Watch! Yes, it's America's Got Talent. And I hope their ratings were great because

[nolabear]

America—middle America—needs to see this.

[Kali]

1. wow!

[MontanaMama]

2. Damn.

Tears here at my desk. "3 strikes lead to Pine Box Convictions"

[Leith]

3. That made me cry

Nobody NObody should have to have that kind of worry.

[nolabear]

7. I've seen it three times and still cry.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[slumcamper]

5. Up 'til now I believed I understood. Now I genuinely FEEL.

We need to have feeling to get to the healing.

Well done, Brandon "Pookie" Leake!

[nolabear]

6. We need the arts. They're what connects us.

The fact that 45 has no apparent love for them is as diagnostic a tool as anything.

[handmade34]

8. "We need the arts"

there is a reason they call it "the Humanities" it has been my belief for years that he is not human... he lacks what it takes to be a complete person

I so miss the music at the White House from the Obama days

[nolabear]

11. Could not agree more.

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
Hear me out
for I too am concerned
and every man
who wants to die at peace in his bed
besides.

(William Carlos Williams)

[panader0]

9. That was very powerful. Brandon Leake definitely has talent.

[demmiblue]

10. K&R

[nolabear]

12. That's exactly what I thought of. And it wasn't accidental.

He called up that son, that child, that man who will always be all fast feet and flash and school books and superheroes and the tenderest, tenderest heart.