Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness

Read this spellbinding account of the takeover of Malheur Wildlife Refuge by domestic terrorists by Diane Sward Rapaport, a resident of Harney County who watched it unfold over its course. Even knowing how it all works out you can feel the angst of the local people in her words.

Burns, Oregon: Siege of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge

I remember enough ASL to read Koko’s signs in this short video. It’s probably edited but it’s still sweet.

At Kid Robot, 1512 Haight Street

Lincoln and Darwin can be seen as symbols of the two pillars of the society we live in: one representing liberal democracy and a faith in armed republicanism and government of the people, the other the human sciences, a belief that objective knowledge about human history and the human condition, who we are and how we got here, exists. This makes them, plausibly, “heroes.” But they are also amazing men, something more than heroes, defined by their private struggles as much as by their public acts.

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin helped shape the modern world. (Illustration by Joe Ciardiello)

Born on the same day in 1809 in very different circumstances:

Abraham Lincoln’s Birthplace. This is the cabin where Abraham Lincoln may have been born. Some claim these are the original logs, taken down, refinished, and reassembled. (I highly doubt that)

The alleged (or symbolic) birthplace of Abe Lincoln now sits in a huge granite building

The Mount, where Charles Darwin was born.

I suspect that The Mount has more than one room which could accommodate the entire Lincoln cabin.

While gathering information for this post I came across an article and a short video worth checking out.

The video, about Lincoln’s early life in Kentucky, is from that state’s PBS station and is part of a much longer documentary, the parts of which can be viewed here.

Belafonte met with Sanders in New York on Wednesday, the day after he overwhelmingly beat challenger Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.
The singer and songwriter who was active in the Civil Rights Movement and close with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. released a video Thursday detailing his endorsement that was given exclusively to NBC News.

“I would suggest to those of you who have not yet made up your minds, or maybe even some of you who have made up your minds, to maybe consider and reconsider what it is that Bernie Sanders offers,” Belafonte said in a video endorsing Sanders. “He offers us a chance to declare unequivocally that there is a group of citizens who have a deep caring for where are nation goes and what it does in the process of going.”