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I can’t think about Joe Biden without tearing up a little. This man ran for president 5 times and lost then enthusiastically backed Obama and played the establishment number two to the greatest leader of his generation. He wanted to run for president in 2016 but couldn’t because his son Beau died and he was too wracked with grief. So he comes back in 2020, saves the country from Donald Trump and despite being a career centrist, proceeds to have the most pro-union, pro-working class administration in 80 years, pulls the country out of Covid, pulls us from the economic disaster of Trump into the best economy in the world. He’s then betrayed by the media class and has to drop out because he’s too old for them. He steps down, for the good of the country, and immediately turns around and full-throatedly endorses the the first Black woman Presidential candidate finalist in U.S. history. This man.

The Norwegian film THE ARCTIC CONVOY will be released in the U.S. on July 26. Based on true events, the film follows a cargo ship that is part of the ill-fated Convoy PQ 17 in 1942. Scenes were shot on the 1911 coal ship D/S Hestmanden which served in convoys during WWI and WWII.

Dave Tallichet’s Corsair at Chino in 1985…still wearing Baa Baa Blacksheep paint. It’s now in Ohio being restored.

In 1942, aboard ship and heading for war, a young sailor wrote home describing and defining the principles he was fighting for. David Shribman tells the story of his uncle—the man who died for the liberal arts: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…

I’ve just realised I’ve been calling the P-39 fighter the “Aircobra” for decades and not “Airacobra”. Whoops.

The Fugitive completed a dominant run to the Classic TV Road Shows Tournament Championship (#TVRoadShows). It defeated Route 66, a very worthy runner-up, by a wide margin. Frankly, when I think of TV road shows, these are the two that immediately come to mind!

Evening viewing recommendation? With its totally unrestrained, mind-bending use of special effects, Ken Russell’s visionary first foray into Hollywood filmmaking is one of the most exhilarating stylistic achievements of the '80s. Watch ALTERED STATES ('80) on @criterionchannl!

Garden ornament turns out to be live bomb bbc.in/3T36foZ

“Every…invention mocked in the same cartoon came to pass within one hundred years, including the railroad, the airship, the airplane, the automobile, the powerboat, and the indus­trial factory.”

A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open — 446 people came in, borrowed 245 books. Every single one was returned via ⁦@ZMEScience⁩ zmescience.com/science/news-…