Oh, I Think So

Just in case you live under a rock and missed the whole Donald-Trump-Billy-Bush conversation that demeans and objectifies women and proves that presidential candidate Trump assaults and gropes women as it suits him and got Billy Bush fired from his cush NBC "Today Show" gig (but probably with a lot of money), here is the captured audio recording in full followed by a statement from actor Robert DeNiro who likes and respects women in addition to being happily married. https://youtu.be/fTMNhFMp3wE My final reason for not voting for this Republican candidate:  Trump has dishonest hair. Clinton/Kaine 2016 -- Stronger Together.  Just like America is .

Yeah, yeah, it spells Cubs and they're going to the World Series.  I am very happy for all the long-suffering Cubs fans out there who finally get a reward for their loyalty.  Question:  Why would you let something like a sports team dictate your happiness or sadness?  Maybe it isn't quite that extreme but it sure seems that way. Good luck!  I am happy when Chicago sports teams manage to reward their loyal fans.  Bears fans are going to have a very long wait because while there might be some very good Bears players, there is some very bad Bears management.  Bears fans will relax and deal with it just like Cubs fans dealt with it.  They will continue to love "Da Bears" even though things are really just terrible up in Lake Forest. So for all the Chicago Cubs fans out there:  GO CUBS! For all the fans and non-fans out there:  Get out and vote on November 8 (or earlier if your municipality offers early voting).

I was at Montrose Harbor with my lovely younger niece a week ago, looking for birds and looking for Pokemon.  We were much more successful with birds this time -- a Cooper's Hawk landed 20 feet in front of us on the ground, chickadees were two feet in front of our faces.  But we did see a late-season caterpillar inching and scooting along, proof positive that if nature says black and brown go together, then they go together. Fashion icon, fall 2016

We all know that Donald Trump is a colossal bonehead and this week's revelation of lewd comments made on a hot mike while with "Access Hollywood" correspondent Billy Bush is hardly a surprise.  I wasn't surprised by his comments.  Disgusted, nauseated, displeased, repulsed but not surprised.  The man is self-serving, self-obsessed, and entitled; why would his comments be a surprise?  He believes he deserves anything he wants.  He spews vulgarities about women even though he has daughters and is married.  What surprised me was Billy Bush. Yeah, yeah, Billy Bush.  He has been married for 18 years and has three daughters.  He says he is happy in his marriage and he seems to be in love with his whole family.  This Bush cousin was not totally unlikable on "Access Hollywood."  I am disgusted, displeased, nauseated, repulsed, and surprised that he would stoop to such a low level as that where Donald Trump dwells.  His was not embarrassed...

Five weeks and two days from today, Americans go to the polls to elect a new president.  I write them an open letter: Dear Fellow Americans: How are you?  How are things?  How is your family and that one crazy friend of yours whom I don't really like but you're crazy about so I feel compelled to ask about him/her until you're sick to death of him/her and cut him/her out of your life once and for all.  Of course he/she might be asking you about me for the very same reason unless he/she is a genuinely kind person which I very much doubt because there can't be two stellar humans in a friendship because you'd bore each other to absolute death with all that goodness, pleasantness, and niceness.  So I am pretty sure he/she is the crazy one because, wow, you're great. I know you've all gone to some municipal or governmental location over the past few months to register to vote.  Maybe you've registered at your local library or at a folding table manned by...