- Today's comic by Tom Tomorrow is It ate our brains:
- What you may have missed on Sunday Kos ...
Banned books, authors of color and characters of diversity, by Susan Grigsby
If the 2016 GOP presidential field is so deep, why is Donald Trump beating so many of their 'stars'? by Steve Singiser
The Twenty Percent Solution, by Jon Perr
90 for 90. Getting out the vote in Virginia, by Denise Oliver Velez
Thomas Edsall is wrong. Obamacare did not make Americans more conservative, by Egberto Willies
The submerged state: Welfare for the well off, by Dante Atkins
We won't be calling it Obamacare in 2045. How about 'Americare'? by Ian Reifowitz
Beyond the Hubble, by DarkSyde
The 2016 election is not about the presidency. It is about the Supreme Court, by Mark E Andersen
- Idaho firefighters rescue parrots calling for help in burning house:
Firefighters arriving at a burning house in Idaho say they heard what sounded like people calling for help from inside.
Once they got the flames contained, they found the source of the calls: two parrots.
The firefighters say the birds were actually saying "Help!" and "Fire!"
- 515 years of the New York City skyline: Starting next month, a three-dimensional animated time lapse feature will show on the walls of the five elevators taking passengers to the observatory atop 1 World Trade Center. The doomed South Tower of the old World Trade Center makes a brief appearance in the amazingly realistic 47-second video.
- 94-year-old N.H.Democrat is still a must-see person for candidates: Mary Louise Hancock has talked about state politics and much else with Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, Joe Biden, Richard Gephardt, Paul Simon, Gary Hart, Howard Dean, Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in her century-old parlor.
“You know the saying, ‘Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it’? Well, she knows the history ... more so than anybody else in the state of New Hampshire,” said Kathy Sullivan, former state Democratic Party chairwoman. “It’s just a wise thing for someone to sit down and talk to her and get her input and her wisdom.”
Hancock serves as a reservoir of wisdom on the political landscape of a state that, with its first in the nation primary, can knock candidates from the race or rescue them from obscurity. John Lynch, the former governor of New Hampshire and one of Hancock’s longtime friends, said that her stamp of approval is more than an endorsement.
- 20 years ago, bomber Tim McVeigh's arrest almost didn't happen: Oklahoma Highway Patrolman Charlie Hanger pulled McVeigh over because his car had no license plate. Turned out McVeigh, only 90 minutes after killing scores of people with a fertilizer bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, also didn't have car insurance. When he reached for the license in his back pocket, his windbreaker tightened around the shoulder holster under his windbreaker.
"My gun is loaded," Hanger recalled McVeigh telling him as Hanger grabbed the bulge under the jacket.
"So is mine," the trooper responded, putting his own gun to McVeigh's head before arresting him for unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon. If he hadn't spotted the bulge, he would have let McVeigh go with a ticket.
- Jon Stewart notes his dissatisfaction with "The Daily Show":
“It’s not like I thought the show wasn’t working any more, or that I didn’t know how to do it. It was more, ‘Yup, it’s working. But I’m not getting the same satisfaction.’” He slaps his hands on his desk, conclusively.
“These things are cyclical. You have moments of dissatisfaction, and then you come out of it and it’s OK. But the cycles become longer and maybe more entrenched, and that’s when you realise, ‘OK, I’m on the back side of it now.’”
- On fifth anniversary of BP oil spill, company PR says all is well:
Over the last month, the company has released PR materials that highlight the Gulf’s resilience, as well as a report compiling scientific studies that suggest the area is making a rapid recovery.
But evidence is mounting that five years after millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, wildlife is still struggling to rebound. A new report, released [on March 30] by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), suggests that at least 20 species are still being affected by the spill.
- January-to-March hottest three-month period on record:
Last week, NASA also reported this was the hottest three-month start of any year on record. In NASA’s database, though, this was the third warmest March on record. It was the warmest in the dataset of the Japan Meteorological Agency. These three agencies use slightly different methods for tracking global temperature, so their monthly and yearly rankings differ slightly, even as they all show the same long-term trend driven by carbon pollution.
- On today's Kagro in the Morning show: Gyrocopter guy baffled over distraction from his message. MO cop walkout looks totally not-racist. Arliss Bunny helps explain FBI's seriously flawed analyses. Did Tulsa falsify Bates' training records? Just how "natural" is the market?
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