Tucker Carlson on Iran, Marijuana ain't safe, and learning about slavery on Juneteenth.

Peter Frampton, The Beach Boys, and John Coltrane

1. Tucker Carlson on Iran in 2012:

2. Breaking News on the Safety of Marijuana - It’s NOT SAFE AT ALL.

   Massive Study Linked: Cardiovascular risk associated with the use of cannabis and cannabinoids: a systematic review and meta-analysis

   Conclusions This systematic review and meta-analysis uses an original approach centred on real-world data. The findings reveal positive associations between cannabis use and MACE. These findings should encourage investigating cannabis use in all patients presenting with serious cardiovascular disorders.

   What’s MACE, you ask? Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events

   State legislators, you need to get ahead of this one. Lord knows Congress can’t pass a kidney stone let alone legislation on marijuana.

3. Coleman Hughes in The Free Press: What American Students Aren’t Taught About Slavery

   We must attack the root of the problem: the American public’s historical memory. Instead of whitewashing the grim facts of American slavery—as American history textbooks did in the past, and as certain corners of the American right would be all too happy to revive—I recommend taking the opposite approach: adding material rather than subtracting it.

   We must include the global and ubiquitous nature of slavery in every school curriculum. We must pull every lever in our education system to ensure that no American graduates high school believing that slavery was intrinsically American, or confined to specific races. Only when that is achieved—when our collective historical memory is broadened—will we be able to unite as a country, end the slavery blame game, and restore a sense of color-blind morality.

4. Roland Fryer WSJ Opinion: The Economics of … Slavery’s Legacy

   Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how examining plantation records and market prices deepens our understanding of a devastating chapter in American history.

   And now on a lighter note…

5. Peter Frampton and David Bowie grew up together? What?

Oh yeah - Bob Mayo on the keyboards. Bob Mayo!

Great song, especially live. Was it perfect?

Hans Zimmer names his perfect song: God Only Knows from The Beach Boys on Pet Sounds

I would also include John Coltrane’s Blue Train

What’s your perfect song?