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By Steve Rhodes
I have a busy morning, I may nor may not get a column out later today, you’ll just have to check back. Sorry. I have a ton of Beachwood material in our other sections to post as well. I’m doing the best I can!
For now, though:
Posted on July 29, 2009
By Steve Rhodes
* Andrew Reilly writes in The White Sox Report:
“It’s tempting to use events like Mark Buehrle’s perfect game as a foundation for projecting how the rest of the season might go, an especially stupid proposition considering just how much of an aberration the event really is; you might as well say Jim Thome’s seven-RBI outings show a team that’s finally turned the corner. But what Buehrle’s tremendous achievement does give us is a guarantee of some degree of fond remembrance of the 2009 season.
Posted on July 27, 2009
By The Weekend Desk B Team
Editor’s Note: Natasha Julius is on assignment deep inside the bowels of the American dream factory. She will return next week with her special report.
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
The general consensus that President Obama “acted stupidly” at his press conference about health care and Skip Gates last week will continue to prove fodder for pundits unable to grasp and unwilling to read the health care reform bill now moving through the House, fueled in part by the president’s unwillingness to just admit he screwed up.
On the other hand, we don’t understand the health care bill either.
Posted on July 25, 2009
By Steve Rhodes
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UPDATE 3:06 P.M.: Geez, take me out of my routine and my whole day falls apart. I’m filling in for Natasha on the Weekend Desk tomorrow so I’ll just deliver today’s expected column as part of tomorrow’s report, it’s too late to catch up because, well, I just don’t feel like it. I’ll make tomorrow’s report extra special. See you then.
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I have to go downtown this morning to tape an appearance on NBC5’s The Talk, which will air on Sunday at 7:30 a.m. I’ll be talking about the mayor’s reaction to the Cook County board’s new ordinance lessening penalties for small-time pot possession to a ticket and a fine rather than jail time. If you missed it, the mayor went bonkers.
I’ll have a column upon my return.
For now, though, a sampling of today’s Beachwood:
Posted on July 24, 2009
By Steve Rhodes
1. Pot Makes Daley Crazy.
2. Jim Parque juiced.
3. Sure, Stella Foster wants to know today “what’s up” with all the young blacks and Latinos shooting each other, and that’s pretty priceless, but even better is this:
“This columnist got a lot of e-mails regarding my waterboarding item . . . will run some next week.”
Oh Stella, don’t tease us so. Don’t make the world wait!
Posted on July 23, 2009
By Steve Rhodes
“Mayor Daley today accused unidentified media naysayers of trying to sandbag Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid by reporting testimony from people at neighborhood hearings who don’t want the Olympics,” the Fran Spielman reports in theSun-Times.
So the media shouldn’t report testimony from people at neighborhood hearings? Aren’t the hearings being held to, um, hear from the people?
Posted on July 22, 2009
By Steve Rhodes
The Tom Toles editorial cartoon about health care reform in the Sun-Times today is amusing. But it’s also misguided.
Toles shows a snail labeled the “Health Care Reform Ambulance” creeping along a path littered with the mile-markers of the past, starting with 1993 through today.
At the end of the path, between the 2009 and 2010 signs, a Republican (an elephant in a suit) is holding his hands up saying “Whoa there, pal! Slow it down!”
Yes. But no.
Posted on July 21, 2009
By Steve Rhodes
From my Facebook feed:
“Ted McClelland loves this Wikipedia entry: Stewart Ernest Cink (born May 21, 1973) is an American professional golfer best known for screwing up the finish of the 2009 Open Championship.”
God bless Wikipedia.
Posted on July 20, 2009
By Natasha Julius
You can spend the weekend watching the action from Turnberry, or maybe even go out and pretend you’re there. We’ll keep our eye on the news.
Market Update
Despite a strong week overall, the key recovery industries of Truth and Integrity suffered a devastating loss.
Posted on July 18, 2009
