Happy Flag Day.
Chicago Public Square’s taking the day off. If all has gone well, at today’s email publication deadline, your columnist will have been performing his patriotic duty—as detailed in a … let’s say … moving 2008 column by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry …
■ … who—coincidentally, eight years before that—memorably and prophetically called for this reporter’s firing.
But we don’t want to leave you feeling empty. So here’s a fresh news quiz, courtesy of past Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions winner Fritz Holznagel.
We’ll make a clean start of the news again Monday.