Frightening: “We’re Moving to Higher Ground” – America’s Era of Climate-Inspired Mass Migration is Here “Five Feet High and Rising” – Johnny Cash
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Friday Fun Link – Trump Prison Montage
Great editing – anybody recognize which show/movie this is from? So familiar but I can’t place it…The Wire? The Departed? Something else?
The Worst Day of Donald Trump’s Presidency?
Trump’s personal lawyer admits to knowingly committing illegal finance campaign finance violations at Trump’s direction while Trump’s former campaign chair is found guilty of multiple counts of bank and tax fraud as well. The BEST people!
Retro Friday Fun Link – Fred Armisen Does Accents To The City Level
A Netflix interview between Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman led me to this…
Cost of A Broken Wrist? USA = ~$10,000, Canada = $12
Doing a lot of reading about various aspects of the scaphoid bone I broke in my wrist and always shocked to see American sites talking about the cost of healthcare (~$6000 – $10,000 for the x-rays, hospital stay and surgery I had) or how they would forego treatment completely due to a lack of health […]
Retro Friday Fun Link – Truth Is Better (Scarier?) Than Fiction (aka If This Was a Spy Novel, It’d Be Too Unbelievable)
This story of the FBI tracking deep cover Russian spies is pretty amazing…
“Dearest Father…” #SecondCivilWarLetters Wins Twitter on American Independence Day
My Love,Dusk. We're in position overlooking MAGA camp. I see their sentries' red hats in the dim light of their tiki torches and it steels my nerves. At midnight, we strike. May our battlecry, "Happy Holidays," strike fear. Send Kale. – Matthew#secondcivilwarletters — D-Fo (@ThisIsDFo) July 4, 2018 It’s quite clear that the increased […]
Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”
“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely […]
Roseanne’s Plan To Bump Cosby (1989 vs. 2018 Versions)
It’s 1989 all over again with Roseanne Barr stealing headlines from Bill Cosby…