NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT (it ain’t good)
Lies, damn lies and post-truth
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – Authoritarianism and the Weekly Sift – From Russia to Ukraine to Brexit to Trump: The Road to Unfreedom
Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination
How the Generals Are Routing the Policy Wonks at the Pentagon
Billboard featuring DJT, ‘Make the Gospel great again,’ Bible verse is taken down in Missouri
The Difference Between ‘Patriotism’ and ‘Nationalism’
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Won’t Invite a Comedian Next Year
Ken Screven: Breaking Stereotypes | Out in Albany
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Already Breaking the Rules
West Virginia Democrat announces 2020 presidential bid
Walter Ayres: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved a pastoral letter against racism – Open Wide Your Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love
Stephen Colbert On How He Returned To Catholicism After Being An Atheist
For Young Adults, Cohabitation Is Up, Marriage Is Down
Forgotten your keys again? It’s not as bad as you think; it could be good for your brain
Color Meaning, Symbolism, And Psychology: What Do Different Colors Mean
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Is Incomplete — There’s a Final, Forgotten Stage
Noun. alexiteric (plural alexiterics) (medicine) A preservative against infectious diseases. A preservative against the effects of poison. (HT, Dan)
Bill Gates is obsessed with redesigning the world’s toilets
Dustbury turns 65 and thinks he’s Sinatra
SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg has died at age 57 of ALS
Tributes to the late magician Ricky Jay
RIP William Goldman the Oscar-winning screenwriter who penned classics such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, and The Princess Bride
Greg Burgas: Some more olde-tymey movies I’ve had the chance to watch or re-watch recently
Kelly Sedinger: Prologue to his forthcoming supernatural thriller, The Chilling Killing Wind
CGC 9.2 Overstreet #1 Hits $9K at Heritage
Cookie Monster Week: The proper way to eat a cookie and Gets therapy and How to make an apple pie
Subway Break Dancers, Clad in Armor, Go Medieval at the Met Museum
Internet Wading: Numbers, words, food, and art
Oven Rack Placement for the Best Baking Results
Now I Know: Why Do Leaves Fall from Trees? and Why Did the Chickens Cross Under the Highway? and How to Become Half a Prince and 1-916-CALL-TURK
Arthur does a meme I tagged him on
MUSIC
Coverville 1239: The Joni Mitchell Cover Story III
Roy Clark: I Never Picked Cotton and 12th Street Rag and Yesterday When I Was Young and Malagueña from The Odd Couple
Roman Carnival overture – Berlioz
YOU MAKE MY DREAMS Aubrey Logan feat. LaVance Colley – Hall & Oates