Via Jerry Coyne, I learned of this website that has created a list of words commonly used by Chopra in his tweets and connects them randomly to get sentences that sound like they are saying something deep when it is pure nonsense. In other words, they are Chopraesque. [Read more…]
Joseph Smith explains to Mr. Deity, Lucy, and John the Baptist how to make Mormon proselytization cost-effective.
(Via Machines Like Us)
Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore of The Daily Show have one of their always worth watching discussions on race issues, funny on the surface but also making serious points.
(This clip appeared on June 11, 2012. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
I wasn’t so long ago that ‘death squads’, shadowy groups that murdered enemies of a government, used to be the prerogative of despised authoritarian governments, usually in developing countries. But that has changed. [Read more…]
I do not own an iPhone or a smart phone of any kind. When I first tried Siri on a friend’s iPhone when it came out, Siri had a tough time understanding me due to my accent (even though I am told I am relatively easy for people in the US to understand) and the experience was quite frustrating. [Read more…]
I am quite ignorant of the equestrian events that take place at the Olympics. The only ones I’ve seen involved horses going round a circuit and jumping over various fences with the scoring depending on how cleanly the horses did the jumps and the time taken. [Read more…]
Jon Oliver of The Daily Show reports on a little known English child rearing practice.
(This clip appeared on June 11, 2012. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
I linked recently to Stephen Colbert’s report on the new sport of freestyle canoe dancing. It turns out that there is another exotic new sport that will appeal to the more ‘macho’ types (aka stupid young men) and that is Ultimate Taser Ball. [Read more…]
I have bad news.
Orly Taitz lost her bid to become California’s next senator. She came in fifth in the primary, garnering 3.1% or 121,000 votes, which is not too shabby. [Read more…]