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 This site is a retirement hobby for Phil Pash, who wrote for newspapers, big and small, for more than 50 years. The site became fully operational on Oct. 1, 2005. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, the focus is on the Up & Down the Rock column, the World of Wheels and the Great Outdoors. Your feedback is welcome; please visit our contact page, or send an e-mail to phil@philpash.com.
The caricature of Phil on this page was drawn by the late Bruce Lewis of Rockford. You may remember him as Mr. Mustache, and thousands of Rockford-area kids grew up watching him on local TV.
 Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009 (Vol. 4, No. 7) Random Thoughts--After months of closed-door negotiations and behind-the-scenes "cash for cloture" deals, Harry Reid's government takeover of health care cleared a major milestone. In the pre-dawn hours, Reid got the 60 votes he needed to ram the bill through on a strict party line-vote and the Senate is now moving toward a Christmas Eve vote. When Democrats began pushing their version of "reform," they promised lower premiums with no additional taxes and no reduction in Medicare benefits. What did they deliver? Increased premiums for many Americans, higher taxes and nearly $500 billion in cuts to the Medicare coverage many seniors rely on. ... It still isn't too late to have an impact on this debate. All it More...
 (The World of Wheels column by Phil Pash first appeared in now-defunct Chicago TODAY in the early 1970s. It was the first year-round motor sports column in a Chicago paper). Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 (Vol. 6, No. 19) 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase To Kick Off Sept. 18 at Chicagoland Speedway--NASCAR and Chicagoland Speedway confirmed Aug. 9 the 1.5-mile oval near Joliet will open the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup. It replaces Auto Club Speedway in California among the 10 Chase tracks. Chicagoland has had a race in July--the week after the July 4 weekend race in Daytona--since its first race in 2001. Next year's race will be Sept. 18. Since the Chase started in 2004, New Hampshire Motor Speedway has opened the 10-race "playoff." A Democrat running for re-election, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn naturally had to be involved. He says he's More...
 (Phil has been writing about outdoors since the late 1970s). Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 (Vol. 6, No. 16) Pat Quinn Accepts Endorsement from Brady Gun Control Bunch--From a Illinois State Rifle Association-Political Victory Fund news release (ISRA-PVF) is a political action committee affiliated with the ISRA: The ISRA-PVF is delighted to learn Gov. Pat Quinn's re-election campaign has received the endorsement of the nation's most active gun control organization--the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (BCPGV). Now that Quinn has accepted the BCPGV endorsement, the voters of Illinois finally know for sure just where Quinn stands on the issue of private firearm ownership. It is well known BCPGV only endorses More...
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