NAMI: Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. “It’s Okay to Talk About Suicide”
Food insecurity soared roughly 9% last year for Americans
The LMNOPs of Caring for the Nursing Workforce: Healthcare systems can do more to prevent staff burnout
A Guide on Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans.
Household COVID-19 risk and in-person schooling
Fines Double for Refusing to Wear a Mask on a Plane
‘I’m learning firsthand how difficult it is to be shunned by people you love’: The vaccine wars are getting personal
Once-in-a-Century Weather Events Every Week
Why ‘I’ Hurricane Names Are Most Likely to Be Retired
What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind, -Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11
How can America wake up from its post-9/11 nightmare?
Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy (Erik Prince, 2010)
A Dozen Observations about Abortion, Texas, and the Supreme Court
Power Move: Charles Blow wants Black people to reverse the Great Migration and form majorities in the Southern states.
Journey with Jesus: Richard Rothstein on “The Color of Law”
Is it Better Not To Know?
‘SNL’ Alum Norm Macdonald Dead At 61
Sporting News
Pittsburgh Pirates lineup from Sept. 1, 1971, the first time an AL or NL team had fielded an all-Black and Latino starting lineup.
60+ Key Stats About the Olympic and Paralympics
The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals
John Green: My Two Favorite Jokes. From the comments: “I went into the library and asked the librarian for a book on turtles. ‘Hard back?’ ‘Yeah, with little heads.'”
How Much of the World’s Bourbon Is Actually Made in Kentucky?
Surf the Vintage Internet
ZOOM: Celebrating 10 Years of Zoom: “Some of you have only known Zoom since early 2020.” Including me.
What Is a Squinting Modifier?
A 13,654 stick bomb
Now I Know: The Friend on the Bench and The Man Who Gets People Out of the Hospital and The Magical Place Where Everyone Can Play
MUSIC
Elegy by Mark Camphouse
I heard this song called Way Less Sad by AJR this week for the first time last week. It came out in February 2021. For the life of me, I recognized but could not immediately place the horn riff. No, not Chicago or Blood, Sweat and Tears or Earth, Wind and Fire. Finally, it came to me, without looking it up: the way too sad My Little Town by Simon and Garfunkel! Paul Simon even gets a writing credit for Way Less Sad.
Times Will Be Better – Elena Romanova
I Bought Myself A Politician – MonaLisa Twins
Flivver Ten Million by Frederick Shepherd Converse, played by the Buffalo Philharmonic, conducted by JoAnn Falletta
Michelle – Julian Neel
Arlington from John Williams’s score to JFK
17 Quotes on the Transformative Power of Music
Too much good stuff here today, Roger! Norm Macdonald’s passing was harder for Lex than for me – I missed years of SNL because that was a work night. Also why I missed Cheers and all that Must See TV jazz. Lex ran a few routines for me on YouTube today, and I understand what a loss this is. And 61? Too soon.
The stick bomb (which I first read as “stink bomb,” and wondered immediately why you would post something about stink bombs… anyway, that little video blew my mind. Watched it a couple of times. Reminds me of a feed on Instagram called If You High, lots of slo-mo images of mushrooms sprouting out of a stump (gross and fascinating). The Primordial Ooze of Instagram.
Finally, thanks for that article about Eric Prince. I remember when Betsey DeVos was first touted for the Trump Cabinet, and I shouted, “Her brother is that Blackwater schmuck! No good can come of this!” That last was what I had been shouting ever since the campaign for 2016, but anyway. Thanks! Amy
I think I’ve listened to “Way Less Sad” about ten times yesterday and today after reading your comment about it. It hits that right pop sweet-spot for me, and also…”way less sad” is kinda right. (I’ve been telling people “I’m not really okay but I’m okay *enough*”)