Downtown Dave's World-at-Large

This is a blog for talking politics, music, doings around the great city of Chicago, and the art of L-I-V-I-N.

I curse like a sailor here. You've been warned.

Your comments are always welcome. Feel free to talk smack about politicians and public figures all you'd like. However, I ask that you address each other and yours truly as though we're all the best of friends. If you can't do that, I won't publish your comments.

"'The basic problem,' he proposes, 'has always been getting other people to die for you. What's worth enough for a man to give up his life? That's where religion had the edge, for centuries. Religion was always about death.'"

- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow