4 Ways to Detect Media Bias and Step Out of the Partisan Bubble.
Virtually All Major US Drinking Water Sources Likely Contaminated With PFAS.
Can Bankers Become Allies Against Climate Change?
The forgotten assassination of MLK’s mother Alberta King in 1974.
How do you keep that Christmas Eve feeling?
The Day That Changed Everything. The subhead: “They lost the biggest N.J. high school football game ever played.”
Komodo dragon destroyed BBC camera by trying to have sex with it.
The Critical Importance of Church Choirs.
Can’t find a marriage record? Try looking for a “Gretna Green” marriage location.
Every guest star on the TV series Cannon, starring William Conrad. CBS, 1971 to 1976, 122 episodes.
Inequality
World’s 2,153 billionaires hold more wealth than poorest 4.6 billion combined.
Rising inequality affecting 70% of the world.
Americans’ Drinking, Drug Use, Despair Wiping Out Life Expectancy Gains.
Structural Racism in Medicine Worsens the Health of Black Women and Infants.
Healthcare Algorithms Are Biased, and the Results Can Be Deadly.
The Liberation of Auschwitz: January 27, 1945.
Recommended reading: Joe Kubert’s Yossel.
Work
Illegal Interview Questions You Thought Were Harmless.
Were Your Rights Violated at the Workplace?
FTC Received Nearly 1.7 Million Fraud Reports, and FTC Lawsuits Returned $232 Million to Consumers in 2019.
Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.
– Paul Tillich
Books, language, and librarians
Proposed Book Banning Bill in Missouri Could Imprison Librarians.
How One Librarian Tried to Squash Goodnight Moon.
You can write “embedded” but you can’t write “imbedded.”
English Needs a Word for the Relationship Between Your Parents and Your In-Laws.
The 5th Annual Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing.
IMPOTUS
Expansive Executive Privilege Claims Pose Serious Constitutional Crisis.
The Imperial Presidency Is Alive and Well.
He Boasts Of Obstruction At Davos Press Conference.
Doral Resort Spikes Its Room Rates Ahead Of His RNC Visit.
The Surreal Logic of the China Trade Deal.
“Reckless” Decision to Loosen Firearm Exports Regulations.
The Cost of an Incoherent Foreign Policy.
His Supporters And The Denial Of Reality.
Ten Principles that Unify Democrats (and most of the country).
Now I Know
This Is The Poem That Never Ends. It Just Goes On And On, My Friends. and The Town With No Name and What To Do When Iguanas Fall From the Sky and How a Rock Band Helped Runaway Kids Find Their Way Home and It’s Art Because Someone Says It Is and Why Do Bakers Have Bigger Dozens? and Behold the Power of Dried Plums.
MUSIC
That Don – Randy Rainbow.
On the retirement of conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy: conducting Debussy’s La Mer; playing Rach and Bach and more.
Coverville 1293: The Neil Peart Tribute and Rush Cover Story III.
The Golden Spinning Wheel by Antonin Dvorak.
Tall Skinny Papa– Annie & The Hedonists [Caffè Lena Late Night Sessions]
All About Falling In Love – MonaLisa Twins
Fiddler on the Roof: Dear, Sweet Sewing Machine – Motel (Adam Kantor) and Tzeitel (Alexandra Silber) and Tradition – Tevye is Anthony Warlow, production done in Australia.
How Long Has This Been Going On – Audrey Hepburn, from Funny Face.
The Inner Light – The Beatles.