Who Are Those Guys? – Customs and Border Protection agents in Portland, OR.
Why Hundreds of Mathematicians Are Boycotting Predictive Policing.
Looming Immigration Services Shutdown May Fuel Voter Suppression in 2020.
Apologies that aren’t apologies, 2020 edition.
They’re trying to kill the Postal Service so they can privatize it.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: China & Uighurs.
Methane is mysteriously leaking from the sea floor in Antarctica, edging global heating to a point of no return.
The Truth About Micromanagers.
People who like embarrassing or angering others find social media more addictive.
The Lincoln Project ads: How It Starts and Trumpfeld and The Wall and New.
Why You Should Travel Without a Smartphone.
The Sisyphean Quest to Bring Back Discontinued Foods.
An Oral History of Big Mouth Billy Bass.
How the Ice Cream Truck Made Summer Cool.
Actor John Saxon, RIP.
Gone With the Wind’ star Olivia de Havilland dies at 104.
Rotten Tomatoes: 100 Worst Movies Of All Time. I’ve seen zero of them, FWIW.
Race
Rep. John Lewis wasn’t seen as a hero from the beginning — and there’s a lesson in that. Plus Barack Obama delivers his eulogy.
A new word in my vocab: misogynoir, where racism and sexism meet.
The health disparities of systemic racism.
ERIC Crow, Jim Crow’s liberal twin.
Peggy Shepard is Featured in CBS Environmental Racism Story.
I’ve not read it. Thoughts? Robin DiAngelo’s best-seller White Fragility is a book about how to make certain educated white readers feel better about themselves.
Characteristics of white supremacy culture and, from NPR: White supremacist ideas have historical roots in U.S. Christianity.
“I Have Struggled”: Black TV Journalists Talk George Floyd Coverage, Industry Diversity.
Calling on the Ancestors: The Gift of Ralph Ellison.
Now I Know
The Post Office That’s Underwater and The Cheeseburger on Ice and When Video Games Go Bitter and International Wallyball and When Bread Breaks Arms and The Politician Who Went to Prison.
COVID
Health care executives fear public distrust of vaccine will lead to the continued spread of disease.
John Oliver on coronavirus conspiracy theories, and related, The True True Truth.
Inside His Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus.
DeVos’s Plan to Reopen Schools Hides a Sinister Agenda and Back to School.
We’ve Reached Peak Libertarianism — And It’s Literally Killing Us.
Buddy, first dog to test positive for COVID-19 in the U.S., has died.
How to make masks that everyone will want to wear.
Why Pandemic First Dates Are Better and We Found Love in a Hopeless Place.
Gee, Anthony Fauci -Randy Rainbow.
MUSIC
Lincoln Center version of Carousel starring Kelli O’Hara and Nathan Gunn available until 8 PM ET on September 8.
Rebecca Jade! Live From The Merc with Peter Sprague (7/26) and Home Made, Part 4 (7/25).
Everybody Cries – Rita Wilson, from “The Outpost”.
The Battle of Manassas, by Blind Tom Wiggins.
How Can I Keep from Singing – NYC Virtual Choir and Orchestra.
Fantasy Variations by Ulysses Simpson Kay.
A rock concert of 1,000 performers.
Coverville 1317: Cover Stories for Beck and Jack White and 1318: The Slash Cover Story.
If the world was ending – JP Saxe.
Hamilton Cast Tribute To The 40th Anniversary of A Chorus Line (2015).
Longest Time (Quarantine Edition) – Phoenix Chamber Choir.
Jumpin’ Jive – Cab Calloway with the Nicholas Brothers number from Stormy Weather.
Lean on Me – Bill Withers (live).
K-Chuck Radio: Order in the Court”.
“BIG DADDY…STRANDED IN THE JUNGLE” to ten (audio version) episodes!
The 
There was a time when I thought most of the music between 1959 and 1963 was boring. Lots of dudes named Bobby – Bobby Vee, Bobby Vinton – and they weren’t even the same guy?
Here’s a continuation of a list of songs I found in my record collection after my last full readthrough of the Bible back in 1996/1997. I was in a Bible study at the home of my then-former girlfriend. Two years later, I lived at that home for a year.