The Daily Skimm, December 31, 2020 Oh, 2020. Not all years are good but you were especially crappy. Our Google searches went from ‘best places to travel on a budget’ to ‘how many plants is too many plants?’ We all baked bread. Everything was cake. We made margs with Martha Stewart, cosmos with Ina Garten, and negronis with Stanley Tucci. No one remembers jeans.…
Read More Daily Skimm: That’s a WAP on 2020By Michael Cavna Dec. 31, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST “A new year…a fresh, clean start!” a joyous boy in red mittens said a quarter-century ago this week, shortly before soaring forth on the most famous sled in American arts this side of “Citizen Kane.” And just like that, the high-spirited 6-year-old and his best buddy were…
Read More ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said goodbye 25 years ago. Here’s why Bill Watterson’s masterwork enchants us still.By William McDonald Published Dec. 30, 2020 Updated Dec. 31, 2020 Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. It swept the world riding the back of the coronavirus. It galvanized a Black Lives Matter movement across the United States and abroad, sending people of all colors into the streets to demand social justice. It…
Read More A Year Filled With Death Changed Lives ForeverThe last original Peanuts strip was published on January 3, 2000. Charles Schultz, son of a barber and a housewife, just like Charlie Brown himself, passed away just over a month later, a victim of colon cancer.
Read More Things that Ended in 2020By Mikey Rox 1 January 2015 Enjoy the Day Off Write Thank-You Notes for Holiday Gifts Edit Your Social Media Profiles Raid Your Pantry for Expired Food Read more HERE.
Read More 31 Productive Things to Do in January to Start the New Year Off RightHere is another reason to look forward to 2021 — new people’s history books. We highlight below a few upcoming 2021 titles and invite you to events we are hosting for The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers Edition (January 11) and How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America(May 10). The…
Read More Zinn Education ProjectAmazing! Read more HERE! According to The Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “White supremacists now account for the largest share of U.S. domestic terrorism. This is a sobering fact. In September, FBI Director Christopher Wray noted in a House Homeland Security committee meeting that there were more domestic terrorism investigations this year than previous years’…
Read More New terrorism 2020 guide shows FBI still classifying Black ‘extremists’ as domestic terrorism threatBy Christopher Ingraham Jan. 1, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EST The pandemic has forced untold hardships onto many Americans, with tens of millions of families now reporting that they don’t have enough to eat and millions more out of work on account of layoffs and lockdowns. America’s wealthiest, on the other hand, had a very different kind…
Read More World’s richest men added billions to their fortunes last year as others struggledBy Maya Phillips Published Dec. 3, 2020 Updated Dec. 17, 2020 [D]uring his life, Wilson had transformed the American stage, which until he arrived had been largely imagined as the nearly exclusive realm of white male writers such as Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill, all of whom explored the limitations and failures of the American dream. But where their domestic dramas…
Read More August Wilson, American BardBy Gianluca Russo Dec. 15, 2020 The art of finding the perfect fit clearly is costly, from collecting data to the process of hiring fit models. As Chan explains, there is so much that goes into high-quality clothing that is often not discussed, from materials to labor to craftsmanship. While every plus-size body is different and…
Read More Plus-Size Clothing Should Fit Women’s Bodies, So Why Is That So Often Not The Case?Global Entry Application and Interview: How Not to Screw It Up By now, you’ve learned all the differences between Global Entry and TSA PreCheck, and are ready to bite the bullet and commit to one. Since Global Entry includes TSA PreCheck—and is only $15 more than PreCheck—you decide to go with it. Smart move. But now you’ve actually…
Read More Thinking About Post-Covid Travel?We see over and over that we make resolutions at the start of the new year. Resolutions that are rarely kept, but sound good when we are struggling with them. I have goals. Here are mine for 2021. Remain financially stable and increase my savings. Read about financial goals HERE. Spend more time with family and…
Read More What are Your Goals for 2021?At the end of the year, people spend a lot of time writing lists of “the best of” so I am thinking about my “best of” list. Cooking has kept me sane when I wanted to be crazy, well, not wanted but certainly felt crazy. Here is a list of some of our favorite cookbooks…
Read More 20 Cookbooks for 2020Commentator Maisie Sparks proves that when fighting for your rights reveals something in common with your “enemy,” the outcome can be a win for both sides – and for society. Read HERE.
Read More Contesting a traffic stop leads to justice – and mercyGroup 1a is health care workers and residents and staff of nursing homes, regardless of age. Group 1b is elderly people who are 75 or older and essential frontline workers, i.e. people with jobs in grocery stores, bus drivers and other transportation workers, meat packing plant workers, teachers, people who work in prisons, postal workers,…
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