Author Archives: Charles-Gene McDaniel

Rita E. Bell in her letter (July 21) is right on in decrying tax subsidy of Catholic higher education in Chicago. This is not the first time Loyola, which only recently was having financial problems, has benefited from the public coffers. When Dan Rostenkowski was in Congress (before he was sent to prison) he obtained […]

To the editors: The his/her problem was solved in 1986 [The Straight Dope, February 19]. I did it. The solution appeared in the Sun-Times, a copy of which is enclosed. [McDaniel proposed that “omner” be used as either the nominative, objective, possessive, or reflexive pronoun.] “Omner,” of course, is in such common usage that it’s […]