The cast of Will & Grace (a popular sitcom that ended its run just over ten years ago) reunites in a ten-minute episode mainly to poke fun at Donald Trump, another TV personality best known for playing a comic villain. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Reasonably amusing: Link: https://youtu.be/K818ZgIcoWE by … Continue reading
My brother Tom died September 15. In March of 2015 he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a particularly deadly type of brain cancer. He initially responded well to treatment, experiencing few side effects, but earlier this year the tumor began to … Continue reading
Below is yet another notable installment of the XKCD web comic that is very much worth a look. It addresses the far-too-common misconception that since the world’s temperature has changed before, global warming is no big deal and possibly just … Continue reading
Over the past six months or so I’ve heard a few mentions of this film, all of them reasonably favorable, so I finally decided to watch it. What we have here is a half-hour-long, intentionally over-the-top parody of 1980s Hollywood … Continue reading
Like most of you, I suspect, I vividly remember the full-time television news coverage in the immediate aftermath of the horrific and monstrous terrorist attacks on the United States fifteen years ago today. The networks did a reasonably good job … Continue reading
In a free market businesses are free to set prices, customers are free to buy or not, and competitors are free to compete by offering an alternative product at a better prices. But sometimes customers don’t really have a choice … Continue reading
A lot of people have trouble distinguishing between with “your” and “you’re” or “whose” and “who’s.” Many years ago I realized there’s a simple rule for remembering which is which. I still get them wrong, but at least I can … Continue reading
From YouTube’s “What’s the Mashup ?” channel out of France, the latest compilation of dance clips, this time from television series and set to Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling.” There are 75 total clips used. To see which programs … Continue reading
A couple of months ago John Green posted another good short video about Syrian refugees that’s worth four minutes of your time. Syrians in general aren’t all that different from middle class families in Europe or the United States. The … Continue reading