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iv-21-2022 (issue No. 32)
Today: Debate news / Run into Mincing Rascal Jon Hansen / a plea for Leonard Goodman to ride his loftier horse off into the sunset and leave the Chicago Reader lone / A leading scholar on abortion tells us what to expect when we're expecting an end to Roe v. Wade / An appreciation for a Tony Soprano catchphrase / Mary Schmich on the mysterious absence of spring / an appreciation of a truly great American folk song / more …
Richard Irvin will contend his opponents afterward all.
Thursday marks 68 days until June 28, chief election 24-hour interval in Illinois, and it had been looking like well-funded Republican gubernatorial hopeful Irvin was planning to simply let his unavoidable TV commercials make his case to voters and deny his four main rivals the run a risk to challenge him in a public forum.
Subsequently all, in 2018, when a group of Democrats were vying to confront incumbent Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, the master contenders — J.B. Pritzker, Chris Kennedy and Daniel Biss — began debating in Oct, 5 months ahead of principal election mean solar day, March 20. They agreed to 6 debates.
And in 2014, when the incumbent was Autonomous Gov. Pat Quinn, Republican hopefuls Rauner, Beak Brady, Kirk Dillard and Dan Rutherford kicked off a serial of seven debate-way appearances 61 days earlier primary election day at a suburban forum that Rauner later complained was a "crush up Brucey" event.
Since we were closing in on the 61-day marker with no sign that Irvin had any plans to joust with his principal rivals — Darren Bailey, Gary Rabine, Jesse Sullivan and Paul Schimpf — or subject himself to scrums of reporters, I reached out to his campaign.
Campaign spokeswoman Eleni Demertzis told me that, in fact, plans are now forming and debates are in the works. Her formal argument: "Mayor Irvin looks forward to sharing the stage with his opponents that volition prove he is the all-time candidate to take on crime, corruption and loftier taxes under J.B. Pritzker's sentry."
Look for the first 1 to be a "beat up Richie" event given his condition as the best-funded candidate in the field. Here's the Tribune'due south Rick Pearson on the race:
Financial disclosure records filed belatedly Monday by candidates for the Democratic and Republican primaries showed Irvin spent $9.v 1000000 in advertising through March, almost half of the $20 million that billionaire Ken Griffin, a Pritzker nemesis, gave to the Aurora mayor's campaign in February. ...
Only two of Irvin'due south rivals for the GOP nomination — cryptocurrency venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan of Petersburg and land Sen. Darren Bailey of Xenia — spent substantial sums on advert so far.
Sullivan spent $one.5 meg on ads, among $2.4 million his campaign spent in the first quarter of the year. … Of the $1 million Bailey spent, $400,000 was attributed to advertising.
Pritzker put $90 one thousand thousand into his campaign fund earlier this year, and there'due south more where that came front. Your scoreboard for approximate cash-on-manus balances for Republicans as of April 1 looks like this:
Irvin — $11 one thousand thousand
Sullivan — $8 million
Rabine — $1.iv million
Bailey — $900,000
Schimpf — $28,000
While nosotros're at information technology, here'due south a similar scoreboard in the Democratic main for secretary of state:
Former Illinois treasurer Alexi Giannoulias — $iv.4 meg
Chicago Metropolis Clerk Anna Valencia — $one.1 one thousand thousand
Chicago Ald. David Moore — $39,000
Reporters are already griping publicly that Giannoulias is lying low and avoiding them.
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Run into the Rascals: Jon Hansen
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Jon Hansen, 37, has been in the Mincing Rascals podcast rotation since Apr 2021. He'due south the host of "Your Coin Matters" on WGN-AM 720 Monday through Thursday, half dozen-7 p.grand., and "Let's Become Legal" on Saturday afternoons. He is also the host of "It'southward All Good," a Block Club Chicago podcast, the in-loonshit host for the Chicago Blackhawks and the coordinating producer and reporter for "On The Cake," a weekly Television newsmagazine that's a articulation venture between WCIU-Ch. 26 and Block Social club Chicago. He and his hubby, Enrique Martinez Reyes, live in Roscoe Village neighborhood.
