Chicago - Dec. 14, 2018

Must-See TV
Army Of Darkness
ElRey
5 p.m.
A discount-store employee is time-warped to a medieval castle, where he is the foretold savior who can dispel the evil there. Unfortunately, he screws up and releases an army of skeletons. (tvguide.com)

Weather Derby
Tribune: 51/37
Sun-Times: Ferro/McKinney
Weather Channel: 44/41
Ntl Weather Service: 54/43
BWM*: 82/12

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Liberties will be taken.

Do We Sudoku?
No, but we do do moose stuff, and that can be anything you want it to be. Except Sudoku.

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8, 25, 39

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I am open and receptive to new avenues of income. (louisehay.com)

Ellie
Knowing that a person may be unwittingly in danger of an assault imposes a moral duty to warn them.

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The [Monday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

The Chicago skyline after climate change really kicks in.

A post shared by John Blommaert (@johnblommaert) on Aug 20, 2017 at 8:30am PDT

Peak Bears
Ha ha, we told you this was a trap-door game!

PEAK JOHN FOX.

Meanwhile, Jim "Coach' Coffman can't even.

Local TV News Is About To Get Even Worse

Local TV News Is About To Get Even Worse: https://t.co/8eUweEAhGg See my comment for a comparison to newspapers. pic.twitter.com/dNjcBwd0lv
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) November 13, 2017

The Weekend In Chicago Rock
Is in pre-production.

BeachBook

Louis C.K. And Hollywood's Canon Of Creeps.

TweetWood
A sampling.

This is a very fair take... Except when the "journalism" isn't really journalism, when the "politics" include defending molestation allegations and when the host of the show himself says he isn't a journalist. https://t.co/ml2MS8dKAr
— Nader Issa (@NaderDIssa) November 13, 2017

Joy Reid, everybody. She's been horrible for a long time, but lionized now by liberals for her simple anti-Trumpism. (Ditto Rachel Maddow, whose "reports" are loaded with errors.) Mirroring Trumpists is no virtue. https://t.co/SAmYPwADuE
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) November 13, 2017

One of the worst atrocities of the last two years - if not the worst - is what's being done to Yemen. But because the primary culprits are the US, UK and their Saudi partners, it gets virtually no attention. https://t.co/jLWMpTEqHA
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 12, 2017

In every decade before that, too; particularly Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" in the '80s.

If you were politically aware in the 1990s you spent a lot of time listening to religious right figures lecturing liberals on the importance of personal moral conduct.
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 12, 2017