Ohiopirate02

They can try. This choir is going to be a bunch of altos and tenors with maybe one baritone. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is going to be out of their wheelhouse.

I know about this, but i don't think this is rooted in censorship. It's a business decision to keep people tied to Amazon for their Kindle library. They have hooked so many readers who have spent more than a decade now buying licenses for ebooks and spending hundreds or thousands of dollars in the process. Amazon doesn't want to lose those customers now that places like Bookshop.org are selling ebooks. This decision was something Amazon would have been working on before last November. I know Amazon made changes last year with how they work with the main public library vendor, Overdrive/Libby, and suspect this change is a part of this overarching plan. I also want to point out that books disappearing from a Kindle library is not normally Amazon's doing, but the publisher or the copyright holder. They are the ones who decide to pull a book or replace it with an updated edition. All of this is spelled out in the licensing agreement that we all agree to without ever reading them. Though I would not know where to look to actually read one of these agreements. The thing is, we do not own an ebook the way we can own a physical book. All we do is buy a license that allows us to store the title on a specific platform for as long as the publisher or copyright holder allows.

The Department of Defense is pulling books from base libraries that "defy" Trump's various executive orders. Something i am vehemently against, but one of the books on the list makes me chuckle--Hillbilly Elegy. https://pen.org/julianne-moore-freckleface-strawberry/

I think that if Trump were to cut funding to the National Archives and presidential libraries for political reasons or in retaliation, then he would start with the Obama library well before the JFK one.

I did some quick research and it appears that this is due to the executive order that fired a bunch of federal workers still in their probationary period and not for any other political reasons. I do have to take a moment and rant about how many different reputable news sources hide their news behind a paywall.

Even when talking about reproductive rights, the vast majority of Americans approve of abortion. And the anti-abortion lobby knows this, that's why they insist upon creating their own definitions that science does not support and also lie. We should be calling miscarriages what they actually are--spontaneous abortions, for example.

A lot of this gets blown out of proportion. Full immersion baths may have been infrequent, but people were cleaning the important parts on a near daily basis. They also changed their undergarments daily.

This is what I do. As much as I want to be out in the streets protesting, I know my limits and my talents. I'm a librarian in a small but progressive town in the South. I cannot be vocal about every issue, but I can silently resist. Not everyone can be an out and proud leftist. I also refuse to let perfect be the enemy of good. I boycott where I can (Chic-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby, and Walmart) and keep my views to myself so that I can better assist the marginalized members of my community.

I don't think the show's producers including Lorne were going for entertaining with that song choice. I saw it as a homage to one of the most (in)famous musical moments in the show's 50 years even if Sinead sang a different song during that performance and also a way to put to rest the rumors that she was blacklisted from the show.

Variety says it was Taran Killam.

I saw someone online breaking this one down, and there is another possibility for this. The last Civil War pension ended in 2020. Said pension was for the disabled daughter of a Civil War veteran who's father was 83 when she was born. There is no telling how many World War I pensions are still being paid out under similar circumstances. And the veteran who may have been dead for decades will still show up in various government records. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/07/irene-triplett-last-person-american-civil-war-pension-dies

That is my assumption for any of the former cast members who were there but did not participate in any sketch outside of Chevy.

She also stared down the camera during the whole sketch. I get a weak actor wanting something in the distance to focus on while being on stage, but pick an audience member or the cue-card guy not the camera.

I also caught Nick dressed up as Marius and it cracked me up. I have that Les Mis special on DVD and watch it often because the cast is stacked enough to make up for Nick's acting. Bless his heart, he tried.

Maine has ranked choice voting. So Susan may not get the most #1 votes, but wins because she's the #2 on enough ballots.