R.I.P. Barbara Walters - We will miss you -
Barbara interviewed by David Letterman ("just mavalos" :)
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.I love closing out the year with this. 😊
On December 31, 1995, exactly 27 years ago today, legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson published his final 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip.
How beautiful and appropriate it was, and a timeless reminder of what we have before us in 2023. ❤️
Happy New Year, ya'll!
We should make publicly funded campaign finance initiatives a priority in 2023:
"Small donor public financing is the most powerful, proven solution available to counter the overwhelming influence of wealth on our political process in the aftermath of the Citizens United decision, which gave the green light to unlimited special interest spending. It is built on six components"
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/case-small-donor-public-financing-new-york
"Owen, a Harvard professor who may have translated more [Tang dynasty era poetry] than anyone, says that, even if writing good poetry was formidably hard, everyday poems were easy to toss off—Chinese has plenty of rhymes and stock allusions."
https://twitter.com/Jimmy_M_Santos/status/1609193285876064256?s=20
There goes all the fun in watching New Year's Eve with CNN tonight!
https://twitter.com/Jimmy_M_Santos/status/1609187330031587329?s=20
Dan GillmorBig Journalism is still largely unwilling to call things what they are. Today's example is the Washington Post's use of "vaccine hesitancy" to describe a movement that is based on rejecting science and evidence in favor of dangerous and, increasingly, politically motivated lies.
The people who reject vaccines are attacking their communities. They spread disease and death. We should recognize this, and say it out loud.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/
Which branch of the federal government will provide a check to SCOTUS' accumulation of power over the other branches?
https://harvardlawreview.org/2022/11/the-imperial-supreme-court/
Skulls in the StarsToday's #PaintingsILove entry: Archibald John Motley Jr- Nightlife - 1943
"Artic Nights, Iceland"
https://twitter.com/Jimmy_M_Santos/status/1604152473694121989?s=20
Free In The Knowledge (live)
- The Smile
And this was just a bad moment
We were fumbling around,
But we won't get caught like that,
With soldiers on our backs
We won't get caught like that --
