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The [New Year's] Weekend Desk Report
For completists, there was no column on Friday.
The best countdown the world will see this year has already happened.
WATCH: An eager crowd counts down to the re-lighting of the Grain Belt beer sign on Nicollet Island. It's been dark since 1996. https://t.co/ZAzOzz5bd8 pic.twitter.com/kddffdbjMk
— KARE 11 (@kare11) December 30, 2017
Some background here from LandOfSkyBlueWaters.com.
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The Best Movie I Saw In 2017
Reptilicus, on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Hipster Ed
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About "Cheap Sunglasses"
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Reminder For 2018
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New on the Beachwood today and since Thursday's post . . .
Chicagoetry: Metal Machine Music
Nothing, really nothing to turn off.
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The Week In Chicago Rock
Featuring: Ulla Straus, die Reihe, Wish Fulfillment, Michael DeMaio, Yakuza, Helen Money, and Common Kings.
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The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #181: Vegas Is Always Right
Whales, hookers, blow and food poisoning. Plus: We Miss The Beef O'Brady Bowl; Our Hypothetical Gambling Habits; Too Early For College Basketball; All About Niko; Don't Tell Me The Cubs Couldn't Afford Wade Davis; and The Bears, Ugh.
With special guest Mike Luce, pinch-hitting for the vacationing Jim "Coach" Coffman.
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The World's Greatest College Football Report's Bowl Preview Part 6
"One of the few remnants of Red Terror appears ingloriously as the name of the school's gameday bus service."
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CEO-Worker Income Gap Higher In U.S. Than Anywhere Else In The World: Analysis
Not even close.
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The Paradise Papers: The Long Twilight Struggle Against Offshore Secrecy
A groundswell of action.
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Music Maker Jam Chicago House Disco House Dance Pop EDM1 Throwback Hip Hop.
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Weekend BeachBook
A sampling.
'America Is A White Nation' In Maggie Daley Park.
Emboldened.
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A Tribute To My Improbable Tea Party Friend.
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Sorry, Obama's Still Deporter-In-Chief.
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Who Would Pay $26,000 To Work In A Chicken Plant?
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The Last 2 McDonald's Selling Pizza Have Been Forced To Stop.
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Weekend TweetWood
A sampling.
So much was weird in 2017, but perhaps the weirdest was that people who nearly triggered a pizzeria gun massacre to stop imaginary child molesters rallied to support an actual child molester's campaign for US Senate
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 31, 2017
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How The News Media Distorts Black Families.
University of Illinois study. https://t.co/MNy9xwpDQN
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 31, 2017
As it has been ever thus, and yet still not solved. How long?
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For some reason, they are ennobled in the media mindset - unlike, say, poor black people, who get what they deserve.
The media is blinded by its obsession with rural white Trump voters https://t.co/UlNKbD4t23
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 31, 2017
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Part of the problem.
Most-visited conservative news sites of 2017:
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 29, 2017
1. @Drudge_Report
2. @BreitbartNews
3. @DailyCaller
4. @ZeroHedge
5. @realDailyWire
6. @TheBlaze
7. @TheWeek
8. @DCExaminer
9. @GatewayPundit
10. @WorldNetDaily https://t.co/m9h2z7e0Mi
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Just waiting for my set. pic.twitter.com/Dv73jZvmKd
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) December 31, 2017
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The Weekend Desk Tronc Line: Ennobled.
Posted on December 31, 2017
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