Compendium of posts from On This Day

Move over Cubs, there's a new Cinderella in town. McGaw Hall is old having been built in 1952. I pointed out to my friend at the game last night some badly worn areas that desperately needed a paint job. However, everybody who cares and there aren't many may have to take notice if NU makes the Big Show this year in the NCAA Tournament. They are 6 and 2 and a half game out of 1st and 17 and 4 overall. I was aghast that it has been almost 30 years since I last worked at NU. I should have stayed there. Big mistake to leave when I could have earned a degree. There aren't many who can go from Marion to Northwestern. Well, to late to cry about that now.

A man came to me one time and as we had developed a rapport over a few years time he asked me to keep an eye on his camel over night. To which I said, sure. Along with the camel was a mule, whose name I don't remember, the camel's name was Sebastian. As it was they had a dispute in the middle of the night and having obviously not been raised to keep their feet to themselves displayed some aggressiveness and a few indistinguishable verbal assaults to match. The following morning a neighbor came by all awash at the thought "who could leave a camel out in the wild of Evanston over night to fend for itself, and LOOK, they didn't even leave any water." I looked at the women calmly, or so I thought because I have been told I don't have a 'calm' look. I said; "you do know, that's a camel, don't you?"

Remember there is no educational value to the second kick in the head from a mule.
Now there are people out there who are so hard headed that no amount of mule kicks are going to get their attention

For most of us anyway we are going to get another day to do this all over again. We call that tomorrow, tomorrow., it's only a day a way. Let's face it, Abe Vigoda will not get a tomorrow and you may not either. You might be coming home from work as I was one night when on the El at this very same late hour 4 boisterous college students from Loyola were returning from some apparent party of festivity and were enjoying themselves immensely. The man at the other end of the car didn't appreciate the gaiety of these young men, and in a slurring dialect I'll describe as drunk he said as much and threatened to beat them about the head and shoulders if they didn't shut up. Oh, and he threw in something to the effect that he was a policeman, a very drunk policeman, well he said he was a policeman, but he was drunk. I in my box seat fully paid for observed the episode taking place with somewhat delight. My cue would come later when the drunken man was going to go down there and show them what ever it was that he was going to show them. As the barreling dirvish of staggered toward the other end of the car I stood up and blocked his path, Providing him with my ID that said I worked for the Illinois Department of Corrections, and I bluffed an authoritative "I'm a Cop too." Where is your ID? He didn't seem to have his with him. I told him to sit down and let them kids alone. After the students departed the EL and as we pulled into Howard Mr Drunk started stirring again and suggesting how he ought to hit me in the nose. I told him Come on Down. But he harmlessly left the car and vanished into the night. I got to thinking Accounting comes with a lot less drama and more decent hours I need to get a job at Northwestern.

Is humanity eating itself into an early grave?

Is humanity eating itself into an early grave?: Despite advancements in science and medicine working to prolong our lives, our lifestyles offset their effects. In the past infectious diseases caused millions of premature deaths, now an obesity pandemic threatens to do the same,