Pat Strosahl

I’m a 71-year curmudgeon trying to do my part in this dangerous moment. For me, that’s blogging, persuading, curating the conversations of our times..

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Pat Strosahl
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Republicans Have Realized That Forcing People to Give Birth Is Wildly Unpopular
VICE - Paul Blest
Republican candidates, many of whom began their runs for office this year trying to out-extreme each other on their anti-abortion views, are very quickly discovering that those positions aren’t palatable to the overwhelming majority of their constitutents. Spooked by polls showing that control of …
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Watch: Jayson Tatum’s Buzzer-Beating Layup Lifts Celtics to Stunning Game 1 Win Over Nets
Sports Illustrated - Jelani Scott
Now, that’s how you start a playoff series. Thanks to an absurd buzzer-beating layup from All-Star forward Jayson Tatum, the Celtics nabbed a 115–114 …
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Listen to Blues Guitar Virtuoso Albert Cummings’ Hard-Rocking Single “Need Somebody” from His Forthcoming ‘Ten’ Album
Guitar Player - Rod Brakes
Albert Cummings is an anomaly. A late bloomer by anybody’s standards he started playing guitar at 27. Indeed, at an age when some of the world’s …
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Mars helicopter aces 4th flight, gets extra month of flying
Associated Press - Marcia Dunn
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s little Mars helicopter has gotten a reprieve. Instead of wrapping up flight tests at the beginning of May, NASA is giving its Ingenuity helicopter at least an extra month to tackle tough new terrain and serve as a scout for its companion rover, …
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The Terrifying Cynicism of Teeter-Totter Wall
artnews.com - Max Pearl
On the morning of July 28, 2019, the architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello drove up to an 18-foot-tall barrier of rusted slats that cuts …
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The 10 best jazz albums of 2020
The Guardian - John Fordham
Alongside archive recordings from Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, and inventive new releases by Maria Schneider and Carla Bley, 2020 had plenty of spectacular fusions