WHY FACTS DON’T CHANGE OUR MINDS
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Obamacare and Putin
The Peril of Potemkin Democracy
The Shallow State celebrates its ignorance
Steve Bannon to media: We’re going to make it worse for you every day, then WH bars news outlets from briefing
Bannon Admits Cabinet Nominees Were Selected To Destroy Their Agencies
Private prison company hires former Jeff Sessions aides to lobby in D.C. (Oct 2016); Attorney General Jeff Sessions: U.S. to continue use of private prisons, reversing Obama directive (Feb 2017)
FCC Is Already Canceling Internet Services for Low-Income Customers
Eliminating arts funding programs will save just 0.0625% of budget
Have your papers ready’: Customs agents checking IDs on DOMESTIC flights
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s mom
While Orange scandals mount, Chaffetz decides to investigate … a cartoon character
Gabby Giffords to Louie Gohmert: ‘Have some courage. Face your constituents’
He could make things a little easier for preachers
Dear Evangelicals, I Don’t Think You Realize How You Sound To Everybody Else
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirms $50M for physics think-tank in Waterloo, Ont.
Mexico City, Parched and Sinking, Faces a Water Crisis
Human Rights Watch fights to end child marriage in New York
Meet the Math Professor Who’s Fighting Gerrymandering With Geometry
The Only Thing, Historically, That’s Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
What a Silicon Valley liberal learned from supporters of 45
I Was a Muslim in This White House
The Atlantic: Michael K. Williams Asks: Am I Typecast?
The Color of Love: Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.
City Fines Interracial Couple Who Found Racist Graffiti On Home
Breaking the silence: Jason Gough talks about being sexually abused as a child
Understanding Alzheimers in three minutes
Why you should really start talking to old people more
The only library in the world that operates in two countries at once
The Darkest Town In America
Is Verizon’s new unlimited plan worth it?
Arthur: Not blogging is exhausting
Oscars 2017: What It Was Like Onstage During the Best Picture Mistake; most misspelled nominee: Naomie Harris
Noted actor Bill Paxton dies at 61 – saw him in Apollo 13, Titanic, Spy Kids 2, Million Dollar Arm, and Twister, among other films, plus the video Fish Heads by Barnes & Barnes
Richard Schickel, Movie Critic, Author and Filmmaker, Dies at 84
Coverville’s Brian Ibbott: What happened to manners at movie theaters?
Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs
Dictionary’s latest additions include ‘side-eye,’ ‘humblebrag,’ and ‘ghost’
Major League Baseball: Intentional walks will now be granted to hitters with a signal from the opposing dugout, rather than by having the pitcher throw four obvious balls; BOO! HISS!
On Why Serena Williams Is His Favorite
The NBA G-League? No. No no no no no no no…
Unputdownable: 17 books I read in 24 hours or less (because they were just that good)
Now I Know: Georgia’s Version of Stonehenge and The Pink Light That Wipes Out Teenagers and How Cows Mooved Through Manhattan and Why Knowing is Half the Battle
Music
The K-Flow Show Episode 1, featuring Rebecca Jade (the niece!)
Pac-Man – Weird Al (to the tune of the Beatles’ Taxman)
Total Praise – Richard Smallwood and Vision
Sam Cooke with “Touch the Hem of His Garment”
Down to the River to Pray – Alison Krauss [Live]
Which Side Are You On? – Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel take to the stage to perform their iconic hit Sound Of Silence
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
David Bowie’s son shares emotional tribute after his five posthumous Grammy wins
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr Reunite to Record Together in Studio
Where Should Axl and Slash Go Now?
To ghost? Ghosted? Ghosting? Spellchecker liked those last two. I don’t like any of it.