Trevor Noah: Maybe not a great idea to take a victory lap in the middle of a pandemic.
60 Minutes Australia: Inside the wicked saga of Jeffrey Epstein: the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell.
Defund the Poice: What’s in a slogan?
Why a Struggling Rust Belt City Pinned Its Revival on a Self-Chilling Beverage Can.
ADD has updated the Comic Book Galaxy blog for the first time in five years.
Stop microwaving books: Michigan library frustrated by damaged books.
Appreciating Letty Owings; the Reason I’m Here, By Greg Hatcher.
Meet 8-time JEOPARDY champion, Jennifer Quail Part 1 and Part 2.
Local galleries are reopening! Part 1 and Part 2.
Phonus-Balonus: 1920s Slang We Need to Bring Back.
A Brief History of the Lawn Chair”.
Riddle of the Week: The Gold Chain Math Problem and The Hen and the Egg.
Stop Doomscrolling. Ah, too late.
Now I Know
The Job That’s a Riot and The One Thing You Can’t Do in IKEA and When It’s OK to Lose Your Head and The Sweet Mistake and The Robutts That Protect Your Phone.
Race in America
VeggieTales’ creator Phil Vischer releases viral video on race in America (17 minutes, and very good).
Elijah McClain played violin for lonely kittens. His last words to police are devastating.
Facial recognition: “Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm”.
Racism, Disparities, and the Health of the Nation.
My denomination: PC(USA) General Assembly affirms that Black lives matter; pledges to work against systemic racism.
I thought I understood white privilege, then I married a Black man.
Man shares two lessons he learned from disrupting a racist joke in a group of white people.
Dr. Robin DiAngelo Wants White People to Stop Saying They’re Not Racist; she’s the author of White Fragility.
slave castles — and the weight of history.
Free online comic book – Henry Johnson: A Tale of Courage.
When The Klan Ruled In Freeport, Long Island.
This ‘Equity’ picture is actually White Supremacy at work.
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype and Celebrities now apologizing for using the racist trope for laughs have no idea just how sorry they really are.
Frederick Douglass’ admonition on the moral rightness of liberty for all.
The rage and love of James Baldwin.
Diversity in business is about expanding networks
This Rocket Scientist Is Tracing Black Ingenuity Through Barbecue.
Blacklexa (at 1:28).
Full bibliography here.
IMPOTUS
His ‘Roger Mudd’ moment augurs ill for his reelection. If he can’t explain why he wants another term, he shouldn’t expect voters to give him one.
Reverend reveals what evangelicals say privately about Trump.
Mary Trump: he is the product of a deeply dysfunctional family that makes him a uniquely destructive and unstable leader for the country; inside his psychopathology.
Family, Cronies Cleared For Millions In Bailout Funds, such as Elaine Chao’s family business.
A Shameful Moment: Formal Withdrawal From WHO as Covid-19 Cases Climb.
Lincoln Project: Benedict Donald and Comrade Trump and Whispers. More.
Randy Rainbow Devastates A “Poor Deplorable Troll”
Music
America by Rebecca Jade, Erik Canzona, and Alfred Howard. Rebecca Jade is the Artist of the Year at 2020 San Diego Music Awards.
Ennio Morricone, Prolific Italian Composer for the Movies, Dies at 91.
Coverville: 1314: Cover Stories for KT Tunstall and Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies and 1315: The Blondie Cover Story II and 1316: Ennio Morricone Tribute and Ringo Starr Cover Story.
Perdido, by trombonist Juan Tizol, performed by Wynton Marsalis.
Be Still – Beach Boys.
Ballade in A minor for orchestra by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Adagio For Strings – Samuel Barber – conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Fantasy on Themes from the Masque of the Red Death – David Baker.
Suzanne – Leonard Cohen.
Dancing in the Canebrakes by Florence Price.
K-Chuck Radio: Our Robot Overlords.
Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann (Documentary).