By Steve Rhodes
UPDATE Oct. 18: Getting there.
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UPDATE Friday the 13th: Still sick. You can follow the travails over on Facebook if you wish. Hope to be back next week.
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UPDATE Monday: You can read all about it here.
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UPDATE Saturday: I’m miserable with the flu, haven’t been able to update the site in recent days, beyond my intention to take some time off this week anyway.
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The site will be touch-and-go this week, I need to focus once again on finding ways to make a living. Suggestions, assignments, job offers welcome!
There was no column on Monday, for completists. For today, and possibly the rest of the week, some fresh-ish material:
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Beachwood Sports Radio: It’s Not About Trubisky
All narrative roads lead to Ryan Pace. Plus: The President Of The United States Is Pro-Brain Damage; The Best Part Of The Cubs’ Week; White Sox Making Believers; Blackhawks Backup Goalie Sitch; Wade Era vs. Glennon Era; Millennials Killing Football; Rick Pitino Was Just The Worst; and Schweinsteiger!
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SportsMonday: Lester & Co.
Our very own Jim “Coach” Coffman takes a stab at the Cubs’ playoff roster and rotation.
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The Season In Verse | It Could’ve Been Worse
The first year of The Rebuild
Is now in the past.
But it wasn’t so awful
The Sox didn’t finish last . . .
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ADDED 11:40 A.M.: The Sun-Times Paid Mary Mitchell To Write This Astounding Column About The Las Vegas Shooter.
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BeachBook
A sampling.
Smarties Is Actually A Company!
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France Cracks Down On Photoshopped Bodies In Ads.
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MUST-READ: Kate Millett, Sexual Politics & Family.
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MUST-READ: Production Of A Lifetime: Whitney Houston And Clive Davis.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Not in Congress there aren’t.
There are more good people than bad, always. Never forget it. https://t.co/KW1FV2IGBG
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) October 2, 2017
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Believe me, following this code – and calling out misinformation – will not advance your journalism career. https://t.co/6gprXU60VC
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) October 2, 2017
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There’s a host in Puerto Rico on one cable news channel, there’s a host reading “Cat in the Hat” on another channel pic.twitter.com/vw93tpElEe
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 30, 2017
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What those in power will battle against most of all is the idea that things could possibly be otherwise than what they are.
— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) October 1, 2017
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Touch and go.
Posted on October 3, 2017