Last Saturday night NBC’s Saturday Night Live included a sketch featuring guest host Don Cheadle and Beck Bennett trying to have a bar fight: Link: https://youtu.be/eg0hzmFIG-Y Maybe it’s another illustration of how I’m easily amused, but in my defense I’m … Continue reading
An Associated Press article by Chad Day and Eric Tucker published Saturday points out that while Robert Mueller’s report has not yet been turned in to the Justice Department, let alone made public, a lot of its likely contents can … Continue reading
This probably doesn’t surprise you, but while mail-in DNA tests to determine ancestry have some validity, they aren’t terribly reliable. In some cases identical twins (who by definition share the same DNA) show somewhat different results even when tested by … Continue reading
As a reader at Talking Points Memo observed, if the Mueller report more is good news for Trump and his immediate family we can expect to see it quickly, but if it gets hushed up it’s pretty likely the president … Continue reading
Reasonably funny: Link: https://youtu.be/tEpZzvSzYfI by … Continue reading
A February 23 article by Caroline Criado-Perez in The Guardian points out that across a vast range of things, from medical research to the design of tools, vehicles, and buildings, the implicit assumption has long been that the average person … Continue reading
The Anti-Defamation League has for decades has tracked anti-Semitic and other hate crimes in the United States. In a report released 2019 January 23 (summarized here) the organization’s Center on Extremism compiles the latest statistics on murders committed by persons … Continue reading
From NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, a brief interview with John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight on HBO. (It and Game of Thrones are literally the only things I’ve subscribed to HBO to watch.) I hesitate … Continue reading
In 2009 a Russian tax attorney named Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death in prison, having been locked up for exposing corruption involving the Russian government and oligarchs, denied medical care, and tortured in a failed attempt to make him … Continue reading
I enjoyed the outtakes from Stephen Colbert’s Super Bowl party skit more than the final version, but both are reasonably amusing, and anyway I need to post something… As broadcast: Link: https://youtu.be/rQBKNWiWdag Outtakes: Link: https://youtu.be/b9hGRxY6gww by … Continue reading