John Oliver and his associates at HBO’s Last Week Tonight have come up with a brilliant way to make coverage of the Supreme Court more watchable: Link: http://youtu.be/fJ9prhPV2PI The raw footage to let you make your own Supreme Court videos … Continue reading
Shepard Smith on Fox News spends just a few minutes explaining why it makes no sense for people in the United States to panic over their tiny risk of contracting Ebola: Link: http://youtu.be/Z2KBfynW09I As Smith says in the clip above, … Continue reading
A caution before you watch this: If you have some good reason not to get seriously angry right now — perhaps high blood pressure or you need to get to bed soon — don’t watch this, because it will very … Continue reading
Wow, is this good. I started to watch it the other day and had a connection problem so I only just got around to viewing it. (Thanks to my brother Tom for recommending it, by the way.) In just a … Continue reading
British Prime Minister David Cameron performs a Conservative Party rap with the help of some heavy-duty editing by a YouTuber calling himself CassetteBoy. Contains some naughty language (see the lyric below). Probably not safe for work, but that of course … Continue reading
BBC Scotland has multiple amusing technical problems in less than a minute: Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess The report mentions Rudolf Hess, the Nazi deputy führer who had become isolated from the rest of the leadership and apparently concocted, with the help of … Continue reading
This is apparently pretty popular but in case you haven’t already seen it: People don’t like to wait at pedestrian crossings, which causes accidents and traffic delays. Someone came up with the neat idea of making it more fun to … Continue reading
The Veritasium YouTube channel produced the following short video responding to 13 misconceptions about global warming in about 30 seconds each: Link: http://youtu.be/OWXoRSIxyIU Click above for links to additional information. The video is quite good, but it omits (presumably for … Continue reading
I’ve held the Miss America pageant in contempt for decades. It doesn’t bother me so much that it’s a beauty contest but that it pretends to be a scholarship program. (I can see awarding scholarships based on need or merit, … Continue reading
One possibility I’ve seen suggested is that this cat intensely dislikes junk mail and bills: Link: http://youtu.be/SaFoLMFqkWQ (I posted this previously but the original link no longer works.) by … Continue reading