, dogs, rabbits, or cute children immediately to help in saving my sanity. Much appreciated.

After “locker room banter” with Trump in 2005 (divulged in 2016), Billy Bush lost his career with NBC. Members of the US men’s hockey team were recently in more “locker room banter” with Trump. The joy for this team’s win has faded with me.

Just did a little re-arranging of furniture in my living room so I have space to dance to Bad Bunny. #cannotwaitforhalftime

I will give the southern states the same amount of sympathy for the ice on their streets as they give me for the ICE on mine.

A prophetic sign? (credit AP-Yuki Iwamura)

ICE Accountability Project in Chicagoland now open. reporticenow.com

Is the Minneapolis Police Department trying to bring the shooter in for questioning? I would think the local Police would get a warrant and pursue criminal charges.

Am I supposed to hate people with drug addiction now that they've caused the U.S. to be at war with Venezuela?

This is Riley. He turned 3 years old yesterday.

Warning sign I saw the other day.

Our old dog loved fall.

Remember when we had 'government cheese' in the 1980s? Why don't they consider making government tofu today?

Since 2022, Texas has sent 32,500 migrants to Chicago. Now, they've sent Border Patrol agents to take undocumented migrants into custody. WTF? They already HAD them and could have processed them in Texas in the first place.

#31DaysofGraves "Color" Gravesite of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. The background is a burst of colorful fall foliage.

It's National Cat Day today! (29 October) Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr. (nod to Big Bang Theory)

#31DaysOfGraves "Occupation" Grave marker of William Ambrose Hulbert (1832-1882), one of the founders of baseball's National League. He was also president of the Chicago White Stockings team.

#31DaysOfGraves "Column" A column is nice, but 16 are even better. Grave of Palmer family. The two sarcophagi are for Potter Palmer (1826-1902) and his wife Bertha (1850-1918). Three generations of Palmer descendants are buried in the floor. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

#31DaysOfGraves "Tree" This grave in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, marks the resting place of George S. Bangs. While serving in the administration of Ulysses Grant, Mr. Bangs developed the railroad mail car. This achievement is memorialized in the base of the stone tree.

#31DaysOfGraves "Figure" This statue casually sits atop the gravestone of Dr. Christopher Manuel who died suddenly while riding his bicycle along the lakefront (presumed coronary failure). He was only 40 at his death. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

#31DaysOfGraves "Ornament" This Laredo Taft sculpture, called Eternal Silence, stands over the plot of Dexter Graves' family in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It is commonly referred to as the Statue of Death.

#31DaysOfGraves Peter Schoenhofen (1827-1893) Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It features the unlikely combination of an Egyptian pyramid structure, flanked by a sphinx on the right and a typical Victorian era angel on the left. Suggested that he may have been hedging his bet on the afterlife.

#31DaysofGraves Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect. His dates of birth and death are inscribed on the gold cube, his name is on the south and west interior sides. People visiting the cemetery interact with this by moving the smooth stones at its base onto the walls and inside the sculpture.

Final Fat Bear Week vote tomorrow.

Thugs looking for trouble or just 'tourists' on a Sunday stroll downtown? Somebody tell them Chicago is not a border city. They have no business here.

Does this body make my head look small?

The question I ask voters regarding Administration jobs in the government: Do you want someone competent, or do you want a Republican?

Kitty is very interested in the sparrows visiting the bush outside the window.

When things are just too much....

Our cat turned a folded blanket into a little cave for herself. Happy #Caturday!

The shock of disbelief “seeing a familiar landscape transformed by the addition of the unfamiliar, living among everyday sights suddenly made bizarre, no longer feeling at home in places they had known all their lives.” LA in 2025? No, Paris 1940. (quote from Historian Ian Ousby)

In Iowa on July 3 Trump said: “[Democrats] wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know that? I really do. I hate them.” Happy 4th of July to my compatriots hated by the president of the United States.