John Roberts joins dissent blasting extremist Supreme Court conservatives for abusing the shadow docket
Ginni Thomas Debacle Is a Warning That Trumpism Lives On in the Halls of Power
Battle Against School Segregation in New Jersey
Weekly Sift: Elon and Twitter; will Elon regret the purchase?
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Police Interrogations and
Data Brokers and Truckers and Harm Reduction
Florida Eliminates Disney’s Special District
He Was an Ex-FBI Serial Killer Profiler. Then His Lies Caught Up With Him
Viewers Feel Overwhelmed by Too Many Choices, Nielsen Survey Finds and What Happens When an Industry Becomes a Squid Game and Behind the Scenes of CNN+’S Stunning Fall
Lily Tomlin THR interview
Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian, ‘Aladdin’ Star Dies at 67 from a condition called myotonic dystrophy. In the documentary called Life, Animated (2016), about a child who learned to communicate by watching Disney films, the young man Owen had a club and he invited Gilbert to one of their events. Gilbert was such a mensch.
Bobby Rydell, Pop Singer, ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ Actor, Dies at 79
Robert Morse, Two-Time Tony Winner, and ‘Mad Men’ Star, Dies at 90
Bruce Willis’ Aphasia
How Colorblind NHL Players See The Game
Comics For Ukraine
The Most Beloved Comic? How and Why Calvin and Hobbes Disappeared
The (Edited) Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto
Chuck Miller changes his name
Human connections light up This Brilliant Darkness by Jeff Sharlet
Making popcorn
The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages
How Come People Say ‘How Come’?
A poem about libraries
A puzzler from Presh Talwalkar.
That Old Twitchy Feeling – linkage to linkage
Information, please
The Census Is Broken. Can AI Fix It?
Fertility Rates: Declined for Younger Women, Increased for Older Women
Official 1950 Census Website
How Many Humans Have Ever Lived?
State Tax Collections per Capita, Fiscal Year 2020
Maps of Albany
Now I Know
Indiana Jones and the Porcelain Throne? and When Belgium Flipped the Coin at France and We Shouldn’t Forget Ignaz Semmelweis and Why Doctors Wear Green (or Blue) Scrubs and The Walls (and Book) That Can Kill You and The $64,000 Fake New York City Tourist and Why You Shouldn’t Hold in a Sneeze and An Initial Reaction to Disaster Relief?
MUSIC
Rebecca Jade was gearing up for San Diego Music Awards performance; she won two awards, Best Video; and Best R and B, Funk, or Soul Song for What’s It Gonna Be.
Possibly Neil Diamond’s most significant Sweet Caroline performance, Fenway Park in Boston, April 20, 2013.
Elmer Bernstein at 100
Rest in peace, C.W. McCall
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff, performed by Khatia Buniatishvili
Good Day Sunshine – MonaLisa Twins
Three Visions by William Grant Still
Le Palais Hante by Florent Schmitt.
Coverville: 1396 – Tribute to Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and
1397 – The Elton John Cover Story IV and 1398 – The Hollies Cover Story II
Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland
Twelve cellists from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra play the theme from The Pink Panther
The Crown of India by Edward Elgar
Introverting – The Holderness Family
Amadeus clip
All By Myself – Eric Carmen
K-Chuck Radio: You mean they’re not related?