Chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon recently said that the media “should keep its mouth shut.” CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert devotes 45 seconds to showing how that would work in practice: Link: https://youtu.be/BPMJ3i0riaE by … Continue reading
Here are a couple of videos my late brother Tom would have liked. Hank Green on notable dogs in four minutes: Link: https://youtu.be/3zghyEjA-HE As part of East India Comedy’s EIC Outrage series, comic Sahil Shah talks (mainly seriously) about the … Continue reading
Suppose you’re designing a language course. All else being equal, you’d probably want to teach the most common words first, and there are a number of references you can check for that purpose. (For example, Wikipedia’s page for the most … Continue reading
In this concise 7-minute clip John Green offers the clearest, most intelligent explanation I’ve seen of Trump’s controversial immigration order. He also calmly details his concerns without resorting to any extremes of rhetoric and name-calling. Link: https://youtu.be/sJYTj-VI_L8 (For more on … Continue reading
This is from October 16 but still relevant at least in general terms. It does run longer than most video clips I post, but I think it’s worth your time, and much of it is pretty funny. Link: https://youtu.be/k3O01EfM5fU Oliver’s … Continue reading
Here’s the Trump inauguration as reimagined by the folks at Bad Lip Reading. Some of the lines are remarkably plausible. Link: https://youtu.be/gneBUA39mnI In the interest of equal time here’s their version of Obama’s second inauguration, which I thought less inspired … Continue reading
Stephen Colbert and his conservative identical cousin “Stephen Colbert” say farewell to President Obama. It’s reasonably funny but also has some points to make. This was originally broadcast last Thursday, the night before the inauguration. Link: https://youtu.be/0YmCUgacULs There are a … Continue reading
Novelist and blogger John Green muses about out how far back “back” goes in a vlog post that manages to inspire a fair mount of awe in just 3 minutes and 42 seconds: Link: https://youtu.be/qxfD1DhqBiA The time spans he mentions … Continue reading
If you’re in a funk about today’s inauguration, just remember that it could have been worse. No, I don’t mean Hillary Clinton would have been worse. For all her faults, she would be nowhere near as bad as Trump. That’s … Continue reading
One of the best bits on the Key & Peele show had Jordan Peele playing Barack Obama with Keegan-Michael Key as his “anger translator” Luther. It became so popular that Luther appeared with the real President Obama in the 2015 … Continue reading