Lightningwriter
Charlie MadiganAn op-ed page experience for everyone. Warning: Sometimes funny, sometimes angry, always interesting.
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ALGAE! It's Coming to Get You!
Oh my Gawd…We’re all going to die!
Bold scientist handles algae from a pond. Not THAT pond.
This, of course, is literally true as can be.
How and why are the big questions.
My bet?
It’s not going to be the Washington reflecting pool an...
Our first federal duck debacle
Adorable ducks that are not yet dead!
We have a president who has shown no respect for human life, from sending ICE cops to Minnesota where they shot and killed two people, all the way to the waters of the Caribbean where he has ordered th...
My father's voice
The sad thing about my father is that we didn’t have the chance to record his wonderful voice, which I can still hear when I think about him and what he meant to me.
My father, on the right, with a railroad buddy and one of his Pennsylvani...
That smell is toast burning
Trump is Toast. Can’t keep it out of your head.
Trump is toast. Thank you Getty for the toaster!
During 40 years of journalism there were innumerable times when covering politics that a common thought would enter your head, particularly w...
A test...Can this work?
The new Eastman Mandolin
This is kind of an experiment...
So, I have this spanking new mandolin I bought at Guitar Works in Evanston.
I have wanted one for a while, but I couldn’t settle on it. I had an octave one, which means the scale...
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Reporter, foreign correspondent, editor at all kinds of levels at the Chicago Tribune, college professor, author, musician, songwriter, dad and husband. Author of "MINE" at Charlesmadigan.com and writing Bingo War.
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