 In less time than it takes you to read this paragraph, you can find on the Internet a variety of pages that cite scriptural authority to back up the fringe argument that inter-racial marriage is an abomination.  | Editorial: Beavers, Collins, Murphy, Sims and Steele In February, the Cook County Board voted 12-5 to phase out the damaging sales tax increase that Todd Stroger championed when he was board president. Who were the five naysayers? Democrats William Beavers, Earlean Collins, Joan Patricia Murphy, Deborah Sims and Robert Steele. |  | Editorial: Cook County Rx The people who run Cook County's health system are the latest to learn that Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle really does intend to hold a hard line on spending. The health system's independent board wants $327.6 million from the county next year. That's $54 million more than it was budgeted to get this year. | | Don't blame men for TV time travel, like new shows Playboy Club and Pan Am Perhaps it's been brought to your attention that this is a big week for retrograde representations of women on television. Monday marked the premiere of NBC's "The Playboy Club," a noir-ish look at Hugh Hefner's flagship Chicago club in 1963; Sunday will see the launch of ABC's "Pan Am," a stylish, soapy paean to those proto-feminist archetypes known as stewardesses. With their curling cigarette smoke and hourglass-shaped, not necessarily Pilates-toned actresses, these shows suggest we're in a moment not just of "Mad Men" withdrawal (it won't be back until March), but out-and-out fetishization of the 1960s (make that the early 1960s, before things got complicated). | |  | |
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