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Since 2008 – Progress Through Politics

Odds & Ends: News/Humor

I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past week in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

OLDER-YOUNGER SISTERS? – Academy Award winner Rita Moreno and California senator Barbara Boxer.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

RIP singer Richie Havens, age 72

From Billboard magazine:

Richie Havens, a veteran folk singer and a star of the Woodstock festival and film, died this morning at his home from a sudden heart attack. He was 72.

A bit more after the jump ….

Odds & Ends: News/Humor

I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past week in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

The world of media, sports and politics … not many degrees of separation, it would appear …

SEPARATED at BIRTHGreg Dyke – a former BBC director general and soon-to-be head of England’s governing body of football (soccer) – and John McCain …. the king of Sunday talk shows.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.