This autobiographical account was gleaned from a transcript of an interview with him:
I grew up in Downers Grove. My father was a fireman and paramedic, and he became the burn chief in Lincolnwood in 1989 when I was about 5 years former. My mother was a public schoolhouse art teacher in Westmont, and she quit to be a total fourth dimension mom when my younger brother was born that same year.
Both of my brothers have gone on to become firefighters. Every Halloween, they would dress up every bit firefighters, and I would wearing apparel up every bit Harry Caray. The joke was that they wanted to rush into burning buildings and I wanted to blitz to the scene with a photographic camera and a microphone.
I went to Hillcrest Elementary School in Downers Grove, and my teachers immediately recognized me equally someone who was outgoing and actually wanted attending. In third grade, Mrs. Martinek made me the host when the course had game testify solar day. So my dad, who was very handy, built me a "Wheel of Fortune" wheel.
When I was 8 or ix, my parents upgraded their camcorder and gave me their large erstwhile VHS camcorder. I used information technology to create a news channel at my unproblematic schoolhouse that I called "Channel vii Soybean News," considering I knew that soybeans were big in Illinois. I pretended to written report from the playground, interviewing friends and stuff. My friends and I also used to put on plays in the basement.
My favorite shows when I was a kid were "The Cost is Right," "Cycle of Fortune" and "World News This night with Peter Jennings." So very early on I had a dearest for entertainment and game shows, simply too serious hard news.
I approximate you lot'd call me a quirky kid. I also retrieve staying upwards tardily at night under the covers listening to talk radio on WGN-AM or WMAQ-AM. I was obsessed with the Gulf War, and I was actually into the 1992 presidential election between Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot, and I wasn't even 10 years old however.
Read the rest here. Previously in Meet the Rascals: Austin Berg, Heather Cherone and Brandon Pope (apologies for the bum link concluding week!).
Give up, Leonard!
I've written previously about the contretemps at the Chicago Reader ("The Chicago Reader is in turmoil," Feb. 17, and "Leonard Goodman takes umbrage at the Picayune Sentinel," February. 24), and then was interested to see "Information technology's time for Len Goodman to allow the Chicago Reader to embrace its nonprofit time to come," a thunderous Tribune op-ed final week past iv members of the alt-weekly's team:
(Co-owner) Goodman is trying to smashing us into compromising our editorial independence to indulge his whims. Because he'south blocked the sale, the paper can't operate every bit a nonprofit, and we already knew it wasn't viable as a for-turn a profit. Within the adjacent few weeks, what remains of the for-profit Reader will run out of money. Most of the Reader'south 35 workers brand around $45,000 per yr, and now a rich man thinks nosotros should fear for our jobs because we dared effort to right his mistakes.
Goodman, a prominent local defence force attorney, and Elzie Higginbottom, a real estate developer, bought the Reader from the Chicago Lord's day-Times for $1 in 2018, assumed its debts and invested more than $2 meg in rescuing it, a civic-minded gestured for which Goodman was widely praised. He also began writing a regular column, which proved to be a perilous combination of roles. He fired back this calendar week with "What really happened at the Reader," a letter to the Tribune'due south Voice of the People that explained the basics of the dispute:
Last November, I wrote a column expressing business concern nigh my 6-year-old girl receiving an mRNA vaccine. Like all my columns, it was fact-checked and edited. My editor thanked me for taking on the difficult topic and pronounced my enquiry to be "bulletproof." Only afterwards publication, following an uproar, Reader management hired an anonymous fact checker to rewrite my column and result a written report with 9 points of disagreement, later expanded to 15.
The publisher offered me ii options: remove the column from the Reader website or supersede it with the new version that was extensively modified, to be followed past the fact checker report. I asked to publish a response to the report, which I disagreed with, and was told: "Your side is the actual column. The rebuttal is not a 'side.' It is a fact-checker'south report."
Concerned almost censorship, the Reader lath passed a resolution in December enshrining protections for free speech as the newspaper moved to nonprofit condition. Another stipulation involved equal representation on the nonprofit board for people on the side of free spoken communication and dissent.
Reader management ignored the duly passed board resolution. Instead, they demonized and pressured me to sign off on the transition without the protections.
