This is your monday morning reader. There is now a Goodwill store on Buford Hiway, next to I285. The building was Treasure Island when it opened. When TI closed, it became one of the two original Home Depots. Link in comments

In 2106, Ben & Jerry’s introduced Empower Mint™ ice cream. “Tell a friend, a sibling, a roommate, your kooky uncle … systemic racism is real, and we all need to be fighting to end it.” The population of Vermont is 1.8% black. Link in comments

There was a letter. It claimed to have details of an affair between John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. It was dated 1961. It had a zip code in the return address. Zip codes were introduced in 1963. Links in comments

Slick Willie Pick Monica Lewinsky Salad Tossing Deep Throat La Leche Leak Blow By Blow Rusty Trombone Buttinsky Slurp Spurt Spit Swallow Alabama Freak Carpet Munching Sixty Nine Ratio Slurping Gherkin Auto-Fellatio Link in comments

From ★ review of “Skinny Legs and All” Tom Robbins “As the book quickly digressed into the tale of a dirty sock, a silver spoon, and a can of beans, I put it aside. Writting under the influence of drugs doesn’t always produce great literature.” Link in the comments

This is today’s monday morning reader. “Everybody talks, nobody listens.Good listeners are as rare as white crows. How can a fruitful conversation spring from such an attitude?” Helen Keller, Home Magazine, May 1935 Link in comments