For My 1,500th Blog Post, This Important Moment in American History

Reported, ironically, in a Brit paper.

There are lots of information, though a good thing to do is go back and look at the newspapers from that week.

They just wanted to go to school. Imagine the courage this took.

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Neil Gaiman Explains Why Libraries are Indispensable

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming

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Thanks, Washington Post; Now, I’m Hungry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-may-be-the-answer-to-all-your-problems/2017/09/19/69461fac-9cb8-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.eccfb77561c4

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“Including mine.”

Hillary Clinton’s speech at Ms. Windsor’s memorial service gives us a glimpse of how much we lost last November.

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Dean Baker, No Corporate Shill, Takes a Look at Bernie’s Proposal

Can We Pay for Single Payer?

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Four Little Girls

On September 15th, 1963, four girls, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, were getting ready sing in the choir at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. A bomb – 19 sticks of dynamite – planted by a group of vicious racists, went off, killing them. Given what we see happening around us today, we should remember.

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Harry Dean Stanton

It is with a weight in my heart that I write this short post of appreciation for a great artist, Harry Dean Stanton, who has passed away. Perhaps his most famous role is in Wim Wenders’ “Paris, Texas.” Script by Sam Shepard. Here’s the heart-breaking scene with him and Nastassja Kinski, “I Knew These People” –

Thank you, sir, for the inspiration.

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Never Underestimate the Importance of Libraries and Librarians

A letter to the Chicago Tribune. Libraries are important – more important than the internet – to the kind of learning environment that our children need. Librarians introduce children to books, among the most powerful tools for the transfer of knowledge and culture that we have.

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Happy Birthday to Otis Redding

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60 Years Ago This Week, Things Changed

” . . .the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn . . .”

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