Friday Five (plus one)

It's the fourth Friday of November. Yesterday we had a nice, quiet Thanksgiving with just the two of us here (while keeping in touch with a number of distant friends through the day).

My hubby found a 10-pound turkey, which is a good size for a small group and still let's us have lots of leftovers. I used a recipe from The Science of Good Cooking as a guide. Short version: put turkey breast side down, drape bacon over the back, bake at 325º until meat thermometer reads 165 in the thigh; pull out and turn oven to 425º, remove stuffing and bacon, flip turkey over, drizzle with olive oil, put thermometer in breast, return to oven and cook until temp is 185. It came out delicious. We also green bean casserole, mashed sweet potatoes (as I continue me quest to replicate my Great-grandma S.J.'s heavy cream and molassis laden delicacy), giblet gravy, sweet potato pie, cranberry sauce, and a sinful collection of olives, pickles, pickled veggies, nuts...

It was a nice, laid back holiday. And I suspect all my conservative relatives heaved a big sigh of relief when Mom told them we weren't coming. But enough about that.

Welcome to my Friday Five: Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos (plus notable obituaries and a recap of my posts).

Stories of the Week:

John Crace on Milton's contribution to the english language .

At This Point, Evangelical Christians Are Persecuting Themselves.

Right Wing Group Blasts “Stalwarts Of Christian Morality” For Covering Up Sex Assault By Former Rep.

11 lives were lost in 11 days. For the LGBTQ community in Utah, enough was enough.

FCC looks to destroy the internet as we know it.

In Memoriam:

Gifted Singer and Actress Della Reese Dead at 86.

Della Reese, Singer and ‘Touched by an Angel’ Star, Dies at 86.

Remembering Della Reese, the tough angel.

David Cassidy, '70s teen heartthrob, dies at age 67.

David Cassidy was the biggest star in the world — for about two years.

Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.

Things I wrote:

Weekend Update 11/18/2017: More pictures, more words.

Tea and books and maintaining an even keel.

Assault, harassment, and cluelessnes.

Trying to remember to be thankful.

Day of Mourning.

Videos!

open heart open mind:

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Incredibles 2 Official Teaser Trailer:



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DEADPOOL 2 Official Teaser Trailer #2 (2018) :



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A Wrinkle in Time Official Second US Trailer:



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Steve Grand - Walking - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO:



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Friday Five (hold tight)

It's the second Friday of November. That means it's NaNoWriMo time and I'm frantically writing every day.

Welcome to my Friday Five: Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos (plus notable obituaries and a recap of my posts).

Stories of the Week:

THE 50 BEST SUPERHERO MOVIES OF ALL TIME.

95% of corporate earnings go to dividends and stock buybacks ($1 trillion a year). That is money that used to go into R&D, wages, pension programs etc. Now it goes to Wall street and the top echelons of the income ladder.

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met.

The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized.

America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning. It’s not really Amazon and other online shopping, it’s the mountains of debt all the retail chains amassed buying one another.

In Memoriam:

The Strange, Sudden Death (65 years ago) of the Author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.

Vincent Warren, love of poet Frank O’Hara’s life, passes away at 79.

Things I wrote:

Straightsplaining and ‘No homo’ are still very much things.

It’s been twenty years, but it still hurts.

Videos!

John Oliver signs off for the season with these three warnings about Trump:



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Roy Moore & Jeff Sessions Cold Open - Saturday Night Live:



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Fall Out Boy - HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T:



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The moment the YES dropped. Marriage Equality result release Melbourne:



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Alfie Arcuri Love Is Love:



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Friday Five (flipping)

It's the second Friday of November. That means it's NaNoWriMo time and I'm frantically writing every day.

As I explained a couple of weeks ago, my long-running weekly round up of all the links I thought worth sharing has been retired, replaced by this, my Friday Five. Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos and a recap of my posts.

Stories of the Week:

No Matter How You Measure Them, Mass Shooting Deaths Are Up.

At Indigenous Comic Con, Native American geeks have a con to call their own.

Hating Comic Sans Is Ableist. I understand what the author is trying to say: a lot of dyslexic people find Comic Sans' irregularities helpful for reading. But the fant is ugly and poorly designed. I reserve the right to dislike poorly designed things, sorry. And everyone else is allowed to disagree. Doesn't make any of us any -ist...

America Is Not a ‘Center-Right Nation’.

This fungus has 20,000 genders and can mate with almost every individual in its species just by bumping into them.

In Memoriam:

I will continue to share links to obituaries of people I think ought to be remembered, and they won't count against the Five.

Dick Gordon, NASA Astronaut and Apollo 12 Pilot, Dead at 88: Retired space flyer was one of only two dozen people ever to have journeyed to the moon.

Astronaut Richard Gordon, who circled the moon on Apollo 12, dies at 88.

Things I wrote:

The closet is a toxic place, and anything toxic can be weaponized.

It isn’t unfathomable at all!

Videos!

Close the Boyfriend Loophole | November 1, 2017 Act 2 | Full Frontal on TBS:



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Danica Roem On Historic Victory: Inclusion And Equality Won:



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Democrats Get Their First Big Electoral Wins of the Trump Era: A Closer Look:



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The 'Stranger Things' Kids Were Nearly a Motown Super Group:



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Pussy Riot - Police State:



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Friday Five (scientific serendipity)

It's the first Friday of November. That means it's NaNoWriMo time and I'm frantically writing every day.

As I mentioned last week, my long-running weekly round up of all the links I thought worth sharing has been retired, replaced by this, my Friday Five. Only the top five (IMHO) stories of the week and five videos and a recap of my posts.

Stories of the Week:

'Scientific Serendipity' Spurs Discovery of New Orangutan Species.

Twitter Suspended Me for Trolling White Supremacists.

‘Kids are gross’: on feminists and agency.

'Higgs Bison' Is The Missing Link In European Bison Ancestral Tree.

Arizona court: Religious beliefs don’t justify refusing calligraphy to same-sex couples .

In Memoriam:

I will continue to share links to obituaries of people I think ought to be remembered, and they won't count against the Five.

Yvonne Burney, SOE agent and concentration camp survivor – obituary

Jane Juska, author of best-selling memoir, ‘A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance’, dies at 84.

Things I wrote:

For the birds.

It’s the second most wonderful time of the year!

NaNoWriMo 2017: there will be sentences, so many sentences….

Don’t let anyone go hungry.

You’re a storyteller, so tell me a story….

Videos!

And here are five videos for you Friday:

Jake Shears - Creep City (Official Audio):



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Fan-made Trailer Gives Arrowverse a Bang, Pow-tastic '66-Style Intro:



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Black Panther is Coming to America:



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THOR RAGNAROK Final Trailer (Marvel 2017):



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PHILLIP K. DICK'S ELECTRIC DREAMS Official Trailer (HD) Amazon Exclusive Series:



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