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Taking The Heat I was thinking "I'm getting too old for this stuff" after working this morning, and demonstrating this afternoon, in relentless heat. Until I saw this. Rabbi Arthur Waskow. 85 years old. Arrested more than 24 times. https://twitter.com/_sjpeace_/status/1013052999210602496 If he can keep doing it, so can I. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Waskow

Hot Hot Hot We had about 500 folks show up, holler, and march. Gave out 400 bottles of water (all we had).

Hang Fire All the awesome tank-o-lanterns: https://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/home/YuccaFlatsNM/0/0/29147 Originally shared by Taconati Just a taste of the new hanging tank-o-lanterns. More to come this weekend!

Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 It's taking longer than we thought. So long, and thanks for all the fish, Cece. 45 years and not doxxed yet. Surely that's some kind of record, all its ownself: http://www.ipass.net/whitetho/edcecil.htm Originally shared by Damn interesting "The Straight Dope" to shut down after 45 years of publication https://www.straightdope.com/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/

Nit Picking Crumbs are a funny kind of quantum particle. Divided crumbs are just smaller crumbs. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://qz.com/1317993/the-scientific-reason-your-brain-never-runs-out-of-problems-to-find/

Identity Theft Originally shared by Nicola Smith NPR: "For four years, Raphael A. Sanchez, the chief counsel at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Seattle, opened credit cards and took out loans using the personal information of vulnerable immigrants." https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624207450/former-ice-chief-counsel-facing-prison-time-for-stealing-immigrants-identities?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180628

Phoning It In John Scalzi remembers Harlan Ellison. Be sure to read this addendum: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2018/06/28/rip-harlan-ellison/ Originally shared by John Scalzi The great science fiction writer Harlan Ellison died this morning. I have a piece about him up at the Los Angeles Times, here: http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-harlan-ellison-john-scalzi-20180628-story.html http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-harlan-ellison-john-scalzi-20180628-story.html

"Repent, Harlequin! Said The Tick Tock Man" The pugnacious and talented Harlan Ellison is dead at 84. Damn. I guess being the Curmudgeon of All Curmudgeons does not confer Immortality. https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan-ellison-dead-dies-star-trek-1202861048/ Jelly beans. There should be jelly beans, dammit. "Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin workers, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with qui...

No Lies Originally shared by Mari Thomas This is important.. This is a one of those red flags .. We demand impeachment en masse now or this is going to cost lives.. "We ended up arresting 232, which is 16 percent higher than our highest estimates. So internally, that was considered a success….But what they publicly said was that she let people go," Schwab said. According to him, that was not true. He helped craft a statement to the media saying, "Some of them were able to elude us thanks to the mayor's irresponsible decision." He was comfortable with that statement, he said, because it included the words "some of." "This is a spin statement. This is what every public affairs officer does," Schwab said. A week later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions' language was noticeably different. He said "ICE failed to make 800 arrests" because of the mayor's statement. Sessions' words didn't sit well with Schwab. "Completely...

No Lie Steinbeck was very much of the conviction that, as E.B. White eloquently put it many years later, a writer should “lift people up, not lower them down.” Upon finishing a satire about a lettuce worker's strike in Salinas: "This is going to be a hard letter to write … this book is finished and it is a bad book and I must get rid of it. It can’t be printed. It is bad because it isn’t honest." "Oh! these incidents all happened but — I’m not telling as much of the truth about them as I know." "My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other and then I deliberately write this book the aim of which is to cause hatred through partial understanding. My father would have called it a smart-alec book. It was full of tricks to make people ridiculous." Less than two weeks later, Steinbeck was already hard at work on The Grapes of Wrath — the iconic epic of the Great Depression that shines a light on the same uncomfortable and often g...

Incivility https://twitter.com/willshetterly/status/1011654530789007366 Will Shetterly further says: "Pick a cause and work for it as best you can in a way that can't be turned against it. " (italics mine) That's a good goal, but harder than it looks to accomplish. I can, however, attest to the transformative power of the hissy fit as wielded in Southern households (several cherished pieces of Revere Ware show signs of significant Field Modification). I can also bear witness to the necessity of clearing the AO if competing hissy fits were unleashed.

