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The Top Left Corner — 2021/02/03
Welcome to this week’s show!
We had a deep freeze here in Williamstown last week–that stretch of days every winter where the temp gets so low it’ll freeze the pipes in your house and the hair on your head if you take a shower and go outside without a proper toweling-off.
In the spirit of staying warm–at least figuratively–we’re going to start posting listeners’ pet pics each week. During the show, we’ll name-check your dog, cat, bird, fish, snake, llama, etc. If you send us a caption along with your pic, we’ll also read it live on the air.
Since this is the first week we’re doing this, we’re going to kick things off with some pet pics of our own at the end of the show notes.
–Jay and Steve
P.S. We want to hear from you! Listeners can participate live during the show using the chat box on our show page at Radio Free Berkshires or message us on Twitter @RadioFreeBerks.
LIGHT (OR NOT)
* An animal rescue center in the UK has started reading to traumatized animals as part of its rehabilitation efforts. It makes us wonder what’s on the reading list. “The Pet Goat,” perhaps?* Did you know that naked mole rats are quite vocal, chirping, squeaking, twittering, and grunting to one another? A neurobiologist in Germany has discovered that rats from each colony speak in distinctive accents in order to identify outsiders. Twittering is one thing, but what we’d really like to know is whether naked mole rats are tweeting to each other.* We’re not big fans of the Lincoln Project, but their attorneys on Saturday made public a scathing letter threatening Rudy Giuliani with a defamation lawsuit. As Felix Salmon noted on Twitter, most lawyers can only dream of penning a “Fuck You” letter like this even once in their careers.
LOCAL
* Using documents obtained via FOIA requests, WAMC’s Josh Landes last month revealed that the city of Pittsfield was working on a plan to kick unhoused people out of a public park where they’d taken refuge from the city’s unsafe shelters.* WAMC’s Landes also reports that two Williamstown employees resigned in the wake of a racist incident at Mt. Greylock regional high school earlier in January. In this same piece, Landes provides an update on the reckoning that’s underway within the scandal-plagued Williamstown Police Department.
THE COMMONWEALTH
* In the “Weekender” edition of the Berkshire Eagle from Saturday, January 30,
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Welcome to this week’s show!
We had a deep freeze here in Williamstown last week–that stretch of days every winter where the temp gets so low it’ll freeze the pipes in your house and the hair on your head if you take a shower and go outside without a proper toweling-off.
In the spirit of staying warm–at least figuratively–we’re going to start posting listeners’ pet pics each week. During the show, we’ll name-check your dog, cat, bird, fish, snake, llama, etc. If you send us a caption along with your pic, we’ll also read it live on the air.
Since this is the first week we’re doing this, we’re going to kick things off with some pet pics of our own at the end of the show notes.
–Jay and Steve
P.S. We want to hear from you! Listeners can participate live during the show using the chat box on our show page at Radio Free Berkshires or message us on Twitter @RadioFreeBerks.
LIGHT (OR NOT)
* An animal rescue center in the UK has started reading to traumatized animals as part of its rehabilitation efforts. It makes us wonder what’s on the reading list. “The Pet Goat,” perhaps?* Did you know that naked mole rats are quite vocal, chirping, squeaking, twittering, and grunting to one another? A neurobiologist in Germany has discovered that rats from each colony speak in distinctive accents in order to identify outsiders. Twittering is one thing, but what we’d really like to know is whether naked mole rats are tweeting to each other.* We’re not big fans of the Lincoln Project, but their attorneys on Saturday made public a scathing letter threatening Rudy Giuliani with a defamation lawsuit. As Felix Salmon noted on Twitter, most lawyers can only dream of penning a “Fuck You” letter like this even once in their careers.
LOCAL
* Using documents obtained via FOIA requests, WAMC’s Josh Landes last month revealed that the city of Pittsfield was working on a plan to kick unhoused people out of a public park where they’d taken refuge from the city’s unsafe shelters.* WAMC’s Landes also reports that two Williamstown employees resigned in the wake of a racist incident at Mt. Greylock regional high school earlier in January. In this same piece, Landes provides an update on the reckoning that’s underway within the scandal-plagued Williamstown Police Department.
THE COMMONWEALTH
* In the “Weekender” edition of the Berkshire Eagle from Saturday, January 30,