Good Things Friday (254) and Link Love
January 5, 2024
Challenges this week: everyone’s sick 🤧
In 1967, a Black Man and a White Woman Bought a Home. American Politics Would Never Be the Same.
What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration. White racists across all political parties are despicable. Reading about the white women who went after Pam Bailey, a seven year old!!, made my blood boil. Bad enough that they could usually expect institutional racism to back them up, that they had zero shame in going after the Baileys directly like this…. I really hope both Ruby and Pam Bailey have peace in their lives now.
How Charles Dickens’s Screw-Up Chicago Brother Turned the Second City Against Boz. Another old article, from 2011, but I never knew Charles Dickens had a brother. Seems like, as a mentor of mine once commiserated, the complicated relationships with siblings are much more common than we think beyond our own circumstances (he referred to his own family and their scapegrace siblings in this case).
Why Are Alaska’s Rivers Turning Orange?
This is exciting: First puma witnessed using new Highway 17 wildlife tunnel
Seanan McGuire wrote a thing for Wizards of the Coast. I like anything she writes, just about, and she asked folks to click through to have a look: “Click-throughs are how Wizards knows that Story matters”.
MURDERS AT KARLOV MANOR | EPISODE 1: GHOSTS OF OUR PAST
Fiction: Marginalia by Mary Robinette Kowal
