By Steve Rhodes
Trump-themed gun among 17 firearms seized by Chicago police over holiday weekend https://t.co/gJAiArRYv0
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) July 5, 2020
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New on the Beachwood . . .
On Boredom
“‘What? Are you just going to SIT there all day?’ they would announce as if I had not made my intentions perfectly obvious,” our very own David Rutter writes.
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The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #311: Unless Someone Dies
Sports now really a life and death proposition. Plus: The Washington Appropriators: Coach Loves The Princess Bride; Seeing Red Stars; Q-Anon; COVID Cubbie; Dash Cam; Hubba Bubbles; I’d Tap That; and Beachwood Sports Specials.
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Pandemophenia
“We’ve been itching to release a lot of this material since it was archived as ‘b-sides’ or ‘outtakes,'” Bloodshot Records announces, “but could never find the right reason or the right time to bring them all together. And then the shit hit the fan.”
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NBC’s 1976 Bicentennial Special
Including commercials for Stroh’s beer, the Dodge Colt, the AMC Pacer, the Volkswagen Rabbit, and Krylon spray paint.
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Don’t Believe Proven Liars
The Absolute Minimum Standard Of Prudence In Merger Scrutiny.
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Weekend ChicagoReddit
Diversey Driving Range looks happy from above from r/chicago
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Weekend ChicagoGram
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Weekend ChicagoTube
Bill Withers / “Lean On Me” in Chicago, 1972
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Weekend BeachBook
Beachwood Beer.
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Women’s Roller Derby Has A Plan For COVID, And It Kicks Ass.
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Weekend TweetWood
A sampling of the delight and disgust you can find @BeachwoodReport.
Trump, a serial liar about the past: “In every age, there have always been those who seek to lie about the past in order to gain power in the present.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
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Trump, with no apparent basis, on coronavirus cases: “99% of which are totally harmless.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
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Trump: “We’ve made ventilators, where there were none, by the tens of thousands.”
Fact: Trump;s administration inherited about 19,000 ventilators in the national stockpile. 16,660, all inherited, were ready to go in March. https://t.co/oU7nsxY6bi
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
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Trump devotes a section of his Fourth of July speech to “the media” that, he says, falsely and slanderously calls opponents racists just for truthfully defending history.
I am going to eat, have a good day everyone
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
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It still amazes me that Daniel Dale owns this turf – the turf of cataloging the daily lies of the President of the United States – all to himself. Isn’t this what every political reporter (and a few others) should be doing every day? And shouldn’t these lies be the bases of stories that lead the news every hour of every day?
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The Weekend Desk Tip Line: Red tail lights.
Posted on July 4, 2020