Well, I happen to take a copy of publisher Tracy Baim'southward correspondence with Goodman — he supplied it to me! — and though she initially aghast at the idea of a rebuttal to the fact check, she ultimately offered him three options, not two:
1) Supervene upon the original column with an edited version that "still reflects all of (Goodman's) key points of concern near vaccines … just with more caveats and dash … (and) a short editor'south annotation at the top explaining the procedure."
ii) Remove the column from the paper's website, offering "a short editor'due south note maxim we could not come to an understanding on changes."
3) Add together "an editor's notation above the original cavalcade, then the fact bank check, then your rebuttal."
The proposed new edited version was not "extensively modified" as I read information technology. Both Goodman'due south original and editor-rewritten columns begin with this passage:
As a father of a young kid, I am pressured to go my daughter vaccinated for COVID-19. And similar many Americans, I have concerns about giving my 6-yr-former a new vaccine that was non tested on humans until last twelvemonth, and that has been approved only for "emergency utilize" in kids. The feverish hype past government officials, mainstream media outlets, and Big Pharma, and the systematic demonization and censorship of public figures who raise questions near the campaign, provide further cause for business concern.
And end with this:
Nosotros have been kept in the night about vaccine safety and efficacy by our government and its partners in Large Pharma, who tell us they have looked at the science and information technology supports vaccinating our children against a virus that presents them with simply the nigh minuscule risk of serious illness. As a parent, I will need more than answers before just taking their word.
Regarding his mention of censorship, every bit I have previously written, the reason the word "censorship" comes up is that Goodman's representatives on the Reader's board of directors invoked it in a Dec. 17 resolution urging that the transition of the paper to nonprofit status be contingent upon the adoption of a mission argument that says the Reader is "a forum for free speech communication and welcomes all opinions, especially controversial ones, and abhors censorship of whatever kind."
The casual use of the term "censorship" to describe editing decisions by newspaper editors is dismaying, and the idea that a publication should declare itself welcoming to "all opinions" is zippo curt of baroque. No remotely responsible publication "welcomes all opinions." The board used similar diction in a January. 27 resolution that also called for Baim to exist fired if she didn't offer her resignation.
In his letter to the Tribune, Goodman wrote, "Reader management ignored the duly passed board resolution. Instead, they demonized and pressured me to sign off on the transition (to nonprofit condition) without the protections."
What Reader direction did non exercise was have the column offline or publish the fact check followed by the rebuttal. Goodman got his style, in the terminate. And not considering he was a persuasive columnist, simply because he was a co-owner.
Yet he's even so pitching a self-righteous, reputation-shattering and ultimately subversive fit over this. "Beware of the fact checkers" is the headline on an essay he posted terminal week.
And he'southward getting rightly hammered for it. An "Open letter to Len Goodman from Chicago journalists" posted Wed afternoon at Medium.com demands that Goodman drop his petulant obstructionism and immediately facilitate the auction of the financially struggling paper to the nonprofit Reader Establish for Community Journalism .
For long-time readers and Chicagoans, the Reader has been a stalwart and freely available window into the urban center's underground music culture, inner workings of city authorities, and romance ads.
It is unconscionable that the publication that bankrupt the Jon Burge police torture story, tirelessly covered TIF deals, and has lovingly and carefully chronicled so much of the metropolis's beauty, difficulty, and strangeness for 5 decades has an uncertain hereafter because of one powerful, wealthy man.
Equally of xi p.m. Wednesday, the letter had more than 200 signatories, including many current and former journalists from outlets in Chicago and around the country.
ONLINE Just UPDATE — The Tribune's Robert Channick posted a very thorough explanation of the for-turn a profit/nonprofit transitions issues on Th morning. Tune Mercado at Block Club Chicago as well posted a useful summary earlier this week. After posting this issue of the PS I overcame my reluctance to sign petitions of any sort — it gets hard-wired into you after a while — and added my name to the letter, given that my position on this thing is very clear past at present.
The top of the alphabetic character advertises a protest rally for Thursday morning at the intersection in forepart of Goodman's home on inner Lake Shore Drive. And while I endorse the sentiments in the letter — Goodman needs to fix aside his bruised feelings and his writer's indignation, give up this giddy fight and help Baim and her staff move forward — I oppose on principle the idea of protesting at private residences.
