By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Wednesday.
I will get back to filling this area with media critique and political analysis, I promise. Unless one of my schemes hatches. Working on it.
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Meanwhile, we’ve scheduled the 200th episode of The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour for this Saturday at 10:30 a.m., followed by a beery liquid lunch across the street at Revolution Brewing. Guests welcome! If you want to be on the air or just part of the studio audience, let me know.
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New on the Beachwood . . .
Gibson Guitars: The Sound Of Rock, Bankruptcy Notwithstanding
“Gibson is an iconic brand, intrinsically linked with one of the greatest art forms of all time. Their guitars have played a hugely significant role in defining the sound of popular music, music which soundtracks the most important moments of our lives. Long may they continue to build these instruments.”
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Sinclair-Fox Station Deal Enabled By FCC Is Dangerous For Democracy
“Sinclair’s plan to sell seven stations to Fox as part of its Tribune takeover shows everything that’s wrong with the media-ownership landscape.”
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Trump Vowed To Punish Companies That Moved Jobs Overseas. Is Congress Rewarding Them?
“Inside the 500-page bill are tariff reductions for hundreds of such items: baby strollers, hiking boots, pimiento-stuffed olives, boxing gloves, coffee makers, toasters, plastic spoons and forks, sparklers and party poppers, nicotine gum, pet toys, pajamas, reusable grocery bags, leather belts, sweaters, glass vases, basketballs, unicycles, yoga mats and vertical waffle makers.”
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The Political Odds
Lori Lightfoot is in – and by far Rahm’s top challenger.
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The Ex-Cub Factor
See which former, left-for-dead Cub is really mashing now.
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Translating The Counterculture: The Reception Of The Beats In Turkey
Repurposing Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs.
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Globetrotting Mosquitoes Suck
“Some of North America’s most important and emerging insect pests originate elsewhere on the planet: the Japanese beetle, emerald ash borer, brown marmorated stink bug, and the spotted lanternfly.”
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Chicago Pipe Show 2018.
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BeachBook
CIA Looked Into Possible Conspiracy Behind Soviets’ Surprise Upset In 1972 Olympics.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Minnesota: The Midwest Model Bruce Rauner Refuses To Confront.
“On virtually every metric, workers and families in #Minnesota are better off than their counterparts in #Wisconsin–and the decisions of state lawmakers have been instrumental in driving many of those differences.”–@MetaCoophttps://t.co/UHrvNXiqJn
— Economic Policy Institute (@EconomicPolicy) May 8, 2018
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MSNBC Does Virtually Nothing To Punish Blatant Misconduct From One Of Its Hosts https://t.co/GgaoLTS3Nz via @Splinter_news
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 10, 2018
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Colorado cop corrects would-be dog-slaughtering Illinois officer about drug-sniffing after marijuana legalization https://t.co/CrdRxfmvOb
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 10, 2018
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Ron Wyden, critic of Gina Haspel’s, unloading on CIA today. “There is literally an A to Z coverup going on here,” he told me. “What you have is selective declassification; you have a public influence campaign being waged by the agency and just a boatload of misinformation.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 7, 2018
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Questions of Haspel’s character miss the point: she was already tested. The only morals in question today are our own. https://t.co/INeeEyLgvF
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) May 9, 2018
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Trump told military spouses today that he’s proud to have given servicemembers pay raises for the “first time in 10 years.” They’ve received raises every year for at least 30 years, Military Times reports. https://t.co/R2HXZjyp5y
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 9, 2018
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Why did Isthmus pull a critical public-art story? https://t.co/Gdjq8djLTo
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 9, 2018
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: It’s about time.
Posted on May 10, 2018