To start this morning today, here right now are some highlights from Last Week Tonight, which will return from a couple of weeks’ hiatus tomorrow evening. (Apologies if the preceding sentence disrupts the flow of time around you. In my … Continue reading
Category Archives: News and politics
A TV Azteca ad promoting an October 10 futbol match between U.S. and Mexican teams makes amusing use of Donald Trump rants about both countries to make it sound as if he’s abandoned all hope of a U.S. victory. Link: … Continue reading
This is even funnier than you’d expect it to be. Where else would you see ads from Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’s political opponent last year, whose actual campaign slogan I hesitate to repeat? Link: https://youtu.be/FM4mJ493wNU Getting serious for a … Continue reading
I’ve long argued that political disagreements often result less from difference of opinion than from differing notions of the facts. There are a lot of bogus ideas floating around across the political spectrum. I just saw a remarkable example of … Continue reading
As pretty much everybody has heard, the clerk of Rowan County Kentucky, Kim Davis, is now in jail and her office has resumed issuing marriage licenses. Here are a few interesting facts you might have missed about the case: While … Continue reading
In a post yesterday I mentioned Betsy McCaughey (pronounced McCoy), the former New York lieutenant governor best known for spreading falsehoods about the Affordable Care Act back in 2009. Here she is (very, very briefly) in a segment from Comedy … Continue reading
In case you haven’t already seen this… Link: https://youtu.be/DG6fhub9HDQ And yes, this does appear to be a real candidate. by … Continue reading
Public housing is supposed to help give low-income families a place to live, but according to a Washington Post report (link), some families getting public help have pretty high incomes, in one case nearly half a million dollars a year. … Continue reading
Actually, it’s Bad Lip Reading’s dubbing of some debate highlights, a lot of it quite funny: Link: https://youtu.be/ufGlBv8Z3NU by … Continue reading
According to the latest CNN poll released yesterday, Trump leads the rest of the GOP field among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents with 24 percent versus 13 percent for runner-up Jeb Bush. In addition, he was the second choice of 14 … Continue reading