GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1823
“The king sits in Dunfermline town
Drinking the blude-red wine;
O whare will I get a skeely skipper
To sail this new ship o’ mine?”
(the beginning of the poem “Sir Patrick Spens” by that famous poet Anonymous)
CHICAGO SHOOTING GALLERY
While the number of homicides in Chicago as of April 2 are down compared with last year at this time (2021: 148; 2022: 137), they are still higher th…