Desperados Waiting On A Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpZV1iJ99g4 via Randy Culler Originally shared by BackintheUSA The Highwaymen, 1980s

Fighting For My Rights Charles Neblett of the SNCC Freedom Singers. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/sncc-freedom-singers-1962-1966 "They'd beat us up and throw us in jail," he said. "They turned the heat on, shut the windows and wouldn't let us have any contact with the outside. The sheriff would come in there and knock us around the cell. We had no cold water and it was really hot in there. We had no mattresses and had to sleep on a steel bed with straps on it. They just kept us in a miserable state. We knew we had to go through it, that we had to be there awhile. So we would just sing." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33093-2004May17.html Still singing, still fighting. Sang at the Poor People's Campaign on Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqnERmrevUk

A Matter Of National (In)Security https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606481548/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban

A Level of Exceptional Care https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606427673/supreme-court-sides-with-california-anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers

See See Rider "...see, what you have done..." Eric Burdon & The Animals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxq5A5_u1F8 The song uses mostly traditional blues lyrics to tell the story of an unfaithful lover, commonly called an easy rider: "See see rider, see what you have done," making a play on the word see and the sound of easy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_See_Rider Originally shared by **** Trump Rides a Harley—to Europe The U.S. casualties of his trade war are starting to mount. Good luck to Republicans running on the Trump tariffs in November. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-rides-a-harleyto-europe-1529968178 #MAGA #winning Via https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1011584315040419840?s=19

Identity Crisis Papers, please. Especially if you look like you Aren't From Around Here. And be prepared to prove it, to varying degrees of arbitrary proof. Originally shared by Valkyrie https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deporting-its-own-citizens

Curses Are Like Chickens They Always Come Home To Roost. Originally shared by Moss Drake Natural consequences https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/6/20/1773818/-So-we-re-gonna-pretend-these-refugees-aren-t-a-result-of-our-actions-in-Central-America

(Un)Rapid Prototyping Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Fantastic. It took 3 years to get this right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbdbVhzcM4

They're With The Band Life on the road. Still probably better than digging ditches. But weirder. Sometimes, way weirder. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://aeon.co/essays/the-world-blurs-when-i-m-on-tour-with-the-band

The Poor People's Campaign “It seems to me that today’s America not only gives far less of a rat’s ass about the poor than it did thirty years ago, but can no longer be bothered even to pretend that it cares.” https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/1/21/14328934/poor-peoples-campaign-peter-s-beagle

Reorg Chart How They're Going To Make The Trains Run On Time... https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf

Apache Tears We traveled to Montgomery Alabama to see the Equal Justice Initiative's Museum and Memorial. I believe that you can't move forward without acknowledging the past, and the memorial site and museum are a powerful way to do that. But I've been struck by the marked absence of Native American peoples in current discussions about justice and reparations. Fortunately, there are folks like Wendsler Nosie, Sr., to remind us, and he and his are traveling to DC to participate in the Poor People's Campaign. He passed through our town on the way, and spoke, sang, and danced with us. He and his fellow travelers are creating and re-affirming bonds with places and people. He is Apache, but his mission is one of healing. He reminded us that a Nation founded on lies and deceit cannot prosper. And that Colonial history books always omit the First Chapter, about the peoples that inhabited the land before Empire did. http://arizonasonoranewsservice.com/for-native-americans-r...

Mule Train We've got folks on the road to DC today. At an organizational meeting, someone mentioned that there was talk that homeless folks might be walking to the event. Some expressed concern about that. I said, "What kind of a Poor People's Campaign would that be, that couldn't make room for actual poor people?" http://mississippistories.org/story/a-story-of-the-poor-peoples-campaign-mule-train/

"A Three Hour Cruise..." I'm real particular who I'll get on board a boat with. Real particular. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/mars-simulation-hi-seas-nasa-hawaii/553532/

Shibboleth Mackintosh Will be the name of my Glaswegian Punk covers band... Originally shared by Lycanpedia

#ruleofthirds #threedotjournalism Originally shared by Edward Morbius I've seen the light. I've mended my ways. It's been made abundantly clear to me that two spaces is completely and absolutely wrong. I'm a changed man space alien cat . From here on out, no more. #threespaces

