Opinion and Column Writing @ DePaul University

Taking a cold shower in the middle of winter in an apartment with no heat takes some getting used to.

That is true of many things in rural China. At first you wonder how people do it, but soon you realize that having water of any temperature is sufficient. Continue Reading »

Could the John McCain campaign possibly be any more desperate and pathetic?

We are currently less than three months away from the presidential election. The economy is in calamitous shape, we are mired in two wars, our health care and public school systems need reform and gap between the rich and poor is widening.

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I am writing this film criticism for a daily newspaper audience.

Few directors draw the ire of critics like Roland Emmerich does. His latest, 10,000 B.C., received a critical drubbing upon its release earlier this year. Richard Roeper called it “a horrible movie” and The Chicago Reader’s Andrea Gronvall remarked that the film is “overblown and stupefyingly dull.” Continue Reading »

Barack Obama terrifies actor Jon Voight.

In an op-ed for The Washington Times, the right-wing daily owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, Voight writes: “…if, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.” Continue Reading »

Apparently Chicago residents believe they deserve the 2016 Summer Olympics. At least residents of the Second City have a healthy sense of humor. Continue Reading »

When you spend $300,000 or more on a home, you do not expect the windows to leak. It is reasonable for a person to believe that their residence is in perfect condition when they purchase it brand new. You expect peace of mind but sometimes that is not what you get. Continue Reading »

In a utopia, America would not need the death penalty. In that world, there would be no murder and no reason for capital punishment to exist. Continue Reading »

Mayor Daley and others are right to aggressively pursue the honor of hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics. It will put Chicago on the world stage and demonstrate that this is a city as fine as any other on the planet.

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