The NRA and the Long Con.
There’s No Such Thing as Family Secrets in the Age of 23andMe.
Telehealth Boom Misses Older Adults.
Don’t Blame Colleges for the Coming Fall Debacle. This is just what higher education looks like in a failed state.
Google Voice deserves your attention (again).
The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn’t.
Urban Dictionary TOP Definition: Literally – a word with no meaning in today’s USA.
Vlogbrothers (Hank Green): Ideas are absolutely a kind of magic and It seems like content is now infinite and internalizing the reality that critique is vital…but so is knowing when you think it’s wrong.
A Tale of Two TV Producers and How They Switched Places (Gene Roddenberry and Jack Webb).
Ken Levine interview of Debbie Gibson: Part 1 and Part 2.
Songwriter Ashley Gorley Becomes First with 50 Number One Songs.
Octothorpe – another term for the pound, number, or hashtag symbol (#).
Race
John Oliver: US history books and racism.
How Stephen Miller Molded the GOP to His Anti-immigration Agenda.
Pitfalls Black Lives Matter must avoid to maintain momentum and achieve meaningful change.
A Rare Recipe From a Talented Chef, Enslaved by a Founding Father.
A historical reckoning for the global slave trade including the database Legacies of British Slave-ownership.
I’ll have to read Isabel Wilkerson’s important new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. She makes unsettling comparisons between India’s stigmatizing treatment of its untouchables, Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews, and America’s treatment of African-Americans, the social systems that “keep the lowest-ranked people at the bottom.”
Now I Know
The Color of Fraud and The Holbrook Holiday and The Horseless Headsman and The TV That Needed Help and Kindergarten Crabs?
IMPOTUS
His Threat to Press Freedom Is Global.
Weekly Sift: The Election: Worry or Don’t Worry?
The Lincoln Project: Wake Up.
Yes, Kanye Is Trying To Help Trump Win By Spoiling Biden’s Chances with some help.
MUSIC
Lookin’ For a Leader 2020 – Neil Young.
Global Warming by Michael Abels.
The Ordering of Moses by Robert Nathaniel Dett.
Stevie Wonder music featuring Rebecca Jade and Leonard Patton on vocals, Tripp Sprague on sax and flute, Mack Leighton on bass, Duncan Moore on drums, and Peter Sprague on guitar. The Prayer featuring Rebecca Jade and Chris Walker.
AGO Organfest: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Concerto for Left Hand in D Major by Ravel, performed by Leon Fleischer, who died at the age of 92.
16, Going On 17 – Laura Benanti and Christopher Fitzgerald
You’ll Be Back, priest’s viral ‘Hamilton’ video.
Brandy – Elliot Lurie. and friends, a cappella (and an Evanier story).
Electric Avenue – The Last Bandoleros and SHAGGY.
William Tell Overture finale, played by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
Coverville 1319: Covers of Public Enemy, RUN-DMC and LL Cool J.