The Daily Parker

Today's litany of disappointments, with a couple of bright spots:

• First-term US Representative Peter Meijer (R-MI) has not enjoyed the fallout from taking principled votes his first month in office.
• Designer David Sotokarlin sketches out a map of what the Chicago El could become, and I would love to see at least some of these ideas in reality.
• The Washington Post's TV critic Inkoo Kang calls the Sex and the City reboot a "bloated, laugh-free comedy about grief."
• Travel writer Geraldine DeRuiter ate at Bros., in Lecce, Italy, in her view "the worst Michelin-starred restaurant ever."
• American expat Sara Zaske's book Achtung Baby follows her adventures raising her daughter in Germany, where children still have the freedom—in fact, the expectation—to take risks and learn self-reliance.

Finally, northwest suburban officials continue to track escaped bison "Billy" as she continues her walkabout through McHenry County. She will not be buffaloed back to her ranch!