Since the election (even before his inauguration) President Trump has made a number of announcements about jobs created or retained in the United States thanks to his policies, actions, and influence. The nonprofit investigative journalism group ProPublica has followed up … Continue reading
I haven’t tried Google’s Art and Culture app, but apparently one of the things it can do is search historical portraits to find people you look like. (Well, not just you. That would be an awfully narrowly focused product.) I … Continue reading
When Stephen Colbert shows a photo of someone in the news, he routinely gives an alternative description based on how they look in the picture, as in “White House spokesperson and angry woman behind you at Target Sarah Huckabee Sanders.” … Continue reading
Link: https://youtu.be/3spcEeE5Quc by … Continue reading
From Engrish.com, a picture of a T-shirt found in Japan: by … Continue reading
Update 2018 February 7: The launch was successful in every respect but one: The middle of the three booster rockets failed to land on the floating platform as intended because one of the required engine firings didn’t happen. Interestingly, the … Continue reading
I don’t think this is as funny as the 2017 version, but it’s still amusing. (Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles, by the way, who I had been hoping would win the Superbowl.) Link: https://youtu.be/3tUCuMSPQwE by … Continue reading
There is no official head of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or of its legal, financial, and enforcement divisions. There are other vacant top posts in the Departments of Defense, State, Energy, and Agriculture, as well as the … Continue reading
Friday the House Intelligence Committee released what has come to be known as the Nunes memo, a four-page criticism of the FBI’s investigation of Carter Page, someone who had been of interest to the bureau for years because of his … Continue reading
Last week Michael Che and Colin Jost, co-hosts of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, and also now head writers of SNL, were guests on Late Night with Seth Meyers, another SNL alumnus who held the same jobs. In these two … Continue reading