I've always wanted to see Mount Rushmore, in part because I like Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. But not anymore. The land belongs to the Lakota, the sculptor was a white supremacist, and the carved faces (a quartet that's never made sense to me) insult the lives and history of native Americans.
If Donald Trump wants to call his opposition an angry mob whose behavior defines the word "totalitarianism," then he can very well learn how to pronounce it.
The Washington Redskins should have changed their name decades ago. Given the recent outcry of protest across the country, FedEx and Nike have pulled their support, and it looks like the name will finally change. Two of the team's main corporate sponsors, their money made the difference. I guess we should celebrate this?
Mandy Cohen, North Carolina's Secretary of Health and Human Services, lamented our state's lack of chemical reagents to run more coronavirus tests, but we need help from the federal government to do so. "We can't solve that problem from the state level," she said. In the midst of this pandemic, do Trump's idolatrous crowds in Tulsa and the Black Hills have any idea how morally and criminally negligent his administration has been?
My mother and I watched two episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show on Friday night in memory of Carl Reiner, who produced the show and occasionally appeared in it. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore are two of my favorite comedians, and we laughed and laughed. It felt good.
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