I’m not a particular fan of former pro wrestler and former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, but in this clip he has some interesting responses to recent comments from Republican presidential candidates. Ventura’s language may offend some, and his replies aren’t … Continue reading
Here’s yesterday’s xkcd web comic published in honor of the New Horizon probe’s Bastille Day fly-by of the (dwarf) planet: See the wiki explainxkcd.com for more information, including jokes you might otherwise miss (or at least I did). by … Continue reading
Jimmy Stewart is a successful Indianapolis surgeon happily married to Doris Day. They and their young son have been in Paris for a medical conference and are playing tourist in Morocco when a murdered man whispers an urgent message warning … Continue reading
As I keep saying, John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, is a national treasure. Last Sunday he and the show’s staff did yet another excellent exposé, this one on the stupidity of giving vast amounts of unneeded welfare … Continue reading
It’s autumn in rural Vermont, the leaves are changing colors, and all’s not quite right with the world. Edmund Gwenn, best known as Kris Kringle in 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street, plays a retired sea captain who at the start of … Continue reading
Dr Aaron Carroll summarizes some three recent bits of medical news in the following video (which runs only about 4 1/2 minutes): Link: https://youtu.be/BEwE1RHHXFs Carroll, a pediatrician, notes that while a recent survey show some reduction in childhood exposure to violence, crime, and abuse, … Continue reading
In one of Hitchcock’s best films, Jimmy Stewart is a globe-trotting photojournalist temporarily confined to his Greenwich Village apartment by a broken leg. Grace Kelly is his devoted girlfriend, rich, classy, and heavily involved in the fashion industry. She wants … Continue reading
One more thing about the politics of the historic June 26 Supreme Court decision and then I’ll try to shut up about it for a while: By early May of this year, several weeks before the Supreme Court decision, Gallup … Continue reading
It’s disturbing to realized that after making his recent stupid and offensive remarks about Mexicans, Donald Trump actually went up in polls of GOP voters and is near the top of the field. But we should remember that there are … Continue reading
This is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best films, based on a popular stage play by Frederick Knot, who also wrote the script for the film. Like its even better immediate successor, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder is set almost … Continue reading