Events

We spent some time at Montrose Dog Beach yesterday: Of course, we walked 3.2 km to the beach, 1 km to The Dock for lunch with Butters and her family, and then almost 5 km home, so by 5pm Cassie was pooped: Including one more walk around the neighborhood in the evening, Cassie got 12 km of walks over 2½ hours yesterday. Today will be less strenuous for her: only about 6 km. And lots of nap time.

Welcome to stop #131 on the Brews and Choos project. Brewery: GoodTimes Brewery, 3827 N Broadway, ChicagoTrain line: CTA Red Line, Sheridan Time from Chicago: 20 minutesDistance from station: 500 m Metropolitan Brewing closed in November 2023, just a few months after brewmaster Raybird Gonzalez decided to found his own brewery. The Smylie Brothers flame-out freed up a turnkey brewing facility right at the north end of Boystown, which he grabbed. The new owners didn't change the interior dramatically...

Welcome to stop #130 on the Brews and Choos project. Brewery: Goose Island Beer Co. at the Salt Shed, 1221 W. Blackhawk St., ChicagoTrain line: Union Pacific North and Northwest, Clybourn (Zone 1) Time from Chicago: 9 minutesDistance from station: 1.5 km The Salt Shed is a new entertainment complex built inside the former Morton Salt storage facility in the Clybourn Corridor industrial area of Chicago. Goose Island Beer Co. moved there in 2024 after closing its original brewing facility 800 meters...

I'm done with work for the week, owing to my previously-mentioned PTO cap, so later this afternoon I'm teaming up with my Brews & Choos Buddy to visit two breweries on the North Side. Later this weekend (probably Sunday), I'm going to share an unexpected result of a long-overdue project to excise a lot of old crap from my storage locker: articles from the proto-Daily Parker that ran out of my employer's office a full year before braverman.org became its own domain. Before I do any of that, however, I'm...

I'm done with work for the week, owing to my previously-mentioned PTO cap, so later this afternoon I'm teaming up with my Brews & Choos Buddy to visit two breweries on the North Side. Later this weekend (probably Sunday), I'm going to share an unexpected result of a long-overdue project to excise a lot of old crap from my storage locker: articles from the proto-Daily Parker that ran out of my employer's office a full year before braverman.org became its own domain. Before I do any of that, however, I'm...

The Daily Parker strives for consistency in the way we present information. This outlines the blog's style elements. It was last updated 27 June 2025. General language The blog follows US English rules for spelling and grammar. Direct quotes maintain the language, spelling, and grammar of the original, except when doing so would render the quote unintelligible to US-based readers. Foreign-language abbreviations are italicized; however, foreign languages in general are not: e.g., Cassie est la meilleure...

The acclaimed journalist was 91: Billy Don Moyers was born in Hugo, Oklahoma, on June 5, 1934, and grew up in the northeast Texas town of Marshall. His father worked as a day laborer, while Mr. Moyers’s mother raised him and an older brother, James. After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Mr. Moyers, not yet 30, became one of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s key lieutenants. Time magazine called him “LBJ’s young man in charge of everything.” He was named White House press secretary in July 1965. [In 1967]...

New York City adopted Ranked-Choice Voting before the 2019 Democratic mayoral primary, and they got Eric Adams—their least-popular mayor in decades—out of it. Since ranked-choice voting was supposed to reduce the likelihood of electing an extremist, this was a surprising result. Fortunately New Yorkers have had a few years to get the hang of ranked-choice, so in this year's Democratic primary, they won't make that mistake again, right? Oh, bother. The extreme leftist won. With incumbent Eric Adams...

I spent all of last weekend with friends, and we wound up just having fun and not worrying about photos. So, not much from Seattle to post. I did capture Hazel lazing on the couch, though: I don't know what I did to deserve it, but Hazel spent a long time staring at me the way Cassie does. Of course, they do know and like each other: I'll have the usual roundup of horrifying current events later today.

I don't watch a lot of YouTube videos, mainly because I can no longer concentrate on two things at once with any useful comprehension like (I thought) I could in my 20s. Today at lunch, though, I watched two short videos by well-respected creators that are worth passing on. First, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich reminds us, "The purpose of a government is not to turn a profit, it's to achieve the common good:" Second, Strong Towns executive director Charles Marohn points out the flawed...