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Share ***UPDATE March 26: Due to the pressure of you, me and everyone else, NBC News terminated their relationship with former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel. This was 100% because of us. If we didn’t vow to boycott MSNBC, this never happens. It’s a great lesson for us that we can and must pressure corporate media to ensure that they do NOT normalize those involved in Trump’s attempted coup and/or Jan 6 terrorist attack!

Welcome to Flashlight & A Biscuit, my Southern culture/sports/music/food offshoot of my work at Yahoo Sports. Thanks for reading, and if you’re new around here, why not subscribe? It’s free and all. Last week, while in the course of reporting a couple stories on Michael Jordan at the Talladega race and the spring football game at Alabama, I had the luxury of spending a couple hours on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Peter Banks, the guitarist in the first lineup of Yes, belongs to an unusual rock-trivia category: Musicians whose ideas shaped a massive band but did not participate in its longterm success. (See also: Peter Green and Bob Welch, Fleetwood Mac.) Banks was on board for the first two Yes albums (Yes from 1969, Time and a Word from 1970), and was central to the development of the episodic stop-on-a-dime arrangements and shapeshifting instrumental textures that became the band’s trademark.

Hey, has anyone else had this problem? I received this message from a subscriber: [T]he podcast episodes are no longer appearing in the subscriber podcast feed. Last week episodes for Monday-Thursday appeared and I listened to them but disappeared from the full list of episodes in the podcast app feed for all episodes. Please let me know if you’ve had this problem, too. It will help me figure out how to fix it.

Two decades ago, to build a portable music player, you had to clobber together several hundred electronic components. Today, you can accomplish the same with a single chip and a dozen passives. Heck, you might even get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for free. One of the few discrete components that survive and thrive in the face of growing integration is the humble decoupling capacitor. It’s not just that the device is hard to manufacture on the die of an integrated circuit; in the world high data speeds and low supply voltages, it has an increasingly important role to play in keeping the circuits humming along.

The fate of a small town in eastern Ukraine hangs in the balance as Moscow throws wave after wave of assault troops at its defences. What happens to Avdiivka in the coming days, and the measures that Kyiv is willing to take to defend it, may tell us much about the future of this phase of the war. I last visited the town on a writing assignment for Magnum Photos. At the last Ukrainian checkpoint, the soldiers were bored, but also nervous.

When I was growing up in the Presbyterian church in the ‘90s, there was a story that my youth pastor used to tell. The specifics have blurred with time, but it involved an intense high school relationship with a girlfriend — one that was too intense, which we were meant to understand as too sexy time. In the stories, this intensity was objectified in the form of a blowdryer she gave him for his birthday.

Welcome to The Bear Cave! Our last premium articles were “Problems at Marqeta (MQ)” and “Problems at Primerica (PRI)” and our next premium investigation comes out Thursday, May 2. Following The Bear Cave’s article on Primerica, the company issued a press release “in response to a blogger who published a misleading opinion about Primerica with the intent to drive down its stock price.” Primerica wrote: “Their assertions and conclusions about Primerica are false. They do not accurately portray what Primerica’s licensed sales force does every day to assist middle-income families.

Just ahead of the 20th anniversary of the baseball playoff contest known as “the Bartman game,’’ “The Bear” – an award-winning TV show about a fictional Chicago restaurant – serves up an irresistible homage to the poor Cubs fan forever linked to the last Miami Marlins championship season. We’re talking about Steve Bartman, the bespectacled dude with headphones who reached for a baseball on an October night at Wrigley Field in 2003, setting off a series of events that doomed the Cubs.