Former U.S. Representative and Tea Party darling Joe Walsh announced this week that he would form a Super PAC to fight an initiative created by conservative propaganda architect Karl Rove to defeat the Tea Party in upcoming primary races. Read the full post at Chicagoist by clicking here.

Since 9/11, U.S. actions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan cost at least a quarter of a million lives and will likely reach more than $4 trillion, a new research project reports. The Costs of War by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies details the toll the wars have taken in human, economic, social and [...]

The fine folks at the Onion’s AV Club asked some local Chicagoans, including me, to give their opinions on the closure of Ronny’s, a dive club in Chicago. Click here to see what I had to say about it.