Phil Rosenthal
@philrosenthal.bsky.social
Ex-newspaper guy in Chicago, L.A., Madison and Waukegan, most recently the Chicago Tribune.
(Not the Phil Rosenthal known for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Somebody Feed Phil.")
(Not the Phil Rosenthal known for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Somebody Feed Phil.")
Anyone ever get an unsolicited box from Amazon that turned out to be empty? What happened? What am I supposed to do?
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Anyone ever get an unsolicited box from Amazon that turned out to be empty? What happened? What am I supposed to do?
“Mmm, mmm … what?!?”
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Mmm, mmm … what?!?”
Let’s be fair to CBS. Maybe some viewers would rather watch a split-screen drug commercial than full-screen live Steelers-Bears game action.
CBS misses 54-yard run in Steelers-Bears while in commercial
CBS missed a key 54-yard run during the first half of the Pittsburgh Steelers-Chicago Bears game on Sunday while in commercial.
awfulannouncing.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Let’s be fair to CBS. Maybe some viewers would rather watch a split-screen drug commercial than full-screen live Steelers-Bears game action.
🎶 “So get down upon your knees/Fiddle with your rosaries/Bow your head with great respect/And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!” 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🎶 “So get down upon your knees/Fiddle with your rosaries/Bow your head with great respect/And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!” 🎶
🎶 “Rock on, London/Rock on, Chicago/Wheaties, breakfast of champions”🎶
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
🎶 “Rock on, London/Rock on, Chicago/Wheaties, breakfast of champions”🎶
🎶 “Come on/Oh baby don't you wanna go/Come on/Oh baby don't you wanna go/Back to that same old place/Sweet home Chicago” 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
🎶 “Come on/Oh baby don't you wanna go/Come on/Oh baby don't you wanna go/Back to that same old place/Sweet home Chicago” 🎶
Trendy Man: “Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt.”
Thornton Melon: “You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody.”
Trendy Man: “Well, she's very proud of it.”
Thornton Melon: “I'm proud of mine too. I don't go waving it around at parties, though.”
Thornton Melon: “You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody.”
Trendy Man: “Well, she's very proud of it.”
Thornton Melon: “I'm proud of mine too. I don't go waving it around at parties, though.”
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Trendy Man: “Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt.”
Thornton Melon: “You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody.”
Trendy Man: “Well, she's very proud of it.”
Thornton Melon: “I'm proud of mine too. I don't go waving it around at parties, though.”
Thornton Melon: “You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody.”
Trendy Man: “Well, she's very proud of it.”
Thornton Melon: “I'm proud of mine too. I don't go waving it around at parties, though.”
If you open your phone to show it to an officer, TSA agent or some other government rep, is that consent for that person to look at anything else on the phone?
But will bars accept these phone IDs, given that underage folks could score screenshots of over-21 ID? Will it have little bouncing Abe Lincolns, like Cubs tickets baseballs, to show it’s a legitimate online ID? @chicagobars.bsky.social
Illinois residents will be able to store their driver’s licenses and IDs on their cellphones starting Wednesday, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced.
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If you open your phone to show it to an officer, TSA agent or some other government rep, is that consent for that person to look at anything else on the phone?
What almost no one is mentioning is that, on top of every other disgusting part of this episode, the woman Summers was hitting on is also 27 years younger than he is.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
What almost no one is mentioning is that, on top of every other disgusting part of this episode, the woman Summers was hitting on is also 27 years younger than he is.
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
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Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
The McDLT challenge.
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The McDLT challenge.
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Deep down, he had to have known she was right but also that he would return to her.
Anyone know where to find Felix Unger? Called and his wife and she said she requested he remove himself from his place of residence today.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Deep down, he had to have known she was right but also that he would return to her.
Reposted by Phil Rosenthal
Deep down, he had to have known she was right but also that he would return to her.
Anyone know where to find Felix Unger? Called and his wife and she said she requested he remove himself from his place of residence today.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Deep down, he had to have known she was right but also that he would return to her.
Reposted by Phil Rosenthal
Little-known media history oddity: The Fleischmann's Yeast company started both The New Yorker magazine & the CBS broadcast network... and Theranos?
It's a strange story.
The Latest in The Lint Trap.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/how-fleisc...
It's a strange story.
The Latest in The Lint Trap.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/how-fleisc...
How Fleischmann's Yeast created both CBS and The New Yorker magazine
An odd media history story about big media and yeast, from the 1920s.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Little-known media history oddity: The Fleischmann's Yeast company started both The New Yorker magazine & the CBS broadcast network... and Theranos?
It's a strange story.
The Latest in The Lint Trap.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/how-fleisc...
It's a strange story.
The Latest in The Lint Trap.
linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/how-fleisc...
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Somebody please show Bari Weiss my interview with Portnoy from 13 YEARS AGO TELLING (AND REPEATEDLY DEFENDING) RAPE JOKES. Why is CBS platforming a dude with a looong history of misogyny? Forward to a 1:35 to see my confrontation with him. youtu.be/B7QTahhIBqI
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Somebody please show Bari Weiss my interview with Portnoy from 13 YEARS AGO TELLING (AND REPEATEDLY DEFENDING) RAPE JOKES. Why is CBS platforming a dude with a looong history of misogyny? Forward to a 1:35 to see my confrontation with him. youtu.be/B7QTahhIBqI
tl;dr
Pope Leo XIVs favorite films:
— Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)
— Robert Wise’s “The Sound of Music” (1965)
— Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People” (1980)
— Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” (1997)
Pope Leo XIVs favorite films:
— Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)
— Robert Wise’s “The Sound of Music” (1965)
— Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People” (1980)
— Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” (1997)
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
tl;dr
Pope Leo XIVs favorite films:
— Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)
— Robert Wise’s “The Sound of Music” (1965)
— Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People” (1980)
— Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” (1997)
Pope Leo XIVs favorite films:
— Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)
— Robert Wise’s “The Sound of Music” (1965)
— Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People” (1980)
— Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” (1997)
Sen. Neville Chamberlain did what?
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sen. Neville Chamberlain did what?
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A great journalist, an even greater man and as fine a colleague as one could ever want — Ron Grossman bids adieu to readers…
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A great journalist, an even greater man and as fine a colleague as one could ever want — Ron Grossman bids adieu to readers…
We’ve always had 50-year mortgages.
We called it renting, only with a lifetime lease that’s VERY hard to break.
We called it renting, only with a lifetime lease that’s VERY hard to break.
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We’ve always had 50-year mortgages.
We called it renting, only with a lifetime lease that’s VERY hard to break.
We called it renting, only with a lifetime lease that’s VERY hard to break.
The only “All’s Fair” I ever needed to see on TV starred Bernadette Peters and Richard Crenna, with Michael Keaton joining the cast eventually.
Classic TV Theme: All's Fair (Norman Lear)
YouTube video by David Gideon
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The only “All’s Fair” I ever needed to see on TV starred Bernadette Peters and Richard Crenna, with Michael Keaton joining the cast eventually.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009