Conservative victimhood complex has made America impossible to govern.
John Pavlovitz Official YouTube channel, including An Honest Conversation About Disciples of the MAGAChurch.
You Can Have A Black Friend, Partner, Or Child And Still Be Racist.
Leonard Pitts: When a child goes missing, you call the police. You don’t grab a gun and try to push your way into the wrong house.
Larry Kramer obituary: American playwright, author and Aids activist best known for The Normal Heart.
Jelle’s Marble Runs, sponsored by LastWeekTonight with John Oliver, starts again June 21.
Ken Osmond & Eddie Haskell & Insincerity As an American Art Form.
I was aware that Phyllis George, who recently died at age 70, had been crowned Miss America in September 1970. The pageant was a whole lot more culturally relevant then than it’s been this century. Still, I was surprised when she became a sportscaster in 1974, and joined the cast of The NFL Today a year later. She was a trailblazer, and many women now cover major sports in the United States.
Mount St. Helens, 40 years later.
Messed up things you never noticed in your favorite ’80s movies by Mick Martin.
Mark Evanier is now interviewing tons of his friends on his YouTube channel, including Cheri Steinkellner, Scott Shaw!, Paul Levitz, and a Cartoon Voices Panel.
Catherine O’Hara: The Queen of Schitt’s Creek.
Top TV ratings from 1951-2019.
Former White House employee who served 11 presidents dies of coronavirus at 91. Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, who began working at the White House in 1957.
Trevor Noah and The Daily Show Aren’t Just Surviving—They’re Thriving.
COVID-19
100,000 dead in America and Earlier Lockdowns Could Have Saved 36,000 Lives.
Universal Testing Is the Answer to Social Distancing.
Inflamed brains, toe rashes, strokes: Why the weirdest symptoms are only emerging now.
Huge Study Throws Cold Water on Antimalarials such as hydroxychloroquine; Remdesivir Data — “Not a panacea” or a “cure-all”, seems more effective when given to patients who weren’t as severely ill.
Masks, Men, and the Exhausting Pursuit of Desperate Masculinity.
JESUS IS MY VACCINE has a millennum-long history rooted in anti-Semitism.
Amy Biancolli: faith, fear of death, and fatheads.
Me and we: Individual rights, common good, and coronavirus.
I Think You May Be Wasting Freedom.
Getting richer during the pandemic.
Double bubble buddies: How to choose the first household you’ll socialize with. SO Canadian.
New Zealand went from Level 4 to Level 2 lockdown, and Arthur reports it all.
Alas, the last of the posts from Notes From The Pandemic.
Donnybrook
Running America ‘Like A Business’ Is A Road To Ruin.
How he became the GOP’s ‘new normal’
He tried to troll Michigan’s Secretary of State on voting laws. It didn’t end well for him.
Nine Questions For The White House Physician On His Use Of Hydroxychloroquine.
Promoting Posts From Racist and Sexist Twitter Feed.
It Shouldn’t Take A Disaster For Us to Recognize a Disaster.
Fortunately, there is the Environmental Protection Network.
Distraction – Randy Rainbow.
Now I Know
The Poison Squad and The Silvonze Medalists and Music in the Key of K and The Speed Trap That Trapped Itself and Les Gardiens de Zoo Accidentels and The Big Brick Loophole.
MUSIC
This Too Shall Pass – Mike Love with John Stamos.
You Can Close Your Eyes – James Taylor and family.
At Times Like These – Live Lounge Allstars.
Mother – Roger Waters.
Symphony No. 50, Mount St. Helens, by Alan Hovhaness.
Coverville 1309: Tributes to Kraftwerk and Little Richard and 1310: The Devo Cover Story III.
Overture and incidental music from Rosamunde, by Franz Schubert.
Shakespeare In Love composed by Stephen Warbeck.
RIP: JIMMY COBB, LEGENDARY JAZZ DRUMMER (1929-2020).
Wrong Hands: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 Unported License.
Except for the fortnightly link post, I’ve all but stopped blogging in the past couple weeks. There are several reasons for this: