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A French beekeeper, who goes by the name of Nicolas Trainer, has kept the cannabis community buzzing with excitement since his announcement he’d trained his bees to produce honey out of resin from marijuana plants. (Merry Jane)

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• Why Brittany Howard Put Alabama Shakes on Hold and Made a Wild Solo Album (Rolling Stone)
• The Fed’s monetary policy prison (The Week)

Hi. Britanny Howard has come out with a thing, and it is just as good as you’d expect. She’s magical.

Bonus preview audio:

Album drops Sept. 20.

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• The Greatest Songwriter You’ve Never Heard of Is Back (Slate)
• Kent man assaulted, allegedly hit person with burrito (Record-Courier)

• When Mingus met Mitchell (Jazz Journal)
• That time Frank Zappa considered running for president with H. Ross Perot as his veep (San Diego Tribune)

• The Rise of Non-Religious Americans is Occurring All Over the Country (The Friendly Atheist)
• Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII (The Washington Post)
• Pentagon: July 4th Flyovers, Tank Displays And Performances Cost $1.2 Million (NPR)
• Conspiracy theory about slain DNC staffer was planted by Russian intelligence, report finds (NBC News)

I have been a “cord cutter” for a long time. In its last iteration, my entertainment system relied on an over-the-air antenna and a Tivo with perhaps one or two streaming services. I have also been a big fan of a service called YouTube TV, which not only provides streaming but also offers live television and a sort of hybrid DVR/streaming service that works extremely well. That was as far off the grid as I could stand, and I enjoyed it.

But then my building cut a deal with Spectrum to put 100/100 Internet in our building with cable television. And I thought great, it’ll save me $60 a month that I was spending on Internet. I hadn’t, of course, calculated that once I had the service, I’d want DVR and premium channels as well. The package includes HBO, Showtime, Cooking Channel, and — surprisingly to me the one that I am watching the most these days — Turner Classic Movies.

Lately in the mornings I try to put C-SPAN at least in the background, but there’s no Congress this week, so it’s been MSNBC instead. As such, I caught something on Joy Reid’s “A.M. Joy” yesterday that may make her show a weekend staple for me. It was fabulous.

Essentially, Reid had among her panel a person identified as a “Republican strategist.” And this person referred to something called the “Democrat Party.”

And Joy Reid CORRECTED HER.

And, apparently, it’s not the first time. Here she is correcting a guest previously:

Everyone should do this. Everyone. Chris Matthews should. Rachel Maddow should. Thom Hartmann should (I believe I’ve heard him do this, in fact). Chuck Todd should. Nancy Pelosi should. Everyone who gives even a teeny tiny shit about the Democratic Party should take the time to correct this linguistic idiocy, each and every time.

It was a bit on the nose, too, that as I watched this happen yesterday, they were talking about Rep. Justin Amash’s recent announcement that he is leaving the Republican Party while complaining about factional tribalism in American politics.

Because how can we possibly restore more civility to our civic matters when one of our major political parties regularly employs a known bullying technique of disparaging the opposition by withdrawing the respect to even call it by its proper name?

How can we even talk to each other when you insist on “Democrat Party?”

How?

Dear Punditry: Do more than correct these troglodytes. Call them out. Ask them why they do it. Make them explain it. Shame the fuck out of them. Because every time a Democrat hears “Democrat Party” and blinks their eyes and allows it to shoot into the Jet Stream, it is a pinprick of a victory that your opponent did not earn. You know it’s bullying. You know it’s a flaming bag of shit on your porch.

Put a stop to it.

Be like Joy.

Maybe I’m just anthropomorphizing, but I think that turkey is in a panic.

Just in the time it took me to walk to my car, I’ve seen the bird dart across the parking lot a few times. He’s pecking at the grass in front of the apartment, which is farther than I’d ever seen him venture before. The he darts back to the now razor-thing treeline and waits there as if any hiding there is possible.

I do not give this bird a week to live, and I feel bad about it, and there is nothing I can do.

I noticed the turkey maybe a month ago. He had a buddy as well, but this guy was clearly the grand-daddy, large enough that he made this human a little nervous. Turkeys are goofy-looking, but I would not put it past a full-grown one to be able to peck a person to at least some sort of treatable injury. I know this first-hand from the summer my family tried to raise a flock of them. They like to climb, and they like to peck.

One of the nicest amenities of my apartment has been this lush wooded area that has been my view. Well, about a month or so ago, capitalism began the process of taking that away from me. I’d hear them as early as 7 a.m. ripping trees out over there. Last week, I got back from a week out of town, and sure enough, they’d finished that stage of the project. Now only a faint treeline exists between my property and several acres of newly uncovered dirt where there used to be trees.

I’ve seen deer, I’ve heard foxes, and I’ve seen these turkeys, not to mention other wildlife. This was quite an active scene. I can’t imagine how many birds alone had their entire ways of life disrupted because Sam Mustache needed to build a new industrial park. And this turkey. This poor panicked turkey. Were that I could take him in for a while. Have him crash on my futon until he gets back on his feet.

Isn’t he wacky?

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