Picture per HERE.
How Republicans Trumped Themselves. Still, I’m NOT convinced that FriendsWhoLikeTrump.com reflects true Trump supporters on Facebook.
How people respond to Bible quotes when told they’re from the Quran.
The Deadliest Mass Shooting Everyone Forgot.
Ikea’s Newly Designed Refugee Shelters.
Why Poor People Stay Poor. Saving money costs money. Period.
UN Fighting to make LGBT people Free & Equal.
Speedway gas stations and Common Core math.
The Twitter blue bird? Hatched in Albany.
Tom Tomorrow: The Gun Policy Debate in Four Sentences and The last thing a chaotic crime scene needs is more untrained civilians carrying guns; The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper discovers that becoming an effective good guy with a gun is harder than it looks. Plus Guns are security blankets, not insurance policies.
Conversation between Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jon Stewart & a number of 9/11 First Responders who are fighting to extend health care and compensation to responders, many of whom need it dearly. Congress is the #worstresponders.
An Interview with Catharine Hannay: Creator and Editor of MindfulTeachers.org, who I know personally.
John Oliver on the art of regifting.
Now I Know: Gator Aid and How to Make the World’s Best Paper Airplane.
The satire section
Study: Scalia Better Off in “Less Advanced” Court. Satire of very real comments from a member of SCOTUS.
Native Americans call for ban on Christians entering the US.
Donald Trump is actually Andy Kaufman.
Syrian family gets into U.S. by disguising themselves as guns, as the US Congress marks third anniversary of doing nothing in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Newtown.
The Jaquandor section
Your First Draft is NOT Crap!!!
Jaquandor’s family’s first Thanksgiving in New York. Several neat posts, such as at the Hayden Planetarium, et al.
Music!
Rebecca Jade & the Cold Fact – Gonna Be Alright (OFFICIAL VIDEO), plus On the field interview with Rebecca Jade!
Liz Callaway bobbles the lyrics to a Stephen Sondheim song. Or does she?
Dustbury: RIP to music’s P.F. Sloan and Cynthia Robinson.
Coverville: All-Beatles covers Thanksgiving show for the 12th year in a row! “Track by track tribute to Rubber Soul for the 50th anniversary of its release, as well as a tribute to Paris with a full set of French-spoken Beatles covers.”
Chuck Miller wants to be buried with Stevie Wonder’s “Hotter Than July”, which I consider his last great album.
Funnies
AV Club’s favorite graphic novels, one-shots, and archives of 2015.
Mark Evanier continues to list the twenty top voice actors in American animated cartoons between 1928 and 1968, including Paul Winchell (Tigger) and Howard Morris (Atom Ant) and Stan Freberg (Junior Bear), and Paul Frees (Boris Badenov, Professor Ludwig Von Drake, Poppin Fresh the Pillsbury Doughboy) and June Foray (Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale) and Daws Butler (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Captain Crunch).
Buster Keaton – the Art of the Gag.
Smilin’ Ed Comics by Raoul Vezina & Tom Skulan. Hardcover on IndieGoGo.
GOOGLE alerts (me)
Time to Ask Arthur Anything. He answered mine about Prez and Veep candidates and Ranking the Republican candidates and The USA’s gun problem.
SamraiFrog’s 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums.
GOOGLE alerts (not me)
St Peter’s set for £1.2 million renovation. “Admitting to being “very nervous” about taking on the large-scale project, Friends chairman Roger Green, who this year won an award for his volunteering, has agreed to stay on and see through the changes, which are not likely to be complete until at least the end of 2019.”
FriendsWhoLikeTrump yielded me one result, someone I friended years and years ago when I needed people to help with a game I was playing. When I went to her page, her banner was the Confederate flag and almost everything on her page was about what you’d expect based on that. So… not my friend anymore.
I get a whole section? SCORE!!! 🙂