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New here? Scroll down for the video link and all the way to the bottom for the recipe!I love fried chicken, and I love waffles, but if I’m being honest, I am but a hatchling when it comes to chicken and waffles. There is no good reason for my low C&W count. The dish is iconic. Legendary. Widely recognized as a southern delicacy and a soul food classic, my readings on this topic also indicate that the combo of chicken and waffles (in gravy) originated in North America with the Pennsylvania Dutch.

When Bob Huggins was arrested for a DUI in Pittsburgh on June 16 and resigned from his longtime post as West Virginia’s men’s basketball coach barely 24 hours later, I had no intention of writing about it.  Frankly, I didn’t see the need. A few weeks earlier, after Huggins blurted homophobic slurs on a Cincinnati radio station, the newsletter went into some depth on how this was simply the latest case of a lengthy and legendary college coaching career ending ignominiously.

The Hank Show has been widely reviewed, and it is very good, but the reviewers by and large don’t seem to get it. It works as an adventure story, sort of, about the colorful figure of Hank Asher, but the real meat here is how his company fits into the intrigues of the 1990s and 2000s, and the emerging big data economy. The Miami Vice-style beginning to the story is his brief time running weed and coke to South Florida via the Bahamas, Belize, and Oklahoma, for which he was pursued by the FDLE, and later became a DEA informant.

On May 1, police were called for an active shooter at Mount Horeb Middle in rural Wisconsin. Officers spotted a teen outside of the school with a long black rifle and killed him when he didn’t comply with commands. Four days later, police provided an update that the rifle was a $100 pellet gun available at Walmart and Amazon. Robert Chappell, the executive editor of Madison 365 News, has two kids at Mount Horeb Middle and High schools.

Premium subscribers get this episode 48 hours early. Become a member if you want early access to all episodes, and to get access to the bonus-only episodes. This week, the girlx discuss the recent Washington Post article about Artemis Langford, a University of Wyoming student who was driven out of a sorority house for not being the right kind of girl — specifically, a 6’2” biological male with a five o’clock shadow and some strange hobbies.

DC has been rocked in the last week by tragic and preventable youth fatalities. These needless deaths stem from the myriad ways DC fails to prevent crime in the first place, enforce the laws and rehabilitate offenders. The Washington Post stories linked above get into solid detail about how these children died. The point of this post is to build on these stories to get into why DC’s juvenile detention and supervision system is failing.

I’ve been digging into the life of Jeremy Wade Delle, beyond just the day of his death that is immortalized in the Pearl Jam song we all know so well. One thing Jeremy Delle and I have in common is that we both spent time in a psych hospital in our teenage years. We both ended up in adolescent wards of large chain hospitals. My experience wasn’t completely negative, but I don’t think it helped anyone but my mother.

There’s a voice I turn to when I feel weighed down and choked up by people’s reactions and opinions. When I’m worried about being yelled at, or misunderstood, or cancelled for something I say or write. When I feel their hands at my throat or their fists in my gut telling me “You have no right to say these things.”  The voice says: You do not need anybody’s permission to live a creative life…You want to write a book?

Good things never last — and that’s triply true online. Let’s consider a web app I used for years called sleepytime. This helped me know when to wake up and lord, oh lord, I loved it. The principle was elegant: you inputted when you wanted to get out of bed and it’d tell you when to go to sleep. It did this by chaining together the length of a sleep cycle (around 90 minutes) and how long people generally take to fall asleep, the goal being for your alarm to go off when you’re in the lightest sleep.