Took The Children Away Originally shared by **** This story's right, this story's true I would not tell lies to you Like the promises they did not keep And how they fenced us in like sheep. Said to us come take our hand Sent us off to mission land. Taught us to read, to write and pray Then they took the children away, Took the children away, The children away. Snatched from their mother's breast Said this is for the best Took them away. The welfare and the policeman Said you've got to understand We'll give them what you can't give Teach them how to really live. Teach them how to live they said Humiliated them instead Taught them that and taught them this And others taught them prejudice. You took the children away The children away Breaking their mothers heart Tearing us all apart Took them away One dark day on Framingham Come and didn't give a damn My mother cried go get their dad He came running, fighting mad Mother's tears were falling down Dad shaped...

Golden Retrieval https://www.uclahealth.org/u-magazine/leo-me

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Fintastic #joinindaily with Johnny Wills The theme is: In a row.

Pitcher (Im)perfect #joinindailyspecifics with Optical Drifter The theme is: It has a hole in it!

Confiscatory Art Originally shared by Pat Kight This is a helluva photo project. One might even say an obsession, for a former Customs and Border Patrol janitor who also happens to be a photographer. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-janitors-collection-of-things-confiscated-from-migrants-in-the-desert https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-janitors-collection-of-things-confiscated-from-migrants-in-the-desert

"At Least During The Internment..."

Southern Poverty Law Center Popehat weighs in on the recent SPLC lawsuit: https://www.popehat.com/2018/06/18/the-southern-poverty-law-center-surrenders-unconditionally-to-maajid-nawaz-we-should-be-concerned/ Will Shetterly weighs on problems with the SPLC: http://shetterly.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-leftists-criticize-extremely.html And I'll include a link to one SPLC program that I know about, that may or may not be effective, but is much needed: https://www.splcenter.org/attention-on-detention/volunteer-reflections-my-experience-fighting-deportation-machine-stewart I don't like hate speech. I think it has power to lead to more and worse hate actions. But I increasingly think the focus should be on restraining actions, not rhetoric.

You Can't Get There From Here "But our administration is kind of ignoring this longstanding international and national jurisprudence of basic beliefs to make this distinction that, if you come to a bridge, we’re not going to prosecute you, but if you come over the river and then find immigration or are caught by immigration, we’re prosecuting you." "So if you cross any other way besides the bridge, we’re prosecuting you. But . . . you can’t cross the bridge." "Are the kids whose parents are applying for asylum processed differently from kids whose parents are not applying for asylum?" "I don’t know. These are questions we ask DHS, but we don’t know the answers." "Why don’t you get an answer?" "I don’t know. To me, if you’re going to justify this in some way under the law, the idea that these parents don’t have the ability to obtain very simple answers—what are my rights and when can I be reunited with my kid before I’m deported...

Spaaaaaace Force I begin to suspect the unsubtle hand of Gharlane of Eddore... https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/president-trump-directs-pentagon-defense-department-to-immediately-being-the-process-of-establishing-space-force-as-sixth-military-branch.html

"This Is What Democracy Looks Like" #MoralMonday with the #PoorPeoplesCampaign at the NC Legislature.

Hate Speech Originally shared by Eduardo Ramirez

"Humanitarian Support" vs. "Material Support" Only Folks Under Sanctioned Duress Need Apply... https://thinkprogress.org/immigration-judge-says-womans-forced-labor-was-material-support-for-terrorists-ce323407bdfe

ISIS "Remember…coiling cables incorrectly is worse than ISIS." https://thehardtimes.net/hardstyle/how-to-tell-a-loved-one-theyre-coiling-cables-wrong/

A Sea Change "America’s largest Protestant group moves to cut ties with the Republican Party and re-engage with mainstream culture." I know folks that were founders of the Alliance of Baptists, an association that was founded in opposition to the Fundamentalist Takeover. https://allianceofbaptists.org/about/history The Baptist Joint Committee was originally a Press Relations function of the Southern Baptists, but it eventually grew into an organization that effectively and strongly fought for the separation of Church and State. Under James Dunn's leadership, Reagan's attempts to strengthen civil religion were curtailed, and the BJC survived having its funding removed by the Southern Baptists. http://bjconline.org/james-m-dunn-1932-2015/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/southern-baptists-call-off-the-culture-war/563000/ The White Heteronormative Patriarchy is still alive and well in the Baptist Church, but it is changing for the better. Mahan Siler...

