Weekend link dump for September 11

What kids wish their teachers knew about them.

“We hear too much about what’s wrong with baseball. We need to hear more about what’s awesome about baseball.”

Crime is a big problem at WalMart.

“The Beach Boys’ Southern California sound was synonymous with sunshine, but founding member Mike Love remembers when darkness crept into their world through a brief connection to Charles Manson, who drove his followers to murder in the late 1960s.”

You should charge your phone when it gets to 50%, instead of waiting till it’s nearly dead.

“It might seem like this summer has marked a sad break with that old Rudy, or proved him a sellout. But if you’ve followed Giuliani’s career, in fact it’s clear he swallowed the whole Trump persona many years ago—the race-baiting, the law-and-order pose, the incessant lying used to both steal credit and avoid responsibility. What we’re seeing this summer isn’t a crackup: It’s the inevitable, supernova explosion of what long ago became one of the most toxic and overrated political careers in our history.”

“In this election, I am not a mass. I am not a poll number. I am not a color on a map. Neither am I a journalist. I am a member of a community I cannot see and hear in media. I am frustrated.”

The Trump Foundation sure is a beneficiary of the media’s soft bigotry of low expectations.

RIP, Dabney Montgomery, Tuskegee Airman who was a bodyguard for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“To mark what would have been Freddie Mercury’s 70th birthday, Queen guitarist and actual astrophysicist Brian May announced that an asteroid orbiting around Mars and Jupiter has been named after the singer.”

Let this be Phyllis Schlafly’s official obituary. Though this works pretty well, too.

RIP, Hugh O’Brian, best known for playing Wyatt Earp on the 60’s TV show.

There will be a new Mythbusters spinoff premiering on Netflix in December.

Looks like we have the planet Mercury to thank for life on Earth.

“A hallmark of the president’s tenure has been to face and acknowledge our history.”

“How much smoke do we have to see here? It is just mind-boggling, all of this cozying up and playing nice with Putin. Four years ago, the entire Republican Party came down heavy on President Obama, because they thought he wasn’t taking the threat of Putin’s Russia.”

“What’s going on here is a clear demonstration of the importance of moral leadership, because without it you can see how fast a party can jettison all the decent things it stands for in the blink of an eye. And you can see from both Palin and Trump how fast this can corrupt the morals of a party and a people.”

“All that dishonesty there? That dismissing of context? That perversion of words? That preoccupation with the idea that a dishonest, hostile perversion of her words should take precedence over the unmistakable actual words and their unmistakable actual meaning? That’s also a sin. And it’s also deplorable.”

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