June’s chill is one for the records

The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June in Chicago has been the talk of the town.  So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O’Hare...

Word of the week – jingoism

jingoism; noun extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy Example Sentence: Albert Einstein was a pacifist who found German jingoism, with its ultra-nationalistic ideology and militaristic policy, so objectionable that he left...

Nanny State

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Word of the week – skimble-skamble

skimble-skamble;  adjective rambling and confused : senseless Example Sentence: “What a lark it is to tag along after constantly astonished Alice as she meets up with all those skimble-skamble Lewis Carroll creations,” raved one theater critic of an...