I think that the scare voice trivializes what's taking place. It could be much stronger to just show us the clips, perhaps alongside those of other crackdowns around the world - e.g. Tiananmen in 1989, Hong Kong more recently, etc.

Didn't he do sound on the Apollo "moon landing" sets as well?

One of the ways in which Martin Luther broke from the Catholic church was by not seeing marriage as sacramental: he wanted to be able to acknowledge marriage between non-Christians rather than just marriage between Christians. Thus, from the perspective of Protestant theology, it's not clear that the church should have much to do with marriage. (This was most succinctly summarised for me thus: have a civil wedding, and then come back to the church for potato salad and a party.)

What about the civil arrangement, then? For me, the clearest argument for a non-paternalistic state granting some people preferable treatment (e.g. untaxed inheritance, etc.) is that those people are reducing the burden on the state somehow. In the 'traditional marriage', they do this partly by providing (on average) a more stable environment in which to raise children (thus, raising somehow more productive - on average - citizens for the state), and partly by caring for each other in their old age (thus, saving the state costs). From this point of view, whether or not they have sex, on whatever basis, with each other is irrelevant: an adult son living with and caring for his elderly mother is saving the state in the same way that an wife caring for her husband is. Thus, when France introduced its 'pacte civil', I thought that they missed the opportunity to get right out of the bedroom.

I've never kept track of TV hosts much, and haven't generally been interested in the 'driving cars with celebs' genre, but I was impressed by Leno's comments in the interview I posted above, his plea from the basic, ordinary "no big deal, but let's just be decent" camp in US politics.

confirming Colin Powell: see 01:27 - 02:24 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJTWSHtak3w

That's a lifetime memory there: very good investment.

With this song, and this moment, Holfelder's whole approach suddenly makes sense.

white stripes on black background

Burning buildings risk igniting those near them. America's a big building: there are a lot of buildings near it.

Les demandes à envahir doivent être déposées aux deux langues officielles. Merci pour votre compréhension.

I kept hoping that they might also play their trombones

Perfect: the bikes; the beer bottle. I would have liked to have heard their conversation afterwards: it was a special time, on the outskirts of wherever; I didn't want to be disconnected from it so quickly.

Thank you for writing this: it's professional, to the point, tells us what we need to hear - that the truth can get out, even if its starting point is just one person's phone, and that black voices matter too.

what a complete waste of time

This seems to have been the incident: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/02/archives/soviet-discloses-nuclear-blast-that-put-out-fire-in-gas-field.html

Details: (i) burning for three years; (ii) bomb in the kiloton range