Good morning! It’s a rainy day in Georgia (which is good because north of the gnat line*, we’re in a moderate drought), and it’s a great day in America. Submitted for your procrastinating pleasure:
- Jane Little, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s world record-setting bassist, died on stage Sunday evening during an encore performance.
- Georgia is home to 27 outstanding new Americans – read their stories.
- TSA screened a special traveler in Atlanta.
- Related: The TSA Instagram feed is delightful and if you are on Instagram you should follow it posthaste.
- Share your puns in the comments.
- Wanted: two members for Georgia’s state ethics commission (AKA the GT&CF). But each resigned for valid reasons and their resignation letters indicate that things at the commission have improved markedly in recent years.
- Why is Newell really relocating to Jersey?
- Late May means movie time in many of Georgia’s public schools.
- Where is America’s middle class? CityLab maps where most live.
- Pfizer nixed the use of their drugs for executions, meaning that there are no FDA-approved manufacturers for these drugs. If a state wants to lethally inject an inmate, their only source for the drugs they need is a murky drug underground.
- Firsthand stories from China’s Cultural Revolution.
- Man Booker International Prize winner announced.
- Hamiltext.
*Feel free to let me know in the comments how I am wrong about where the gnat line is located.