It's been over a decade since I rode on Metra, so when I heard they were discontinuing "bar cars," my first reaction was:

Barack Obama said it with a smile and a chuckle, but you know at least some Cubs fans didn't think it was funny.

When Katie Couric asked Sen. John McCain about the the number of houses he owns, McCain made a not-so-subtle reference to his years as a POW.

When Katie Couric asked Sen. John McCain about the the number of houses he owns, McCain made a not-so-subtle reference to his years as a POW.

Note to Madonna: You're not doing Barack Obama any favors. According to reviews of Madonna's "Sticky and Sweet" tour, which launched last Saturday night in Wales, a couple of video montages clearly indicate how the Material Mom feels about Obama and Sen. John McCain, respectively.

As luck would have it, I was in the stands at the Cell last week when the White Sox hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs -- only the sixth time in major league history this feat has been accomplished.

If we know Barack Obama is the Democratic presidential nominee, and we know John McCain is the Republican presidential nominee, and the candidates have decided on their respective running mates, and we know where the candidates stand on the issues, riddle me this:

Those image-conscious Chinese have made a mockery, a fakery -- a famockery, if you will -- of these Olympic games, with all their nefarious deceptions.

The most startling angle of the story about the 32-year-old Gurnee man who lost his eye in a nasty beating isn't the Cubs-White Sox element.

Probably the first time I ever waited in line to enter a nightery was in the 1980s, in Calumet City.