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18.05.2024
I was going to post this on Mothers Day, but the video I was trying to embed -- for reasons which I'll explain below -- wouldn't work. And try as I might, I just couldn't get it embedded. ...
As the Trump Chowder and Marching Society has made its way from Washington to the Manhattan courthouse in their red tie and gray suit uniforms, there's been a variety of diittohead themes they've...
17.05.2024
I thought that President Biden debate challenge to Trump was brilliant – not that he made the challenge or how he did it, taunting Trump (those were excellent, but not what most pleased me) –...
If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Sunday, the Main Story was about opioids. However, it's not from the perspective of most news stories and the several recent limited...
16.05.2024
I admit to being fascinated by the very recent parade of VP wannabees coming to court to pay homage to Trump, along with a few others who find it in their best interest to show their fealty, like...
If you didn't see Jon Stewart's hosting of The Daily Show on Monday, it was wonderful. He had a blunt, scathing and hilarious takedown of Sen. Robert Menendez's corruption trial -- which he...
15.05.2024
Well, I made it back. A bit wiped out at the moment, though I've unpacked, so that's done and out of the way! (I'm an "unpack right away" kind o' guy.) Focusing my thoughts rationally enough...
Heading out from Chicago this morning, and back to Los Angeles later today. I may write something this evening -- or I may have too much to catch up. We'll see. The elves taking care of the...
14.05.2024
Last week, for logistical reasons, Jon Stewart did his Daily Show show on Thursday. If you didn't see it, his "news recap" section was very funny (as well as pointed). As they write, he deals with...
13.05.2024
This is one of my favorite songs about mothers -- and one of the littlest known, I'd think. It's from an unsuccessful musical, Juno, that opened in 1959 and only ran for 16 performances. But it...
Here are a couple of videos that are offshoots of Jimmy Kimmel's "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets About Themselves." This from his show is Celebrities readings real texts from their moms. This...
I'm still a bit bewildered that for all of the years I’ve been posting videos on Mother’s Day -- and for all the mentions and videos I’ve posted of Mike Nichols and Elaine May -- that I never...
12.05.2024
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest is artist Lyndon Barrois Sr., who makes lifelike miniature sculptures out of gum wrappers. ...
Although for years the celebration moved around the calendar a bit more than in the past and was therefore somewhat difficult to track down (no pun intended), today -- we are full of joy to announce...
11.05.2024
If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Sunday, the Main Story was on libraries. Yes, libraries. The focus is the attack on public libraries, starting with banning books,...
The other day, Trump once again tried to tell every Jewish person who votes for President Biden that they should all be ashamed. For a long time, whenever he’d say this, I’d respond on social...
10.05.2024
Well, the day has finally come. I finally made it back to Wrigley Field after over five years. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that this occasion doesn’t thrill others like it does...
09.05.2024
Yesterday, Stephanie Clifford (who works as ‘Stormy Daniels’) took the stand in the Manhattan election fraud trial against Trump. She’ll continue testifying again tomorrow. A lot of legal...
08.05.2024
On today's jaunt for my first trip back to Chicago in five years, I went to the Art Institute. What was great about this trip is I took advantage of Members Get in One Hour Early, which I didn't...
07.05.2024
It turns out that Gov. Kristi Noem's (R-SD) "Killing the Puppy was OK" Reclamation Tour is getting worse (and yes, that's possible -- and yes, it's still going on) as she quintuples down at this...
06.05.2024
The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast is investigative journalist Ari Berman of The Nation . As Al writes, “The GOP is undermining democracy all over the country. The will of the...
From the archives. This week's contestant is Jim Weeg of Cedar Falls, Iowa. In an odd way, I almost got the full puzzle. I did get the composer style, which is not as often the case. And my...
05.05.2024
Well, I made it to Chicago. Finally. After no traveling for five years. That's bad enough, but not getting to Chicago in that long? Ack. It's a fine art, getting back into the swing of...
04.05.2024
Yes, it's true. After five years, for the first time since the pandemic, I am actually going out of town on a vacation. (I did go on a trip that I wrote about four years ago, in the early days of...
The other day, I decided to correct the latest MAGOP talking point, that Democrats are the real fascists, not Republicans. Putting aside that it seems obvious from this that they have no more...
03.05.2024
A large, well-to-do, white area of Baton Rouge, the state capital of Louisiana, was given permission by the state Supreme Court to break away from the city and start its own city, to be called St....
In our continuing, albeit periodic series on Nichols & May, this may be one of the more famous of Mike Nichols and Elaine May’s most famous early sketches. And being early, it might not be as...
02.05.2024
Time magazine has a deeply revealing cover story this week from an extensive interview they did with Trump, and they got him to open up a great deal on what he would want to do if he is elected...
A short while back, I noted how I love the Thanksgiving episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers every year. That’s when he has his parents and brother Josh (who’s an actor – and has periodically...
01.05.2024
Last year, Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick passed away at the age of 99. But that means today him on the 100th anniversary of his birth. It's a notable occasion for the good fellow who won a...
Jerry Seinfeld directed and co-wrote an upcoming movie for Netflix, Unfrosted, very loosely (very) about how the Pop-Tart was developed. This is a pretty funny promotional film he made for the...
30.04.2024
Over the weekend, the White House Correspondents Dinner was held. If you didn't see the presentation by SNL 's Colin Jost, here it is. I thought he did a pretty good job. Not every joke worked...
Last Friday, a friend wrote to ask my thoughts about the Supreme Court oral arguments on presidential immunity the day before. I didn’t want to get into it then – nor now – because I would...
29.04.2024
The guests on this week’s Al Franken podcast are the bestselling authors on The Trump Indictments Andrew Weissmann and Melissa Murray. As Al writes, “The first criminal trial for Donald...
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest is Fred Schneider, the original front man of the rock band, the B-52s. Unfortunately –...
28.04.2024
From the archives. This week, the contest is Jason Carr from Philadelphia. In the early stages, I could hear the theme, but couldn't make out the hidden song -- but not long after it became quite...
I thought of posting this on the first night of Passover, but since it’s called Saturday Night Seder , I figured it’s best to wait until tonight. This is a wonderfully entertaining...
27.04.2024
My friend Rob Hedden, who I've occasionally mentioned here (often for his deep, abiding love of squirrels...) wrote and directed a movie called You May Not Kiss the Bride . The movie had a nice...
Twitter has really been going Full-MAGOP Crazy the past week, not just far more than usual, but overwhelmingly more than usual – which (in addition to Trump melting down) is, it seems another...
26.04.2024
If you missed Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Sunday, the Main Story was about UFOs. Yes, really. As you might imagine, this lent itself to a great deal of humor. That said, the focus...