And here I was all ready to tell you about some of the more interesting qualities of the element aluminum — did you know that certain grasses contain more than 1 percent of the metal, when dry?

But when I returned from my week off, part of which was spent at the surprisingly aluminum-friendly Oberlin College, readers seemed hot and bothered, still, about the Chick-fil-A saga, demanding that I, in my capacity as the “king of left-wing lunacy in the Windy City,” address the matter.

“If any journalist would be expected to, it would be you,” writes Larry Fischer, of Buffalo Grove, echoing a common theme. “I am wondering whether Rahm’s misguided statement that ‘if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values’ means [to him] that the Catholic Church and probably a bunch of other fundamentalist-type churches should not be part of the community, because their position on gay marriage is exactly the same as the Chick-fil-A chairman.”

I smell a trap. But I am nothing if not amenable to reader input, so we’ll save aluminum for Monday.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/14204949-452/why-did-chick-fil-a-cross-the-road.html