Mike’s Blog Round-Up

"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets." -- Jimmy Breslin
By driftglass — December 26, 2023

On this day in 1931 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind's musical political satire "Of Thee I Sing" opened at the Music Box Theatre, NYC; ran for 441 performances, and became first musical to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The immortal Ella Fitzgerald sings the titular song.

Free Thought Blogs -- Pharyngula: Xmas plans…kaput!

The Rectification of Names: Democratic Militancy.

emptywheel: Advent Week 4 -- The End of Stollen Time.

Attention space nerds! Two years ago, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope. Take a look through what it's shown us since then!

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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