Journalistic integrity requires a reckoning with how news media covers the criminal legal system
The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real.
Are AI Chatbots in Healthcare Ethical?
How did we get $32 trillion in debt?
Massive Inequality Is a “Concerted Elite Class Project
U.S. Employee Engagement Needs a Rebound in 2023
Here is the publisher’s link to the book titled Side by Side in Eternity: The Lives Behind Adjacent American Military Graves. The book is co-authored by J. Eric Smith, my old blogging buddy. It is currently available for pre-order from the publisher and also from all of the significant book-selling platforms.
From the Books: NO NAME IN THE STREET by James Baldwin
What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Mike Roach, a SABR report of a baseball player who played in Binghamton more than a century ago.
Charles Kimbrough, Anchor Jim Dial on ‘Murphy Brown,’ Dies at 86#
Nathan Lane reminiscing about a few of the 25 starring roles he’s played on Broadway
From 2005: Periodical comics face many issues
Now I Know: The Man Who Did Well By Himself and The Radio Station for People Who are Blind and The $35 Mailbox That Cost $33,000 and Ten Thousand Reasons to Read Before Hitting “I Accept”
Trivia
Rock Hall
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is again offering a Fans’ Ballot. You can select up to 5 Nominees daily and submit your vote until April 28th.
Yes, they should have nominated your favorite band, and it doesn’t matter. I still vote.
My ballot includes: 1. Warren Zevon- eligible since 1994, yet nominated for the first time in 2023. Other musicians are pulling for the late singer-songwriter, and so am I. He might get in as a songwriter.
2. The Spinners – I’ve had them in my head since I wrote about Thom Bell, and I’m writing about them again this month. Will the 4th time be the charm?
3. Joy Division/New Order -does this synth-pop group have a chance at its first nomination? I doubt it.
4. Willie Nelson. He’ll be 90 in April, he’s sung with half of everyone, and he just got a Grammy.
The fifth slot I’ve bounced among Rage Against The Machine, ” a legitimately game-changing rap-rock group with critical respect, popular endurance, and contemporary relevance,” on their fifth try; and Sheryl Crow, who I’d been playing a lot during her birth month.
Lately, I’ve been voting for Cyndi Lauper, not just for her 1980s output but for creating the music and lyrics for Kinky Boots, for which she won a Tony.
But I could have easily voted for A Tribe Called Quest, Kate Bush, or the late George Michael. I’m not a big White Stripes fan, but I like Jack White, from his soundtrack for Cold Mountain to his work with Loretta Lynn. Missy Elliot and Soundgarden are worthy. I’m just not that familiar with Iron Maiden.
Yet again, I hope they put, in the non-performer category, Estelle Axton, co-founder of STAX Records!
MUSIC
Playing For Change BHM playlist
Spark Catchers – Hannah Kendall
Redemption Song – Sheku Kanneh-Mason and siblings
Coverville 1431: The Barrett Strong Tribute
Night on Mount Triglav – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
K-Chuck Radio: What’s that in the air?