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In both social media and his column (archive link), New York Times columnist and pundit Jamelle Bouie discusses the lack of Civil War movies that honestly grapple with the conflict and slavery as its driving force, and how the Lost Cause movement is to blame.Over at Lawyers, Guns, & Money, they extend the discussion to Civil War art and media in general.

A transgender woman examines "the trans episode" of the Nikolodeon live action show Danger Force.The first interview with actor Michael D. Cohen mentioned is in People. The second is actually in Variety. Lily Simpson has a YouTube channel full of videos examining the trans or trans-adjacent episodes of (mostly) television shows, from The Trans Positivity of The Love Boat to The Worst Moment in...

This was supposed to be a competition where precision, rhythm and cultural resonance are key. Gunn's claim to creativity rings hollow because it was a desperate attempt to reframe her performance, to shift the narrative from cringe-worthy failure to uniqueness. In doing so, she not only disrespected breakdancing, but revealed her disconnect from the very culture she was trying—and failing—to represent. from The Privilege...

She's the Oldest Common Loon in the World. She Just Had Her 42nd Chick. A bit more history about her and her previous longtime mate from Audubon.

"In the heart of the country, Great Plains farmers and ranchers produce a quarter of all U.S. crops and 40 percent of our beef. But they rely on a resource that has been slowly drying up, water." 'Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming' Jun 24, 2024. (PBS video/audio.)"They had been on the road for six days, a clan of five bouncing...

Alain Delon, Smoldering French Film Star, Dies at 88Alain Delon, angel-faced tough guy of international cinema, dies at 88 Alain Delon: a life in pictures Delon starred in a series of memorable thrillers and historical pictures, including Plein Soleil (aka Purple Noon, the first film adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley), the mesmerizing Le Samouraï directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (and the lesser but still...

The 2024 Democratic National Convention starts tomorrow in Chicago.Speakers, schedule, and how to watch (WaPo), what you need to know (NPR), roll call (Chicago Sun-Times), who's speaking (Axios). Protests are planned (reproductive rights, pro-Palestine), as well as free abortions and vasectomies. The Chicago Police Department says 'it's not 1968.' Previously in the Harris campaign: "This is preaching to the choir, but the choir needs...

Hakai Magazine: Then in 1976, a 27-year-old American anthropological archaeologist named Tom Dillehay uncovered the campsite, now called Monte Verde, and found that the small group had made it nearly to the bottom of South America 14,500 years ago. This was 1,500 years too early: established archaeologists thought people didn't even arrive in North America, up in Alaska, until around 13,000 years ago. The...

Run-of-the-mill drunk in a dive bar. I was one once. I'd wake up determined to have just two or three drinks, then have many, many more than two or three. As with playing Scrabble, doing otherwise felt impossible. In Alcoholics Anonymous, we're told that it's common to substitute one addiction for another. Surely, I tell myself, this new unmanageability is preferable to the old...

Seeing the incredibly rare orange-bellied parrot. Nature journalist Dr Ann Jones and BirdLife's Sean Dooley find one of Australia's rarest bids on the edge of Melbourne - the orange-bellied parrot. This is a 7 minute video from the Australian documentary series, The Secret Lives Of Our Urban Birds.

Liam Rātana writes a beautiful piece about The mana of digging a grave. Some useful Māori words referenced in the article, although you can work out most of it from the surrounding context - mana, tangi, marae, Tāmaki Makaurau, nehu, whānau, kāuta, urupā, punga, karanga, karakia, kai.

Gena Rowlands, whose seminal and fearless performance in A Woman Under the Influence inspired a generation of actors and who starred in many films directed by her husband, John Cassavetes, as well as in the romance The Notebook, died Wednesday at her home in Indian Wells, California. She was 94.In June, Nick Cassavetes, who directed his mother in The Notebook, had shared that the...

"Audiences are still being produced and sold. That dynamic hasn't changed. What's changed is who's doing the buying: not just advertisers anymore but, increasingly, gambling companies. This isn't a small distinction. Advertisers want your time and attention, in return for which you get a TV show or a magazine article; if you decide down the line to buy that Ford F-150 on offer, so...

Review of "Multiplicity: Blackness in American Collage" Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.by Alex Greenberger at ARTNews: "Artists like Williams have not ignored violence both past and present. They have instead highlighted how print media is imbricated in the history of anti-Black racism, then found ways of exposing that exploitation without reiterating it."

John Lennon was known for his iconic "granny glasses", which he wore in the later years of his career with the Beatles and into his solo years. The Journal of the College of Optometrists present a historical perspective examining Lennon's prior relationship with contact lenses during the "Beatlemania" phase of his musical career...and the one unexpected thing that made his lenses fall out less...

The brand describes this condiment collaboration as having notes of lemon, coffee, musk, vanilla, and of course "mayonnaise accord." These ingredients are sandwiched together in a way that is surprisingly pleasant. Though I do not wear cologne myself, this collaboration smells like something you could wrap up in a nice bow and gift to a regular cologne wearer. What's most surprising is that it...

The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age. "The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking into ways it might use facial recognition technology to track the identities of migrant children, "down to the infant," as they age, according to John Boyd, assistant director of the department's Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM), where a key part...

Kamala Harris Economic Policy (WaPo, NPR, NYT)She's delivering a speech about the economy in Raleigh, NC, today (PBS) Plans include expanded child tax credits, assistance for first-time homebuyers, an increased minimum wage, and a ban on food price gouging.

In Wakasa Bay, 200 miles west of Tokyo and 150 miles north of Taiji Bay, dolphins have attacked at least 47 people since 2022. Some marine experts think it might just be a single lonely and possibly horny cetacean.

"Since the cancellation, MIT Libraries estimates annual savings at more than 80% of its original spend. This move saves MIT approximately $2 million each year, and the Libraries provide alternative means of access that fulfills most article requests in minutes."In 2020 MIT ended their contract with Elsevier. This is what happened next. "As the savings from remaining out of contract with Elsevier continue to...

Catching Australia's biggest bird of prey to put a bird-band on its leg. The wedge-tailed eagle is Australia's largest bird of prey - and scariest if you ask ibis. Featuring nature journalist Dr Ann Jones and a local wedge-tailed eagle expert. (7 minute video from a longer four-episode nature documentary series about Australian birds, The Secret Lives Of Our Urban Birds.)

Peter Marshall, game-show host of 'Hollywood Squares,' dies at 98 Peter Marshall, a versatile singer, actor and comedian who was best known as the host of the long-running celebrity game show "Hollywood Squares," died Aug. 15 at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 98.

"I tried to give them $20,000 for nothing!" [Tim] Pool said on his show, claiming to be perplexed by the skaters' ingratitude. But Pool has also described the purchase as a win for the right, saying it was part of "real-world efforts to win a culture war." Jeremy Hambly, a popular YouTuber associated with Pool who goes by the name "The Quartering," said in...

The rape joke is you went home like nothing happened I'm not saying anything original. Misogynist jokes, like all misogynist discourse, are usually unoriginal and derivative, as derivative as Eve from Adam's rib, as unoriginal as sin.