Cyber Columnist Monroe Anderson

Poor management takes CTA to the Poorhouse

Just days before the 2008 Summer Olympics, Richard M. Daley, Chicago's Mayor-For-Life, was in China taking test rides on Beijing's new state-of-the art subway.

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Movie Monsters, Barack Obama, Mother Nature and other terrifying things

The original The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, was on satellite TV the other morning. My wife, Joyce, watched. I didn't.

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Racist quote, Clinton's quiets Reid's

The blogosphere is all atwitter about Sen. Harry Reid's quote about presidential candidate Barack Obama. The then-Illinois senator was described, in private, by the Nevada senator as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

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Citigroup's reverse bank robbery

I read the letter three times and still didn't see them. Where were the words "Stick 'em up!?" I suspect Citibank intentionally left them off, writing instead: Dear Monroe Anderson III, We are making changes to your account terms.

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The Senate's sorry, just in time for the 144th Juneteeth Day

On this year's Juneteenth Day, all of America should have been celebrating like it was 1999.

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In Search of Intelligence in the Multiverse--Not in Steelers' linebacker position

When this year's Superbowl champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers, run through the meet and greet ceremony Thursday at the White House, the team's star linebacker will be sitting it out.

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Much ado about hugging

Michelle Obama is a hugger. I know this personally because, the last time I saw Michelle, she gave me a hug.

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Cop killing is a bad political cause

With only one exception, when it comes to police, the "we serve and protect" has meant nothing more than a motto stenciled on the side of a squad car to me.

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Chris and Rihanna show all's not fair in love that wars

Superstars Chris Brown and Rihanna are the poster children for domestic violence. You know the story. A lover's quarrel in 19-year-old Brown's car led to a beating so brutal that neither were able to make scheduled appearances at the Grammy Awards later that night.

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AIG: Insuring that the rich get richer

Everybody's angry about AIG. The people are seething. The politicians are demanding a payback. Even Edward Liddy, AIG's chairman and CEO, says the bonuses are "distasteful."

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Exposing the beauty of the Amazon

If Amber Lee Ettinger is The Obama Girl, then Brazilian Carnival beauty Viviane Castro appears to be just the opposite.

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A holiday to memorialize the Confederacy? WTF?

In an era that some are trying to bill at post-racial, South Carolina state senator Robert Ford is seeking to take us way back to the post-Reconstruction epoch.

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What President Obama represents for Dr. King's legacy

For nearly half of my life, Black History Month was Black History Week. In 1976, after Carter G. Woodson's initiative had been celebrated during the second week in February for 50 years, it became a month-long observance.

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Blagojevich's ploy reveals Obama's seat is black

A chance meeting between a dull kitchen knife and my left hand as I prepared Christmas dinner turned into blood at first sight. So, I'm just now healed enough to be able to type with both hands. In other words, this is a lame excuse on why I haven't posted in three weeks.

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Obama's no joke to Al Qaida, KKK and other haters

A little more than a year ago, I went to The Second City Theatre to enjoy its side-splitting hit revue at the time, "Between Barack and a Hard Place." The famed improv comedy ensemble, which is the comedic mother of Saturday Night Live, had put together a show that was all about  …

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Except for the voting and the celebration, it's all over

This is the historical day we've been anxiously awaiting. If you haven't voted yet, read my post then go do it. I'd suggest that you vote early and often but, apparently, that's only legal in Chicago.

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Sarah Palin gets punked, not ready to be POTUS

With the exception of those who believe that Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster really exist, all the rest of us fully understand that John McCain and Sarah Palin are professional misspeakers or, to put it more bluntly, liars.

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Hey, Blue States, why don't we secede from the Union?

We're got an old wound that Sarah Palin and her running buddy, John McCain, have ripped off the scab and torn open and exposed for all the world to see: The Divided States of America.

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For GOP, scary is as scary does

Pity the poor right. The party faithful's fear and smear machine that has worked in the past--quicker than you could say Swift boating or Willie Horton--just doesn't possess that same old white magic.

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Obama unmasked as terrorist

You wouldn't think that being a terrorist in America would have much commercial appeal.

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McPalin's Ayn Rand economics

As usual, John McCain and Sarah Palin are attempting to take a good thing and turn it inside out to make it into something bad.

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In Search of Intelligence in the Multiverse--Not in Minnesota where Michele Bachmann represents

Right-wingers pine for the days when we liked Ike, uppity-Negroes could be put in their place and commie witch-hunts were a national sport.

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Last best chance ends with McLoss

John McCain is not George W. Bush. We know that because he told us so. "I am not George Bush." McCain said last night in the last of the presidential debates.

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Monroe Anderson is a veteran Chicago journalist. A published author, he has worked for magazines, newspapers, television and written for blogs.

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