Grapefruit Highball, and other links

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• Actor Dean Cain on Celebrities Signing Letter to Defund Police: ‘Hollywood, Thy Name Is Hypocrisy’ -- “...Hollywood celebrities typically hire either former officers, or private security firms, so they’re covered and they have their security, and now they’re calling for defunding the police for everyone else.”
• An Alternate Reality -- “...author John Howard Griffi...used medication to temporarily darken his skin and then traveled through the South as a black man for more than a month.”
• An experience with the San Augustine Grapefruit Highball -- “Since 1928, the drink is one of the most asked-for drinks at the soda fountain.”
• Another Culture -- “The cedar choppers were descendants of Scots-Irish immigrants who had migrated from the hills of Appalachia after the Civil War.”
• China Unquarantined -- “COVID-19 shows the dangers that the Western world ignored when it embraced the CCP imperial dynasty.
• Cory Bahr Shares His Grandma’s Fried Chicken Recipe -- “If I could choose a final meal on this earth, it would without a doubt be my grandmother’s fried chicken.”
• Lancet, NEJM Retract Surgisphere Studies on COVID-19 Patients -- “Two controversial studies of COVID-19 patients have been retracted after the authors failed to demonstrate that the data were reliable.”
• Michigan Supreme Court Rebukes Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Unanimously Sides with 77-Year-Old Barber -- “This is a huge victory for Manke, for other small business owners in the state and a slap in the face of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.”
• Minneapolis Manufacturing Company Will Leave City after Plant Burned in Riots -- “A Minneapolis manufacturing company whose plant was set on fire by rioters plans to leave the city, saying that city officials afforded them no assistance in handling the destruction.”
• Norway Scientist Claims Report Proves Coronavirus Was Lab-Made -- “The study from Sørensen and British professor Angus Dalgleish show that the coronavirus’s spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted.”
• One of the most unique syrups you’ll ever taste comes from small-town Alabama -- “To achieve that personal touch and hometown feel, each bottle of syrup is still hand-fastened by a local employee in the downtown Fayette facility.”
• The Legend of Old Rip -- “Old Rip now lies in state in a velvet casket and may be viewed at any time in the lobby of the Eastland Courthouse.”
• The Lizard Brigade -- “Experts around the state of Texas are trying to revive populations of the beloved and threatened horny toad.”
• The San Augustine Drug Store -- “While mixing up soda drinks, Jones came up with the Grapefruit Highball, a delightful mixture of ingredients that have remained secret to this day.”
• There Are No Good Narratives on Race -- “...it’s not enough to reject the racial gnosticism of The Narrative. You need a positive replacement, a story that’s sufficiently broad to include everyone but sufficiently narrow to make inclusion seem worth it.”