What we have here is a very short cooking show featuring someone trying out the genius idea of making deep frying gnocchi. Gnocchi (singular gnocco) are Italian dumplings, often filled with potato or cheese, and generally quite tasty. Making them … Continue reading
This is just strange. Earlier this week on the Fox News program Fox & Friends, host Steve Doocy and guest Penny Young Nance of Concerned Women for America suggested that Disney’s 2013 hit Frozen was somehow anti-male, apparently because there … Continue reading
Stewart (together with his staff of writers and researchers, of course) is a national treasure. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook,Daily Show Video Archive Meanwhile, the website Talking Points Memo reports (link) that … Continue reading
British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who has also written books critical of religion, reads some of the charming emails he has received from offended believers. Be aware that many of these letters are from apparent professing Christians who haven’t quite … Continue reading
This is yet another one you might have seen already, albeit in possibly abbreviated or confused form. It’s a mix of hilarious and appalling. QVC is a television shopping channel based in the U.S. (I could describe it in more … Continue reading
Many years ago I heard T.R. Reid, then Tokyo bureau chief for The Washington Post, recount on NPR’s Morning Edition that KFC had convinced Japan that the American thing to do on Christmas was to eat Kentucky Fried Chicken. This … Continue reading
Here’s another video clip you might already have seen. I’m posting it because it’s both funny and disturbing, though fortunately no one gets seriously hurt. It seems that Ellen DeGeneres recently challenged her viewers to shoot video of themselves dancing … Continue reading
This is just amazing, a Shell gasoline station with a restroom that would be the envy of some CEOs. Unfortunately, to see it in person you apparently have to go all the way to Bohol, Philippines. Link: http://youtu.be/szihUm6NM_o by … Continue reading
In the unlikely event you haven’t already seen this… The apparently intentional release of chlorine gas a furry convention (see the Chicago Tribune’s news story and Wikipedia’s explanation of furry fandom) led to an evacuation of the con hotel and … Continue reading
(Updated slightly for clarity.) Here’s what apparently happened: Someone in Pontiac Michigan called 911 to report being nervous about a man seen walking with his hands in his pockets, to which the obvious reaction is “Wait, what?” The real cause … Continue reading