A Real Pro-Police Agenda is Liberal and A Black Republican Tackles The Police ‘Trust Gap’
Why I Don’t Talk About Race With White People
How Abigail Adams Proves Bill O’Reilly Wrong About Slavery
Presbyterian Church USA Joins Growing List of Denominations Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery – It also voted to develop recommendations of how Presbyterian congregations “can support Native Americans in their ongoing efforts for sovereignty and fundamental human rights”
NAACP calls for national moratorium on charter schools
The Sewage Still Spills. The Park South neighborhood in Albany still dumps raw sewage into the Hudson River
Journalist Jeff Sharlet on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media
The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists
SamuraiFrog is 40 and had been having a difficult time with the medical bureaucracy. So Jaquandor suggested some natal day music
The writing process: Levine and Isaacs and Sedinger
MAD magazine’s Jack Davis, R.I.P. and more on Jack
I participated in TWC Question Time #47: Do you find creator controversies make you more or less interested in comics by those creators?
What Calvin and Hobbes taught me about mindfulness
Old photos and other miscellany
Walter Cronkite Apollo 11 Interview with Robert A. Heinlein & Arthur C. Clarke
Alan Moore is the best author in human history
Legally Blonde – Feminist Review and Analysis
TV shows made special television commercials to represent the products of their sponsors
Bummer: Sesame Street’ Lets Go Longtime Cast Members Bob, Gordon and Luis
Comedians in cars getting coffee: John Oliver
Now I Know: Calling Dar Bizziebee and The Key to Seceding and Buds But Not Buddies and The Most Boring Day of the Last Century
Sunshine bloggers fillyjonk and Chuck Miller
Is it Mary or Sue? and Hominy and understanding
Elephants and Donkeys
Weekly Sift: The Big Lie in Trump’s Speech and You Have to Laugh
Inside the scramble to oust Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Aides to President Barack Obama urged him to get rid of the troublesome DNC chair last fall. He passed, figuring she was Hillary Clinton’s problem to solve”
The Houston Chronicle endorses Hillary Clinton, already
Oldest Presidents inaugurated
73 Reagan (II) 1985 Colon cancer, benign prostatic enlargement, dementia (?)
69 Reagan (I) 1981 Life-threatening hemorrhage after gunshot to chest
68 Harrison, W 1841 Died of pneumonia after one month in office.
66 Eisenhower (II) 1957 Stroke, despite taking anti-coagulant medication.
66 Jackson (II) 1833
Reagan turned 70 on February 6, 1981; Donald Trump turned 70 on June 14, 2016; Hillary Clinton turns 69 on October 26, 2016
MUSIC
Marni Nixon, Singing Voice Behind WEST SIDE STORY, THE KING AND I & More, Dies at 86 – I wrote about her last year HERE
Say hello — and then say goodbye — to Qandeel Baloch, twenty-six
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Campaign Songs
Ciara – Paint It, Black (The Last Witch Hunter Soundtrack)
Rossini’s Overture to William Tell
HOFFMAN FILES: Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Coverville 1133: The Linda Ronstadt cover story; and Coverville 1135: Cover Stories for Buddy Guy, Louis Armstrong, and Paul Anka
Michelle Obama & Missy Elliott Do Carpool Karaoke With James Corden
Harry Chapin – What Made America Famous (Soundstage)
Late 1969: Let the Sunshine In featuring these people and these people and the cast of HAIR. Those scheduled but did not show included Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond, Dick Gregory, John Lindsay and Sidney Poitier