Why many Americans don’t see Donald Trump as racist
So You Want to Wear a Safety Pin
1st woman elected to Congress, in 1916
John Oliver: School Segregation and Multilevel Marketing
6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016
Do You Understand the Electoral College? You should read all of AmeriNZ’s posts this past week, e.g. Fixing the Electoral College, which mentions my favorite fix, Instant Runoff Voting
Trump was unfamiliar with the scope of the president’s job when meeting Obama
Prince Ea: I JUST SUED THE SCHOOL SYSTEM and Dear Future Generations: Sorry
How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News
How Andy Borowitz explained the election to his six-year-old daughter – (NOT fake news)
Writer too strong to live, about sports, sexism and alcohol (HT to Jaquandor)
Deepika Padukone on depression
A Teaching Moment on Sexual Assault and It’s hard to talk about, but it happens to so many women and Reasons So Many Guys Don’t Understand Sexual Consent
Top African American environmental leader faces racial incident in Adirondacks – Aaron Mair, who I have met, is the president of the Sierra Club
Gwen Ifill, longtime PBS news anchor, died after a battle with cancer – she was 61 – made me feel surprisingly devastated
Glenn Beck tries decency
Amy Biancolli interview in Widows and Widowers Magazine
The Dramatic Life and Mysterious Death of Theodosia Burr. The fate of Aaron Burr’s daughter remains a topic of contention
Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton
This black woman rode across America in 1930. On a Harley. In spite of rampant racism, she was ‘very happy on two wheels’
Trevor Noah wasn’t expecting liberal hatred
You’ve Just Crossed Over Into … the Rod Serling Gazebo
Ira Gobler and the Star Wars Toys That Never Were
Norman Rockwell Museum Presents Hanna-Barbera: The Architects of Saturday Morning, through May 29, 2017
My Poetic Side: favorite war poets, each related to a different war and ordered chronologically, from The American Civil War to the Iraq War.
Presidential candidates in comic books
Robert Vaughn, Man from UNCLE actor, dies aged 83. I used to play the spy show with sister Marcia. I played Napoleon Solo, the Vaughn role.
Now I Know: Fool Me Twice, Plane on You and Going to Venus in Peace and May The Force Be Costumed and Smell Ya Later?
Doing the Write-In Thing (ROG reference)
Music
Jean Sibelius and the virtual national classical music work of Finland; here’s Finlandia
K-Chuck Radio: Draw that bow, my son…
Jazz ‘Hot’: The Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt
Bohemian Rhapsody performed by excerpts from 260 different movies
An Hour of Jeopardy Think Music
16 Albums That Changed The Music Business
Master Recordings — From Abbey Road to Born to Run — Could Be Lost Forever, Without Archivists’ Help
Copland’s Fanfare: The making of a musical monument
Leonard Cohen died at the age of 82 and hugely influential singer and songwriter’s work spanned nearly 50 years; his 2008 induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; two of of my favorites are this and this
Leon Russell died – His 2011 induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Greatest Invention of One Thousand Years Ago
The 10 Greatest Double Albums In Rock History – you WILL guess most of these