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I had just taken the kids deep in the mountains of Mississippi, to Avalon, to the front porch of the general store where Mississippi John Hurt once played. It was starting to drizzle, so we took a few quick pictures on the porch and jumped back in the car, heading for Greenwood. The Little Zion Church in Greenwood, Miss is one of the places that claims the burial ground of Robert Johnson.

This is an example of what paid subscribers enjoy each month, along with discounts to my classes and other goodies. If you like what you see, please join us! When I was a kid, my favorite restaurant was called The Harvest. I loved their communal dining table, where dad and I would make small talk with other diners while I drew pictures to give to the waistaff. I loved their grilled cheese sandwiches, their spiced tea, and especially their chocolate sundaes.

You’ve probably heard by now that Rolling Stone founder and editor Jann Wenner blew up his 55-year career in a New York Times interview last week, promoting his new book on seven music “masters”—all white men. He has since been widely mocked, been kicked off the board of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame (which he co-founded) and been losing speaking engagements around his book. None of this is particularly surprising to me and wouldn’t be to anyone who read Joe Hagan’s excellent biography Sticky Fingers, or just has been paying a lot of attention to Wenner’s career over the years.

Whilst on a state-sanctioned derive with Ms Chuckbucket, which had designs of being a tour of London’s most deranged animal statues starting with the LSE penguin, an ASBO worthy sight was beheld. ‘Girl with Dolphin’ adorns the Northbank by Tower Bridge and depicts a nude female frolicking with a dolphin. Totally taut with glee, she pushes her fingers gently into its torso, a gesture which recalls the depictions of Jesus’s wounded side post-crucifixion - the hand of another often nearby, threatening to prod, the temptation of imminent guts trivialising the preceding themes of faith and devotion.

Welcome back to The Fascinator’s series on Royal Scapegoats! In these installments, we’re examining the lives of women who have been the subjects of blatantly biased treatment throughout history. In the case of Mary of Modena, the Catholic Queen from Part I who lived out her later days in royal exile, her cardinal sin was merely her proximity to an unpopular ruler. It would be so easy to claim the same for Queen Marie Antoinette, who famously became a target for 18th-century French citizens who were clamoring for wider social change—and who took her head in the process.

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This is a case where even the most aggressive anti-police activists would have a difficult time criticizing the decision that the officer made as he pulled the trigger and utilized deadly force. Also, this is a case where (under the review of an objective lens) there was very simple path to avoid the use of deadly force. The fault does not lie with the officer who utilized deadly force - but the other officer on scene who’s obvious missteps were a major contributing cause to an Officer-Involved-Shooting (OIS).

Officer Ivy Jacobsen was raised to mistrust and avoid the police. “It was instilled in me, and my brother and sister who are younger than me, to hate the police,” Jacobsen said. “And to not talk to police officers.” She said her father groomed her in this way in part to cover up domestic abuse in their home. “Our father was very abusive,” she said. “It took me a long time to understand that what he was doing was wrong.

The Washington Huskies fell to 12-0 last Saturday, suffering a three-point victory when Grady Gross kicked a 42-yard field goal on the final play of the game. No less than an authority on college football than Jim Moore offered a blunt assessment of Washington’s prowess or lack thereof. I’ve also been told – repeatedly – that Washington is about to get smoked by the best one-loss team in the history of college football.