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At Attytood, Philadelphia Daily News' Will Bunch describes his "lone nut" theory of the assassination of the American newspaper. "The American newspaper is being assassinated by "a lone nut." And we're going to tell you the name of that lone nut: Craig Newmark of Craigslist... —a man whose altruistic vision of running a business to NOT maximize profits is now threatening the livel[i]hood of thousands of working men and women across this country, your neighbors who work at and publish your local newspaper, jobs that were once supported by the classified ads that have migrated to the most[ly] free (or low-cost) Craigslist.

WHOEVER'S LEAVING THEIR TRIB BEHIND AT THE COFFEE SHOP must, must stop. Please! Take it away, so I don't keep stumbling into poor Charlie Madigan's cubicle, where on Tuesday he tenders his musing about "the big, juicy meal" that is Barack Obama after "one fabulous speech." and how Obama would be Al Gore's ideal running mate, since "Gore has tree-hugging chops, and Democrats can't resist that." Here's more of Madigan's mad mulligatawny of condescension and conventional wizardom, representing all the valor and acuity of TribCo MegaCorp's op-ed faculty: "First, in presidential handicapping, the media know just about as much as the guy in the street." [But get paid more and talk to themselves more, apparently.] "If it were up to us, Howard Dean would have won the Democratic nomination...

WHEN A NAME WRITER publishes something heartily, wholeheartedly ridiculous, it's tempting to presume their editorial overseers have cut them loose for one reason or another, permitting them to soil themselves publicly. In Saturday's Wall Street Journal, career GOP speechwriter and neoconservative credulist Peggy Noonan speculates on the aftermath of November's election and the civil war in Iraq: "We're going to need grace. We are going to need a great outbreak of grace to navigate the next difficult months."

FOR HIS YEARS OF SERVICE, PRESIDENT BUSH GETS A HALF-BILLION DOLLAR MEMORIAL from unnamed donors (for a presidential library), and the best sinecure that the TribuneCo can offer gray eminence Charles M. Madigan is the occasional Op-Ed peramble and under nom de blague Charlie Madigan, the sporadic "Rambling Gleaner" blog? Tuesday's paper is graced with Mr. Madigan's pre-yellowed thumbsucker-cum-jawdropper "Tips on being a man." "A friend asked me what to tell a teenager about how to be a man. This is a very hard question," Madigan begins, before mangling his generational indicators by cool-checking his iPod, then marveling that the Beach Boys' "When I Grow Up (to be a man)" soon "surfaced." "That was one fine tune with great lyrics," he opines finely of the 1964 song. "Will I dig the same things that turned me on as a kid?" Of course you will. That is one of life's biggest discoveries... It's why I still have a Lionel train... The question should probably be, "How should I be an adult?"

The latest podcast of the Chicago-based art critical team called "Bad At Sports" is now up and ready for streaming listening or downloading and listening. It is "Episode 64: Europe, Portland, Miami." It features reports galore! Including their newly-knighted European Bureau Chief, Mark Staff Brandl, who talks about lots of shows across the pond, and in that direction, including exhibitions in Zurich and St.Gallen, Switzerland and the Big Apple, NYC.

ABC, renowned for its blatant pro-Bush and anti-Kerry propaganda during the last election, including its link to the Sinclair Broadcasting group, those radical conservatives behind the Speed-Boat smear, is up to similar tricks with a perfectly-timed, patently bogus "docudrama" on the 9/11 tragedy.

The most important week of television period begins July 30 with Discovery Channels annual week long sharky extravaganza/hommage/paen to us sharks. Why can't all buildings be thus festooned? Wouldn't the world be a better place?

Chicago media get it right as well as wrong, c'mon. In this Full Press, a Sun-Times reporter, smiling between the lines, illuminates the bold treachery of the ghastly ABC-Disney LED sculpture on State Street, and at the Reader, Liz Armstrong works the number one to fashion a few more cheerily lubricious paragraphs.

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