Monday Mourning: Dead Journalists, ICE, Jeff Buckley

Plus Larkin Poe goes "Bang Bang" and the usual cartoons.

Aug 11, 2025

My award-winning film “The Atomic Bowl” started streaming on PBS.org and PBS apps last week and via Vimeo (you can easily watch it via links here), plus it is airing over many PBS stations, and there is a companion e-book. In addition, my previous film, “Atomic Cover-up” is receiving free PBS showing here in its “short” (28 minutes) version.

Colbert show with “Fly Me to the Moon” parody lampooning Trump’s new idea of putting a nuclear reactor on the moon…

John Oliver last night with full segment on ICE and the current moral and legal assaults.

And now, this, as Oliver would say:

What We Know About the C.D.C. Shooting in Atlanta

A gunman who believed the Covid-19 vaccine had made him ill fired at the agency’s Atlanta offices, killing a police officer and rattling the public health community.

And then there’s this, with overnight drawing by Steve Brodner:

BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif

Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

On a not much lighter note: We saw the new “It’s Never Over” doc on tragic Jeff Buckley yesterday and while it gets a bit confusing and rushed near the end, it is worth seeing in the theaters (although coming to HBO). We never do learn how and why he came to record “Hallelujah” (which had not yet been released by Leonard Cohen in the USA as the album on which it appeared was rejected by Columbia Records). Reminded that he only created one album, we are left wondering if that was due mainly to mental issues or lack of confidence (he didn’t think his latest songs measured up?), or he didn’t want to rely on covers ever again.

In any case, among his self-penned songs, this is clearly his greatest, “Lover, You Should Have Come Over,” and supplies the title of film, here in a live, stripped down version: