His young daughter, Katie Belle, came running in and said, “Daddy’s having a fight with his heart.” It wasn’t the first time, but this one was physical and cost Townes Van Zandt his life. The singer-songwriter, whose dark and illuminating lyrics walked with a self-destructive limp, died on Jan. 1, 1997, at his home near Nashville. The writer of such country hits as “Pancho and Lefty” (Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson) and “If I Needed You” (Emmylou Harris and Don Williams) was 52.

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For decades now in Canada, there has been a bipartisan, pro-immigration consensus. But in recent weeks, we have watched that consensus fall apart. My guest on today’s program has been covering this development in his columns for The Globe and Mail. He argues that it was the Liberal government that broke the consensus — and it must be the Liberals who restore it.  Tony Keller is a veteran Canadian journalist and a columnist for The Globe and Mail.

My Dad died a few days after Father’s Day. There were “World’s Best Dad” mugs in the supermarket during the days he was dying. My inbox was stuffed full of emails about whiskey stones and golf clubs. (Just one of the many reasons that men need gender equality too: so they can stop getting terrible gifts). It was a weird time. I lost track of how many times… ncG1vNJzZmiemZy1tbXNoKuapJtjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89oq6uZpaKubsDAm6aoZZGjsW6ywK2fnqqjYrGixYyepJqhnKg%3D

Hello & welcome to my newsletter of all the stories I hope you missed! This is a newsletter about American politics and anything else I think is so dumb that I can’t help but cover it. Okay, I love country music. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I listen exclusively to country music & Taylor Swift. So, obviously, it didn’t escape my notice when Country Music Star Jason Aldean released a new song, Try That in a Small Town: a very threatening list of things you can’t get away with in small towns, because they have no crimes and love their guns platonically.