Peter Dale Scott points out Jamal Khasoggi ambiguities, what the hell is crisco?, Trump tries out assassination and likes it, re-cycling your soiled paper in the green bin, also bones; compost as a solution to carbon emissions, bring back deposit bottles, Keith Richards memories

The roaring 20s AGAIN, trouble in the stars, trouble in Vanuatu, trouble in climate summits, story of the ukulele and Hawaiin music and our first live, in-studio music; the National Football League at 100

Look at American sports via 1975 Interview with Roone Arledge; Obit: Paul Voelker, still more CA water machinations, thermography

White Christmas, the best selling song ever; the Saturnalia, hanukkah, fine anecdote about the Christmas Song

GB&U; impeachent follies; blocking your view; fighting Chineses censorship, F/U on Breshnev assassination, Saudi verdict on Khassogi (not pre-meditated!); stadium madness attempt,

The official foot, Trump impeached, Trumps Jewish gymnastics, the Afghanistan papers & the trillion dollar rathole, GB&U, the cultural imperialism of black friday

Tech gone rogue: Kara Swisher article on how Silicon Valley revealed how safe internet is not possible; spyware helped Saudis murder while others track dissidents; we are the battlefield in the cyber wars; is there life on Mars?;

Cannonball running, Burt Reynolds, astronomy, the underwear soil test; suspending Tim Ryan; SNL not-funny despite phony laughs, sad stats

GB&U; fire festival fiasco, health quackery; Obit: Jonathan Miller; fact checking; counter-productive quantifying of scientists;

Star Wars installment 9 and its ill-fated Xmas special; sunsets coming later; space x wants satellites - more than stars?; look back at Apollo 12; Obit: Gahan Wilson