As you might guess from the title, this post is mainly of interest to people involved in digital video, and it’s fairly technical, but experience suggests some people out there will find it interesting, so here goes. If you have … Continue reading
Tennessee good old boys and amateur political commentators Jackie Broyles and Dunlap somehow find themselves debating Clinton versus Sanders to their own shock. (Caution: As usual, Dunlap’s language might not be safe for basic cable.) Link: https://youtu.be/YQCla5_DsKw Jackie Broyles and … Continue reading
Riley is a pre-teen girl who lives a happy life in Minnesota playing hockey and spending time with her friends and loving parents. All that abruptly comes to an end when they move to San Francisco for her father’s career … Continue reading
Thanks to the success of Proposition 14 in the 2010 election, California now has a nonpartisan blanket primary system for most offices at the state level. (It doesn’t affect voting for local offices or for presidential candidates.) The more picturesque … Continue reading
You’re probably sick of hearing about this guy, but there are a few things I read today that I think people really need to be aware of. For a start, there’s Trump’s PR stunt claiming to raise money for veterans, … Continue reading
CBS broadcast eight Jesse Stone TV movies from 2005 until 2012 that starred Tom Selleck as a former Los Angeles cop turned chief of police of Paradise, a fictional town in Massachusetts. The movies were based on a series of … Continue reading
A roundup of science news (link) on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show blog includes this rather disconcerting entry: The best new species discovered over the last year include skeletal sea dragons and giant carnivorous planets. I suspect that last word should … Continue reading
Ukrainian-American comedian Yakoff Smirnoff once said that when he became a naturalized American citizen the first thought that entered his mind as an American was “I hate these foreigners. They come here and take our jobs!” And of course that’s … Continue reading
The latest XKCD web comic: Link: http://xkcd.com/1686/ In more or less the same vein, consider this: Below courtesy of YouTube are the first two episodes of the Buck Rogers Saturday matinee serial starring Bust Crabbe, which premiered in 1939, the … Continue reading
Early voting starts tomorrow here in North Carolina for a special election. The primary will select each party’s candidates for congressional representatives based on a new district map. The whole process is tainted by political corruption and efforts to stop … Continue reading