Get-Me-Through-the-Weekend Links: Future Banned Songs, Kanceling Kmele, Virginia Damage Report

The boys are, in fact, scheduled to make a rare Friday-night recording, so set your watches, mind your Daylight Savings Time, and in the meantime enjoy some lil’ bullet points:

* Thanks to all y’all’s help, I can now exclusively reveal a very rough draft of my problematic songlist on Spotify. Always up for more suggestions (and Moynihan hasn’t gotten his grubby mitts on it yet), but the idiosyncratic qualification to consider is that I have to like the song, or at least be able to hear it multiple times without reaching for the fast-forward. Shock value for the sake of it (including a lot of gruesome rap) often doesn't apply for that reason.

* While we await the availability of Kmele’s Intelligence Squared cancel culture debate, here’s a panel discussion he recently participated in (thanks, Busty!) on whether public education is compatible with free speech. Moderator was philosophy guy Gregory Salmieri, other panelist was tech dude Ray Girn. Also, KF’s tweet about that insane Microsoft corporate video got the headline treatment in The Daily Caller’s roundup of Twitter reactions.

* Recent guest Zaid Jilani, who as you will recall is a Virginia resident, had some interesting thoughts about Glenn Youngkin’s surprise victory there. Speaking of the commonwealth, that was unsurprisingly the backdrop to my three pieces this week (write-write-write, read-read-read), the most recent of which is for those of you who prefer Table-Pounding Matt.

* Wanna see what Nancy Rommelmann’s apartment (and a bit of the adjoining Paloma Media studio, and a clutch of former Fif’ guests) look like? Me neither, but here’s a sweet short video from her recent book party for the lovely and talented Kat Rosenfield.

* This Day in Podcast History takes us to … last year, in our first post-election episode! How’s it holding up?