The Corruption of the Evangelical Movement, the Weekly Sift review of Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.
The effect of abortion bans on women’s health, a preview of a program running on Hulu.
Stealing Jokes Is Taboo, So Why Do Comedians Keep Doing It?
Julie Newmar documentary
The Jay Thomas story about the Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore
Now I Know: The Problem with Free Pizza and The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders and These Pigs Don’t Fly, But They Are Flags
Passings
Hail and Farewell (CBS Sunday Morning 12/31/2023)
My wife’s uncle on her mother’s side, Glenn Olin, and her aunt on her father’s side, Portia Bush, both died in January 2024.
Tom Shales, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Critic, Dies at 79
Glynis Johns, Who Played Mrs. Banks in ‘Mary Poppins,’ Dies at 100. I watched a show called Glynis, which ran for 13 episodes in 1963.
David Soul: Starsky & Hutch actor dies aged 80
The 1890 US census was destroyed 103 years ago. Here’s what survived.
Sports
NFL: Saturday, Jan. 20 – I’m rooting for the visitors
AFC — No. 4 Houston at No. 1 Baltimore 4:30 p.m. (ESPN, ABC)
NFC — No. 7 Green Bay at No. 1 San Francisco, 8 p.m. (FOX)
NFL: Sunday, Jan. 21 – I’m rooting for the home teams
Game 9: NFC — No. 4 Tampa Bay at No. 3 Detroit, 3 p.m. (NBC)
Game 10: AFC — No. 3 Kansas City at No. 2 Buffalo, 6:30 p.m. (CBS)
Bhutan: In the mountains of the world’s most remote country, baseball takes hold
MUSIC
Until The End Of The World – U2
Samba Em Comun – Peter Sprague, featuring Sinne Eeg
On The Beautiful Blue Danube, followed by the Radetzy March. Vienna Philharmonic.
It’s Been A Long Long Day – Radka Toneff, a Paul Simon cover
Coverville 1472: The Jimmy Page Cover Story
Nothing Really Matters – Madonna
Carmen Suite – Rodion Shchedrin
Red Flags – Brittany Howard
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again – Bob Dylan
Rainbow Connection dubbed into Japanese
Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles
The Covered Man – David Soul
Midnight Special– CCR
Don’t Give Up On Us – David Soul