The only print magazine I still get in the mail is The New Yorker. Here are a couple of articles. First, Jeffrey Toobin’s excellent analysis of Antonin Scalia’s three decades on the supreme bench…
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/antonin-scalia-looking-backward
… and a retro piece, from 1965, about about the relationship between radio and Rock and Roll. It’s recommended by Herb Oscar Anderson, or HOA as he was known when he was the Morning Mayor on 77 WABC in the 1960’s.
When the timing works out, I listen to the CBS Evening News during the drive home from work, on WBZ radio in Boston. Yesterday, when the report began, as soon as I heard the voice of the person filling in for Scott Pelley, I shouted out loud, “JANE PAULEY!” What a pleasant surprise on such a terrible news day, with the murders of a TV reporter and cameraman in Virginia, by yet another deranged shooter who had no trouble getting a gun.
Excited fans of Warren G. Harding are tittering on Twitter about the confirmation that he sired a child with one of his mistresses. Well, that puts an end to those nasty, lingering rumors that he was a sterile President! Dead of a heart attack at age 57 in a San Francisco hotel. Hmm… a Nelson Rockefeller sort of a death?
Here’s to another 3,000 posts!
Like Steve Martin in The Jerk, Rachel Dolezal thinks that she was born a poor black child?
