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The [Monday] PapersFor completists, there was no column on Friday and no Weekend Desk Report. Sorry! "You may already know the Bureau's work on drones," the Bureau of Investigative Journalism says in its morning e-mail today. "We've covered strikes and their impact on civilians since 2010, producing an award winning body of work and contributing to a push for greater US military transparency. Now we have launched a new project - Shadow Wars. It will expand our reporting focus beyond drone strikes, although we will still be tracking them. We felt that the changing - and increasingly murky - nature of US military and counterterrorism engagements required a broader approach. "We began this project to follow new developments in US military engagements under President Donald Trump. In some ways, these are a continuation and evolution of trends seen under President Obama. The same reluctance to deploy American troops applies, and so does the impetus to respond militarily to radical groups around the world. But as radical groups spread and metastasize, the US's military engagements are becoming ever more widespread, and complicated. You can read our thinking on this here." * "Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is traveling to Singapore for the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un," CNN reports. I'm not exactly a Billy Corgan fan, but his tales of hanging with Dennis Rodman - and what a physical freak he is - are worth listening to. From last November on Joe Rogan's show: * Also, Rodman from 2014: Dennis Rodman says he was "absolutely" drunk in his fiery, finger-pointing interview from North Korea earlier this month, but does not regret his trip to visit the man he calls his "friend:" the country's infamous leader, Kim Jong Un. * Rodman reported frequent drunkeness during Bulls practices was tolerated because he performed during games. And this, from Sports Illustrated in 1997: [Jud Buechler and Steve Kerr] have hangovers the size of the Liberty Bell, courtesy of an all-night romp with Bulls forward Dennis Rodman on a rented tour bus. Following the Bulls' 108-104 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers the previous night, Kerr and Buechler accompanied Rodman and his entourage, which predictably included several voluptuous women, on a jaunt to an Atlantic City casino. Beers were chugged, chips were lost, and a good time was had by all - except one woman in the group who was carted off by casino security after she was caught by surveillance cameras stealing a $1,000 chip from Rodman. * A truncated version of my personal Rodman story, from the Beachwood vault (see the item "Dice Man"): I can't afford to gamble much anymore, but when I am in Vegas, craps is my game. * Art Basel's Marc Spiegler On Why Art Fairs Aren't To Blame For The Current Gallery Crisis. Spiegler, a University of Chicago alum, was my predecessor as the political writer at Chicago magazine. - New in separating families at the border . . . Jennings v. Rodriguez And The Forced Separation Of Families * Forced Separation Of Families & Forced To-Term Pregnancies "At the time, people (including those who imagine themselves to be good) did nothing to stop it and remained silent. Sometimes, they even enabled it. It is easier to imagine that we would have done the right thing then, but harder to understand that we might not be doing the right thing now." - New from the Beachwood Sports Desk . . . TrackNotes: Justified * The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #204: George McClownsky And His Media Acolytes * The White Sox Report: Ricky's Boys Run * SportsMonday: Beware Bullpen, Maddon At Work - ChicagoGram - ChicagoTube Don Wolff. - BeachBook Own Goal: The Inside Story Of How The USMNT Missed The 2018 World Cup. * Guitar Center Warranty Horror Stories. * A Muslim Among Israeli Settlers. - TweetWood This might be the most important thread you've ever read.
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- The Beachwood Tronc Line: Baked on. Posted on June 11, 2018 |
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