Author: Jim Bowman
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.
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Trump convicted stronger than ever
Words to the wise from Chicago’s cardinal . . .
Wisdom here
Northwestern’s AD wrote a book of advice to young men trying to make their way in football, Chi Trib features it as a sign of what’s wrong at NU, where horrible hazing is reported. Let us give that a look.
Questionable, eh? Like this, from Chi Trib?
In his book, Gragg . . . calls women “man’s greatest distraction,” criticizes the portrayal of women in music videos as “booty-shaking sex-kittens,” and provides his take on serious crimes like rape and sexual assault.
Booty-shaking sex kittens is inaccurate? He made it up, there’s no such phenomenon? Or: You dasn’t mention such things in civilized society?
Gragg said in an email to the Tribune that he wrote the book as a reflection of his own experiences as a young Black man “fulfilling my dream” of playing Division I football.
It’s a “black thang,” as a Roosevelt Road hanger-on in the ’60s said proudly of various styles and behaviors. The book’s title, “40 Days of Direction: Life Lessons from the…
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