Mixed Messaging In response to our anxious queries, staff was quick to reassure us that they will still have pancakes on the menu. Even though they still haven't brought back Boysenberry Syrup. Much disappoint.

Bars Sinister For Johnny Wills #joinindaily The theme is: It Has Stripes

In The Streets "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Martin Luther King, Jr. I had friends and family in the streets in Washington this week. They were among the hundred arrested. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/6/13/special_report_in_the_streets_with

Stomp Around "But hold onto what motivates you to act. Find all the humans you can find who agree with you and make calls and register voters. Because if things continue on this way for people without funds, or with brown skin, or for women and children and the sick, there will come a time when we all have fewer choices. This is not yet that time. Get out of the snow bank, find the St. Bernard with the tiny flask of hope, and stomp around like democracy depends on it." There are coordinated actions happening today about this very issue. See you on the streets! https://familiesbelong.org/ Originally shared by Betsy McCall https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/family-separation-is-horrifying-but-we-cant-go-numb-and-turn-away.html

Call To Justice There is a lot of pain being felt these days by the less powerful. Very little of it is new, shamefully, but it is getting worse, not better, and not by accident. It's expanding in depth of misery, and scale. When you hear folks use phrases like "Zero Tolerance"? Ain't no such a thing, people, not in engineering, not in manufacture, not in policy, not in government. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/609225537/sessions-says-zero-tolerance-for-illegal-border-crossers-vows-to-divide-families Anyone who tells you so, is selling you something. Something that won't turn out like you think it will, either. I've started a new collection, because I know that not all of you are interested in this. But I am. I think it's important, and I'm focusing my resources and efforts to make change for the better. This stuff won't be about the Trump administration trashing diplomatic protocols and norms, or even influence peddling...

"Couldn't Get Arrested" This, of course, in marked contrast to the #Faithful9 who were arrested, shackled, and detained for praying on the steps of the US Supreme Court on Monday: http://www.ucc.org/news_dc_pastor_shackled_held_27_hours_for_praying_on_supreme_court_steps_06132018 “It cannot possibly be consistent with the First Amendment for the government to so broadly prohibit expression in virtually any form in front of a courthouse, even the Supreme Court,” Howell wrote in a 68-page opinion. But, they have, and still do... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/protesters-have-no-free-speech-rights-on-supreme-courts-front-porch/2015/08/28/f79ae262-4d9e-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html "Before this campaign fails, we'll all end up in jail..." https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/6/14/17461402/house-democrats-protest-trump-family-separation-immigration-joe-crowley-john-lewis

It Takes A Village An Anthroposophic Village... Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-44439615

And The Duchy Of Palos Verdes, Too Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-split-three-states-20180612-story.html

Schools, Churches, and Libraries All face pressures from changing demographics and shrinking budgets... Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/us/arena-wisconsin-schools-empty.html

Pensive For Johnny Wills #joinindaily The theme is Garden Ornament. "O impious imp, be ye turned to stone!"

Secure Torx For Johnny Wills #joinindaily The theme is Five.

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Patience and Fortitude Originally shared by The New York Public Library It may not be April, but it is always time to learn fun facts about NYPL! https://on.nypl.org/2KVowhs

The Impermanence Of Things Two things still very imperfectly managed by all the shiny available technology: Long term data storage with integrity checks, and association and indexing of meta-data. Some of this is just plain hard, like version checking and sync. Some of it is just plain boring, and thus left as an exercise to lesser beings. However, the further we go down the path of digitization, the more it matters. The fact that so little is being done about it? Among other things, it means I don't trust the Wisdom of Silicon Valley. They ain't got none. Originally shared by Edward Morbius Cobbler's Child: Reripping the CDs, as you do ...25-year-old CDs should be assumed to have decayed into dust. I distrusted the silver buggers from day one. You can see the music on vinyl. Pure digital files are the essence of information as its own construct. The silver buggers were a misbegotten Frankensteinian construct, in denial of the natural flow of digital patterns. (So glad ...

