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13.07.2025
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is Nathan Lane. It will not shock you that his conversation with host Peter...
On this 'All Jon" edition of “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, his guests are "Pod Save America" hosts Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett. The show writes, “As Democrats seek to reestablish...
12.07.2025
'Tis the season -- for watermelon, that is. And because I love watermelon, we're going to have an extravaganza of three videos on cutting the suckers. I posted this originally in 2023, so it's...
The other day, I (like many tens of millions of other people) received this email below from the Social Security Administration tonight. It glowingly praised the “benefits” to recipients from...
11.07.2025
Being in different leagues, the Chicago Cubs and Minnesota Twins rarely play each other. And today, the Cubs didn't just play against Minnesota, but played the game in Minneapolis for (I...
Yesterday, Trump wrote a letter to Brazil that he planned to set a 50% tariff on imports from the country. But no, it’s not because unfair trade practices, which one think is the standard – in...
10.07.2025
If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, his Main Story was -- not surprisingly -- Trump's budget bill, passed by the MAGOP. And equally not surprising, the story is very...
The other day, when posting a link to Steve Carell's commencement address at the beloved Northwestern University, I mentioned that the school had oddly not posted the speech on YouTube but buried...
09.07.2025
The Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 for Carol Burnett is fun, but odd. It has a lovely introduction by her longtime pal Julie Andrews and a nice short film bio. What’s odd, though, is the...
A couple days ago, a friend who lives in Texas sent me an email about how thrilled he was that he saw the news addressing Trump’s cuts to the staffing and funding of the National Weather...
08.07.2025
There was an important article in Salon last Thursday written by Brian Karem. It's titled "Even insiders are questioning Trump’s health." The tell tells about a range of Trump's actions...
I think is a time when a good Adorable Animal Video is needed and would really hit the spot. So, from the fine folks at The Dodo, this is a video that is indeed adorable, but weird at first. ...
07.07.2025
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is Natasha Rothwell from the HBO series Insecure (for which she also wrote) , and...
On this “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, his guest is Maziar Bahari, publisher of iranwire.com. As the show writes, “With the US now directly engaged in the Israel-Iran conflict,...
06.07.2025
From the archives. The contestant today is Claire Nalven from Waltham, Massachusetts. This is a very florid piece, and the song is extremely well-hidden – and to my shock, I got it. And...
On this week’s episode of 3rd & Fairfax , the official podcast of the Writers Guild of America, the guest is filmmaker James Gray who talks about his most recent movie, Armageddon Time – along...
05.07.2025
It's the Fourth of July, and there's no way we can't have a little Stan Freberg presents the United States of America . Here's a selection on Thomas Jefferson trying to pass the Declaration of...
Not shockingly, when playing a bunch of 4th of July songs, we have something now from the musical 1776. But not from the original Broadway cast or movie -- since they're largely one and the...
Yes, "Stars and Stripes Forever" is played endlessly on the Fourth of July. However, I happen to love the song, no matter how often it's been played, but this is a version I particularly like,...
04.07.2025
Here’s another of the sketches that Amy Poehler did early her career on Conan O’Brien’s very “Late Night” talk show. She played ‘Stacy,’ the teenage sister of Conan’s sidekick Andy...
Yesterday, I mentioned that Steve Carell gave the commencement address at the beloved Northwestern University. When posting the interview that he did with Northwestern president Michael Schill...
03.07.2025
A couple weeks ago, Steve Carell gave the commencement address at the beloved Northwestern. (He didn't go there -- though Stephen Colbert did -- however, his daughter graduated from NU last year,...
And so it came to pass – the Senate MAGOPs finally passed Trump’s budget bill. It wasn’t easy – the vote was 50-50, with three of the party’s senators breaking rank and voting against...
02.07.2025
Yesterday, I was at the grocery store. And yes, this has to do with politics. I’ll get to that in a moment, but first some background. While I know most people know all this, the specifics...
01.07.2025
If you didn’t see Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver last night, the Main Story was on Trump's budget bill. It doesn't cover everything in the 940-page debacle, but focuses on health care and food...
Last week, I posted an article here about how, amid all the hell that coming from Trump and MAGOPs in Congress, there were (for reasons I explain at length) nonetheless reasons for optimism, most...
Actually, to be accurate, "Today" should be read here as meaning "This past Saturday."
30.06.2025
Following up on last week's very entertaining and interesting conversation with music legends Elvis Costello and T. Bone Burnett, on this week's Naked Lunch podcast, co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David...
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is actor Brian Tyree Henry, who has a trifecta, receiving an Emmy nomination for...
29.06.2025
We have a new one this week. The contestant this week is Deborah Conquest from Pittsford, New York. I had one guess for the hidden song, though I didn’t have confidence in it – and I was...
The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast, the guest is political commentator David Pakman who hosts one of the most watched independent progressive programs in the country, with over 3 million...
28.06.2025
Over time, I’ve written here (and strongly believe based on a range of evidence…) that, yes, things will be hellish for a while – deeply hellish -- but everything damning Trump does...
It's been a while since we've gone out and about with Jiminy Glick, so let's rectify that. His guest here for a short visit is Dennis Miller, who does he best to be the smartest and most...
27.06.2025
This is a video I posted back in 2017. I was scrolling back through old articles the other day, looking for something else entirely, and came across this which I’d totally forgotten about. The...
Every once in a while I like to admittedly trigger my friend Bart Baker, who I consider the poet laureate of Josh Hawley. Bart is a WGA-nominated writer and accomplished novelist whose BartRants...
26.06.2025
We're going to take a respite from Trump's incompetent, unnecessary debacle, and go with a masterpiece. I saw a brief excerpt of this on TV, and some of you may have, as well, but that didn't do...
I was watching a bunch of videos of Kennedy Center Honors performances that all had James Taylor singing for others. And because the broadcast’s tradition is that if you’ve received the honor...
25.06.2025
I have a lawyer friend who is always telling me about his cases and how he is going to win them all in court because this is what the law is, and his client is absolutely in the right. And...
On Saturday, I posted a wonderful interview here from Phil Rosenthal and David Wild's podcast Naked Lunch, in which they interviewed Elvis Costello and record producing legend T. Bone Burnett. ...
24.06.2025
If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last night, his Main Story was on something that is called "AI Slop." This is basically AI-generated videos or graphics that are sent...