A Finnish study found that voters had a lower risk for all-cause death over 21 years of follow-up compared with non-voters. (Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health)
Voter Turnout Highest in Half Century as Mamdani Phenomenon Galvanizes Electorate; More than 2 million New York voters cast ballots, the most in a mayoral race since 1969.
Why do the French eat healthier? The government helps.
Nancy Pelosi Plans to Retire in 2027 After 39 Years in Congress
What would a Republican healthcare plan look like
NTSB agents arrive in Louisville, KY, to investigate what caused the engine to fall off the UPS cargo plane and the left wing to catch fire
Charity Scandals of 2025
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
Police Chases and Felony Murder: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Amazon Ring’s upcoming facial recognition tool could violate the privacy rights of millions of people and result in Amazon breaking state biometric privacy laws.
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral (MIT Technology Review)
The Casinoification of America: Gambling Is Killing Sports and Consuming the Country
This year’s anti-DST rant
The Man Who Held His Breath for 24 Minutes (not recommended)
10 Cities With the World’s Oldest Subway Systems
Crocs– Josh Johnson (thru 10:21)
Now I Know: Basketball’s Digital Problem and The Time Travel Trap and Prison Food You’ll Want to Eat and How the Civil War Decided What Pie You Eat on Thanksgiving
Metamucilini
His actions have raised a chilling question: Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Why He Can Do No Wrong
$230 Million: The Biggest, Most Blatantly Corrupt Political Thievery in U.S. History
His many lies on 60 Minutes; Jon Stewart takes him on
Could a Third Term Happen?
Banquet of Greed: Ballroom Donors Feast on Federal Funds and Favors
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up FOTUS
Border czar admits ICE sees all immigrants as criminals
Listeria outbreak surfaces after CDC cuts key program
MUSIC
Big Phony Schmuck! – Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Losing My Mind – Imelda Staunton from Follies
My Cologne – Howl Owl Howl
I’ve Just Seen A Face (Take 3) – The Beatles (Anthology 4)
Lawyers, Guns, and Money – Warren Zevon
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life – Monty Python with orchestra
Water Music by George Frideric Handel on original instruments
The Rainbow Connection -Kermit the Frog with the Lincoln Center choir
The Isle of the Dead, Op.29 by Rachmaninoff, plus some spooky/moody/scary movie music
Danse Macabre, Op. 40 by Saint-Saëns – Leopold Stokowski
Superman March by John Williams, performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Goodnight Moon by Eric Whitacre
Riders on the Storm – The Doors
The Passenger – Iggy Pop
Short-Term Memory Loss Blues – Ray Jessel
Bohemian Rhapsody – Pentatonix
With A Little Help From My Friends – Joe Cocker
Building the Barn by Maurice Jarre, from the movie Witness
September – EW&F; Leonid & friends
Girls Just Want to Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper
Old Friends – Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez from Merrily We Roll Along
Where I Wanna Be – Jasmine Amy Rogers from BOOP! The Musical
Bad Company – Bad Company
One Short Day – Voctave from the musical Wicked
Beyond The Sea -Jonathan Groff and the Broadway company of Just In Time from the musical based on the career of Bobby Darin
The Twist – Chubber Checker
Sidestep – Charles Durning from the 1982 movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Omaha, Nebraska – Groucho Marx
The Lively Ones – Vic Damone
More music
J. Eric Smith’s Genre Delve: Americana and Prog
Slapstick Slops – the Slop Sisters, for Kelly, as is The James Bond Theme – Harvard Undergraduate Drummers playing on boonwhackers
Lord Vinheteiro plays familiar tunes whose names we don’t know while he stares accusingly at us.
So Rare & Flippin’ – The Haircuts (CAESAR’S HOUR, Apr 25 1955)
Coverville 1555: The Ellie Greenwich Cover Story, 1556: The David Ball Tribute and Soft Cell Cover Story, and 1557: The America Cover Story II
The Doobie Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert (NPR), Nov 5, 2025
Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles
Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay dies at 78; I saw her perform in the late 1970s
Is it ever acceptable for musicians to collectively refuse to perform a piece of music?