He's certainly already heard their message. Harassment of his family unit and his neighbors is not going to soften his heart.
News & Views
News: Netflix loses 200,000 subscribers and is reportedly considering taking steps to minimize countersign sharing.
View: Swell down hard may prove counterproductive. Without countersign sharing, the Netflix video streaming service won't be worth the $xvi a calendar month standard subscription fee for, well, I'll guess millions of subscribers.
The Los Gatos, California, visitor estimated that virtually 100 million households worldwide are watching its service for costless by using the account of a friend or some other family fellow member, including thirty meg in the U.S. and Canada. (Associated Press)
Yeah, I can certainly come across an try to rein in password sharing past big networks of friends and former friends. Simply family sharing, even when family members live in separate households? C'mon. I'd rather come across them add occasional commercial breaks to their offerings, some other option reportedly under consideration.
News: Mayor Lori Lightfoot's programme to offering free gas to certain Chicagoans advances through a City Council commission while mayoral hopeful Willie Wilson announced some other $1 million gas giveaway for Saturday.
View: My better idea is gratuitous air for all. All this charity would be better directed at fully subsidizing tire-aggrandizement kiosks at gas stations, the ones that used to exist complimentary. The U.S. Department of Energy says, "Nether-inflated tires can lower gas mileage by about 0.2% for every 1 (pound per square inch) drop in the average pressure of all tires" and that keeping tires at their proper pressure can increase your gas mileage by up to 3%. That'southward good for the pocketbook.
Top ten small-scale money-saving activities
Speaking of good for the purse, before this week I posted a click survey asking readers about pocket-sized acts of frugality that they might routinely perform. Hither are the top ten, ranked from most to to the lowest degree common:
I salvage napkins and seasoning packets from eating house carryout/delivery.
I add water to dish and laundry soap bottles when they appear to be empty and get one more utilize out of them.
I bring domicile the unused portion of hotel-size shampoo and conditioner bottles.
I rinse out and reuse zip-shut plastic bags.
I wash and reuse disposable plastic cutlery and cups.
I reuse sheets of aluminum foil.
I rescue gift wrapping newspaper that'due south non too badly torn and use it again on some other occasion.
I save the plastic bags that bread comes in and reuse them as Baggies.
I salvage lightly used napkins and paper towels in gild to utilize them when I side by side accept to blow my olfactory organ
I cut tubes of toothpaste and lotion when they're almost empty so I tin scrape out what's left.
Two percentage of respondents answered, "I don't practice any of these things. You lot people are nuts!"
A few people chided me on social media for dismissing these as mere acts of frugality and not function of a larger endeavour to save the planet. Yeah, well, symbolically, yes, but practically, no. You could do all 10 of these conscientiously for your entire life, and it probably wouldn't compensate for the environmental damage (and additional price) of exceeding the speed limit by 10 mph on one 500-mile automobile trip.
A former editor reminded me of a cavalcade I wrote in 1993 about Humberto Cruz, a syndicated columnist whose "Savings" column regularly described the tricks he and his married woman employed to relieve money, such as wearing gym shorts and old T-shirts to bed in society to bank the price of pajamas. I included in that column a poem I wrote in which I imagined his life:
He wires his house with stripped twist ties
And walks 10 miles for better buys
On toothpicks, sealing wax and grout
(Or better yet . . . he does without!)
A man who stacks his cupboard liner
With ketchup packets from the diner;
Who uses tin cans 'stead of phones,
Eats his ice cream without cones,
And so reuses plastic forks,
Baggies, floss and soggy corks.
A man whose cards of Christmas cheer
Are but the ones he got last twelvemonth
Just with the senders' names erased
and "Honey, Humberto" in their place.
Country of Linkin'
In honor of 4/20, the Illinois Policy Establish on Wed released "Illinois' half-baked marijuana legalization costs land $600M." "Illinois has the lowest number of marijuana-related business licenses per capita of whatever legal state," said the report. "Additionally, Illinois' cannabis taxes are the third highest on average. … Compared to other states with legal cannabis, Illinois' cannabis revenues are the second everyman in the nation proportional to the size of its economy. … If Illinois wants to reap the benefits of legal cannabis past maximizing its tax revenue and reducing illegal sales, it should lower and simplify its cannabis taxes as well as remove the cap on licenses."
