Monthly Archives: April 2016

I stole this idea from Malinda Kathleen Reese, a Youtube celebrity who takes Google translations of songs and then videos her own cover using those odd translations. Following her suggestions, I took a verse from a well-known song of my era, … Continue reading →

In an interesting, painful video, two female sports reporters get to pull a selection of nasty online comments directed at them and have them read to them by regular guys who did not write them in a Jimmy Kimmel-style “mean … Continue reading →

Last night I dreamt that there were entire sections of our house I’d never noticed before–and that other people were living in them and paying rent to the previous owner. That other people were living in our house or that … Continue reading →

“If that’s all you’re known for, that’s not a bad thing at all.” My hat is off to this gentleman. Respect and patriotism are not in vogue any more, but I can’t help but think we’d be in better shape … Continue reading →

We’ve probably all seen the Holderness family’s videos at one time or another. Whether you find them corny, campy, funny, or meh, it at least seems like they’ve got a good family dynamic going on. And while we can expect … Continue reading →

An interesting article over at Vox.com explores just why we can be so mean online. “If a source of our moral outrage is a desire to advertise our own goodness, then that helps us understand why oftentimes our moral outrage … Continue reading →

Camille Paglia: saying the things you or I would be crucified for… It’s long, but worth a listen. Maybe it’s just because I find myself of a similar mind much of the time, but it seems like she’s a good example of … Continue reading →

Everybody wants their way these days, but no one wants to be the “adult in the room.” Bill Nye seems to think it’s okay to incarcerate climate change skeptics, even though there are aspects of the data that should give … Continue reading →

Maisie Williams, actress in “Game of Thrones”, has decided to reveal her limited understanding of the world. In an interview in Entertainment Weekly recently she had this to say: Williams told EW that in one of her first-ever interviews for … Continue reading →