Disco Queen Donna Summer

We lost a cou­ple more this week: Donna Sum­mer and Mary Kennedy. In response to a Face­book executive’s deci­sion to renounce his US cit­i­zen­ship in order to avoid pay­ing taxes on today’s ini­tial pub­lic offer­ing, two Sen­a­tors have intro­duced the Ex-​​PATRIOT Act. A ton of evi­dence was released in the case of George Zimmerman’s shoot­ing of Trayvon Mar­tin. Births of non-​​Caucasians exceeded that of Cau­casians in the United States for the first time since the days of British colonization.

And it’s Fri­day, so it’s your day to choose sub­jects. Chat away!

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