The second page I opened in the blog feed led me straight to the YouTube channel of a parodist I hadn't discovered before. She's good. Three of her songs are linked below.
Animals
We know this is not Drudge because his coat is longer. (Actually I think Drudge is a pretty contented tomcat, despite his instinct to feel that he's dominant by "herding" me toward the kibble.)
Christians
Protestants sometimes forget that, though there's no record of where she went after Pentecost, Mother Mary was with the disciples after the Resurrection. Here (in Spanish) is a reflection on the last biblical record we have of her life. Tradition says that she sailed away to France with Mary Magdalene, "the other Mary," and Black Sarah, but nothing in the Bible or any official record mentions any such thing.
Glyphosate Awareness
Y'mean after all these years somebody has fiiiiiiinally dared to quantify what celiacs have been telling the world all along? Breaking news...
Want to see how your US Representative voted on the Farm Bill? You can tell who's a sell-out and who's the real deal here:
The ones who voted NO have GOT TO GO!
History
Is there a generation that grew up reading a version of Our Sacred Southern History from which the slaves were erased? It wasn't mine. What tended to be overlooked when I was growing up was the extent to which supposedly free people--and not only women or child laborers, either--were overworked, underpaid, and abused on supposedly paying jobs.
I'm in favor of mentioning the slaves at Monticello, at Mount Vernon, at Colonial Williamsburg, and every other tourist attraction where there were slaves, North or South. (In colonial days all States, or colonies, had slavery. The North only barely managed to free slaves, after two hundred years of enslaving people, because the smaller, poorer farms the North originally had couldn't afford so many of them as the bigger, initially richer farms in the South.) By all means let the tourists see--and learn!--what sort of work slaves did...provided that reenacting the slaves' work, which was valuable and important, doesn't interfere with publicizing the slave owners' writings. Monticello and Mount Vernon should be selling reprints of the Founders' actual words.
Music
Anti-Trump parody, very well done.
Technology
We don't need, we don't "get", and we don't like flatphones. Strike a blow for humankind--instead of replacing the wretched thing that doesn't work the same way two weeks in a row, just leave it at the store and enter the post-phone world.
Weather (sort of)
The rogue weather dude known as Diamond has posted live video cameras in Hawaii to show you Mount Kilauea erupting (from a healthy distance). If you want to fly over an active volcano in a virtual helicopter without the chop-chop-chop noise, click on
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