Weekend link dump for January 22

Watch this video of 15-year-old Francesca Belibi becoming the first girl to dunk in a Colorado high school basketball game. She’s only been playing basketball for 16 months.

“Show creator Matthew Weiner and production company Lionsgate have donated the Mad Men archive – including scripts, drafts, notes, props, costumes, digital video and reams of research materials that went into creating the show’s richly detailed presentation of the American 1960s – to the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center humanities library.”

“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.”

“The difference is justice. Justice is the necessary ingredient without which no worship, prayer, assembly, offering or other form of religious expression will be regarded as legitimate by God Almighty. Injustice delegitimizes all religion. It turns that which God has commanded into something that God detests — something that God detests in language harsher and angrier than anything even Frederick Douglass could muster.”

There’s an L.A. Law reboot in the works.

“So you’ll pardon me if I nurse my anger a little longer. You’ll pardon me if I don’t think hugs and kisses are gonna do much of anything in the face of a narcissistic loon assuming the highest office in the land.”

“Of course, weakening the American relationship with its allies in the Far East is a goal that an ordinary Russian president would see as unattainable, and breaking the alliance between Washington and Riyadh would also serve Putin’s interests. It’s hard to believe that Putin has struck this much gold. Are Republicans really going to go along with this?”

Mark Evanier was not a fan of the circus.

RIP, Gene Cernan, last person to walk on the moon. Here’s NASA’s profile of him.

The truth about Rep. John Lewis’ Congressional district.

The B Street Band makes the right call.

What Kos says. And I don’t know, maybe his selection of Mike effing Pence as his running mate might have been a clue, too.

“That’s an awful lot of agencies investigating an awful lot of allegations against an awful lot of people.”

“So yes, Trump already robbed the nation of Rick James, bitch.”

The people who voice your favorite cartoons are also not fans of Dear Leader.

How will Super Bowl advertising be affected in the age of Dear Leader?

Great news: A six-part adaptation of Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, will air on Amazon Prime and the BBC next year.

Forget the Cabinet confirmation hearings for a minute. There are an awful lot of lower level positions within the federal government for which no candidates to fill them have been identified yet.

RIP, Terry Hershey, who jump-started the environmental movement in Houston by fighting the reviled Buffalo Bayou project in the 1960s.

RIP, Miguel Ferrer, versatile actor in NCIS: LA, Robocop, and many others.

“Whatever you think of the controversies [Andrew] Jackson went on to ignite in his two terms as president, it began with a speech that gave dutiful nods to history, declined to elevate the self, and placed his own moment within the continuum of his predecessors. It was a thoroughly anti-Trumpian address.”

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