Doomsday Clock Now ‘2 Minutes to Midnight’
Amy Biancolli: life is huge
John Green: On emergencies
The Women’s Marches Could Have Lasting Consequences
How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine
Water run out: Days are numbered in Cape Town
Evangelical toadies are destroying the Christian brand and The death of Christianity in the U.S.
I Was a Successful Journalist When a Doctor First Handed Me Opioids
Good People Don’t Defend A Bad Man
How he convinced America that character doesn’t matter
His Racism: The Definitive List
Why Don’t Norwegians Immigrate to the United States?
More than 160 women say Larry Nassar sexually abused them; here are his accusers in their own words and It’s Time For Every Last Coward Who Enabled Nassar To Pay For Their Sins
N.Y. gun violence costs state economy over $5.6B a year
FACEBOOK begins its downward spiral
“Keep going today. Keep moving amid every obstacle. Keep moving amid every mountain of opposition” – MLK, Jr.
The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics
A Tiny New York Town With Not One, But 5 Indie Bookstores
10 Letters We Dropped From The Alphabet
Ursula K. Le Guin, acclaimed science fiction writer, is dead at 88; Le Guin on Tolkien
RIP Hugh Wilson (WKRP)
Connie Sawyer, World’s Oldest Working Actress, dies at 105
Comic strip creator Mort Walker, R.I.P. Beetle Bailey was the brother of Lois in Hi and Lois
Jeopardy! Contestants Present: “Get Well Soon, Alex!” and Alex Trebek returned to taping Jeopardy!
How STAR WARS was saved in the edit and Star Wars’ infamous Holiday Special, explained
Now I Know: How Fire and Fury Fueled a World War II Revival and Now I Know: How Some Places are Beeting the Snow and When A Penny Saved is Ten-Thousand Pennies Earned and The A-Maze-Ing Solution to a Bar’s Legal Problems and Why Nike Makes Glowing Sneakers
Aristocrat, friend of royalty and cad and card cheat Sir William Gordon-Cumming
MUSIC
Holly Holy- Neil Diamond (live 1971)
Sunny Afternoon – the Rodford Files
Cry Like A Rainstorm – Bonnie Raitt
Don’t Wanna Fight – Alabama Shakes
John Knowles Paine Symphony No. 2: In Spring
Coverville 1201: Cover Stories for Pat Benatar and Shawn Colvin and 1202: Cover Stories for the Kaiser Chiefs and the Thompson Twins and 1203: Journey and Cheap Trick Cover Stories
H.P. Lovecraft’s “Nemesis” has the same meter as Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”
5 Songs You’ve Never Heard That You’ve Heard 1000 Times
Two Catskill HS Students to Perform at Carnegie Hall, one of whom I know well
Hugh Masekela, great South African jazz trumpeter, died at 78
Edwin Hawkins, Known for the Hit ‘Oh Happy Day,’ Is Dead at 74
Mark Edward Smith (1957-2018) of The Fall
Denise LaSalle, singer and writer of earthy songs dies at 78
Hormones appear to affect our musical preferences
