Triple Play by Jeff Tweedy, Plus Our Usual Cartoons

Friday fish to fry.

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As a public service again for those blacked out, Kimmel monologue last night. Now he says only 75% can view thanks to blackouts, down from 80% apparently.

From David Frum at The Atlantic:

The Comey indictment is an advance glimpse of Donald Trump’s next attempted seizure of power. James Comey’s rights and liberties are not the only ones at risk today.

New York Times’ new averaging of polls (which includes GOP ones) on Trump’s approval finds that it is now down to 43%. Trump cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54. Approval on economy: 39-56. On trade: 39-54. On National Guard into cities: 42-55. On immigration (his “best” issue): 41-55. Greg Sargent: “Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way.”

If you missed the Bonus Cartoons here last night.

Major New York Times piece today by my old late-1970s Crawdaddy colleague Jon Pareles on Jeff Tweedy and release of his new TRIPLE-album. Pareles says hardly a minute wasted on it. I’ve run three cuts from it already here but this morning—even as we speak—he is premiering the entire album live on YouTube, with Jeff driving around the whole time. It may still be rolling as you read this so check it out. Sounds great to me so far:

And a song that Pareles highlights:

Been enjoying 1980s rocking Bonnie Raitt this week, here is another, “River of Tears.” Richard Manuel on backing vocals.

From Tunes to Toons

Ann Telnaes:

Books by Greg Mitchell include: Best-seller “The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Film JFK Tried to Kill.” Award-winners “The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics” and “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” A New York Times Notable Book, “Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas.”

Companion books to his recent PBS films: Memorial Day Massacre, Atomic Cover-up, The Atomic Bowl.

Also, two acclaimed books with the late Robert Jay Lifton, “Hiroshima in America” and “Who Owns Death? Against Capital Punishment.” On the media and Iraq, “So Wrong for So Long,” with a preface by Bruce Springsteen. And in a different vein, “Vonnegut and Me,” “Journeys With Beethoven” and “Joy in Mudville: A Little League Memoir.”