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(Note: This newsletter will be off tomorrow for the holiday and back on Friday. Happy Thanksgiving!) Wish certainly sounded like a good idea, I’m sure, whenever it was first conceived. An animated fantasy whose release is geared towards the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios, the film contains numerous tributes and easter eggs referencing the company’s long and illustrious history. The idea, I guess, is to get Disney obsessives in the door to spot every reference, and hopefully bring their kids along too.

No one who ever experienced Reggie Bush’s 2005 season at USC needed the running back’s name included on official lists of Heisman Trophy award winners or mentioned at the annual presentation to know Bush was among its all-time greatest recipients. Hell, his omission from such mention almost spoke louder than if Bush was listed. The exclusion separated Bush into a class of his own, which is what his performance in ‘05 also accomplished.

“Been reading Mr. Jones/Son of Baldwin for a few years now, and he always comes through, with insight and scalpel-sharp analysis of Blackness and being Black in this Matrix of anti-Blackness and anti-queerness. He bears witness in the truest sense of the word, not as a spectator or a voyeur, but as a writer drawing from the past to warn us about the present and the future.” ncG1vNJzZmiqn5eys8DJqKWeq5qne7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY4%3D

Witness Marks are the tiny scars left inside mechanical clock movements by every horologist who has ever worked on them. They are clues to time past and proof of the work of long-gone individuals; they are signposts to how future time may be spent. I’m Melissa Harrison, a novelist, nature writer, critic, children’s author, app creator and podcaster, among other things. I’m interested in the natural world and in agriculture, in history, poetry, art and creativity, and the ways we all must find to live with and among the past.

The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers finally returned to the Dance for the first time since 2013. Now comes the fun part seeing if Hank Plona can build on the momentum that Steve Lutz started and build upon a roster that could look very similar to to the 2023-24 version that reached the long sought out prize of the NCAA tournament. As you will see below the potential is there for WKU to return potentially 90+% of last years roster.

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A lot of people, myself included, were both amused and a bit outraged by the story Jill Tucker broke in the San Francisco Chronicle a couple days ago: an elementary school in Hayward, California, that was in the midst of a crisis spent $250,000 on a curriculum called Woke Kindergarten that appears to be a total scam A Hayward elementary school struggling to boost low test scores and dismal student attendance is spending $250,000 in federal money for an organization called Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove those barriers to learning.

Michael Shellenberger and I wrote “Woke Religion: A Taxonomy” to help people understand the woke religion. I want to be crystal clear about something: bigotry and racial discrimination are real and they have no place in society. Yes, there is ongoing racism. Yes, there is ongoing homophobia. Yes, there is ongoing hatred of trans people. These are morally abhorrent and we all need to work together to bring about their end.

At this point in my research for my book on the Cascades, I am working on wolverines and last week got sucked into a deep dive on the deep history about the animals. In that light, I have decided to take a slightly different tack with this newsletter and let those early writer tell their tales about wolverines. You’ll see that much of this is a mix of malarkey, opinion, and hearsay, with a few facts tossed in.