re: “1968 Chicago riot cops to hold reunion” Chicago Tribune, June 17, 2009 Dear Editor, It is astonishing that the human mind is capable of sustaining utter denial of reality for 40 years. Some members of the Fraternal Order of Police hope to exploit their 40 year reunion to rewrite the history of the 1968 [...]
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Dear Voice of the People: the Real 1968
Posted in Chicago, media, politics, tagged 1968, Chicago, police, riots on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Captain Proton in the (company) news!
Posted in basophils, Chicago, Rush, tagged basophils, medicine, Rush, science on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Captain Proton (that’s Dr. DeCoursey to YOU!) has his purty mug splashed across the Rush Hospital home website. Well, looky there! More information about his work is posted inside.
General Betrayus: The Senate’s censure of MoveOn is the last straw
Posted in Bush, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Democrats, House of Representatives, liberal, news, Petraeus, politics, Republicans on September 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Dear Voice of the People, That 22 Democratic US Senators voted shamefully to censure MoveOn.org for their patriotic ad supporting US troops who were betrayed by General Petraeus has caused me to lose all allegiance to the Democratic Party. Although I am a life-long Democrat, this is the last straw. One bill after another is [...]
Open Letter to Democrats
Posted in Bush, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Democrats, House of Representatives, impeachment, liberal, news, politics, Republicans, Senate on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
August 4, 2007 Open Letter to Democrats: Starting with Nancy Pelosi’s infamous “Impeachment is off the table” declaration, the Democratic majority in Congress, with the exception of a scant few courageous heroes like Dennis Kucinich, have refused to begin impeachment hearings against the most corrupt, anti-democratic, secretive, and destructive Administration in US history. Presumably, this [...]
Captain Protonology 101
Posted in Chicago, phagocytosis, protons, Tom on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tom studies protons. (He studies the voltage-gating properties of the proton channels in alveolar epithelial cells and neutrophils, eosinophils, and other cells involved in phagocytosis, to be precise.) Naturally, he calls himself Captain Proton. I would call him Captain Pro-Tom, but that’s several layers of inside-joke removed from making sense to almost anyone outside my [...]
Tom Takes on the Trib
Posted in Chicago, Chicago Tribune, news, politics, Tom on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the new blog of my dad, Tom, a.k.a. Captain Proton. Here, he will be posting his regular letters to the editor of the Chicago Tribune. For some reason, the Tribune does not publish the letters he sends on a near-weekly basis. This blog seeks to remedy the oblivion his wise words would otherwise fall [...]
