OK, in some respects this is pretty obnoxious, but it’s still funny. The Chicago Bulls “Kiss Cam” catches a Celtics fan who’s so engrossed in a phone call that he ignores his girlfriend’s or wife’s frustrated request to be kissed. … Continue reading
Here’s yet another short video from pediatrician Aaron Carroll, this one venting annoyance at misleading or overhyped reports of medical research in the news media. Link: https://youtu.be/e0W5PQRYSac Incidentally, in this video Dr Carroll mentions belonging to a group of doctors … Continue reading
(Updated 2016 April 1 to add some additional point and try to improve the explanation below the video.) Here’s a video with a surprise ending — a big surprise, in fact. The question addressed is this: What if you’re take … Continue reading
As noted in a previous post, North Carolina’s newest law is so ill-considered that it mandates the very thing is was supposedly meant to prevent. For example, the law (full text here) requires some men (complete with beards) to use … Continue reading
As you’ve no doubt heard, Donald Trump proposes to keep foreigners out of the country by building a high wall along the southern U.S. border. If you don’t think about it too hard, this might sound like a sensible idea, … Continue reading
Garry Shandling died Thursday at the age of 66, and that night Conan O’Brien talked about how Shandling helped him get past a personal crisis, partly as a consequence of a strange coincidence. There have been a lot of tributes … Continue reading
Jackie and Dunlap ponder whether Trump is really as bad as Hitler, including the possibility that he might even be worse — a rich, Yankee Hitler. Some naughty four-through-six letter words here and there. Link: https://youtu.be/qRNne_45j7A by … Continue reading
(Update 2016 March 28: The McCrory administration has produced a press release seriously misrepresenting the import on the law. More in this later post.) (Update 2016 March 26: It turns out the new law also contains a provision canceling a … Continue reading
I suspect most of you have seen this bit from NBC’s Saturday Night Live late last year, but in case you haven’t, here it is. Government officials question Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and Ryan Gosling about their encounters with aliens. … Continue reading
Interesting brief video (under four minutes) about some things in our bodies that aren’t very useful but are left over in our DNA from our remote ancestors: Link: https://youtu.be/rFxu7NEoKC8 by … Continue reading