If Kendra Davis has it right about the United Center confrontation between her and Michael Axelrod, and cursing and name-calling (of her husband Antonio) was going on all night until she finally got up to do something about it, what were the security guards doing all that time?  On the other hand, if the security guards saw nothing amiss and didn’t come over until Axelrod motioned them when she got in his face, were things as bad as she says they were?

Is it possible OP police chief Tanksley would prefer not to have told Chi Trib — “Crime Drops in Oak Park” — that the 61% of OP’s 58 assault victims in 2005 who are juveniles were a case of “kids having a problem with other kids”?  A few years back, one of those kids, son of the elementary schools superintendent, needed eye surgery after being attacked in Whittier playground by kids from Austin.  If reported assaults, as Tanksley said, do not appear to be gang-related, they are something else bad that should not be dismissed cavalierly.

Chi Trib began its lead editorial 1/21 cleverly: “Osama bin Laden, like Mick Jagger, cannot relinquish the microphone.”  But the funniest thing happened.  One elderly reader, picking up on the simple “Osama’s unease” headline, read “Obama” and found the lead wonderfully appropriate, thinking momentarily of the junior senator from our state who gets more ink, pix, and air time than any other junior senator in our memory.