My local NPR station has been running one of their pledge drives today. Thankfully, they’re a little more considerate than in some markets that I’ve heard and try to limit the length of the drive to as brief a period as possible. This time, it was a single day. I wonder how effective that sort of thing is, what with people waiting until the very last minute in some cases to make a donation of some kind.
Of course, all of this is really just an excuse for me to mentionSingSterlingagain. I’ve made my donation. How about you? Are you going to cough up some green to see if Sterling winds up coughing blood? If that’s not a worthy cause, I challenge you to find me a better one.

Here are some of the stories which didn’t make the front page today:








