But I agree with Selfy that there is an etiquette issue that more information should be provided, especially as with Substack and other venues, where the link is often a redirect and does not really contain the title or related content indications.

Just please don’t pull up a past comment where I failed to so myself! 🙂
But thanks to Huxley or someone here, I now regularly only cut and past the portion of a longish link that is to the left of the “?” symbol [since I think he or whomever said the rest of the link content is related to my email or other source server, etc. and of little value to another recipient. ]

I agree about Miguel’s quick links. They’re usually X posts. I can look quickly and not be subjected to You Tube ads.

“It happened during a debate in the contest for district attorney of Manhattan. The only reason most non-New Yorkers would care is that current Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose claim to fame is being the first and only prosecutor ever to charge and convict an ex-president — Donald Trump — is running for reelection.
Here’s the curious thing. In the entire debate, which was Bragg against Republican Maud Maron and independent Diana Florence, moderated by NY1’s Errol Louis — in the entire debate, nobody said the name “Donald Trump.” With the exception of one brief aside by Louis, nobody mentioned the Trump prosecution at all.

The trial is the biggest professional accomplishment of Bragg’s life. He is now running for reelection. He is running on his record. And he never said a word about it. Nor did Maron or Florence bring it up. It was like Bragg’s central role in history never happened at all.”

Tweet commenting on a headline from The Atlantic:
“At least 6 senior Trump officials [are] living on military bases for their safety.
This does not happen in normal countries. Left-wing political violence is out of control.
Presumably because left-wing judges have protected them for 50 years.”

Her voice was not too shabby for 93; you could tell she was indeed operatically trained (catch one of our current pop stars singing at that age!), and I was delighted she could remember all the words!

I find myself starting a lot of old favorites and lalalaing around the middle of the first verse.

Fun trivia: Oliver Sacks, who has made a study of various brain glitches, conveyed in several popular books (“The Man Who Thought His Wife Was a Hat” was his first IIRC), wrote one about the impact of brain injuries and other problems on musical ability. Interesting to me was that the memories of music known in the past are often the last thing lost by dementia patients.
They may not know who is visiting them, but they can sing along with the Golden Oldies.

But they have to be THEIR oldies.
I’ve been talking with a friend about singing in some of the local nursing homes, and we realized that we were thinking about “Tinpan Alley” songs, because that’s what we sang years ago when visiting as youth groups. Now, we would be singing to our own generation or only slightly more elderly – the Beetles and John Denver are the oldies!