Bonhoeffer musing on Who am I?
Bankruptcy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
The Unbelievable Story of Europe’s Runaway Nazi.
Planned Parenthood: We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James Baldwin, “Letter From a Region in My Mind” essay
The anti-trans distraction.
American Library Association: books with antiracist messages climbed the list of most challenged or banned titles in 2020.
These inventors don’t get the credit they deserve.
Weekends In Space.
Best history podcasts: 14 shows that tell you forgotten stories.
Remembering Walter Mondale.
Gender reveal party death toll mounts, people ask Why?
Prince Philip’s Fascinating Family: A Russian Tsarina, A Greek Orthodox Nun, a Banished King, and More.
Make To Don’t Lists.
New JEOPARDY guest hosts announced! LeVar Burton, George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, David Faber, and Joe Buck.
Theology in the DCU and MU.
Now I Know: The Picture of Abraham Lincoln’s Fake Ghost and The Birthday Problem and When Stalin’s Grapes Went
Sour and The First Boycott and Mussels and When Baseball Went to Pot.
Not me: Four Mustangs caught going more than double the speed limit in Surrey. “High-risk driving behaviour… is one of the leading causes of collisions in BC,” said Sergeant Roger Green of the service’s Community Response Unit.
Not me: Immigrants in Greece who can’t book Covid jabs. Roger Green, a British writer who has lived on the island since the early ’90s, says some are afraid to leave their homes.
SPORTS
MLB’s extra-innings rule is back in 2021; here’s why baseball should use
ties instead. “Each half-inning beyond the ninth — i.e., extra innings — in Major League Baseball now begins with a runner on second base and no outs.” The automatic runner rule is dreadful, a baseball abomination,IMO.
Why Home Runs Are Bad for Baseball.
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City is a “privately funded, not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its profound impact on the social advancement of America.”
Pitcher Hope Trautwein Throws A Perfect Game Of All Strikeouts
Mulligan? Golfers consult rule book after ball lands on alligator’s back
MUSIC
Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace by S.S. Wesley (Isaiah 26:3).
Mandela’s Blues -Kinky Friedman.
Wichita Lineman – Peter Sprague, featuring Rebecca Jade.
Solfeggio by Arvo Part, San Diego Master Chorale.
A Rainbow in Curved Air – Terry Riley.
I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo – Glenn Miller band with Tex Beneke and the dancing of the Nicholas Brothers (1942 movie “Orchestra Wives”).
Music for Percussion Quartet – David Crowell, plus Music for Pieces of Wood, by Steve Reich.
Coverville 1355 : The Roy Orbison Cover Story III and 1356: Tribute to Jim Steinman and 50th Anniversary of The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers.
The Swan of Tuonela by Sibelius.
Flintstones theme: Jazz Ambassadors, Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis, Hungarian Border Guard Orchestra, FMU Jazz Ensemble, Bjørn Jørgensen
and his Big Band, Jacob Collier, Postmodern Jukebox, The CompanY, and Vinheteiro.
Robert Schumann’s Traumerai. You KNOW this tune!