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By David Rutter
1. Tom Ricketts, WTF?
The Cubs are 10 games out, but the owner is not upset with Jim Hendry, Mike Quade, Carlos Zambrano, or the Cubs in general.
Or Wrigley Field or that his team wore “Fuck The Goat” T-shirts on the field for a public practice recently. Classy.
He also is not upset with world hunger, nuclear arms proliferation or the Rwandan genocide.
Posted on June 17, 2011
By Lee Powell/AP
At the National Pinball Museum in Washington, D.C., the history of the game with its rolling metal balls and noisy flippers is a passion for David Silverman.
Posted on June 16, 2011
A Trend Alert From Trends Journal
Everything is not alright. And things are going to get worse . . . much worse. The economy is on the threshold of calamity. Wars are spreading like wildfires. The world is on a razor’s edge.
Not so, say world leaders and mainstream media experts. Yes, there are problems, but the financiers and politicians are aware of them. Policies are already in place and measures are being taken to correct them.
Whether it’s failing economies, intractable old wars or raging new wars, the word from the top always maintains that steady progress is being made and comforts the populace with assurances that the brightest minds and the sharpest generals are in charge and on the case. On all fronts, success is certain and victory is at hand. Only “patience” is required . . . along with more men, more time and more money.
As far as these “leaders” and their media are concerned, the only opinions that count come from a stable of thoroughbred experts, official sources and political favorites. Only they have the credentials to speak with authority and provide trustworthy forecasts. That they are consistently, if not invariably, wrong apparently does nothing to diminish their credibility.
How can any thinking adult possibly imagine that the same central bankers, financiers and politicians responsible for creating the economic crisis are capable of resolving it? Within days of its announcement, we predicted that Bush’s TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) was destined to fail, and subsequently predicted the same for Obama’s stimulus package (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). They were no more than cover-ups; there would be no recovery.
Posted on June 14, 2011
By David Rutter
1. Jean-Claude Brizard, WTF?
Maybe WTF has lost track of how these things are done, but Brizard’s contract to run Chicago’s schools is still being negotiated and the deal has secrets in it?
WTF.
Isn’t the deal supposed to be the same as the offer made by the boss?
Posted on June 10, 2011
By David Rutter
1. North Avenue Beach, WTF?
The city’s new top cop and his new boss know better than to concoct total falsehoods and announce it to the public, don’t they?
Apparently not. The Memorial Day Weekend beach kerfuffle and subsequent ancillary kerfuffles were not related to a thousand gangbangers arriving on our noble shores to mess up whoever was there. That’s the official can’t-pass-the-smell-test story. Pay no attention to the thugs behind the curtain. It was 88 degrees and that’s really hot for some of us.
Posted on June 3, 2011
By The Beachwood Beach Bureau
“Gang loitering, intimidation, flash mobs and violence had nothing to do with the Chicago Police Department’s unprecedented decision to close North Avenue beach on a sultry Memorial Day, Acting Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Wednesday.”
The Beachwood has learned the real reasons the beach was closed:
* Test run for privatization.
* Richard M. Daley wanted the day to himself and his Geiger counter.
* Garry McCarthy got his Rapture date all wrong; thought corpses were about to emerge from hidden graves under the sand.
Posted on June 2, 2011
By J.J. Tindall
Maelstrom
Meet the new boss –
tongue of bricks –
sharpening his trowel
to tuckpoint the Shithouse
as the excruciating maelstrom
expands, like a universe.
Posted on May 31, 2011
By The Beachwood Supermodel Affairs Desk
Skokie supermodel Erin Heatherton (known by her birth name of Erin Heather Bubley at Niles North High), back in town on Wednesday for a Victoria’s Secret gig (and a stop at Wrigley Field) is only a super model if you want your daughter to grow up super anorexic. There is nothing sexy about walking skeletons. Or as the street may say, baby ain’t got back. She probably ain’t got a menstrual cycle no more either.
1. Thinner than a bat.
Posted on May 26, 2011
