The Twilight Zone and the Confederacy.
How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
Trevor Noah: Race and Identity (NY Times interview)
No longer a convicted murderer, Carl Dukes faces life after 20 years in prison
Heather Fazio’s exodus from the Times Union blogfarm
John Oliver: Why The Equifax Breach Is A Big, Scary Problem
The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back
How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
Labour will lead NZ Government
LIGO Detects Fierce Collision of Neutron Stars for the First Time
The day the sky turned red in the UK – but what caused rare phenomenon?
The Story Behind the Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness
Chuck Miller: Crossing past my failures
Vikings Razed the Forests. Can Iceland Regrow Them?
How did people sleep in the Middle Ages
The shortest regularly scheduled airline route on earth
Swedish death cleaning is the morbid new way to de-clutter your life
28 Boring Words and What to Use Instead
Where do mansplainers get their water?
From a well, actually.
How to Pronounce Paraskavidekatriaphobia
5 Zombie Walks to do for Halloween
Magazine of the Living Dead: The bloody rise and frightful fall of Fangoria – at FantaCo in 1980-1988, we sold a ton of back issues; #9 was considered rare
A brief history of Bat-marriage
The Great Catnip Caper Of 1909
Now I Know: Why Things are Tawdry and When Baseball Players Left it on the Field and The Special Sound a Mercedes-Benz Makes Before a Crash
THE MADNESS OF DJT
We are living in a kakistocracy
Taking Hostages and The chaos grows
Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
Grief, compassion -advice ignored
George W. Bush: Bigotry in any form is blasphemy
Lawrence O’Donnell: ‘Stunned’ by John Kelly’s attack on Rep. Wilson and video of her 2015 speech at new FBI building
How Badly Is Neil Gorsuch Annoying the Other Supreme Court Justices?
MUSIC
We Will All Go Together When We Go – Tom Lehrer
Almost like Praying – Lin-Manuel Miranda and friends sing for Puerto Rico support
Since I Don’t Have You – Skyliners
What goes on – Beatles (Lennon vocal)
Coverville 1190: Indie Hodgepodge & Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute
K-Chuck Radio: But they’re not doing the Time Warp…
Hey Ya! – Walk off the Earth (Outkast Cover)
Up In A Puff Of Smoke – Polly Brown
You’re Still A Young Man -Tower Of Power (1972)
Go Go Shoes / Go Go Place- Lonnie Youngblood with Jimi Hendrix, May 1966.
Shocking Omissions: Joan Armatrading’s ‘Walk Under Ladders’
Female-female songwriting teams
Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius
Hallelujah! The Songs We Should Retire?
Why we really really really like repetition in music
Who first said, “Writing About Music is Like Dancing About Architecture”?