The Illegitimacy of a Conservative Supreme Court.
Staying Sane in Anxious Times (without being useless).
A Catholic’s Case Against Amy Coney Barrett. Plus The Supreme Court: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.
Uninsured up from last year and pandemic likely to exacerbate this trend.
Renewed calls for diversity and inclusion in ballet.
A Texas County Clerk’s Bold Crusade to Transform How We Vote.
The Twisted History of Cursive Writing.
How to Make Your Writing Funnier – Cheri Steinkellner.
NFL Legend Gale Sayers Dies at 77: CNN and NPR.
Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock has died at 81.
Secret ‘Man Cave’ Discovered in Room Beneath Grand Central Station.
Ken Levine interviews Michael Uslan, The Man Who Saved Batman, Part One and Part Two.
Now I Know
The Original Scapegoat and The Final Frontier of Telemarketing and The Last Confederate POW and Why Roosters Don’t Deafen Themselves.
Antiracism Challenge
Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman on race, injustice, and protest.
A series of short films about identity in America.
The Speak Up Handbook by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
‘Intergroup anxiety’: Can you try too hard to be fair?
Allegories on race and racism – Camara Jones, TEDxEmory.
ALICE — Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed.
IMPOTUS
His Rage Is Worse Than You’ve Heard.
He Fuels March Toward Fascism With “Anarchist Jurisdictions” Edict.
He Says Coronavirus ‘Affects Virtually Nobody,’ As U.S. Has World’s Highest Death Toll.
His HHS ad blitz raises alarms.
Blacks have themselves to blame for inequality, and Jews ‘are only in it for themselves’.
DOJ Unveils Proposal That Would Make It Harder for Twitter and Facebook to Block His Dangerous Posts.
They got Al Capone for tax evasion, too…. cf I Found Joe Biden’s Tax Returns.
He celebrates violence against his enemies as recurring rally theme.
Shock (?) Over His Refusal To Promise ‘Peaceful Transfer Of Power’.
Barbara Walter Interview on ABC’s 20/20 – August 17, 1990.
I Won’t Vote Trump – Randy Rainbow.
MUSIC
RIP, Toots.Zooming in with Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert — the Legend Who Literally Invented “Reggae”. Bam Bam and 54-46 Was My Number and Sweet and Dandy and Pressure Drop.
I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I’ll Get It Myself) – James Brown
I’d Rather Go Blind ~ Rebecca Jade at Spaghettini.
Tiny Desk (Home) Concert – Phoebe Bridgers.
With God On Our Side – NEVILLE BROTHERS.
We Have All The Time In The World – Louis Armstrong.
Virtual Sabbath Prayer.
Coverville 1324: Cover Stories for Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars and 1325: 50 Years After…After the Gold Rush (Album Cover) and 1326: Jimi Hendrix Cover Tribute.
Attention by Pamela Z.
4’33” by John Cage.
While there was some music that I made sure my daughter knew about, most of it she learned on her own. And this includes tunes from well before she was born.
One of the things I remember the most about 1980 was the Olympics, boycotted by the United States and its allies. It happened as a result of the Soviet Union’s incursion into Afghanistan the year before. So the world learned yet again how difficult invading Afghanistan really was.