As subtle as a sledge hammer.
05.11.2025 07:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@elliottharris.bsky.social
Working on aging gracefully (will settle for ungracefully). Former Chicago Sun-Times “Quick Hits” sports columnist, among other newspaper jobs there and elsewhere. Not tired of being retired.
As subtle as a sledge hammer.
05.11.2025 07:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s how they keep the cool cities cool — by keeping state legislators away.
05.11.2025 07:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good for you and your interactions. Being willfully ignorant is better?
04.11.2025 04:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So being cushioned apparently is overrated.
31.10.2025 05:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Could prove to be a headache for Texas.
29.10.2025 05:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a disrespectful thing to say — about blue cheese.
27.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s a horrible thing to say — about blue cheese.
27.10.2025 22:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The super-rich seem to prefer representation without taxation. Bank on it.
25.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0His brain synapses were confused by all the $$$$ signs he envisioned.
25.10.2025 03:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Let me know when Ohtani does it in the World Series. Also let me know when someone betters Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 Series.
25.10.2025 02:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fairly certain he couldn’t give you a good definition of “communism” (among a plethora of other words).
23.10.2025 05:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0While we mere mortals aspire to such lofty status.
22.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They shoulda had Braun throw to the person who handled his failed 2011 drug test.
15.10.2025 00:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hoping Jeff Gordon knows how much his readers will miss him. Nice to read of your connection to Bob Broeg, a man who spanned generations of P-D greatness.
07.10.2025 02:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whatever is the next level beyond “batshit crazy” seems accurate.
04.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, alphabetically he’s getting closer.
27.09.2025 05:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe the DOJ can ask to use RFK Jr.’s brain worm. Waiting with baited breath.
27.09.2025 02:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have no idea, but soybeans should be cheap since the Chinese aren’t buying any nowadays from the U.S. after purchasing $12 billion of them previously.
26.09.2025 02:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So much for the fruit of their labors. Gee, and we live in a country that doesn’t even grow bananas. Can’t catch a break. That’s bananas.
26.09.2025 01:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Shouldn’t living in a banana republic mean lower banana prices?
26.09.2025 00:47 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Shouldn’t living in a banana republic come with cheaper banana prices?
26.09.2025 00:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Or give them extra-strength Tylenol and they can take care of anyone who tries to bully them.
24.09.2025 00:58 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Far beyond deplorable. He is excrement in almost human form.
22.09.2025 22:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So the White House will be ordering flags to be flown at half-mast in 3 … 2 … 1 …
22.09.2025 22:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please don’t disparage baseball mitts. They have a useful purpose — unlike junior, tRump, etc.
22.09.2025 22:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0But think of all the money tRump & Co. are saving by not advertising on Univision and Telemundo.
20.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Antifa strikes again. The same school where Churchill gave his “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946. No wonder tRump & Co. want to do away with higher education.
20.09.2025 05:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0An accurate appraisal. Don’t worry. The facts won’t deter the critics.
19.09.2025 23:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He appears to bring an intensity that other players (other than Arenado) don’t exhibit. Not to say other players lack that fire, but his seems the most visible. And that passion is worth something.
19.09.2025 00:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Coming soon: The tRump special edition of Mein Kampf that will be available — and required — for every American to purchase through Trump Publishing.
18.09.2025 05:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0