During the struggle to try and secure civil rights for all Americans in the sixties, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. found himself incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama. His time in jail was put to good use, as he wrote a letter to a group of clergymen who,...

Fairly soon after our open letter to the Chicago Tribune (see last entry) was reposted at Age of Autism, some fellow by the name of Prescott Carlson posted a criticism at Chicagoist. That entry, entitled Parents of Autistic Boy Rail on Trib for...

January 21, 2010 Mr. Tony Hunter President, Publisher Chicago Tribune Company 435 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 Dear Mr. Hunter: A few days ago, we called the circulation department to cancel our subscription to The Chicago Tribune. We...

It’s been kind of a tough year for the Rankins in many ways. Some not-so-nice things happened. But still a lot of nice things also happened, and we manage to count a lot of blessings at the end of the year. First among those blessings is the...

I decided to break out of my current blogging sabbatical to briefly comment on the Christmas present Julie Gerberding just got. For those who have not yet heard, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control ¬⎯ the federal agency responsible...