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Michael Royko Jr. (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Originally a humorist focused on life in Chicago, he authored Boss, a scathing negative biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1971. He was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

Duty, Hollywood, Political

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Bipolar, Electronic, Highway, Internet, Lunatic Asylums, Views

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values. ' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

Crisis, Erosion, Right, Roots, Solve, Way

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

Cat, Choices, Cooking, Personal, Remove, Way

Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws. . . It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.

Pain, Gun, Law, Laws, Say, Effective

Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?

Idle, Jobs, Night, Play, Shift, Winning

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

Cities, Criminals, Debated, Discussion, Kind, Rehabilitation

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Hollywood, Likes, Boast, National, Conscience

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

Baseball, Female, Greatly, Interest, Sports, Wonderful

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

Career, Jail, Tail, Thinking, View, Views

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

Cities, Dog, Nervous, People, Run, Running

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

Empty, Fans, Glasses, Half, Sees

For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.

Feet, Free, Mean, People

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Cheerful, Faintest, Ideas, Optimistic, Smiling

If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?

Assigning, Ceiling, Ceilings, Gay, God, Orange Juice

Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.

Brain, Dollars, Gives, Giving, Surgeon, Thousand

Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.

America, Space, Watches, Right, Offensive

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

Defense, Moonbeams, Fund, Mental, Moonbeam

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

Basically, Conservative, Goal, Littles, Poorer, Remain

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Editorials, Hollywood, Impact, Political, Powerful, Strong

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