Dr. SCOTUS Will Now See Your Next Patient – Ron Harman King fears our healthcare lies with those in black robes, not white coats.
Cory Doctorow: Unpersoned about romance writer K Renee and others locked out of their Google docs
CrowdStrike blames test software for taking down 8.5 million Windows machines.
Teaching the Bible in Public Schools
Disputing Errors on Your Tenant Background Check Report
Succeeding in the Post-Wayfair Landscape: Top 3 Trends in Sales Tax Six Years On (yes, this is interesting to a geeky business librarian)
The Nation’s Data at Risk: Meeting America’s Information Needs for the 21st Century
Why Paper Checks Refuse To Die
A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor.
Quieting Your Inner Critic – Self-Compassion and Other Methods
Navy exonerates Black sailors unjustly punished in 1944 after a deadly California port explosion.
Bob Newhart Was an Everyman With a Comic Voice Like No Other. The 25 best TV series finales ever. Newhart is #22 and should be much higher. I watched him on Ed Sullivan and his three CBS shows
Whitney Rybeck, ‘Friday the 13th’ Actor and Crash Test Dummy in Seat Belt Ads, Dies at 79
The Worm Charmers: A Florida family coaxes earthworms from the forest floor
Homicide: Life on the Street Finally Gets Streaming Home at Peacock. This was one of my favorite programs.
Oscars: What To Do When You Lose
Now I Know: The Dirty Lyric Snuck Onto The Radio and The Pencil That Told Kids To Do Something They Shouldn’t and A Mountainous Problem With Instant Noodles
Kelly and Sunday Stealing
SSA
“Soon, you will no longer be able to sign in to your online Social Security account using your Social Security username and password. To access Social Security online services, including my Social Security, you will need to create a Login.gov or ID.me account.”
This is a real thing, reported on AARP and CBS Mornings.
“The change affects about 46 million of the roughly 86 million people who have My Social Security accounts, according to an SSA spokesperson.”
POLLYTICKS
How Joe Biden launched his career by beating two unbeatable Republicans
Thank You, President Biden
Weekly Sift: Resolutions and The Two Kinds of Unity, in which I was introduced to the word Gleichschaltung. “It’s an old German engineering term for when you wire a bunch of electrical circuits together under a common master switch. It got applied to German politics in 1933, for reasons that you may recall from history books.” Also, the Kamala surge and Couches, Cat Ladies, and J. D. Vance.
djt Returns to Bad Form — and Gives the Democrats Hope
Immigration, Crime, Politics, and lies and Fact-checking djt’s lies during his RNC acceptance speech
RNC & “Migrant Crime”: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Demagoguery repeats itself
djt Sells Sneakers, Coins, and Trading Cards Imprinted with his Bloody Face
How Kamala’s name is pronounced; even a child can do it
From way back on July 15: ‘Terrified’ – Americans in NZ react to Trump shooting, Biden uncertainty
Borowitz Reports repeats: New Conspiracy Theory Links Wide Availability of Guns to People Getting Shot
MUSIC
Anything Goes – Peter Sprague featuring Rebecca Jade
Look At Me, I’m MTG!– A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
John Mayall, British Blues-Rock Legend and 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Dies at 90. Room To Move
Flivver Ten Million by Frederick Converse, performance is by the Buffalo Philharmonic,
Coverville 1495: Cover Stories for Marc Cohn and Simple Minds and 1496: The Trevor Horn Cover Story II
The Great Curve – Talking Heads
K-Chuck Radio: Gaze into the crystal ball …
Coast -Kim Deal
You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away– Peter Sprague, featuring Allison Adams Tucker.
Patterns – Laura Marling
Several versions of Sit Down, You’re Rocking The Boat here and here and here and here (1992 Tonys – Nicely-Nicely (Walter Bobbie) plus Nathan Lane and J.K. Simmons) and here and here (current London revival) and probably more here
Knee Deep Blues – Caleb Caudle:
Breath Out – Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn –
This LOST 1986 Song Went Viral…But for Years-NOBODY Knew WHO Sang it—UNTIL Today!–Professor of Rock