"The Rise of the Retro License Plate" from Route L: "This winter, for case, Michigan introduced a new specialty plate based on the design of Michigan license plates from the 1960s. The plates are night blue—almost black—with gilt lettering that simply says the state's proper noun and "Water-Winter Wonderland. … A retro design is now California'south most popular specialty plate." Alas, vintage Illinois plates are non mentioned in the article.
"Gasoline isn't all that's gone up," Neil Steinberg's Sunday-Times column last Thursday disclosed that the newsstand price of his newspaper just quietly doubled, to $ii a day from $ane (the Sunday Sun-Times remains $iii; the daily Tribune is $3 and the Sunday Tribune is $5.75). "This is a moment of great peril for the U.s. and the world," Steinberg wrote. "Nationalism is on the ascension, with all the violence, oppression, cant and wrongdoing that become with it. A gratuitous press is perhaps the nigh powerful weapon there is to stop it — that's why the beginning matter tyrants do is throttle the media. The Sun-Times is proudly unthrottled, undiminished, and your actress buck will assist keep us that way."
I'm not a fan of magic, simply I am a fan of videos that reveal how magic tricks are done. "Linking Rings Magic Trick Revealed!" not merely shows yous how magicians link and unlink seemingly solid metallic rings, but it also shows you how much sleight of hand artistry is required to make the illusion work. I remember the trick is more impressive when you know how it'south done.
The Picayune Sentinel on the air: Today, Thursday, I'll be on WCPT-AM 820 at the special, early fourth dimension of 2:fifteen until 3 p.m. with host Joan Esposito to chat nearly ideas raised in the new issue. The listen-live link is here.
The Footling Sentinel preview: Mondays in the 11:xxx a.m.- noon block, I talk with WGN-AM 720 host John Williams about what's making news and probable to be grist for the PS mill. The WGN mind-live link is here.
What to await when you lot're expecting an end to Roe v. Wade
Santa Clara University Schoolhouse of Law professor Michelle Oberman is one of this country's leading scholars on the social and legal issues surrounding abortion. For her 2018 book "Her Body, Our Laws," she traveled to Republic of el salvador and Republic of chile to inquiry what happens in countries where abortion is outlawed in all or nearly all cases, something that seems likely to happen in many states if, equally expected, the U.South. Supreme Court overturns previous decisions supporting abortion rights.
Oberman, who is a friend from the days she was on the faculty at the DePaul University College of Police force, is out with a new academic paper, "What will and won't happen when abortion is banned," that discusses the "downstream consequences" of an end to protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood five. Casey (1992). It's well worth a read no affair which side of this upshot you lot're on.
She asks readers to consider the implications of the often-overlooked connectedness between abortion and poverty.*
One-half of all Usa abortions go to the 13% of Americans living below the poverty line. Those living in poverty or near poverty brand up a full 76% of abortions every year. … People have abortions when they cannot afford some other kid.
The best way to deter ballgame is to reduce unwanted pregnancy by increasing access to contraception.
In the world'due south wealthier nations, over the past quarter century, rates of unintended pregnancies dropped by thirty%, triggering a decline in abortion rates from 46 abortions per g women of reproductive age to an average of 27.
Similar in other wealthy countries, U.S. abortion rates take dropped significantly in contempo decades. The decline is evident across almost every demographic in the country — younger, older, Northern, Southern. With one exception: abortion rates have remained constant among the poorest Americans. …
When the Affordable Care Act mandated insurance coverage for contraception, the unintended pregnancy rate dropped from 44.7% to 37.nine%. And yet, the anti-abortion movement has opted to oppose efforts to increase access to contraception. Indeed abortion opponents vigorously fought the Affordable Care Act's nascence command mandate, which the Supreme Court ultimately struck downwardly in 2014.
As a outcome, a poor woman in the U.S. is more than 5 times more probable than an affluent adult female to have an unintended pregnancy. And when she does, odds are she will contemplate abortion.
Oberman too points out that bans are not very effective in reducing the overall number of abortions, particularly in an age when abortion-inducing drugs are safe, effective and easily available.
