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NATO Protesters' Weapon of Mass Communication - the iPhone

As a person who is too young to have experienced the protests of the 60′s and too old to be an anarchist today, I am a fascinated observer of the NATO protests in my private life, but also a somewhat-involved player in my professional life.  As I watched things develop prior to the National Nurses... Read more »
By John Chatz,
May 20, 2012 at 8:19 pm
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WGN Radio 720 - Can it Be Called "The Voice of Chicago" When Every Voice Belongs To a Middle Aged White Man?

Chicago is a great city with great people.  Having spent time in many other big American cities, there is no other city I’d like to live in over Chicago. Part of it is that Chicago is what I know and I’m not a “live on the edge” kind of guy.  Another part is the fact... Read more »
By John Chatz,
May 6, 2012 at 10:44 pm
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Calling all Chicago Restaurant Owners - Please Help the South Side!

It’s a Saturday night on the south side of Chicago, somewhere in the Evergreen Park, Beverly, Morgan Park, Mount Greenwood neighborhoods. A couple sits idly with no specific plans, but they contemplate going out to dinner.  Not wanting to drive downtown or to the north side as gas prices are high and the costs of... Read more »
By John Chatz,
April 15, 2012 at 10:02 pm
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Men Love High Def and Women Like it Fuzzy

I have only recently been fortunate enough to actually own and utilize HD televisions in my house .  This past Christmas we made the big bold move and bought a 60 inch HD tv for the upstairs family room and a 43 inch HD tv for downstairs.  I know some people may look at us... Read more »
By John Chatz,
April 9, 2012 at 11:32 pm
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"Cubs Will Lose 100 Games and Wood Should be Fired" says Long-Suffering Fan

My father attended one of the 1945 World Series games in which the Cubs played at Wrigley Field.  He was 10 years old at the time.  Sadly for him, he hasn’t been to another one but through it all, he remains a Cubs fan. After today’s opening day bullpen debacle, he called me to vent and to... Read more »
By John Chatz,
April 5, 2012 at 8:03 pm
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MLB: What Have you Done to Opening Day?

Baseball is still known as “America’s Pastime” isn’t it?  As far as I know, that title has not yet passed over to the NFL.  But, if you follow anything to do with the media, social and otherwise, you’d be far more aware of the unveiling of the new Nike NFL uniforms today than the fact... Read more »
By John Chatz,
April 3, 2012 at 10:25 pm
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George Zimmerman is a "White Hispanic" - What Does that Make You?

Amidst all of the hoodie-wearing,the accusations, the posturing and prostelytizing that has gone on during the past couple of weeks over the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, I was intrigued by a passage in a recent New York Times article that referred to Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic.”  George Zimmerman (Courtesy ibtimes.com) “Mr. Zimmerman... Read more »
By John Chatz,
March 29, 2012 at 8:57 am
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Does What Goes Around Really Come Around?

People like to say, when all else fails, “What goes around comes around.”  When you know somebody got away with something, but hope that it’s not over - what goes around comes around.  If a parent is trying to teach a child why fighting is bad, but knows deep down that the bully deserves something - what goes... Read more »
By John Chatz,
March 22, 2012 at 10:46 am
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Being Jewish: An Honor and a Curse

The morning news broke on a beautiful Monday in Chicago, March 19, 2012, with a report of a shooting in Toulouse, France at a Jewish school.  It appears that 4 people are known dead so far.  The victims have been identified as a 30-year old rabbi who taught at the school, the rabbi’s five-year-old son... Read more »
By John Chatz,
March 19, 2012 at 10:21 am
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March Madness - Should Illinois Hire a Black Basketball Coach?

This is a great time of year.  Spring training has begun and our baseball teams have not yet lost a real game, the Blackhawks have hope, the Bulls and Derrick Rose seem to get more exciting every game, and even the Bears are generating excitement through free agency, trades, and draft talk.  Now, as the... Read more »
By John Chatz,
March 15, 2012 at 9:26 am
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