Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is The Junior Militiaman Playset!
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
• February 13, Raleigh, North Carolina: Join the march for love, justice, and the vote, by Denise Oliver Velez
• GOP must lie to make Democrats sound extreme. Their ideas are extreme enough without embellishment, by Ian Reifowitz
• Why Democrats should climb onto the No Labels stage with Joe Lieberman, by Mark Sumner
• Yes, Obama's gun efforts could have stopped that killing, by Frank Vyan Walton
• Death with dignity is something we all deserve, by Mark E Andersen
• Let’s be real about guns, safety, open carry, and privilege, by Egberto Willies
• A hidden cost of gerrymandering: When even competitive seats are rendered uncompetitive, by Steve Singiser
• Silicon Valley is still getting it wrong on income inequality, by Jon Perr
• David Bowie, R.I.P.:
David Bowie, the iconic rock star whose career spanned more than half a century and whose influence transcended music, fashion and sexuality, has died aged 69.[...]
Bowie’s 25 albums produced a string of hits including Changes, Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. He was known for experimenting across diverse musical genres, and for his alter egos Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke. He also had a notable acting career.
His latest album, Blackstar, was released last week to coincide with his 69th birthday, and had received widespread critical acclaim.
Blackstar was the first Bowie release not to feature a picture of him on the cover: instead, a stylised black star heralded a darker work. On re-examination, there is much in Blackstar to suggest Bowie was saying goodbye, particularly in Lazarus, and the video for the title track, which opens with the image of a dead spaceman.
• Ringling Bros. 11 touring elephants retiring a year earlier than planned:
The decision to retire the elephants is a year and a half sooner than originally planned. In March, the company had said it would phase out its three touring elephant units, which perform 1,000 shows a year, by 2018.
The announcement came after decades of claims by animal rights activists that the circus treated the giant creatures cruelly.
• Here’s a pretend $100 for you to pretend-play Powerball and watch how long it takes you to lose it all. Chances of winning? 1 in 292 million. But somebody has to win eventually. Right?
• Presidential debates ignore climate change. Kids ask why:
As infamous political advisor Karl Rove recently pointed out, why should they care about climate change when we’ll all be dead in the next sixty years or so? While that may be true for our elected officials, that isn’t true of everyone alive today and that’s why ScienceDebate.orghas enlisted the help of young children to help force a desperately needed conversation about climate change.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin not only tells us what the polls say, he tells us why they say it. Lead in the Flint water, methane in the California air. Trump-driven Cruz birtherism might sort of have a point! GunFAIL damage runs so much deeper than the statistics say.
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