Abortion was legal when the Constitution was ratified: “For America’s first century, abortion wasn’t banned in a single US state. It’s only become a hot-button issue in recent decades.” — Read on billmoyers.com/story/history-of-abortion-law-america/
Tonight I finally watched the 2012 documentary Sample This, which delves into the story of the making, and the impact of the 1972 track “Apache” by the Incredible Bongo Band (more accurately “Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band). A cover itself of a 1960 record by Burt Weedon (almost simultaneously covered by pre-Beatles British rock stars […]
Today this opinion panel piece appeared in the NYTimes, “These Conservative Men Are Making No Apologies” I read the edited transcript and then listened to the full segment later. (And yes, heavily edited. The written version omits gems such as “Biden is a puppet!” and “[I got] yelled at for my mask not covering my […]
This won’t be new to a lot of people in the ADHD community, but it’s still worth sharing, I think. It’s a wonderful way to show how an ADHD brain can work, even if that’s not the original intent of the scene. And of course Bryan Cranston is wonderful. From Malcolm in the Middle.
Amused but not surprised that this book exists.
I started watching AppleTV’s series “For All Mankind” and was delighted to see Tom Lehrer pop up in a sequence about Werner von Braun. A classic moment!
The Junk Drawer 