Morning Reads for Workaholics Day (July 5)
I hope you all had a marvelous Independence Day yesterday! I celebrated by volunteering at Meadow Garden, the only home of a Signer of the Declaration of Independence still standing in Georgia. It’s tradition that we open with the reading of the Declaration, which can be viewed here in its entirety.
Any time I get the pleasure of compiling the Morning Reads, I like to find goofy holidays or observances to include, but this one’s less cute than my usual fare. As you can see from above, it’s Workaholics Day. If you’re at work today when it’s not essential… why? Go home! Forbes has 10 red flags that you’re working too hard.
Speaking of labor, it’s also the anniversary of San Francisco’s Bloody Thursday.
Pat Conroy
- Your power bill is probably going up next year.
- Georgia welfare rolls have been cut by two-thirds since 2006.
- Governor Kemp has appointed Bob Barr to the Judicial Qualifications Commission.
- Another person in Georgia has died in custody this year, this time in Augusta.
- Baldwin County Commissioners continue their quixotic campaign to punish voters by defunding their portion of the public libraries. The city has now sued the county.
- The AJC has obtained and posted Georgia’s “Puerto Rican Interview Guide.” It’s… something else.
Alice Walker
- President Trump’s “Salute to America” in pictures. The presidents’ remarks were nonpartisan, though occasionally inaccurate. There were incidents between supporters and protesters all the same.
- Yesterday’s 6.4-magnitude earthquake in California produced over 100 aftershocks.
- Forty percent of Americans struggle to pay their bills on time.
- Twenty-one undocumented, former Trump employees are appealing to him to keep them from being deported.
- Manslaughter charges have been dropped against the Alabama woman who lost a fetus after being shot.
- Here’s a look at the push to win statehouses in 2020 ahead of redistricting.
- Former Rio de Janeiro governor says he paid a $2 million bribe to host 2016 Olympics.
- Research has uncovered that China has “re-education camps” targeting the children of the Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.
- The Amazon lost the equivalent of one and a half soccer fields every minute during the month of June.
Flannery O’Connor
- Idris Elba rushed off stage during a performance to help a patron having a seizure.
- An unfortunate reminder from a motorist in Rocky Mountain State Park in Colorado to use your parking brake. (Warning: There is language that’s not safe for work or small ears!)
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Holly Croft
Holly is an archivist at one of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. In a past life, she was a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. She cares a lot about records management, open records laws, and privacy laws. Political persuasion? It's complicated. What's not complicated is that she's proudly equal parts Bulldog and Tar Heel.
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It’s only fitting it rained yesterday and the seats of honor at the were at the Lincoln Memorial. “With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s ever held this office.” — Donald J. Trump. Yeah, squandering leverage and showing weakness in fawning over Kim will MAGA.. Dems would be laughing at it, sans Otto Warmbier, if it were on a Broadway stage. The GOP would be howling in indignation if it were Obama, even without Otto.
Is anyone surprised Iran is increasing its stockpiles of nuclear material? That’s what happens when US foreign policy is conducted like a real estate deal. A deal can be jettisoned, but Iran can’t be ignored, unlike what Trump is accustomed to in the real estate market. And when a foreign policy deal can’t be jettisoned, there is no safety net of stiffing partners and bankruptcies. There are reasons banks don’t loan Trump money.
At least he cleared up the mystery of the Air Force’s role in the revolutionary war. Next week he’s going to explain how the war between the states was really a deep state plot hatched by 17 angry democrats in cahoots with the CIA, FBI and the Bilderberg Group. This man is a walking encyclopedia of bull….. But he alone can MAGA! Heil Trump!
Ramparts, carports, who cares? That’s an easy mistake to make, especially if you’re not sure what a rampart is. tinyhands didn’t label donks ‘treasonous’ or call for the dissolution of Congress. He didn’t demand the weight of 100 panthers in gold from Iran in exchange for sparing Tehran. He didn’t ask Kim Jong-un to visit to discuss resort concessions. For a low-bar presidency, it was a good speech.
The bar gets lowered everyday in zombieland
I actually enjoyed the 4th of July celebration. Especially the flyovers. Sure there were gaffes,’but I didn’t see all of the negativity.
While you are waiting for the Monday Reader to appear, here is a collection of links from last week. Historic photographs, and a poem, are included at no extra charge.