Jimmy Kimmel’s team took to the streets of Los Angeles four hours before yesterday’s debate to ask people what their impressions of it were. The responses were quite remarkable in how they could have been fitted to any news coverage taken after the debate. [Read more…]

The media consensus seems to be that Barack Obama had a good night and Mitt Romney not so much, roughly in line with my own impressions.

But as often happens, things that I gave only a passing attention to in the debate turn out to grab a lot of attention in the media world. In this case it was Mitt Romney’s claim, in making the case that he was sensitive to women’s issues, that when he was elected governor of Massachusetts, he was given “binders full of women” that he could use to select women for high posts. [Read more…]

… he would win this election in a walk. Rosie Perez explains why.

The Daily Show suggests that having more frequent elections may be the best way to stimulate economic growth. [Read more…]

They actually used quite a lot of the actual words of the candidates. Look for the surprise guest at the end.

David Letterman pokes fun at the photos of Paul Ryan released on the day of the debate. When I first saw them, I thought that they were photoshopped but it turns out that he actually posed for them. It adds to the overall image of a self-aggrandizing narcissist. [Read more…]

They provide one of the best examinations of how the entire ‘plan’ is a fraud. There is no plan. All there is is a bunch of words strung together to make people feel that they will get something for nothing. [Read more…]

When my children used to live at home and they heard me talking on the phone, they said they could tell immediately, even when they were little, whether the person at the other end of the line was of Sri Lankan origin or not, even though I was talking in English. They said they could tell from my choice of words and the inflections in my voice even though I was not aware of making any changes in my speech patterns. [Read more…]

In this old clip from the days when he was on Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy goes undercover and discovers a secret known only to white people. [Read more…]

Via Ted Rall, I discovered the official insignia of the US Navy’s Executive Office for the Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons Program. This is part of the drone program that is responsible for the deaths of so many civilians in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and other countries in the region that have generated so much anger and hostility towards the US. [Read more…]