Fourteen children and one adult are dead. The assault at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. school since a gunman killed fourteen students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February 2018. Wait, now it’s 19 children and two adults murdered. The assault at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
And… Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) blames CRT? The time for politics – the politics of actually doing something – is now. Not, as Lee Goldberg points out: “The GOP’s answer is to have a third-grade teacher, armed w/a handgun, take [on a shooter]. Are they insane!?” Evil Stalks the Hall at the NRA. How the Uvalde police kept changing their story. The Weekly Sift guy repeats himself.
Jacinda Ardern talks about gun control on The Late Show and gives the 2022 Harvard Commencement Address. (Should we move to New Zealand?)
Also
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How many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state
He Donated His Kidney and Received a $13,064 Bill in Return
Rod Serling sitting around talking about writing
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Before Pixar’s ‘Turning Red,’ ‘Braceface’ and a 1946 Disney Short Tackled the “Taboo” of Menstruation
Now I Know: The Eye Shield That Keeps the Grumps Away and And He Couldn’t Use the Discount Anyway and The €222 Million Nap and The Mystery of the 175-Year-Old Battery-Powered Bell
Undamming the Hudson River
RIP
Roger Angell, Revered Baseball Essayist, Dies at 101
Into The Storm: Alan White, YES drummer
Ray Liotta Dies: ‘Goodfellas’ Star & ‘Field Of Dreams’ Actor Was 67
Fred Carter, the little-known Black artist behind Chick tracts of evangelism cartoons, Died. Those Chick tracks could be theologically… challenging.
R.I.P. Neal Adams, 1941-2022
MUSIC
Thoughts and Prayers – Drive-By Truckers
Beethoven Symphony No. 7, recast as a piano virtuoso work by Franz Liszt
Mr. Blue Sky and Kodachrome – Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
Field Of Dreams – The Place Where Dreams Come True/End Titles (James Horner)
You Don’t Know Where Your Interest Lie – Dana Valery
Finale from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones by John Williams
Broken/Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears
Avatar suite by James Horner
Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You – Randy Rainbow
Coverville 1400: The Subject of this Cover Story is Talking Heads and 1401: Covers of 50-Year-Olds
I’m Alright – Jo Dee Messina
MARVEL Uptown Funk
The Untold Story of the White House’s Weirdly Hip Record Collection