The Weekly Town Crier (01/31/20)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (01/31/20).
Read “Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers Legend, Dead at 41 Basketball great and 13-year-old daughter Gianna among five dead in helicopter crash near Calabasas, California” at Rolling Stone.
Read “You Are Here Bonhoeffer on the ‘Stupidity’ That Led to Hitler’s Rise Americans today might do well to heed Bonhoeffer’s warning” at Intellectual Takeout.
Read “In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace An update on America's changing religious landscape” at Pew Forum. “Catholics are no longer a majority among U.S. Latinos.”
Read “The Art of Grieving: A Spiritual Practice for our Time” at Missio Alliance.
“Get Ordained Free as a Dudeist Minister” at Dudeism.
Read “Trump’s spiritual adviser called for ‘all satanic pregnancies to miscarry.’ It was a metaphor, she says” at Washington Post. Behold, Trump’s version of “Pro-Life”.
Read “The Tanzanian Court Just Banned Child Marriage in the Country For Good” at Global Citizen.
Read “Our problem isn’t just loneliness—it’s species loneliness How human isolation from the rest of the world keeps us from thriving” at Christian Century.
Read “75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Survivors Urge World To Remember” at NPR.
Read “Portion of US border wall in California falls over in high winds and lands on Mexican side” at CNN.
Read “Children With Parents Who Are Addicted To Their Cell Phones Affect Children's Development” at Healthy Holistic Living.
Read/Watch “Space Force logo tweeted by Trump bears uncanny resemblance to 'Star Trek' insignia” at CNN.
Read “Single-use plastic: China to ban bags and other items” at BBC.
Read “4 Reasons Why Slowing Down Will Actually Make You More Successful” at Inc.
Read “We Are Drowning in a Devolved World: An Open Letter from Devo Following the band's Rock Hall nomination, founder Gerald Casale reflects on its dystopian legacy in the age of Trump” at Vice.
Read “Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need” at Scoop.
Read “Heard but Not Seen Black music in white spaces.” at Slate.
Read “United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education” at Forbes.
Read “Trump is attracting a new crop of big donors, including many who have never given before” at Washington Post. “It’s like insurance that is going to help save the country. . . . It’s for me and my grandkids and the next generations. Trump’s vaunted political money machine is helping drive record sums to the Republican National Committee, and not just from the same donors who supported him in 2016. Enticed by exclusive gatherings and ecstatic about the president’s tax cuts, an eclectic new crop of donors is going all in, giving five and six figures to support his reelection.”
Read “44 Years Ago, Shirley Chisholm Became the First Black Woman to Run For President” at Smithsonian Magazine.
Read “Pompeo steps up attacks on NPR reporter, but doesn't deny her account The secretary of state on Saturday attacked the correspondent who reported that he had cursed and berated her over questioning about Ukraine, but did not directly challenge those claims.” at NBC.
Read “State Department drops NPR from Pompeo trip after Ukraine dust-up” at CNN Business.
Read “NPR Seeks 'Clarification' From State Department About Reporter Dropped From Trip” at NPR.
Read “Supreme Court order allows Trump’s new green card rule to take effect” at PBS News Hour.
Read “2,500-Year-Old Chariot Found – Complete with Rider And Horses” at Archeology World.
Read the (satirical?) piece “Band Member With Kid Subtly Adds Girl Scout Cookies to Merch Table” at The Hard Times.
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Read “Neil Young is Now a US Citizen: Here’s 5 Versions of “Rockin’ In The Free World” at Relix.
Read “Neil Young says that the MacBook Pro has “Fisher-Price” audio quality and calls it “a piece of crap” at Music Radar.
Read “Mick Fleetwood on His Peter Green Tribute Show, Future Plans, and Lindsey Buckingham “Lindsey’s legacy is alive and well, and as it should be,” says the drummer. “It will never be taken away, and never be down-spoken by any of us” at Rolling Stone.
“Watch the First Teaser for Beastie Boys and Spike Jonze’s New Documentary” at Pitchfork.
Read “Ozzy Osbourne: ‘I Think About Death But I Don’t Worry About It’” at Rolling Stone.
Read “The New Pornographers Censor Their Name for New Kids’ Shirts” at Pitchfork.
Browse Clickhole’s list of “5 Episodes Of ‘Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives’ Where Guy Fieri Clearly Just Stopped Into The Restaurant Because He Desperately Needed To Use The Bathroom.”
Browse “Super Bowl Halftime Shows Ranked: From Worst to Best” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Check Out Washington Nationals Pitcher Sean Doolittle’s Phish-Inspired Wilson Glove” at Relix.
Read “In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies. Yes, really.” at LitHub.
Read “Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books Than You'll Ever Have Time to Read'“ at Inc.
Read “Classic Children’s Books Now Digitized and Put Online: Revisit Vintage Works from the 19th & 20th Centuries” at Open Culture.
“Say Hi, How Are You To Houston's New Mural Honoring Daniel Johnston” at Houston Press.
See “Perfectly Timed Photo Frames a Solar Eclipse Around a Man Leading a Camel in the Desert” at My Modern Met.
Read “Psychology still skews western and affluent. Can it be fixed? Critics have argued that these biases present an imperfect view of the human mind. Why is it so hard to correct?” at Salon.
Read “Ask Ethan: How Can We See 46.1 Billion Light-Years Away In A 13.8 Billion Year Old Universe?” at Forbes.
Read “Germany is turning 62 military bases into wildlife sanctuaries 'We are fortunate that we can now give these places back to nature' at The Independent.
Read “Eat Like a 1970s Radical With ‘The People’s Philadelphia Cookbook’ The 1976 book included contributions from the Black Power and Gay Liberation movements” at Gastro Obscura.
Read “'Penis Man' Graffiti Artist Arrested by '25 Heavily Armed SWAT Officers' at Phoenix New Times.
Read “World’s first Atari-themed hotel will open in Phoenix” at AZ Weekend.
Read “Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Architecture School Is Shutting Down” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “Federal court says Arizona 'ballot harvesting' law discriminates against minority voters” at AZ Central.