Everybody, me included, lately seems to be finding fault with President Trump, so in fairness I thought I’d share this video clip courtesy of Late Night with Seth Meyers, in which Meyers and his former (and now slimmer) SNL colleague … Continue reading
This three-and-a-half minute video from John Green discusses something a bit surprising: Your neighborhood, specifically your zip code, is strongly correlated with your life expectancy. Even a distance of a few miles can make a big difference, and the difference … Continue reading
Glove and Boots is a YouTube channel that you ought to check out. It specializes in comedy starring puppets, but it’s not a kid’s show. I don’t mean to suggest it’s especially inappropriate for children (it’s no worse than prime-time … Continue reading
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
Three countries lead the world in imprisoning journalists In a column published yesterday (May 15) on the Columbia Journalism Review website, Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalist pointed out that as of the end of 2016 there were … Continue reading
There is a sense in which you can’t be too skeptical. Even when people tell the truth to the best of their knowledge, they might still be mistaken. People also tell deliberate lies. No source of information is completely reliable, … 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