Net neutrality is a policy that requires Internet service providers to treat all traffic equally. ISPs would prefer to be able to make free money by letting giant corporations pay to slow down access to competitors’ websites (or refrain from … Continue reading
My thanks to my friend Derek Roff for pointing out this short film, which turns out to have won a whole series of audience awards at film festivals. It’s rated “Mature” on Vimeo for dialog (language and comic references to … Continue reading
Christopher Meloni, probably best know for his years on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, also played (among other roles) the bizarre character Freakshow in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, though I suspect a lot of people who … Continue reading
As you probably know, Bill O’Reilly was fired by Fox News after it emerged that he and the network had paid multiple women a total of millions of dollars in response to lawsuits for sexual harassment and numerous sponsors had … Continue reading
Conventional wisdom suggests that Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are moderating influences on him, and this may be true. But in the clip below John Oliver points out that there’s not much hard evidence one way … Continue reading
Reportedly seen on a bus in Hong Kong: You don’t know where they’ve been. (I’d suggest washing them just in case.) by … Continue reading
Odds are you’ve already seen this, but I’m putting it here anyway in case you might not have. It’s from the May 1 broadcast of his late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live in which he described what happened to … Continue reading
In a scene from Samantha Bee’s Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a woman acquires a mysterious film showing her an alternate reality: Link: https://youtu.be/mV4LDXg0Q4E From the same program, President George W Bush (or Will Ferrell, anyway) gives his take … Continue reading
Three short animations featuring Simon, his cat, and his date in three phases of a meal Simon makes for his girlfriend. The last bit is the best, and I include the middle one only for completeness. (Of course, tastes differ.) … Continue reading
Seth Meyers plays multiple clips of Trump attacking the idea of a presidential executive orders during the campaign, which ends up not just underscoring the fellow’s hypocrisy but being pretty funny. If you don’t hav time to watch the whole … Continue reading