Good morning! It’s one week until Mardi Gras!
- Applause. It’s swung from “Please clap,” to the notion that to not clap is akin to treason. Well.
- Today is Girl Scout Day at the Capitol. A couple of things: more than 300 Girl Scouts will be at the Capitol today, and they are serious about naming the bridge over the Savannah River for founder Juliette Gordon Low. If you’re planning on being at the Capitol, bring cash; cookies are $4/box.
- Related: Here’s the NYT obit for Governor-Elect Eugene Talmadge, who ran on a platform of “White Supremacy,” and whose death in December 1946, weeks before his swearing-in, lead to the infamous “Three Governors Controversy” (paging Holly…)
- Here’s the thing: that Dodge as that sampled MLK’s 1968 “The Drum Major Instinct” sermon was tasteless and tone deaf. Full stop.
- Here’s another thing: It was produced with the full consent of the King Estate. The King Estate is not to be confused with the King Center.
- Another tragic result of the Flint, Michigan water crisis is a fatal outbreak of pneumonia.
- How did a Cuban national die in a Georgia detention center?
- “Why John Portman mattered.”
- In Athens, finding Bertis Downs.