“Let’s guilt Branson, Bezos and space tourists into making charitable donations before they leave Earth.” That was the headline of a recent column by Rex Huppke of the Chicago Tribune. In the piece, he sets forth a popular perspective: as the uber-wealthy Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson spend gobs of money on space travel, they […]
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In a lifetime, most people don’t spend more than a few months in a hospital—and some can measure those stays by a handful of days, or perhaps weeks. It’s a different situation for 6-year-old Dominic Hamilton. Over the past 2 ½ years, the Joliet boy has been a regular patient at Lurie Children’s Hospital in […]
A rather rough day on the PR front for Patti Blagojevich, the beleagured wife of the former governor of Illinois. She eats a tarantula on “I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here,” but the charity of her choice can’t stomach being associated with her. You can read about it here in the Chicago Tribune’s account. […]
“No good deed shall go unpunished.” I first heard that phrase from Mike Bailey, my curmudgeonly (in a classic newspaper way) former editor at The Courier News in Elgin, Ill. That’s Mike’s mug you see here to the right. I know Mike didn’t originate the phrase, nor did George Steinbrenner, the longtime (and often curmudgeonly) […]