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By Steve Rhodes
From my point of view, the universe sure picked a bad week for Blago’s new trial, the Sun-Times’s Pulitzer, Rahm’s new appointees and everything else going on because, frankly, I’m having a hard time keeping up. As always, I have to also try to conduct business. I never really even caught up on the last election.
So I’ll get to everything in due course. Today I’ll have to just pick some low-hanging fruit.
Posted on April 20, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
The Papers will be late today due to a late night on the bartending shift, but we already have this week’s Outside Sox Park column by Dmitry Samarov posted – with another brilliant portrait. Collect them all!
UPDATE 1:53 P.M.: Life and other things are intruding, so the Beachwood will be so late today it will simply return tomorrow. We do have one more post up: The Chicago TV Stand. Enjoy and we’ll see you on Wednesday.
Posted on April 19, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
1. What If You Can’t Afford To Pay Your Taxes?
See also: The Rich Aren’t Like You & Me; They Don’t Pay Taxes.
Posted on April 18, 2011
Translated from Natasha Julius’s desperate text messages from a cave somewhere in the bowels of Roscoe Village, where technical difficulties severed her internet connection.
Alternate Route
My train home from work on Thursday got delayed 20 minutes by President Obama’s motorcade, preventing me from breastfeeding my daughter. Take that, Michelle Bachmann!
Posted on April 16, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
First, the news from Vancouver:
* Canucks Came Out Flying Against Blackhawks.
* Blackhawks Exit Game 1 Even More Battered.
But . . .
Posted on April 14, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
“More than 40 people have applied to become Chicago’s next top cop, officials said Tuesday,” the Sun-Times reports.
“The Chicago Police Board will interview the candidates for Chicago police superintendent and present three finalists to Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, who takes office May 16.”
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And then Emanuel will choose the candidate he wanted all along, even if he or she is not among the police board’s finalists, just like Richard M. Daley did before him. And that’s how we got Jody Weis.
Posted on April 13, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
Some of our more astute readers may have noticed that our left rail is missing from this page today. That’s because I accidentally deleted the template for it. I should never be allowed to go anywhere near the technology. We will restore it as soon as we figure out how.
At least I’m not the Cook County Recorder of Deeds.
Posted on April 12, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
1. Some Chicago schools do not allow brown bag lunches.
It’s a government takeover of school lunch!
Posted on April 11, 2011
By Natasha Julius
It doesn’t get much more nonessential than the Weekend Desk, but we’re still showing up for work.
Good To Be Kings
Look, we don’t want to quibble, but if you’re going to remake a classic American dramedy, you need more likeable characters than these.
And you can’t just replace hatred of poor women with hatred of women in general.
Posted on April 9, 2011
