A BBC presenter doing live narration for a documentary on whales has just finished explaining why they haven't been able to spot any whales and aren't likely to do so today when behind him a blue whale, having been waiting … Continue reading
Actually, it's Bad Lip Reading's dubbing of some debate highlights, a lot of it quite funny: Link: https://youtu.be/ufGlBv8Z3NU by … Continue reading
According to the latest CNN poll released yesterday, Trump leads the rest of the GOP field among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents with 24 percent versus 13 percent for runner-up Jeb Bush. In addition, he was the second choice of 14 … Continue reading
One of the clearest consequences of global warming is the rise is sea level. For now this is being driven mainly by thermal expansion of warming oceans, but the melting of glaciers is contributing as well, and that's almost certainly … Continue reading
The current (August 17/24) issue of The Nation magazine has a good article by Ari Berman titled "The Voting-Rights Counterrevolution" (link). It's excerpted and adapted from Berman's recent book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in … Continue reading
I've known dogs who would bark at visitors not when they arrived but when they left, and other dogs who would take pillows with them when they went outside, apparently meaning to liberate them into the wild. I particularly like … Continue reading
A notice in English from a Japanese hotel. (My usual disclaimer on this sort of thing: I'm not making fun of whoever produced this notice. Using a foreign language is not easy and full of pitfalls, and if I tried … Continue reading
Political commentators Jackie Broyles and Dunlap (in real life Travis Harmon and Jonathan Shockley) review this past Thursday's two GOP debates in Cleveland, or as Dunlap puts it, the losers' debate and the winners' debate (total running time 6 minutes, … Continue reading
I’ve never seen the original stage musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine that debuted back in 1986, but this is reportedly a pretty faithful adaptation, with script by Lapine and all changes (mainly for running time) approved by Sondheim. … Continue reading
From Laina: Link: https://youtu.be/NOwk68FZ2uY by … Continue reading