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The clip below is six minutes of highlights from a “Bully simulator” video game as played by Fafa and Mario. Fafa is a groundhog puppet, Mario is a red puppet, and they are the lead characters on the Globe and … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2017
The funniest thing about this is the reaction of band leader Jon Batiste. (This may not be entirely safe for work, depending on where you work.) Link: https://youtu.be/hJiZg6kP4FA (An aside: While this is a comically bizarre story, there’s also likely … Continue reading
Even though it currently appears that the Cassidy-Graham bill won’t pass, it seems to me that there’s a point worth making about how putting people with pre-existing conditions into a separate risk pool might affect their insurance premiums. Not long … Continue reading
It wasn’t just pets that needed help during Hurricane Harvey. An injured hawk took refuge in a Houston taxi as Hurricane Harvey approached, apparently having been scared by a cat as well as the approaching storm. The hawk showed no … Continue reading
There’s currently a debate going on about some NFL team members kneeling during the national anthem to protest widely reported instances of police violence toward minority groups. President Trump has called the players in question “sons of bitches” while team … Continue reading
While overall crime in the United States has continued to fall, violent crime, notably murder, rose in the last two calendar years after a long period of decline. That increase turns out to have been entirely in metropolitan areas, especially … Continue reading
Update: The just-released revised version of the Cassidy-Graham bill makes it even easier for states to do away with protections for people with pre-existing conditions, apparently in a vain effort to get support from Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. Just … Continue reading
One of the ways in which we’re getting better is the growing realization that pets are important to people, and authorities should not force people to abandon their pets in a natural disaster, even if the authorities themselves don’t care … Continue reading
The past few decades have seen some clever new ideas in telescope design, such as adaptive optics for ground-based telescopes that allow mirrors to be physically distorted in real time to correct for atmospheric turbulence and achieve sharpness that would … Continue reading
Some minds might be boggled by the notion of fun-loving Germans, but check out the video below. Passengers traveling the 30-kilometer (20-mile) rail segment between the eastern German towns of Jena and Naumburg saw strange things happening outside their widows. … Continue reading