In the following bit from March 23 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart makes fun of reporters of several reporters for getting angry on the air. As usual, it's entertaining, but the part about Nancy Grace (starting … Continue reading
A couple of amusing clips I ran across on YouTube, both amateur creations made using free software. In the first, having found a remote location where he hopes not to be observed, Gimli practices his dance moves to his favorite … Continue reading
Not many people recommend this movie, and even writer-director David Lynch reportedly finds it too painful to talk about. I don’t recall what convinced me to watch it on Blu-ray recently, but I don’t regret it, though neither do I … Continue reading
John E. Schwartz, in the context of a review in the November/December 2010 issue of The Washington Monthly, makes the interesting point that the most famous free-market philosophers tended to hold more moderate views than today’s conservatives who like to … Continue reading
A blind man and his former guide dog, now blind himself, are both being helped by a new guide dog according to this remarkable report from Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. (There is a correction in the comments to the report: … Continue reading
The devastation in Japan and elsewhere is horrible. This BBC television report showing footage shot from a helicopter captures the scale of what happened in one area more clearly than anything else I've seen. A vast amount of water and … Continue reading
For many years I've subscribed to Columbia Journalism Review, which is, you'll not be shocked to discover, a magazine about journalism published by Columbia University. Every time an issue arrives I whip open the back cover (sometimes while still standing … Continue reading
Harold Meyerson's article in the March issue of The American Prospect reveals some grim statistics: U.S. corporations are increasingly divorced from both American workers and American consumers. From the second quarter of 2009 to the first of 2010 total corporate … Continue reading
It's said that we all learn from our own mistakes, but the beginning of wisdom is learning from those of others. The website LearnFromMyFail.failblog.org helps you to do this, or at least have fun reading about other people's screwups. For example: … Continue reading
I think it was Robin Williams who observed that all marriage is same-sex marriage, because it's always the same sex. But seriously, folks... Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced that while the Obama administration would continue to enforce the federal … Continue reading