Burke Morton

Conductor/musician, erstwhile sommelier/wine professional (still occasionally dabbling in the trade), and prog rocker, of course.

[Stas Olenchenko @StasOlenchenko]

As a Ukrainian person looking at everything that’s been happening in the world lately, here’s what I really, REALLY need people living in liberal democracies to understand as soon as possible.

This isn’t a pleasant conversation.

A thread.
1/

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

Fancy a guffaw?

Behold, one of the best one-liners ever written for television.

Good evening.

[pablo escobarner (blue check) @PabloEscoburner]

Northern Kentucky’s band director is an animal.

[Burke Morton @WineThink]

@Classicbritcom The Tomorrow People

[Burke Morton @WineThink]

@zinfandelhooks @TheZinfandelOrg @NWTomLee No question the Outpost. The others aren’t yet worth considering as older, in my experience

[Burke Morton @WineThink]

A week away from the return of @cmacsings—I’m excited to get into some new repertoire, and of course, a season of many renditions of “I’m Strong”!

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

This isn't an unusual thought. Generations of people have said that some people are unqualified or ill informed, and it's "insane to allow" them to vote. Since Mr. Kelly remarks on history here, a few notes follow on the history of this idea.

[Burke Morton @WineThink]

@gtconway3d The Irony is strong with George these days

[Burke Morton @WineThink]

@RpsAgainstTrump Sounds like a snowflake

[Burke Morton @WineThink]

@TheWinegasm This actually hits close to home: my tinnitus is a bit more than a 1/4 step apart between each ear, but for whatever reason, high-acid wines (Riesling, GrüVe, Chenin, SB, Savagnin) dulls that maddening sensation most effectively. Took me years to notice, but it works for me.

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

Romantic. But also they’re now dead.

[Jon Boeckenstedt @JonBoeckenstedt]

Thread: A slow weekend turned interesting when a student at Columbia, in response to a tweet suggesting the SAT and ACT were "good, actually" posted this chart.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

TX GOP House members caught on video admitting their election bill is a partisan power grab. This has to go viral.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

the people guzzling horse paste in 2021 voted for Trump in 2020, because stupid doesn't magically cure itself overnight

[Burke Morton @WineThink]

Not my favorite headline ever, but this is an otherwise interesting read @willwilkinson https://t.co/cLhELjAViB

[Rogue Citizen One ☮️ 💔🌈 @RogueCitizenOne]

Hallmark Cards @Hallmark donated $16,019 to Senator Josh Hawley in 2021.

I would think this highly respected company would want to distance itself from a Senator who helped instigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

STOP FUNDING SEDITIONISTS

RETWEET

#DemVoice1 #Fresh #wtpBLUE

[Sleeping Giants @slpng_giants]

This is the kind of hard-hitting, fact-based interview seldom found on any news shows right now.

The reason why disinformation thrives in our current media environment is that facts are rarely this well researched and used to correct the record. We need much more of this.

[Burke Morton @WineThink]

I meant to retweet this a very long time ago. Apropos of nothing it popped into my head (I was on a long drive), so I thought I’d do my part in keeping my three followers aware of Tuck’s brand of clueless...

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

Watch Fox News host Tucker Carlson call one of his guests a 'tiny brain...moron' during an interview. NowThis has obtained the full segment with historian Rutger Bregman that Fox News is refusing to air.