Brendan Reilly

Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot's retort to a GOP senator’s “Would you put her even in charge of a ham sandwich” attack during Todd Blanche confirmation hearing this week: “I think maybe I'll send him some ham sandwiches and let him chew on that.”

Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway. Why? 1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus. 2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway. 3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together. 4:

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

Me and my son have been sneaking out in the middle of the night in our Ewok and Chewbacca costumes just to mess with our neighbor's trail cams.

We added new terms to AP Stylebook Online last week: * jumpscare * fanbase * lipsync * offside * primetime All of them are styled as one word with no hyphen.

No. The hotels asked for the tax increase and the hotels - not the city - determine how that tourism marketing money is spent. All of Chicago’s top rivals for conventions and tourism already have this self-imposed tax. We’ve lost too much ground on convention and tourism because our industry has lacked the resources to compete with New York, Las Vegas and Orlando’s marketing budgets