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Dear Swami, I don’t understand the “Profiles in Excellence” event they held this weekend in North Chicago. The lead speaker invents sneakers? Is this really considered being an inventor? Signed, Noogies in North Chicago

Oh, wise Swami, what does the crystal say about this weekend’s Super Bowl? Who wins and will Janet Jackson suffer another wardrobe malfunction? Signed, Hogtied in Hoboken .

Swami, our home town Waukegan baseball hero Gary Bennett admits he used Human Growth Hormone in 2003, used it only once to take care of an injury, admits it was a mistake and didn’t use it again. Do you believe him? Weepy in Waukegan.

Swami: People are always saying we should put Christ back into Christmas, but instead of seeking to put Christ into Christmas, we must acknowledge that He was never there in the first place! Instead of borrowing from the world around us, we ought to take our religious customs and practices directly from the Bible. Then we will be worshiping our Creator in spirit and truth Signed: Ms. Black Ice.

Dear Swami, Now that Mike Ditka has canceled his old charity trust and given all the money to charities, don’t you owe him an apology for piling on? Or are you against helpimg old time players who have been abandoned by the NFL? Signed - Irked in Ypsilanti

Dear Swami, Who would you nominate as the more tiresome, irritating blowhard in the Chicago area? Is there somebody you think talks a good game but never delivers the goods? Signed: Hiccupy in Highland Park

Swami, why should I listen to you? What makes what you say worth paying attention to? Why are you worth putting up with? And how can I write sentences without ending them in prepositions? Help me, Oh Wise One. Signed: Puzzled in Barrington.

Swami takes note that Halloween (his fave time of the year) was last week. You could tell because all the usual homophobe hobgoblins , tightly wound religious watch fobs and the Constipated Corps of Carnal Cops were on the loose.. They were astride their brooms and sailing through the autumn sky. Why? There was a picture of a gay couple in the newspaper and, ooh boy, the cauldron was bubbling. Some people are deeply worried about who is canoodling with whom…Swami has some ideas about that……

At this moment, the sad deaths of a dozen or so yearlings on U.S. 41 shows humanity at its very worst. Dozens of young horses were being trucked to slaughter, the sad afterthought of a business aimed largely at controlling women’s menopausal hot flashes. Swami is having a hot flash of his own.

The moral chasm between those who believe abortion is an absolute right of free choice and those who believe abortion is just as absolutely murder reflects at least one similarity. Swami will suggest what the commonality is. Read on ….