By Steve Rhodes
A few of my not-favorite things.
Cutler and Cuba and Bruce Rauner’s Trash Van,
Kromer and Trestman and Obama’s rad plan,
Putin and Sony and “The Interview,”
Daley sure left us a big pile of poo
Posted on December 18, 2014
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
Slouching toward 2015 . . .
1. Chicago Sports Anchor To Bears: Cut Jay Cutler Or Cut Your Wrists.
To be fair, I’m not sure if anchors write the chyrons.
Posted on December 17, 2014
The [Tuesday] Papers
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
All your Monday favorites – SportsMonday, The Weekend In Chicago Rock – will appear on Tuesday! It was a busy weekend in the podcast studio. There’s gold in there, though.
The Beachwood Radio Network
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #35: Don’t Feed The Comptrollers.
The real Judy Baar Topinka. Plus: Worldwide Hate & Rahm vs. the Leftovers.
* The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #29: Bears Remorse.
Coach-killer Cutler kills Kromer. Plus: Professional Baseball Comes To Chicago! And: Blackhawks Bungle.
Posted on December 15, 2014
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius
It’s not every day you get to say this, but at least you’re not Angelina Jolie.
Market Update
Before we spend all that money we’ll save merging Treasurer and Comptroller, let’s remember what happened the last time Illinois thought about consolidating two major offices.
Posted on December 13, 2014
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“In coming to a constitutionally valid plan to appoint a new state comptroller to replace Judy Baar Topinka, who died Tuesday, what matters most is to respect the likely preferences of the state’s voters – back in November and in a future election,” the Sun-Times editorializes.
Do voters care who the comptroller is? Should they?
Posted on December 12, 2014
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“The Central Intelligence Agency leaked classified material to reporters to shape the perception that its detention and interrogation program was an effective tool in thwarting terrorism, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday,” the New York Times reports.
And reporters bit.
Again.
Think of the ramifications of news agencies acting as patsies to the political interests of the national security state – enabling war, torture, extrajudicial presidencies . . .
Posted on December 11, 2014
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
“The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday issued a sweeping indictment of the Central Intelligence Agency’s program to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, drawing on millions of internal C.I.A. documents to illuminate practices that it said were more brutal – and far less effective – than the agency acknowledged either to Bush administration officials or to the public,” the New York Times reports.
“The long-delayed report delivers a withering judgment on one of the most controversial tactics of a twilight war waged over a dozen years. The Senate committee’s investigation, born of what its chairwoman, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, said was a need to reckon with the excesses of this war, found that C.I.A. officials routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained, and failed to provide basic oversight of the secret prisons it established around the world.”
John Kass is not impressed.
Posted on December 10, 2014
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
I’m a bit consumed with the CIA torture report, among other things, so The Papers will return on Wednesday.
Plus, this was a lot of work. Check out the Show Notes. You can just enjoy those, or follow along with the whole program, or just forward to the segment you want to hear.
Also, our very own Jim “Coach” Coffman comes through with a unique insight on Derrick Rose’s t-shirt in If Only Kirk Hinrich Couldn’t Breathe.
Posted on December 8, 2014
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #34: John Kass Can Breathe.
That’s easy. But thinking is hard. Plus: Rahm’s Kinky Campaign Kickoff; The Worst Reporter In Chicago; The Illusory Raise In Chicago’s Minimum Wage; Who Polices The Chicago Police? The Chicago Police.
Posted on December 8, 2014