Mary Tyler Moore

CBS-TV will be airing a special on Thursday (9-10 p.m., Eastern time), about the incomparable Mary Tyler Moore.

Here is a nice scene from The Dick Van Dyke Show, from 1961 (the show's first season).  It features Ms. Moore and Mr. Van Dyke singing and dancing to the song "You Wonderful You."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdefTKxQVrY

The era of "alternative facts"

Kellyanne Conway coins a phrase.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts/index.html

John Lewis

Does Donald Trump understand, at all--does he have an inkling of--what Congressman John Lewis, during his lifetime, has given to our country?

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last speech

This is a video of the remarkable and powerful conclusion of the last speech given by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

His closing remarks--among his best-known--were hauntingly prescient.  He delivered the speech in Memphis, on the night of April 3, 1968; he was killed in Memphis the next day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcJWWBIro00