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Tactical geopolitical madness across the midwest this March 2016. Red, blue. Black, white. University of Chicago  AB’64  Sanders (" A Political Life ") campaigned contra Rahm Emanuel's deplorable record creating access to education, security, and justice. Sanders could have but did not cite Chicago's lead-based water risk. Tribune  Feb 2016 Chicago Tribune with lead data 1995 - 2013 (published Feb 2015 - interactive app) .  Friday afternoon: St Louis. Friday night at University of Illinois - Chicago, Illinois State police grounded and arrested a credentialed CBS reporter, Sopan Deb ( CBS ). Physical confrontation bloodied Chicago Police. In Dayton, Ohio, Secret Service responded to Thomas Dimassimo's leap over security gates at Trump and in front of Trump's Boeing 757. Hours later, Kansas City deployed mounted police and pepper spray ( KCStar ). On stage, Trump hypothesized about Dimassimo links to the Islamic State. Secret Service...

Dateline. 10pm. Silicon Sunday. Sanders, Clinton done in Flint. Sanders handled himself like a pissed off US Senator from New York with personal memories of Holocaust tattoos. Senator/Secretary Clinton, heartbroken about poisonous Flint water, vowed to win the ancient war on lead ( New Yorker ) - before she disappeared in the dense financial fog of fracking. If nothing else, the two Democratic candidates proved New York Values aren't monolithic. Trump did his part to argue the same - guaranteeing "no problems" in Detroit and hosting a golf tournament at an eponymous golf course in Florida. The Roman Empire State (Source: Free Beacon ) Leading a presidential election, Trump hosted the World Golf Championship that concluded Sunday. This is true. Moderator Cooper and Candidate Sanders rightfully jabbed Clinton on Boeing - where Sanders withheld uppercuts connecting Saudi Arabia and Boeing to Clinton Foundation bank accounts ( IB Times ). Accounts which look w...

Reality TV this weekend, America's drug of choice. Stephen Curry last night. Salt. Lake. City. Last. Night.  Oscars tonight - what's fact, what's fiction. 32,000 for Trump/Sessions in Alabama. Apple/FBI. Supreme Court. White House. Oval Office. Only in America. What a country.  The documentary of Dub - a former Utah sheriff and SWAT innovator. Today, Dub cheerfully reconstructs crime scenes - including the raid by his own SWAT on his own son-in-law. ( Apple ) In this scene from the film, Dub reconstructs a crime scene firefight inside the home of a US Army veteran suspected of growing marijuana. "America" - who exactly isn't yet 100% confirmed - found time to name Appalachia the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) of 2015, according to Huntington News this Saturday ( 2/27/2016 ). The paper implies it was the Executive Office of the President. I am not yet able to source independent corroboration - except via LA HIDTA Twitter handle. Checked...

Where do ideas come from? Where do they go when they are gone? Friends laid to rest Harper Lee in Alabama this week. Wayne Flint gave the eulogy that Lee requested - "Atticus inside ourselves" - based on 2006 racial justice tribute to Lee at Birmi ngham Pledge Foundation ( YouTube ) . If a reader has text of those remarks, as an American, I would be grateful to read them. L ee's Monroe County  - adjacent Creole Louisiana - bleeds about as far south as you can go in North America without slipping into the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Basin and West Indian triangular trade currents carrying trans-Atlantic African-American crimes against humanity. For followup: map attribution. Complete TinEye reverse image lookup. Slate animation ( 2015 ). Transatlantic Slave Trade Database ( home ) My father is an attorney. When I was young and first read TKAM I thought he was Atticus Finch. Or, at least that it was his job to be Atticus Finch. America and I could be more like ...

In arts this President's Day: fully-electric "To Pimp a Butterfly" from Chicago GD-degree removed, Kendrick Lamar, stands tonight with 11 Grammy nominations. Kanye West claimed he will win 100 in his lifetime ( Complex ). Emanuel Administration-degree removed Chancelor Bennet ( ChanceRaps.com ) from 79th speculated about Grammy's commercial prerequisites...  You said let’s do a good ass job with Chance 3 I heard you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy Let’s make it so free and the bars so hard that there ain't one gosh darn part you can’t tweet No More Parties in LA ...before naming J ason Van Dyke during a singular delivery of Ultralight Beam on NBC . West subsequently indicted, broadly and by name (Zuckerberg, Page ), San Francisco / Silicon Valley arts and media financing:  All you dudes in San Fran play rap music in your homes but never help the real artists… source 20 Committee observed if he didn't exist, West would have t...