Even in Primal America, which boasts the world's strictest ballgame ban, 1 in three pregnancies ends in abortion, largely induced by medicines purchased online or on the street. This market already exists in the U.S., where websites such as Programme C, Choix, Women on Web, Aid Access and Hey Jane forth with countless international pharmacies, help anyone with a debit card and an address to cocky-manage an abortion.
When nosotros retrieve most how abortion bans will work, in practise, class and race affair. Considering poverty is not colorblind, those impacted by abortion bans will exist disproportionately young, poor, Black and brown Americans, for whom abortion bans come equally ane in a long listing of factors that circumscribe their reproductive lives and life options. They are more likely to experience unintended pregnancy, and where abortion is outlawed, they are more probable to struggle with accessing abortion, whether by traveling to a legal jurisdiction, or by identifying reliable information about how to safely finish an unwanted pregnancy with ballgame medications.
Oberman also casts doubt on the hopes of abortion opponents that bans volition lead to noticeable increases in adoptions:
Even in the years prior to Roe, when the stigma of unwed motherhood led some facing pregnancy to identify their babies, but 9% of women chose adoption. Much of that rate was driven by white women, because the two-parent family unit norm was less entrenched among Black and brownish Americans. Today, the stigma is gone: 40% of all children are born out of wedlock. When faced with an unintended pregnancy, fewer than 5% of people seriously consider adoption, and of those, fewer than ii% ultimately place their children with adoptive families.
And what happens when women who are refused abortion services do give nativity? Oberman cites a x-year longitudinal study of "hundreds of women who sought abortions, just were turned abroad because they were beyond the clinic's gestational limits."
(Their children) had greater odds (72% vs. 55%) of living in poverty compared to children of women who received a wanted abortion. Similarly, (their) children were more likely (87% vs. 70%) to live in a household in which their mother was not able to afford necessary living expenses such every bit food, housing, and transportation compared to children of women who received a wanted ballgame."
She and then spells out why this is a societal concern:
Children who experience poverty, peculiarly during early on life or for an extended catamenia, are at risk of a host of agin health and developmental outcomes through their life course. Poverty has a profound outcome on specific circumstances, such every bit nascence weight, infant mortality, language development, chronic illness, environmental exposure, nutrition, and injury. Child poverty too influences genomic function and brain evolution. …
Children living in poverty are at increased take chances of difficulties with self-regulation and executive role, such as inattention, impulsivity, defiance, and poor peer relationships. Poverty can make parenting difficult, especially in the context of concerns about inadequate nutrient, energy, transportation, and housing. Child poverty is associated with lifelong hardship.
Oberman as well describes the deviation betwixt the U.S. anti-ballgame movement'due south focus on criminalizing abortion and the sorts of policies that might reduce ballgame demand past encouraging child-bearing. She draws a dissimilarity with countries such as France and Israel:
(In the U.S.) at that place is no paid parental leave, and no chore security at all across the first twelve weeks of unpaid exit. At that place is no kid allowance. The Covid-related child income revenue enhancement break, which reduced child poverty by thirty%, was permitted to lapse later a single year. The goal of providing universal admission to quality day intendance and preschool remains a pipedream. The federal aid plan, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, is then under-funded that no country'due south subsidy amounts to more than 60% of the federal poverty line, with the result that fifty-fifty in states with relatively generous monthly allocations, families cannot beget minor rent.
In the end, Oberman predicts that the most visible consequence of U.S. abortion bans will exist an uptick in the number of single-parent families — mothers and babies —living in poverty. Already, more than i in 3 single-parent families live below the poverty line.
Banning ballgame without aggressively working to kickoff kid poverty will drive up these numbers, posing an existential challenge for people who accept supported abortion bans but who cannot help only be disturbed past the ways in which they fall curt of expectations.
She besides observes that permitting abortion to save the life of the female parent should not offering much reassurance.
