
Eric Zorn
Proprietor of the Picayune Sentinel newsletter. Mincing Rascal. Emeritus Chicago. Tribune columnist. Fiddler. Heterodox liberal. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn
6-19-2025 (issue No. 198) This week: Last week’s winning quip News and Views— Hot takes, fully baked Land of Linkin’—Where I tell readers where to go Squaring up the news— Where Charlie Meyerson tells readers where to go A transcript of a portion of Jon Stewart’s scathing monologue Monday Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator is both impressive and ominous Quotables—A collection of compelling, sometimes appalling passages I’ve encountered lately Quips— The winning visual jokes and this week’s...
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2 weeks ago |
ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn
6-12-2025 (issue No. 197) Rally, don’t riot Last week’s winning quip Terry Moran had to go It’d be a shame if you didn’t order tickets to Trump’s birthday parade RFK Jr. also has to go Land of Linkin’—Where I tell readers where to go Squaring up the news— Where Charlie Meyerson tells readers where to go Quotables—A collection of compelling, sometimes appalling passages I’ve encountered lately Quips— The winning visual jokes and this week’s contest finalists What’s on “The Mincing Rascals”...
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2 weeks ago |
ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn
To read this issue in your browser, click on the headline above. Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. I talk with WGN-AM 720 host John Williams about what’s making news and likely to be grist for the PS mill. The WGN listen-live link is here.
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3 weeks ago |
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6-5-2025 (issue No. 196)This week:A look back at the late Gary DeebLast week’s winning quipThe General Assembly’s disappointing punt on ‘right to die’ legislationNews and Views— Hot takes, fully baked, including another instance where I agree with Donald TrumpWhere is the effort to reopen the public schools Chicago closed a dozen years ago?
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1 month ago |
ericzorn.substack.com | Eric Zorn
5-29-2025 (issue No. 195)This week:How can we miss Jussie Smollett if he won’t go away?
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