By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Monday. And there will barely be one today!
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The Weekend In Chicago Rock
Featuring: Capitalist Kids, The Pony’s, The Districts, alt-J, Temples, Tegan & Sara, Noname, Ryan Adams, Alphaville, George Ezra, Machine Gun Kelly, Royal Blood, Live, Foo Fighters, Blossoms, Lorde, Foster The People, Three Dog Night, Mutlu, Mac Demarco, Justice, Blink-182, Jeff The Brotherhood, Art of Anarchy, and Sleep In.
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America Has Never Had A Merit-Based System For College Admissions
We’ve never admitted students strictly based on test scores. But we have on race and gender.
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The White Sox Report: Exit Velocity
Kids really do have it tough these days.
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SportsMonday: Cubs Back – To Shaky
So Joe Maddon busts out the motorcycle vests, ugh.
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Chicagoetry: Bike On A Tightrope
I can indulge in false bravery!
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Illinois Photographer’s Work Now Forever
“I must say it was pretty neat to hear that an image I took was going to appear on a USPS stamp.”
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BeachBook
Jim Plunkett’s Painful Journey: “My life sucks.”
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Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences.
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Here We Downsize Again.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Trump tweets Fox News report based on intel leak after threatening reporters who publish leaks: https://t.co/ptp4MPxBSO pic.twitter.com/BcSTN8rGmQ
— The Hill (@thehill) August 8, 2017
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Trump’s WSJ interview was the most dishonest of his presidency. The WSJ didn’t fact check at all, and suppressed 15 of the 26 false claims.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2017
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Update: Donald Trump has made precisely 500 false claims in his 200 days in office. https://t.co/cQQH9uvtiC
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2017
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now appears that 2 of the biggest leaks of the last few months (confirming NK ship, ISIS/airplanes to Russians) have been by @POTUS himself
— Richard Tofel (@dicktofel) August 8, 2017
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Leaky.
Posted on August 8, 2017