Australia cut off food and water at an offshore detention camp; asylum seekers there more determined than ever to find freedom
Meet the Teenagers Who Started a Film Production Studio in Their Refugee Camp
Where Brexit Hurts: The Nurses and Doctors Leaving London
From the November 26 lectionary: Matthew 25:44-45 (NIV): They also will answer, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?” He will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work
The recent tide of apologies by famous men have been ‘awful’
Right-wing troll James O’Keefe fails badly at baiting Washington Post with rape lie
Fear of a Black Princess: Britain’s Royal Racial Problem
Bringing an XX perspective to an XY world of movies
What Latino Film Critics Are Saying About Pixar’s ‘Coco’
I’ve seen a variation of this more than once on Facebook: “If we’re being technical here, Charles Manson isn’t actually a serial killer and never killed anyone that we know of.” I think this is pedantic; encouraging others to kill made him legally culpable
NYT responds to readers’ accusations of normalizing a Nazi sympathizer
Fear of crackdown haunts daily life of undocumented immigrants
Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now and Without it in Portugal, mobile internet is bundled like a cable package
Thomas Brunell’s appointment “signals an effort by the administration to politicize” the decennial survey
Supporter Says He’d Trust Trump Before Jesus Christ
He Now Says That Wasn’t Him on Access Hollywood Tape
In the Land of Vendettas That Go On Forever
Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work
NOW YOU CAN ENJOY GLUTEN FREE VERSIONS OF FAMOUS ART – As gluten-free options are on the rise in trendy circles, someone had the bright idea to go back into classical art and make it gluten-free too
#Marie Severin is a Comic-Con Icon Award Recipient
#The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at 50: The Rise and Fall of a Groundbreaking Variety Show
a few thoughts on bathroom signage
This New York Times Website Comment Is the Single Best Comment of the Year
These Aren’t the Tootsie Rolls You’re Looking For
Lessons from the Worst Food Hack of 2017
The strategically planned implosion of the Georgia Dome, captured by The Weather Channel
MUSIC
The Passenger (Randall Thompson) – Chris Trombley, baritone; Todd Sisley, piano
Simple Gifts (excerpt) – Aaron Copeland
Suite from JFK – John Williams
The American In Me – The Avengers
Abraham, Martin and John – Dion
In My Life – Jose Feliciano and Jools Holland
Hero and Leander by Victor Herbert
The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Neil Young Launching Online Music Archives December 1