I don’t think this is as funny as the 2017 version, but it’s still amusing. (Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles, by the way, who I had been hoping would win the Superbowl.) Link: https://youtu.be/3tUCuMSPQwE by … Continue reading
There is no official head of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or of its legal, financial, and enforcement divisions. There are other vacant top posts in the Departments of Defense, State, Energy, and Agriculture, as well as the … Continue reading
Last week Michael Che and Colin Jost, co-hosts of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, and also now head writers of SNL, were guests on Late Night with Seth Meyers, another SNL alumnus who held the same jobs. In these two … Continue reading
I need to get back to doing reviews, but in the meantime here’s Jimmy Kimmel’s staff reviewer Yehya on The Shape of Water: Link: https://youtu.be/PK_BdfLklV8 by … Continue reading
Novelist and vlogger John Green very succinctly raises the point that humans are often pretty good at dealing with emergencies but often a lot less good at dealing with long-term problems. (But see below.) Link: https://youtu.be/bpyhMMqwX8U Of course, John Green … Continue reading
Rahat plays a simple trick on a pizza delivery driver who ends up calling it her best delivery ever: Link: https://youtu.be/VVg9q8qKqrM Rahat has also just released a compilation of the best of his skeleton-at-the-drivethru pranks: Link: https://youtu.be/uFKxjH2Tzzc by … Continue reading
The immigration debate is still going on in Congress and may lead to another government shutdown. Part of the problem is that President Trump keeps changing his position, and as the following clip demonstrates he seriously (in fact, bizarrely) misunderstands … Continue reading
Here’s a sea shanty from the A Capella Science YouTube channel about the discovery of insulin. The song’s first-person narrator is a man named Leonard Thompson, who is dying of pneumonia but who would have died over a decade sooner … Continue reading
There are a lot of real jerks out there, most of them men, who harass and worse their students, employees, or just those they happen to run into. The good news is that a lot of these people — Bill … Continue reading
As you surely know by now, this influenza season is turning out to be very bad. This is mainly because the predominant type of flu virus this year mutates rapidly, making the vaccine less effective. But “less effective” doesn’t mean … Continue reading