1965 edition of “Our New Age”[/caption]
The Case Against Reality. A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.
Song Of My Self-Help: Follow Walt Whitman’s ‘Manly Health’ Tips, appearing in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. It was uncovered by a University of Houston student, and includes: “The beard is a great sanitary protection to the throat.”
The Neverending Workday – A pervasive cultural norm of work devotion leaves many employees with little time for family, friends, or sleep.
In rural Maine, a life of solitude and larceny. Police say the hermit stole to survive 27 years in the woods.
What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?
After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight. “Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but gained them back. A study of their struggles helps explain why so many people fail to keep off the weight they lose.”
United Methodist Church Requires Removal of Reference to LGBTQI Christians from Worship Greetings, and, reported the next day, United Methodist clergy come out as church conference begins.
Transcending ignorance. Plus AmeriNZ weighs in, as does Funny or Die.
This isn’t just for me. It’s for everybody who needs a pep talk.
The smug style in American liberalism.
John Oliver: science reporting and Puerto Rico debt and cicadas.
Russian Insider Says State-Run Doping Fueled Olympic Gold.
Someone Put Bartolo Colon’s First Homer In The Natural, Where It Belongs.
Boston Globe: As great as David Ortiz is, Teddy Ballgame is still No. 1.
Free Comic Book Day isn’t free for everybody.
Morley Safer Stepping Down From ’60 Minutes’ After 46 Years.
President Obama delivered a commencement speech at Howard University.
WHCD: Barack Obama and Larry Wilmore. Plus An Obama Blooper Reel, from The White House Correspondents’ Association.
America operates under a crazy quilt of voting requirements, “with each state making its own laws for different populations and with challenges to those laws whipping back and forth through the courts. But if the primaries have frustrated the candidates, try being a voter in November.” Including New York.
Former NY State Assembly Speaker Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison. And former NY State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos sentenced to five years for corruption. Those were two of the three most powerful people in state government, along with Governor Andrew Cuomo.
MUSIC
First Listen: Bob Dylan, ‘Fallen Angels’.
Great audio/visual presentation of Billboard Top 10 songs from 1956 – 2016 (22,000 songs!)
Jaquandor: Music to write swashbucklers by.
Happy birthday to Reverend Gary Davis (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) and James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006).
K Chuck Radio: Rare tracks.
Return of the Monkees and remembering Harry the Hipster Gibson.
What Have I Done to Deserve This? – Pet Shop Boys, with Dusty Springfield.
What does Becky mean? Here’s the history behind Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ lyric that sparked a firestorm. (And me, nearly oblivious to it all.)
Keef cartoon: Nina Simone.
Local legend Ruth Pelham to close Music Mobile. Lack of funds leads the musician to close her beloved program.
Minnesota’s Broad Publicity Rights Law, The PRINCE Act, Is So Broad That It May Violate Itself.
GOOGLE alerts (me)
TWC Question Time #36: I Love You, But… Moments from your favorite comics characters you consider particularly embarrassing.
Arthur on the blog balance. I too had a terrible blogging April, but because I work ahead, it wasn’t always as evident. So we may be Blogging Twins™.
Dustbury is blogging. Chaz is my blogging hero.
AmeriNZ on Kasich dropping out of the presidential race and the REAL May Day.
Shooting Parrots is a grammar nerd.
Ted Cruz solicits me; no, that doesn’t sound right…
I goose Jaquandor; it was not painful.
My daughter Becky would vehemently deny having good hair.
Wow. That “Biggest Loser” article is a killer. I always thought that intense exercise revs up metabolism.