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Guardian can’t handle the truth They ran this story about the backlash against Marvel comics losing sales after replacing long standing white male superheroes with “diverse” black females. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/03/marvel-executive-says-emphasis-on-diversity-may-have-alienated-readers#comment-96029903 The result was over 1,000 comments, mostly civil, explaining perspectives from … Continue reading →

Leah has this odd notion that people on twitter are real people http://shareblue.com/watching-the-hearings-i-learned-my-bernie-bro-harassers-may-have-been-russian-bots/

fred wants me to introduce myself so here goes. mini bio: baby boomer. grew up in jersey, outside philly. went to college (in chicago) on an academic scholarship. did one year abroad (canada.) graduated magna cum laude (english literature and … Continue reading →

No fooling

The other night, I happened to mention the Spanish language TV show “Sabado Gigante”. You don’t have to understand Spanish to see the energy of spontaneous live TV. The host of the show recently retired after doing the show for … Continue reading →

ICE is coming! Run for your lives!

https://youtu.be/Uu89xtiCA9k One of the navy ships in the video https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Tromp_(F803)

Fire of undetermined cause started around 6 PM and within two hours northbound bridge collapsed. Note the proximity of the MARTA subway yard

Fortune Magazine This is the Pittsburgh based subsidiary that builds equipment for nuclear power plants, that was acquired by the troubled company that was rocked by an accounting scandle in 2015. Part of what is hurting Westinghouse is that fracking … Continue reading →

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2017/03/n-c-judicial-elections-to-be-partisan-after-ncga-override Governor Cooper cannot stop anything the Repblican NC Legislature wants to pass. The first veto override just happened. Judges will now potentially have to run in a primary, and then run in the general election with a party ID. … Continue reading →