I haven't forgotten you.

Unfunny Comic Strip of the Day
Alley Oop. Putting to rest the notion that Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens did not interbreed.

It takes a Frenchman to smack University of Chicago alum David Brooks around
The pulse of a city
David Brooks evokes the names of George Ade, Nelson Algren, Ben Hecht and Theodore Dreiser ("Page One's missing characters," Meanwhile, July 8) while imagining himself to be an heir to the golden age of Chicago journalism.
But one thing these writers shared that defined their journalism was a social conscience, an element apparently lacking in Brooks's writing.
Having a few drinks in the Billy Goat Tavern isn't enough to feel the pulse of a great city, as witness his simplistic observations that the "newspaper-devouring working class no longer exists" while the "social conditions that underlay the urban realist reporting of the old days" has also disappeared. He says that machine politics are a thing of the past.
What has really changed in Chicago journalism is the fact that not long ago there were four large dailies and now there are only two.
And, by the way, those neocon college graduates of the University of Chicago have led the current bumbling and stumbling into the morass of Iraq and have hardly shown themselves to be "globally savvy."
John Long, Saint Affrique, France

Elderly vehicle attacks? Now a worldwide epidemic.
An 89-year-old man is in serious condition after an unfortunate mishap with his vehicle. It began when he was attempting to back into his driveway, when he misjudged his home's orientation and struck the side of his house.