From NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, a brief interview with John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight on HBO. (It and Game of Thrones are literally the only things I’ve subscribed to HBO to watch.) I hesitate … Continue reading
In 2009 a Russian tax attorney named Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death in prison, having been locked up for exposing corruption involving the Russian government and oligarchs, denied medical care, and tortured in a failed attempt to make him … Continue reading
The most massive living thing on Earth (that we know of anyway) is a huge tree with multiple trunks. It’s also described as a group of trees that are clones of each other. (Things in the real world don’t always … Continue reading
About a fourth of all Medicare spending pays for medical interventions during the last year of life. A seemingly obvious conclusion is that we could save a lot of money if we cut back on medical interventions for the very … Continue reading
This is about a week old (from January 28), which in today’s Robocop news cycle (to borrow a term from the folks at Red State Update) seems like months, but I think it’s pretty seriously funny, so if in case … Continue reading
On Twitter, Aaron Sojurner points out that while U.S. job growth has been steady since the end of the Great Recession, Donald Trump’s interpretation of jobs data underwent a drastic change when he wanted to start taking credit. That’s not … Continue reading
From The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Updated 2019 February 1 to correct the incoherent title (originally reading, “‘Campaign ad’ for Ted Cruz amusingly includes real sound bites of each talking about the other”). by … Continue reading
Naughty movie actor and former Trump acquaintance Storm Daniels appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live October 2. Kimmel’s previous guest, actor Sarah Paulson, asked to stick around for the Stormy segment and appears to have had a good time. Link: https://youtu.be/5Ji8i7Wy4mo … Continue reading
There was so much written, said, and broadcast about John McCain in the week after his death August 25 that I decided to delay publishing this until today. It’s a short interview with his longtime aid and close friend Mark … Continue reading
The middle decades of the 20th century were boom times for Americans. Partly this is because much of the rest of the industrialized world had been devastated by World War II, but actually recovering from that devastation meant that economic … Continue reading