Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Opinion Express

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This doesn't help
Obama, Boehner ultimatums get us nowhere.

The two most visible figures in the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama, are busy playing 2012 politics.

TV returns to the tales of the weird old days TV returns to the weird old days

Living through the 1960s was weird enough for a lifetime, now television gives us a chance to relive it.
Field of broken dreams Field of broken dreams in Lake County

That lot at Route 173 and Green Bay in Zion is starting to look like a good place to plant some corn.

Today's columnists

I <i>do</i> know how &#8212; and why &#8212; she does it I do know how she does it ... and why

In the 45-second Facebook game promoting the new movie "I Don't Know How She Does It," a cartoon woman stands with her arms outstretched while an avalanche of iconic items falls on and around her. Standing still in a tie-blouse and skirt, she is bombarded by a meteor shower of take-out coffee cups, Marie Claire magazines, pretty shoes, grocery bags, wedding rings, keys, little black dresses, briefcases, soccer balls, mobile phones and baby carriages. The point-earning goal is to catch these falling metaphors. I scored 5,545.
TV series a poor representation of 'Wife' as we know it in Chicago A poor representation of 'Wife' as we know it in Chicago

Though not as epochal as Columbus' discovery, I found a new world on the shelves of the Albany Park branch of the Chicago Public Library. There, in a section labeled "fiction," were books describing life as it was lived on city blocks not far from the Northwest Side neighborhood where I was a teenager.

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