Trimmer (def 1): One who adjusts beliefs, opinions, and actions to suit personal interest.
Let There Be Light by Sharp Little Pencil
Fact-checking FOTUS’ address to Congress and CPAC
ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
RFK Jr. Misleads on Vitamin A, Unsupported Therapies for Measles
‘Project 2025 in Action’: Administration Fires Half of Education Department Staff
DEI Is Disappearing In Hollywood. Was It Ever Really Here?
Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
Meet Everyone Hates Elon, the U.K.-Based Collective Attempting to Take Down Musk: “Let’s Make Billionaires Losers Again”
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Also
The “I Am Canadian” commercial returns!
13 Minutes To The Moon, the podcast about how NASA got to the moon. Produced by the BBC World Service and hosted by Kevin Fong from NASA, with fascinating interviews. Hans Zimmer did the music.
Sports Betting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Devin “Legal Eagle” Stone is not quitting
The 6668th Central Postal Battalion
Read an interview with Jim McNeal and J. Eric Smith, the authors of Crucibles: How Formidable Rites of Passage Shape the World’s Most Elite Organizations, now available for preorder
John Green reads Chapter 1 of his new book EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS and is interviewed on the CBC
We Will Eradicate Measles
Joseph Wambaugh, L.A. Cop Turned Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 88. I used to watch Police Story.
Kevin Drum, writer of solid political commentary, died
Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, dies at 82
A collection of the Mickey Mouse shorts from 1929, including Mickey speaking his first words in The Karnival Kid
Captain America Co-Creator Jack Kirby Getting Definitive Documentary ‘Kirbyvision’
Now I Know: Bombs Away! (Cat Version) and The Jigsaw Puzzles Worth Their Weight in Gold? and A Whopper of a Way to Pay For Your Wedding and How Homer Simpson’s Comical Gluttony Saved Lives and A Classical Way to Save the Whales and Why 19th Century Britons Lost Their Heads
Albany Public Library
Two Open Seats on APL Board. Albany voters will select two trustees for the Albany Public Library Board in the May 20 election. Both positions carry full five-year terms, which commence on July 1.
The library is hosting the following public forums:
“So, You Want to be a Library Trustee” Information Sessions
- March 22 (Sat) | 10-11:30 am | Howe Branch | 105 Schuyler St.
- March 26 (Wed) | 6:30-8 pm | Pine Hills Branch | 517 Western Ave.
Hear from current trustees about what it’s like serving as an APL trustee, how to get on the ballot, and tips for a successful campaign.
Meet the Trustee Candidates Forum and Library Budget Session
May 6 (Tue) | 6-7:30 pm | Washington Ave. Branch | 161 Washington Ave.
Bad news for libraries: ALA’s statement on the White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library Author talks/book reviews in April, Tuesdays at 2 pm, 161 Washington Ave, large auditorium:
April 1 | To Be Announced
April 8 | Author Talk | C. M. Waggoner, who as a youngster ‘spent a lot of time reading fantasy novels in a swamp,’ discusses & reads from her mystery, The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society.
April 15 | Book Review | Piranesi, a novel by Susanna Clarke. Reviewer: Sarah Reiter, prolific local fiction writer & artist.
April 22 | Book Review | Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging by Linda Dittmar. Reviewer: Jim Collins, PhD, professor emeritus, Linguistic Anthropology, U at Albany, SUNY.
April 29 | Book Review | Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System by Wes Marshall. Reviewer: Jackie Gonzales, PhD, environmental historian & project manager, Capital Streets.
MUSIC
Beethoven’s Opus 72 (Fidelio), Overture, which, of course, is all about me!
In February 2014, my wife and I attended the Albany Symphony Orchestra concert, which included Maurice Ravel’s Bolero. We got the tickets from friends at church who gave them up because one of them hated that piece of music, thinking it was boring. Seeing and hearing Bolero live was exquisite.
Flash forward to March 2025, and blogger buddy Kelly linked to a performance of Ravel’s Bolero despite his long-standing disdain for the piece. He wrote, “This one’s really very good, and the camera work in this video is pretty terrific.” Not incidentally, this being the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth this year, ASO is performing Bolero again on April 5, 2024, at the Palace Theatre in Albany. We are not going because of a conflict, but I recommend it. Incidentally, Maurice and I have the same birthday.
Lisztomania -Phoenix
Bach at Home: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 Movement III by Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Defy Democracy – A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Bored in the U.S.A. – Father John Misty
Hello, It’s Me – Evan Marks & Rebecca Jade. Vote in this year’s San Diego Music Awards for this song in Category 21 every day through March 27!
Personality Crisis – New York Dolls; Hot! Hot! Hot! – Buster Poindexter. David Johansen, Flamboyant New York Dolls Vocalist and Co-Founder, Dies at 75
Name of God – Mustafa
Mambo Lido – Peter Sprague
Oh! You Pretty Things – Lisa Hannigan
Lupron – Time Wharp
One O’Clock Jump – Buddy Rich
Joy, Joy! – Valerie June
Look What I Found – Lady Gaga (from A Star Is Born)
Bulletproof -La Roux
Death of Samatha – Yoko Ono
Coverville 1525: Cover Stories for Missing Persons and New Bohemians
Intro -The xx
Concern – William Tyler
Pique Dame by Franz von Suppe
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