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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