Social security still provides basic survival money, but a retired person today probably needs at least $200,000 ($400,000 per couple) to live decently.  With the interest rates today and the uncertainty of the stock market, the top priority is to find a decent rate of return on your investment.  That's the trick.  One...more

Boy, I used to think the Chicago police department was bad!  It just goes to show that no matter how many surprises you see in life, there's still more surprises out there.

I'm lovin' it!  I remembered when McDonald's first started in the 1950's.  I'm 67 years old, and the first McDonald's in Chicago (not Oak Brook,  the Chicago suburb where it all started) was at 66th and Stony Island Avenue, in 1958.  About all they sold back then were burgers, fries, milk shakes, coffee, and sodas.  I ...more

I could think of another way to stop his porn headaches.  Just stop looking at it.

I've lived in 4 condos in Chicago over the last 34 years, always as a renter, but I've been aware of the dishonesty of condo boards wherever I lived, and I often organized unit owners to get rid of their condo boards, which caught a lot of people by surprise because renters usually don't get involved in trying to overt...more

Tired of the sickness:  My first reply was really quite trivial.  This is the real reason that off-duty cops should not have 24 hour authority.  If we give them police powers at all time - on or off-duty - we create a society of Supermen, who are at all times considered superior to the rest of us.  Everybody should be ...more

Tired of the sickness:  Every citizen should have the rights as off-duty cops.  If you take the position that an off-duty cop has more authority than the rest of us, then you should also demand that they never drink alcohol or take drugs because this would interfere with their judgement.  Would you agree?

I just had to make another comment on this.  Many of you folks keep bringing up the falsehood that police officers are held to a higher standard than the rest of us.  In general, they're held to no standard at all.  You can't find a police officer in this country who has been convicted of 1st degree murder and got a li...more

That's what you call enforcing the law fairly and consistently - no special privileges for police officers.  They must be subject to the same laws as the rest of us.  I would go 1 step further.  On every police force in this country, I would require off-duty police officers have no more rights than any other citizen.  ...more