Eric Zorn is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

[guillaumeb]

His "tweet of the week" for this week is:

The last time I saw the streets of Washington DC this empty was the day of Trump's inauguration.

Enjoy.

[Fla Dem]

1. "Chuckle Award" ! Thanks

Awarded to any post that makes me Laugh Out Loud

[The Magistrate]

2. He Is A Good Fellow, Sir

Has his head crewed on straight. Worth reading often.

[guillaumeb]

3. Agreed.

And, he makes me laugh.

Assuming that you read the Tribune, do you like Rex Huppke?

[The Magistrate]

4. Familiar With Him From Of Old, Sir

Back when I did take newspapers. Tribune has a pretty fierce pay-wall, so I don't often read him any more. The Huppke fellow I have never heard of.

[guillaumeb]

5. I will link to some of his things here at times.

While I generally disagree with the Tribune's editorial positions, I still like the paper, and my daughter is a copy editor there.

[The Magistrate]

6. I Have Fond Memories Of It, Sir

They used to have a color cartoon on the front page, political, not funny (at least not intentionally). The horror of government spending and debt was the chief object of attack, it would wound the nation fatally, and do it soon. I remember them from when I was quite young. I have noticed over many years the prophecies failed.

As a newspaper it has always been first-rate though. I have an abiding interest in early twentieth century China, and one the most engaging observers of the time I have found is Mr. J. B. Powell, of 'Shanghai Weekly Review'. He was the Tribune's China correspondent in the thirties, and for the Manchester Guardian as well.

Congratulations to your daughter.

[guillaumeb]

7. I am so old.........

that I remember when the Tribune had a section titled "Labor". And they had an actual steelworker who wrote from the perspective of a worker.

Today, foreign correspondents are, of course, missing. Corporate profitability is the first goal of the hedge fund crowd.

[The Magistrate]

8. Damn, Papa...

I cede the field, Sir. I have no memory of that at all.

Somewhere around the place we have a booklet from the Labor Department of the Eisenhower administration on unions, and it could pass for blood-red sedition in management circles nowadays. But it was acquired fairly recently. I had had no idea....

[guillaumeb]

9. You are forgiven my son.

This was in the 1960s.

[The Magistrate]

10. I Did Not Read It, Sir

News, Funnies and Sports, then....