Wednesday Reads

If the Democrats lose the Florida governor's race, we will know Putin was involved.  How the hell could anybody be so stupid as to employ blatant racism in attacking an opponent?
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Obituary:  Actor Fredd Wayne, 93, a performer seen on numerous television programs, has died.  He died Monday at an assisted living facility in California.

Wayne created, directed and starred in the one-man show Benjamin Franklin, Citizen, taking it to local stages and colleges across the U.S. and as part of a State Department tour of Europe. Clad in spectacles and wig, he played the glass armonica — an instrument made up of water-glass chimes invented by America's founding father — in one of the show's many highlights.

His most well-known turn as Franklin came on a two-part episode of ABC's Bewitched in December 1966. When Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) is having trouble with a broken lamp, her bungling Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne), looking for an electrician, inadvertently summons Franklin from the past, and he ends up getting arrested for stealing an antique firetruck. (His Bewitched episodes were the first to be shot in color.)

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So much for academic freedom.
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