Adoptive father helped formerly homeless boy to basketball stardom

Here's How to Make America Great Again

From Bustle - 

Neil deGrasse Tyson said:

The fastest way to Make a America Weak Again: Cut science funds to our agencies that support it.

 

The fastest way to Make America Sick Again: Cut funding to the National Institutes of Health. 

The fastest way to Make America Stupid: Cut funds to programs that support education. 

The fastest way to thwart Earth's life-support systems for us all: Turn EPA into EDA — the Environmental Destruction Agency. 

The fastest way to melt glaciers & flood the World's coastal cities: Ignore scientists and do nothing to stem the rise of CO2. 

We can all imagine a land that provides no support for Art. But is that a place you’d want to Live? To Visit? To Play? 

The very best way to support and feed your delusions: Surround yourself with people whose world views match yours exactly. 

We all want to Make America Great Again. But that won't happen until we first Make America Smart Again.

https://www.bustle.com/p/neil-degrasse-tyson-tweets-about-trumps-budget-the-way-only-a-scientist-could-45657

Love This "This is Us" Review

From Very Smart Brothas -

I BINGED WATCHED ‘THIS IS US’ AND MY FEELINGS ARE IN SHAMBLES. I MAY NEVER RECOVER. ZOMG!
Panama Jackson, 3/20/17

http://verysmartbrothas.com/watch-this-is-us/

Sesame Street Parodies Trump

From the Washington Post - 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/entertainment/sesame-streets-brutal-parodies-of-donald-trump/2017/03/20/2a53a75e-0d72-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_video.html

This is What Terrorism Looked Like For Us

From the Huffington Post - Click the first link below for interactive map

This Interactive Map Reveals The History Of Lynching In America
Take a comprehensive, shocking look at lynchings from the 1830s to the 1960s.
By Zeba Blay

From the early 1900s to the late 1930s, African American sociologist Monroe Nathan Work researched every known lynching in the United States. Now, his tireless work has become the inspiration for an interactive map that offers a striking visualization of racist domestic terrorism spanning decades.

The Monroe Work Today research group launched a map earlier this year that allows users to discover the roughly 4,770 people of color lynched in the United States from the 1830s to the 1960s. By clicking on each colored point on the map, users can read information about each known individual, including their name and the circumstances of their lynching.

http://www.monroeworktoday.org/explore/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-interactive-map-reveals-the-history-of-lynching-in-america_us_58d0204fe4b0ec9d29de4056?section=us_black-voices

Ronald Isley & Burt Bacharach - This Guy's in Love with You

Generous chef gets aid of his own after restaurant burns down

This is your brain on terrorism

Is This the Answer?

From Wired -

Running Delivery Trucks on Trolley Wires Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds
By Jack Stewart

ELECTRIC TRUCKS OFFER all the advantages of electric cars, namely, they’re greener. Trucks are a big source of the noxious emissions linked to smog and climate change. Minimizing the number of stinky, dirty diesels rumbling through town carries obvious public health benefits. But powering delivery trucks, let alone an 18-wheeler, with a big honkin’ battery simply isn’t practical. So engineers are taking another look at a century old solution: Stringing electrical cables over the road.

Siemens, best known in the transportation world for its trains, and the truck manufacturer Scania developed a hybrid electric truck that draws power from overhead cables like a bus or trolley. You can find some of the trucks undergoing testing on a 1.25-mile stretch of highway in Gävle, Sweden, and crews installing cables alongside a stretch of the 710 and 405 highways in Los Angeles.

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/running-delivery-trucks-trolley-wires-isnt-crazy-sounds/?mbid=nl_32017_p7&CNDID=

Period Tracker

Thank God I don't need this, but for you ladies who are still visited by Aunt Flo each month, there's an app that can help.  It's called Clue.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clue-period-tracker-period-ovulation-tracker/id657189652?mt=8

Federal Budget: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Slumber party! These twin toddlers are much more interested in building ...

Dave Chappelle on escaping fame, returning to stand-up with Netflix

How About Dinner?

From 100 Days 100 Dinners -

For millennia, sharing a meal has stood as one of the few things that all of us—whoever we are and wherever we come from—have in common. In the wake of this divisive election, we're hungrier than ever for spaces to break bread, be heard, and build bridges across lines of difference.

Over the course of the first 100 days of the new Administration, we invite you to pull up a chair.

https://www.100days100dinners.us

Filed Under "No Sh*t Sherlock"

From the Huffington Post -

White House Admits Trump ‘Insurance For Everybody’ Guarantee Isn’t Going To Happen
“The only way to have universal care, if you stop to think about it, is to force people to buy it under penalty of law.”
By Amanda Terkel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-insurance-mulvaney_us_58cea736e4b00705db502fef?mvq1e5ddvz6txd2t9&

Chuck Berry (Rest in Peace) - Johnny B-Goode

More Affirmations for Kids

From Planet of Success -

Positive affirmations for children

1. I am loved.
2. I listen to my heart.
3. I am safe.
4. I have lots of friends who love me.
5. My dreams are coming true.
6. I am helpful.
7. I am friendly.
8. Every problem has an answer.
9. I am kind.
10. I can do it.
11. I play well with others.
12. I’m intelligent.
13. I learn from my mistakes.
14. I act responsible.
15. I am calm.
16. I love myself even though I sometimes fail.

http://www.planetofsuccess.com/blog/2015/powerfully-positive-affirmations-for-kids/

Daily Student Affirmations

From the Affirmation Spot -

1. Today and every day, my thirst for learning is alive and well in me!
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3. I can learn anything! I can know anything! I can be anything!
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5. This semester is MY learning experience and I take from it what is useful to me.
6. 
   
7. I love the challenge of finals! I am acing all my finals this semester.
8. 
   
9. I am a student and being a student is ALL about the possible!
10. 
    
11. I am a great student and getting better each and every day!
12. 
    
13. Learning new things is a challenge and I love challenges!
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15. I am prepared for my tests. I love taking tests. Tests are a breeze for me.
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17. I thrive and I succeed at school! Learning is my gateway to an abundant future.
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19. When I am exposed to information that benefits me, I absorb it like a sponge!

https://affirmationspot.me/2012/01/30/student-and-learning-affirmations/

Affect vs. Effect

From Grammarcheck -

http://www.grammarcheck.net/affect-vs-effect/

Ooops!

From Deadspin -

South African Soccer Player Accidentally Thanks Both Wife And Girlfriend In Post-Game Talk
By Emma Baccellieri

http://deadspin.com/south-african-soccer-player-accidentally-thanks-both-wi-1793405981