Intelligence, Comedy, and a Post-Mortem

Not necessarily in that order.

• Bernie Sanders and the Black Vote (Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report), or why he didn't get much of it.  (See also this article in Fusion, which the Black Agenda Report is reacting to.)

  [...]. Instead of asking those questions, the Sanders campaign and Mr. Starr’s Fusion article treated the black community as a kind of united corporate whole with no perceptible internal divisions or contradictions, all of it potentially winnable by just putting the right message in front of the right audiences, or throwing enough staff and money at the problem.

• The "intelligence community" is not enamored of Donald Trump.  (Adele M. Stan, AlterNet)
• Really bad writing, sex scene division.  Not exactly safe for work, but maybe sneak a peek in less sensitive locations?

  I cannot speak for others, but for me this scene had all the thrill of an Ikea Chair assembly manual.

  The Rotting Post (I think the number of 'h's was related to the Fibonacci sequence, but what do I know?  [In that case, the last "ahhhhhh" should have only had 5 'h's.]); also check out the comments.

Blueberry pancakes?