Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers
The American civil war didn’t end, and we have a Confederate president
Fox and Friends: If the Media Doesn’t Want to Be Called ‘The Enemy’They Should Report the Story How He Wants
Amy Biancolli: We are not the enemy
John Oliver: Migrant Family Separation and Drain the Swamp
Why Is It So Hard to Vote in America? Voter turnout lags in the world’s most powerful democracy? and Cost of Voting in the American States
A Legislative Agenda for House Democrats
What Republicans fear most of all
There’s very little known about the thousands of victims who survive deadly shootings
Tammy Marshall – My Breast Implants Almost Killed Me – The Truth About BII
The US just elected 9 new scientists to Congress
The Ancestor Hunt: Historical Jewish American Newspapers Online
Why are the Spanish living so long?
Ken Levine interviews media consultant, Valerie Geller – Tell the truth, make it matter, never be boring: Learn the keys to successful communication
Ntozake Shange, Who Wrote ‘For Colored Girls,’ Is Dead at 70
Former San Francisco Giants first baseman Willie McCovey’s presence was one of a kind
In Conversation: Alex Trebek The Jeopardy! icon on retirement, his legacy, and why knowledge matters
Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), a former Navy SEAL, representative-elect: SNL mocked my appearance; here’s why I didn’t demand an apology
Jimmy Kimmel: Trumpy bear
John Boehner: Washington Needs to Legalize Cannabis – NOW, he says it
The Crazy Contentious History Of Taco Tuesday
Scott McCartney, travel writer for WSJ, taking world’s longest flight — Newark to Singapore; tips on how to endure the 18+ hour flight
The cheapest ways to get to the center of Manhattan from the three airports that serve the Big Apple
Esquire Fiction: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah – Annual holiday super sale? Or zombie apocalypse?
Video tour from the forties Los Angeles side-by-side with the same route in 2016
It slices, it dices, and it’s older than me
This image has exactly 12 dots, but it’s impossible to see them all at once
Now I Know: The Problem With Anonymous Lottery Winners and The Cat’s Meow, Instrumentalized
Fabulous German words with no English equivalent
MUSIC
Take the A Train – Roy Clark And Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown; Roy Clark, country guitar virtuoso, ‘Hee Haw’ star, dies at 85
BE A DJ: Kathy Buckley – 10/30/18 (WDST, Woodstock, NY)
Snippets of Hey Red! B/W We’re Not Going Steady – Herb London on Buzz Records; London, Conservative Thought Leader and occasional political candidate in New York State, died at 79. (HT to Dustbury)
Solid Rock is now a cultural part of Australian music history
Alexander Borodin’s String Quartet No 1, performed by the Moscow String Quartet
Recording of a warning chime recorded by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra – In all, Lincoln commissioned six different non-critical warning chimes from the orchestra, covering 25 vehicle functions
Careless Whisper – Train, ft. Kenny G
Climate change: 
