CELL PHONE FUNCTIONS
Obituary: Megan Angelina Webbley, 1988-2019
How corporations are addressing guns
John Oliver: National Weather Service
The Best Places to Live in a Future Troubled by Climate Change – Upstate New York state gets an honorable mention.
Vehicle recycling: AN ECO-FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVE
The Apartment Shortage Controversy
Today’s Environmental Crisis Was Created in 1919
Arkansas’ Phillips County Remembers the Racial Massacre the US Forgot
An entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama spoke at the funeral of Congressman Elijah Cummings
Why The Normalization of Stan Culture is Unhealthy
Tips you need to know to help you spot fake news
D.C.’s Newseum Is Closing Its Doors at the End of the Year
What Happens Right Before Your Best Employee Quits
The Best Home Protection: Home Security Systems
Eeyore is named onomatopoeically, after the braying call of a donkey; he’s the most depressing character in the Pooh universe
Idealism
Students at Albany Medical College are coming to the aid of sanctuary seekers in the US; victims of persecution, torture, and other abuses are three times more likely to be granted asylum if they are evaluated by medical professionals and can provide an affidavit in court
Goodbye DARE — More Schools Are Embracing Realistic Drug Education
A good reason to brush your teeth – from the American Dental Association
How Long Do Average U.S. Marriages Last?
Was Bruce Springsteen born to be a filmmaker?
Greg Burgas: Idealism and cynicism in art
Albany Library Foundation gala photos by DTrae Carter (I’m in there somewhere)
Now I Know: When Playing a Doctor on TV is Good Enough and How a Cute Cartoon Created a Catastrophe of Raccoons and The Secret Life of Supermarket Apples and The Lifesaving Powers of Being an NFL Superfan and The Bird That Set The Record Straight and Why You Can’t Perform Hamlet at the Bar and What’s So French About the F-Word?
Canned Pumpkin Isn’t Pumpkin At All
INDIVIDUAL 1
Do What’s Right – chockablock with links
He serves nobody except himself
The un-American president: he hugs the flag every chance he gets, but the truth is very dark indeed
The Daily Show: Kurds edition; John Oliver: Syria
AIER: Presidential Harassment Is a Public Good and Five Wrong Claims about Trade
Rob Dreher in The American Conservative: Is he mentally unstable?
Doral was sited for 524 health code violations from 2013 to 2018
Nate White: Why do some British people dislike him?
Taylor’s Testimony Goes Way Beyond Quid Pro Quo
William Barr’s Wild Misreading of the First Amendment
MUSIC
Guiliani – Randy Rainbow
The Fury – a suite from John Williams’s score
Coverville: 1282: Cover Stories for No Doubt and Avril Lavigne and 1283: Yes Cover Story and Yacht Rock Revue Interview
Piano Sonata No. 9 by Alexander Scriabin
Moses Supposes from Singin’ in the Rain, re-created by dancer Derek Hough and an animated Donald O’Connor
The Isle of the Dead, Sergei Rachmaninov’s epic tone poem
How’d You Like to Spoon With Me? – Angela Lansbury, from Till The Clouds Roll By (1946)
Swing You Sinners! (Fleischer Studios)
You’ve Got to Eat Your Spinach – Mae Questel
Hocus Pocus – Focus, from Disney and Pixar’s Onward, released 6 March 2020
Nippertown: IN MEMORIAM: LYRICIST ROBERT HUNTER Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performing member of the Grateful Dead
Wow, so many things here!
Am kind of out of the loop, because for 2 weeks we had the electrical power more off than on (fire prevention), so I missed out on some news items! Didn’t know about the mad-hatter:( My opinion about Eyore: in his depressed state he is still one who’s a little cute. I feel for him!
To answer your comment: even if one doesn’t not know anyone in San Diego, like we, we were there at least once a month, hanging out in the weekend, visiting our favorite places!
I knew about the pumpkin thing; my mom lives in Illinois, not too terribly far from the “Pumpkin Capital” where most of the squashes for canning are grown.
And I had a copy of Martin Gardner’s “The Annotated Alice” as a young teen, so I had heard the mad-hatter thing. I’ve even used it as an example in classes; mercury also acts as an enzyme competitive inhibitor. Also, Minimata, Japan had a fairly horrific history of neurologic disease caused by mercury poisoning…methyl mercury in a chemical company’s wastewater.
And I always liked Eeyore. I read somewhere that small children sometimes like “sad” characters in books because they think maybe they can cheer the character up. I liked Eeyore best of the Pooh characters when I was a kid and he’s still my favorite. (I used to be dispositionally more of a Tigger, but as I’ve gotten older and more battered by life, I’ve definitely become more of an Eeyore)