LEAVE IT IN 2017 and Some looks at the year just gone
A Radical New Scheme to Prevent Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
Americans Don’t Really Understand Gun Violence
How America is Transforming Islam
The scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market
Proud To Be A Patriotic American Liberal
Senate Judiciary Committee Interview of GLENN SIMPSON, AUGUST 22, 2017, released by Diane Feinstein
Conspiracy sites claim he was ‘FEARED DEAD’, targeted by ‘DEEP STATE’ in minor Tower fire
New mom Serena Williams had to talk her hospital staff through saving her life
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among UK men but this is a faulty conclusion
Google Thinks I’m Dead (I know otherwise)
What’s wrong with the Internet, whether it’s new, and the power (and value) of our attention
Empörungsgesellschaft – Crazy bloggers, twitterers, facebooklings, and so forth, are able to impinge upon the public consciousness in new and historically unprecedented ways?
Takeout creates a lot of trash; it doesn’t have to
This expanding house is ready in 10 minutes
Chuck Miller: A few words on my son’s wedding day
A Writer’s Guide to Permissions and Fair Use
We Have A New Prime Number, And It’s 23 Million Digits Long
Darlanne Fluegel, Actress in ‘To Live and Die in L.A.’ and ‘Running Scared,’ Dies at 64 – I knew her a little when we were briefly in Binghamton Central High School together
Ray Thomas, Moody Blues Flautist and Founding Member, Dead at 76
Keith Jackson, the folksy voice of college football has died at 89
Actress Greta Thyssen, Blonde Bombshell of the 1950s and ’60s, Dies at 90 – in action; see 185 Pies And Guys, esp from 13:00 in
Op-Docs Contenders for the 2018 Academy Awards
Which Film Critics Are The Most Contrarian?
Must there be a Marvel Comics?
First new word of 2018 for me: mooted: raised (a question or topic) for discussion; suggested (an idea or possibility) – I’ve known moot, as in “the question is moot,” but not this
Now I Know: The Panhandler Who Returned a Treasure and When Breaking a Record Really Blows
What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle
MUSIC
The 2017 Coverville Countdown Part 1 and Part 2
Coverville 1200: This Day in Covers: January 3, 1978
Shelter from the Storm · Rodney Crowell / Emmylou Harris (HT to Jaquandor)
Echo Beach (2010) – Martha and the Muffins
Someone to Lay Down Beside Me – Karla Bonoff
Ken – Barbie sings!
50 Best Folk Music Artists of All Time
The Beach Boys Are Better Than the Beatles
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