In that location is surprisingly piffling agreement on what constitutes a life-threatening pregnancy. … Yet the struggle to define what constitutes a life-threatening pregnancy, (or depending upon the law, a qualifying rape or fetal bibelot), is just the offset. Which parties' interests volition be represented at these adjudicatory proceedings, however they are configured? Will the pregnant patient be entitled to a lawyer? Will the fetus? If unhappy with the event, can either side appeal? Will in that location exist an expedited appeals process? By what criteria will adjudicators exist called? Will these be adversarial proceedings, with experts from the country and from the pregnant patient's medical team, or will the patient's dr.'southward testimony suffice? How will the authorities determine whose interests it represents: those of the patient in peril, or those of the fetus?
These are serious questions, made all the more so because they implicate vital interests and therefore trigger Constitutional due process rights.
In other words, what to wait if Roe goes abroad? Feckless chaos.
*Excerpts lightly edited and amended with Oberman'south aid.
Refer a friend
Words to live past: What are you lot gonna do?
Rushing through New York's LaGuardia Airport recently in an attempt to make a connecting flying, Johanna and I were comforted by the words of Tony Soprano following his mother'southward decease in season three of HBO'south "The Sopranos."
Either our flight has left or it hasn't. The airline volition eventually get us back to Chicago. Maybe we'll have to stay the night in an drome lounge. But what are you gonna practice?
Worry more? Go upset? Rage at the airline for the filibuster on our kickoff flight? No, the die was cast. What are you lot gonna do?
We missed the connexion simply got on a afterward flight, armed for the hereafter with a new slogan for serenity. What are you gonna do?
Friends have been surprised and jealous to learn that nosotros're simply now getting around to watching "The Sopranos," the groundbreaking drama that went off the air after 86 episodes nearly 15 years ago. They, too, wish they could once more be experiencing it for the get-go time.
In ranking information technology the best Tv set show ever, Rolling Rock called "The Sopranos" "the crime saga that cut the history of TV in two, kicking off a gilt age when suddenly annihilation seemed possible."
(Author and producer David) Chase showed how much storytelling ambition you could bring to television, and it didn't accept long for everybody else to rise to his challenge. The breakthroughs of the next few years — " The Wire," "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad" — couldn't accept happened without "The Sopranos" kicking the door downwardly. … "The Sopranos" remains the standard all ambitious TV aspires to meet.
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Mary Schmich: Missing— Chicago spring. A detective April Hope mystery
My former colleague Mary Schmich posts cavalcade-like thoughts most Tuesdays on Facebook. This week's offering was a reprint of her April 17, 2018 Tribune cavalcade:
Detective April Hope stomped into the Chicago police force station feeling as gloomy as the springtime sky, every bit low as a dirty sidewalk, equally tired as a cliche.
"Get your bleepin' feet off my desk-bound," she snarled.
She swatted at Officer Hardy Boyle's snow boots. Snow boots! In leap. God, she hated this town. She hated her filthy coat. She hated her ugly hat. She hated Boyle'southward beefy mug, which was fifty-fifty ruddier than usual.
"Boyle," she said. "What happened to your confront?"
"It'south my tan!" he said. "Don't you follow me on Facebook?
I've been in Florida!"
Detective Promise shuddered, and non only because the station was every bit cold equally the bleepin' instance she'd only been assigned. Her shudder was also a evidence of antipathy for all those Chicago wimps who'd recently been to Florida, or San Diego, or Arizona and spent their time gloating about it on Facebook.
She hated them all, their stupid bathing suits and their empty-headed flip-flops and their mojitos with the stupid swizzle sticks.
Higher up all, she hated that while they'd had the foresight to go somewhere warm in so-called springtime, she was stuck in this pothole-pitted tundra working this bleepin' cold example, again.
She glanced downward at her desk-bound, at the label on the old binder.
"Missing: Chicago Spring."
Every bleepin' April the boss dumped this duty on her. Every. Bleepin'. Twelvemonth.
Read the rest of the column here or hither.
Minced Words
This week on the podcast, Jon Hansen, Heather Cherone, Austin Berg, host John Williams and I discussed the lifting of mask mandates, gas giveaways, the ward-level casino politics, marijuana in Illinois and the fairness and wisdom of banning Russian athletes from international competitions.
Congratulations to Rascal emerita Lisa Donovan. Robert Feder reports she's been hired away from the Tribune to go "senior publishing editor for The Wall Street Journal. Starting May 11, Donovan volition serve in a leadership office on the publishing desk, which works with global bureaus to edit, code and publish stories and other content for diverse platforms."
