Jim O’Heir is an actor who looks something like me, or would if he grew a beard and had less hair and was shorter. And yet he got to make out with Aubrey Plaza because Aubrey Plaza thought it would … Continue reading
Category Archives: Video clips
Net neutrality basically says that companies providing provide Internet access can make money charging for bandwidth, but they can’t use their monopoly power to extort extra payments from successful Internet businesses, large and small, by threatening to block or slow … Continue reading
On the outside chance you haven’t already seen this, here’s Andy Serkis reading several tweets from Donald Trump in the voice of Gollum on the July 12 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Link: https://youtu.be/64mWOoj68qo by … Continue reading
Rahat is back at the drive-thru, this time with characters from the Five Nights at Freddy’s video game family. If like me you’re not sure what that is, see Wikipedia’s article on it. Basically, the games are inspired by the … Continue reading
A number of countries in the world have decided to set a minimum age of 18 or higher for both men and women, including China, Denmark, Egypt, Kenya, the Philippines, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and Vietnam, among various others. (In … Continue reading
I hesitate to add to the cacophony over this, and by “this” I mean Donald Trump Junior’s confirmation that despite months of emphatic denials, very senior members of the Trump campaign were involved in efforts to get anti-Clinton information from … Continue reading
Ally Hord and Amber Ruffin, a couple of writers for Late Night with Seth Meyers offer up contrasting views on the film Wonder Woman. The bit itself is OK (and Ally sneaks in some legitimate serious points), but from the … Continue reading
Hans Rosling, who died of pancreatic cancer 2017 February 7 at the age of 68, was professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He was a gifted public speaker who specialized in correcting popular misconceptions, including pessimistic … Continue reading
Here’s Dr Aaron Carroll’s five-minute summary of the latest publicly released version of the Senate’s proposed healthcare changes. Link: https://youtu.be/IwJ8wkZ0EcQ If you’ve been keeping up with this, you’re probably already familiar with most of the bad news. Costs would rise … Continue reading
As you’re probably aware, there will be a solar eclipse 2017 August 21. Below is an animation created by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio showing the path of the Moon’s shadow across the United States. The total eclipse … Continue reading