The Charity Bowl is my favorite fundraiser of the year. The two rules are 1. Be generous, and 2. Be petty. This is how it's done!

She stayed: The woman behind the movement - Remembering Margaret Kibbee In the Jewish tradition, when someone passes away, they say, “May their memory be a blessing.” That sentiment beautifully captures the life of Margaret Kibbee, whose quiet presence, wisdom, and spirit...

This is such a thoughtful and beautiful remembrance of Margaret Kibbee, a quiet hero who devoted herself to civil rights in the Mississippi Delta.

They got your attention! That’s the first step.

I’m flying out of DFW this morning. If it’s your turn to stand around in the concourse without a clue in the world blocking traffic, you need to leave for the airport *now*.

“The complete Ayn Rand, that’s for sure” might be the truest thing the NYT prints this week.

Geese - Taxes (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Geese

There are a few great lines in my favorite song from the last couple of years, but the one that resonates this week is “I will break my own heart from now on.”

R.E.M. Live at UIC Pavilion 1986-10-19 : R.E.M. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive R.E.M.October 19, 1986UIC PavilionChicago, IL, USARecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Taper: Aadam JacobsLocation:...

Just gonna spend the next couple of hours listening to an REM concert that was taped a month before the first REM show I ever saw, 40 (?!) years ago. archive.org/details/ajc0...

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From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan's Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online Aadam Jacobs has secretly recorded over 10,000 local concerts since 1989. Now, they are cleaned up and ready to listen to for free online.

This man and a small team of volunteers have engineered the greatest/worst time suck ever created and shared it with us, for free.

I showed it to my boys when they were about that age, and when Grodin did a Grodin slow burn one of them said, “That’s Dad.” Maybe my proudest parenting moment.

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I like that you identified Ted Cruz for this crowd as a Harvard Law grad. I wonder where that guy went to college.

Mets minor league team's fireworks show starts another fire outside Florida stadium The St. Lucie Mets started a massive fire outside their stadium during a Fourth of July fireworks show on Thursday night, their second fire on the holiday in three years.

Look on the bright side: The rain puts out the fires that the team's fireworks start.

TX universities are doing this to Black students, Brown students, international students, queer students, and first-generation students. A generation of progress toward making everyone feel welcome, primed to learn, and more likely to graduate and become productive citizens--all up in smoke.

That take exhibits ONIONS!

Every time I read peer reviews

‘Destruction and disruption’: UNT professors slam program cuts, demand more cost savings data A group of professors at the University of North Texas are calling for more transparency as the school cuts dozens of degrees amid a projected $45 million shortfall.

“We’re a university of researchers. If I want to do a single study, I have to show my data but we’re being asked on faith to trust the university’s decisions that affect our everyday lives without any specific data to back up the circumstances.”

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They stole my idea for a country song.

Chekov’s paper shredder 😬

Big Bertha Was the First to Go.

Sadly, my local piri pird chicen joint has gone belly up.

The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery Podcast Episode · Decoder Ring · November 15, 2023 · 43m

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From the nba community on Reddit: The True Story Behind Carlos Boozer Spray Painting his Head Explore this post and more from the nba community

It looks like he’s doing it with his beard now.
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“a good looking man”

Now I know what I’ll bolt awake to panic-obsess about at 3 am tomorrow. Thanks, Mark!

If you haven't already, you might want to check out Donald Cox's recent UNT diss. on how TX newspapers covered early Juneteenth celebrations.

Who are the dummies who donated $25,000 to the candidates trying to destroy their institution? That's the real story.

Fourteenth Amendment Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

the 14th Amendment, particularly the first sentence, is written in language a child can understand. it takes either extensive legal training or utterly flagrant, black-is-white dishonesty to be able to conclude otherwise