Don't miss the entry on Jon Hansen in my Meet the Rascals series.
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Re: Tweets
This week's nominees for Tweet of the Week:
Give a homo a fish and he volition think, "What a creepy souvenir." Teach a man to fish and he volition think, "My God, I take never known such colorlessness." — @BoneChocolates
Couldn't get to Coachella this year only I recreated the experience past flushing $1,000 downwardly my toilet and repeatedly throwing up on myself. — @SamGrittner
Self-righteousness is when you take yourself so seriously that no one else tin can take you seriously. — @UnFitz
Uncomfortable field of study: Stacy's Dad. — @JasonNotEvil
It's terribly rude when you lot assume I'yard interested in your opinion after I've just explained to yous my correct opinion. — @wildethingy
I'grand at that age where I'm young enough to pick up new slang but fo shizzle too old to realize we stopped maxim it. — @OhHeyKay2
I'm sorry your baby is crying right at present. Have you tried taking it farther away from me? — @abbycohenwl
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Today's Tune
"Michael Row the Boat Ashore" is a classic bit of Americana, a vocal many of usa learned in uncomplicated school or at campsite and and so familiar that information technology feels like a cliche, as banal as "Sometime MacDonald" or "B-I-Northward-G-O."
It's on my mind this week considering I sang it for my mother in a private YouTube video I made for her. She'due south 90, and, as I've explained before, is dealing with advanced, heartbreaking dementia. Only fragments of old songs remain in her caput, so when I visit her, I ever pull out the guitar and my father and I sing a selection of standards where she ofttimes tin can join in at least parts of the choruses.
"Alleluia!" is still in in that location.
Anyway, I fabricated this video in hopes that she could lookout man it on the large screen and would enjoy singing along with me even when I wasn't there. It didn't work for diverse reasons, but when I went to cheque my YouTube aqueduct, I saw that the video had been hit with a "copyright claim" based on "LatinAutorPerf, LatinAutor - SonyATV, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, PEDL, Sony Music Publishing," said the notice.
Patently some artificial stupidity program had audited the songs I'd croaked out for my mom and had also acknowledged a copyright merits on a song that is at least 160 years old.
The best history of the song I could locate (a lengthy 2019 weblog entry by Mike Sylwester of Seward, Neb.) says:
The song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" evidently originated and developed on St Helena Island, which is a 64-square-mile area just off the coast from Beaufort, South Carolina. … The isle was populated by and large by slaves, who worked on plantations that grew rice, indigo, cotton wool and spices. The slaves had a distinct culture that is called Gullah, which preserved many African words and customs.
Shortly after the Ceremonious War began, the Matrimony navy captured Fort Freemont and then all of St Helena Island at the end of 1861. The White plantation owners fled, and a northern abolitionist, Charles Pickard Ware, was assigned to administrate the island. He was a Harvard graduate who collected folk songs, and while he held this authoritative position, during the years 1862-1865, he wrote down many songs that he heard the erstwhile slaves sing. Afterwards the Civil War, in 1867, he published a book titled Slave Songs of the The states. The song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" was included in the book, and its words were written down past Ware in 1863 from the singing of former slaves every bit they were rowing a boat between the island and the mainland.
In that book, Ware wrote, "I take no doubt ("Michael Row the Gunkhole Ashore") is a real spiritual — it being the archangel Michael that is addressed."
The song remained adequately obscure until Pete Seeger brought it to his group "The Weavers," who released it on a 1957 album, only it didn't become a standard until The Highwaymen had a chart-topping hitting with it nether the title "Michael" in 1961.
Every bit tired of this vocal every bit you may be, it's musically and lyrically tremendous. I was reminded of that nearly twoscore years ago at Pinewoods Trip the light fantastic Camp southward of Boston when Tony Barrand walked into the evening gathering of campers and without a word of introduction sang the opening line in that powerful, unforgettable voice of his.
For a beat, some of us wondered, "Why is Tony, a legendary vocalizer with a huge repertoire of distinctive songs from the British Isles, leading us in an former American song we've all heard a million times?"
Only 1 roof-raising, spine-tingling refrain later, we knew the answer.
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