Neil Steinberg
Columnist and Blogger, Every God Damn Day at Chicago Sun-Times
Neil Steinberg is a news columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, blogs at https://t.co/s4vP5sxEkG, and wrote "Every Goddamn Day," for the University of Chicago Press.
Articles
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6 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Neil Steinberg
The president is venting his fury — a sentence I could embroider on a pillow and use to begin every column from now until 2029, since off-gassing his bottomless magisterial displeasure is the spoon stirring our national existence, now and for the foreseeable future.
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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Neil Steinberg
Lunch had been a handful of cashews, munched in the car on my way to Pullman to listen to 6th grade girls talk about their lives. Now it was 2 p.m., heading home and, glory be, a White Castle ahead on 111th Street. I pulled into the drive-thru line. Should I order two cheese sliders or three? I have my svelte figure to consider, so called up whatever AI helpmate crouches on my iPhone, like a troll under a bridge, and asked: how many calories in a White Castle cheese slider? Answer: 340. Hmm. I thought.
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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Neil Steinberg
At lunchtime Monday I walked a Rocky Patel cigar from the Iwan Ries cigar shop on Wabash to Gibson’s on Rush, pausing to smile at the Irving Kupcinet statue south of Trump Tower. I knew Kup. He enjoyed a good cigar, and I considered walking over and blowing a puff in his direction, as a benediction.
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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Neil Steinberg
My wife’s birthday was Saturday. So we did whatever she wanted. Starting with breakfast at the Cherry Pit Cafe in Deerfield. She placed her traditional order — oatmeal pancakes with blueberries. And I placed mine — spinach, onion and mozzarella omelet, well-done. We chatting amiably while waiting for our meal. Matthew brought two large blue plastic glasses of water and two drinking straws. You don’t need a straw to drink a glass of water, unless you’re in a hospital bed.
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3 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Neil Steinberg
Social media tears down girls. According to a UNESCO report, there is a direct correlation between how much time a girl spends online and increased emotional damage. A Facebook study found that a third of girls say when they feel bad about their bodies, Instagram makes them feel worse. Girls are 50% more likely than boys to report being cyberbullied. Plus — stop the presses! — TikTok is addictive. How to combat such a widespread, happiness-destroying influence?
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