Lost in the news shuffle has been another revelation from the Edward Snowden archive about the close collusion between AT&T and the NSA, where the telecommunications company has been having a decade-long partnership with the spy agency and handing over metadata on billions of emails. Kim Zetter explains the arrangement
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Anyone who has children knows that it is obligatory to attend the many, many theatrical productions that the teachers in the lower grades put on. Not only must you attend, sit politely, applaud loudly, and praise everyone’s performance effusively after the show, irrespective of what happened on stage.
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From Funny or Die, we have a video where people recount their experiences with going to Planned Parenthood and what they went through when they sought their services.
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In order to illustrate the absurd way in which frauds and charlatans (also known as televangelists) exploit the tax exemptions for religion that exist in the US tax code to enrich themselves by taking money from poor people by promising them rewards, Oliver has created his own church called Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption to see how far he too can push this racket before the IRS shuts him down.
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There is a Canadian radio show called That is That that seems to be a kind of audio version of the Onion, specializing in parody. Peter Simek, who lives in Texas, says that in a recent episode the show pretty much nails the entitled attitude that rich Texans have.
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He ponders the question of why there are no female late night talk show hosts but thinks that he can bring a female perspective that will enable women to relate to him.
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Comedian Denis Leary is a frequent guest on The Daily Show. It is clear that he and Stewart have a long friendship dating back to before they were famous and their exchanges have the teasing quality of good friends relaxing together, though Leary’s humor has always had a slightly edgier quality. I quite often skip the celebrity interviews but enjoy Leary’s appearances.
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On his show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver describes how the world of sex education in the US is all over the place, rife with misconceptions and harsh moral judgments rather than providing dispassionate factual information.
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On one of his last shows as host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart looked at all the hype directed at him for taking on the big banks, racism, ISIS, and Fox News and asks himself the important question: Did he help in solving these problems at all?
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Comedy Central’s comedy duo Key and Peele show what it might look like if the media treated the teaching profession the way they treat professional sports.
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