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 […]
Amused but not surprised that this book exists.
I won’t post the more infamous image of the day, with Dr King’s body on the ground. Instead, I prefer to remember him as he was before James Earl Ray murdered him. I’m also in no mood for U2 jokes this year.
This article in the Seattle Times had me thinking about Robert Caro’s 1974 bio: Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York and the history of populations whose homes and neighborhoods were sacrificed to white “progress.” An overview from NPR: A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways
The Junk Drawer 