The Prisoner's Dilemma Originally shared by Damn interesting https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62

Perpetual Motion The closest thing that we have to Perpetual Motion is Clickbait, AKA the desire to be entertained and mystified. via Damn interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muruba8ORGA

Heavy Metal For Optical Drifter #joinindailyspecifics The theme is Lorries/Trucks.

Frosty Fine Brine #notrightfoods https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/06/10/sonics-new-pickle-juice-slush-available-starting-june-11/688444002/

Give The People What They Want The O'Jays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYS6ifV9IN0 Rev. Barber: https://www.twitter.com/UniteThePoor/status/1006244632727113730 You can watch the livestream from Washington DC here: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/live/ This Is What Democracy Looks Like! Hundreds blocked the streets around the US Capitol and Supreme Court, multiple arrests were made. #poorpeoplescampaign #unitethepoor

It's Showtime! "All That Jazz is about show business can kill you. Devoting yourself to your craft is like an all-protein diet. You may not be hungry, but you're going to starve to death. You need other things. And Bob knew it was killing him, and he knew there was nothing he could do about it. He was hooked. That's why I think All That Jazz is very moral, because it says don't do this. You'll lose yourself." Ann Reinking What? And leave Show Business? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2e9acreKmQ

Flipping Quarters Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Interesting, for both good and evil purposes. "Small groups of people can indeed flip firmly established social conventions, as long as they reach a certain critical mass. When that happens, what was once acceptable can quickly become unacceptable, and vice versa. Two decades ago, most Americans opposed gay marriage, bans on public smoking, and the legalization of marijuana; now, these issues all enjoy majority support. [...] After running a creative experiment, Damon Centola from the University of Pennsylvania says that the crucial threshold is [...] 25 percent. That’s the likely tipping point at which minority views can overturn majority ones. “A lot of models have been developed, but they’re often people speculating in the dark, and writing equations without any data,” Centola says. “Our results fit better with the ethnographic data. It’s really exciting to me how clearly they resonate with Kanter’s work.” [...] “What I think...

When You Say Danny Kirwan, dead at 68. http://observer.com/2015/11/for-your-reconsideration-danny-kirwan-the-sad-beautiful-ghost-of-fleetwood-mac/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA1pmeJMuuU

I'm In The No Smoking Section https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2013/06/19

DoppelDoppelDecker via Ray Radlein Originally shared by Mitch Wagner Seems legit. Via https://www.facebook.com/groups/173405140073492/permalink/249781012435904/

Caledonian Antisyzygy and The Principle of Charity http://heradas.com/2018/06/iain-m-banks-culture-series-caledonian-antisyzygy-and-the-principle-of-charity/ http://heradas.com/2018/06/iain-m-banks-culture-series-caledonian-antisyzygy-and-the-principle-of-charity/

Spin Class "Indeed, I suspect that many of his officials are engaged in what I once saw described as “bicycling”: bowing to the man above while trampling on those below." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/opinion/trump-pruitt-corruption.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/opinion/trump-pruitt-corruption.html

Another Brick In The Wall "Suspicion is a global variable. Once triggered it bubbles upward through the entire system. Walking down Park Lane, I was accosted by a man in a suit who demanded to know what I was doing. He took out his mobile phone, pointed it at my face, told me he was going to “circulate my description”. "Shortly afterwards, a colleague of his physically restrained me and called the police. Both men worked at the Grosvenor House Hotel, whose cameras were among those which had been trained on me as I walked, and so are included in my documentation." "When they arrived, the police officers explained that carrying a camera in the vicinity of Central London was grounds for suspicion. I might be a terrorist who posed a threat to the good citizens of London – my own city. Equally I might be casing the joint for some future crime, studying its defences in order to circumvent them." "Carrying a camera thus justified the suspicion of the security gua...

