We Need His Calmness Now More Than Ever

From the Huffington Post -

Happy Little You Can Now Surf Random Bob Ross Videos Online, Forever
You never have to choose between Bob Ross videos ever again.
By Priscilla Frank

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/random-bob-ross-videos_us_5914ce4ce4b0fe039b33549e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Patti's Cinnamon Crumb Cake Recipe

From Entertainment Weekly -

Celebrate Mother's Day with Patti LaBelle's cinnamon crumb cake
It’s soul sweetening
By RUTH KINANE

Ingredients:

For the cake:
1,1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
2 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. table salt
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus more for pan
1 large egg, at room temperature
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup whole milk

For the streusel topping:

1,1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp. ground cinnamon


http://ew.com/books/2017/05/12/mothers-day-patti-labelle-cinnamon-crumb-cake-recipe/?xid=email-email-ewbooks-20170512PM-tout3

President Rock?

An excerpt from GQ -

Dwayne Johnson for President!
BY CAITY WEAVER

The cold, hard truth is that if Donald Trump can be elected president, Dwayne Johnson can be elected president. Easily. He probably has better odds of winning an election than Trump, and Trump did win, so what does that tell you? If anything, Trump's election proved that celebrities can just dive right in—they don't even have to make a pit stop as governor of California before the presidency.

“If [becoming the president] is something he focused on,” says Ron Meyer, the NBCUniversal vice chairman, “he probably would accomplish it. I think there's nothing that he couldn't do.”

http://www.gq.com/story/dwayne-johnson-for-president-cover

Unforgiven

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/12/watch-unforgiven-casts-spotlight-on-americas-6-1-million-forgotten-voters/?source=newsletter

Between the Scenes - Trump's Dictator Tendencies: The Daily Show

New Orleans’ Queen of Creole Cooking Still Reigns at 94

Son Shows Mom a Good Time

Will Trump's lies cost lives? Can we break his spell? Killer cognitive b...

"I Won"

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/11/media/stephen-colbert-trump-no-talent-comment/

Young, Gifted & Black 14-Year-Old Physics Graduate

From the Huffington Post -

This 14-Year-Old Is Already Graduating College With A Physics Degree
Oh, and his 11-year-old brother is also a freshman at the university.
By Lilly Workneh

While most 14-year-old students are about to enter high school, Carson Huey-You is ready to graduate from Texas Christian University with a physics degree.

Carson, who also completed a double minor in math and Chinese, enrolled in the school as a freshman at the age of 11 and is set to graduate Saturday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-14-year-old-is-already-graduating-college-with-a-physics-degree_us_59148dcae4b066b421720e2f?kjh

Planet-Saving Inventions

From CNN -

5 cool inventions that could save the planet
By Tricia Escobedo

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/tech/ecosolutions-5-ways-tech/index.html

The chemistry of cookies - Stephanie Warren

He's a Lousy Poker Player

From the NY Times -

The Easy Tells of Comey’s Canning
By Bret Stephens

Tell: After the president publicly impugned his own F.B.I. director, it meant Rosenstein’s memo was a pro forma, pretextual exercise.

Tell: When the president boasts about his great campaign, you know he’s less than sure about just how great it really was.

Tell: When the president calls news “fake” or a story “phony,” you know the truth quotient is likely to be high. And, again, you know he knows you know it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/opinion/comey-firing-donald-trump.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

The Native American Code Talkers Who Helped Win WWI

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

I hope this is not true because if it is, he comes off as a first class jerk.

You decide.

http://www.thewrap.com/steve-harvey-bizarre-email-to-employees-do-not-open-my-dressing-room-door/

A Tough Job

An excerpt from the NY Times -

An Open Letter to the Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein has more authority than anyone else
to restore Americans’ confidence in their government.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Dear Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein:

Few public servants have found themselves with a choice as weighty as yours, between following their conscience and obeying a leader trying to evade scrutiny — Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus, who behaved nobly in Watergate, come to mind. You can add your name to this short, heroic list. Yes, it might cost you your job. But it would save your honor, and so much more besides.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/deputy-attorney-general-open-letter.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0

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La Vie En Rose

Build 2017: Project Emma

Where There's Smoke, There's Fire

An excerpt from Salon -

Americans are witnessing a slow-motion coup
Rule of law be damned, President Trump was mad as hell and casting around looking for a reason to fire James Comey
By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV

How incredibly clueless is Trump that he would think this would work? Did he really expect them to endorse his obvious cover-up? Who came up with this insane strategy? Do they really think when the man who is under investigation fires the guy investigating him that people are going to buy it? Do they think nobody remembers when former President Richard Nixon fired the special prosecutor Archibald Cox? Watergate isn’t water under the bridge; it’s history. And there are still people in Washington who know that Archibald Cox wasn’t a character on “The Simpsons” and the night Nixon fired him was called the Saturday Night Massacre. Trump’s pathetic political naïveté is coming into focus. If this is his best game, it’s the fourth quarter: He’s down by double digits; he’s the quarterback and his name isn’t Brady.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/10/americans-are-witnessing-a-slow-motion-coup/