Taste The Rainbow

The Train Originally shared by Semicentenary Project

"I'll Take You There" After the Staples clan went to hear Martin Luther King Jr. preach at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama, Pops said: “If he can preach it, we can sing it." Lord, did they. https://www.southernliving.com/culture/50-years-after-the-march-from-selma-to-montgomery-our-interview-with-mavis-staples We were privileged to hear Mavis sing last night. She's getting on a bit, but she still rocked the house. We can all wish to sound and look so good when we are her age. She sang all our favorites, and a few that were new to me, like this one. It's worth the listen. Mavis lost her sister Yvonne earlier this year: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/sc-ent-yvonne-staples-obit-0410-story.html It's hard, watching your heroes go by the wayside. Best enjoy them and support them while you can. She's on the road. Go see her: https://www.mavisstaples.com/#tour-section https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwCKrqkvJY

Not Fade Away In the preface to Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain wrote this: "As for me, I have always liked to think of myself as the Chuck Wepner of cooking. Chuck was a journeyman 'contender', referred to as the 'Bayonne Bleeder' back in the Ali-Frazier era. He could always be counted on to last a few solid rounds without going down, giving as good as he got. I admired his resilience, his steadiness, his ability to get it together, to take a beating like a man." Well, Chuck is still here, and Tony isn't, but you can tell that Tony knew he was in a fight for his life. When I first heard of, and read the work of Anthony Bourdain, I'm afraid I wrote him off as a bit of a hot mess, writing stylishly about other hot messes. It's a thing I have less interest in, as I've gotten older. His propensity for seeking out the exotic was likewise not my style. But after awhile, I realized that there was more to him than that, perhaps well characte...

Think Pink!

Every Man A King I was lulled into thinking this was a merely a piece skewering the nutty Sovereign Citizen Movement. It's not. It is a piercing and wide ranging assessment of how the modern forces of globalization are breaking things that we've taken for granted. The Times, They Are A-Changin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ via Irina T. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rule-law/immune-law

But You Don't Have To Take My Word For It Originally shared by The New York Public Library #Onthisday in 1983, Reading Rainbow first premiered! To celebrate, we're sharing just a few reasons why we love @levarburton, the star of the beloved show. https://on.nypl.org/2Jgqmxh

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On The March #joinindailyspecifics with Optical Drifter Today's theme is "Looking At You"

Got Milk? Accept No Substitutes. NC considers requiring plant based drinks to be labeled as such. If the bill becomes law, Agriculture Commissioner Troxler said North Carolina would be the first state to pass such a measure. Brent Jackson, R-Sampson, said federal regulations require milk "to come from a hoofed animal," but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not enforced it. Erica Smith, D-Northampton, asked if there's any evidence that consumers are actually confused. "Just from informal survey and asking people what’s in these products," Troxler replied. "I don’t need evidence. It’s already the law." "Are we going to have pull all the soy and almond milk off the shelf?" asked Jeff Jackson, D-Mecklenburg. "This won’t be a gestapo action," Troxler replied. This is the level of informed discourse in our legislature. And priorities. https://www.wral.com/got-milk-answer-in-nc-may-soon-be-no-if-it-s-plant-based/17605685/ https:...

Gated Community #joinindailyspecifics with Optical Drifter Today's theme is: "Iron Gates!" (Metal)

It'll Happen To You, Too If you're lucky. For certain values of lucky. You've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk? via Karen Conlin Originally shared by Patrick O'Neil New essay "Sixty" now live up on Full Blue Moon Dementia - if you're so inclined, check it out, have a read... https://patrick-oneil.com/2018/06/sixty/

The Case Of The Helpful Hansom Cab https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/arts/television/benedict-cumberbatch-mugging-attack.html

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Founded in a slave trader's pen... #sacredsunday

Star Studded Real to Reels http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/07/studs-terkel-art-of-schmooze/

Don't Miss The Message Atlanta Rhythm Section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBGGvWFPuG4 "Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audemus_jura_nostra_defendere Commissioned by State Historian Marie Bankhead Owen in 1923. She was actively opposed to a Federal mandate giving women the right to vote, and believed in the supremacy of the white race. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Bankhead_Owen

In The Joynt Little Feat-Oh, Atlanta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTz8g8yh8GY

The Eye Of The Murricaine https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/01/im-nothing-but-compost-bill-murray-on-good-friends-bad-bosses-and-harvey-weinstein