I'm watching the coverage of the announcement of the new pope…the first American one, no less. I won't pretend I understand all the significance of this. I'm not sure I even understand why so many people are so happy about there being a new pope at all, regardless of his nationality. I mean, it's not […]
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick keeps making public statements that contradict each other or simply don't seem to be accurate. Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post lists a batch of them. […]
One of my favorite movies is Monty Python's Life of Brian. It's very funny…ah, but is it in any way accurate? This question is answered for us by classicist Honor Cargill-Martin, who is described as an "ancient historian" but she doesn't look that ancient to me. I actually found this video a lot more interesting […]
Here's another episode of The Jimmy Dean Show. This one's from November 7, 1963 and I call your attention to two segments. About eight minutes and twenty seconds in, there's a pretty funny spot with guest star Don Adams, who was then a rather new face on the comedy scene. His straight man is Pat […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is again saying things about vaccines that the overwhelming majority of actual doctors regard as nonsense. Fact-Check.org has one report here and another one here. Meanwhile, Trump claims to have "close to $9 trillion of investments" coming into this country, He also claims to have secured […]
The folks at The San Diego Comic-Con Unofficial Blog are kicking off another season of webcasts previewing this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego. If you're reading this before 6:30 PM Pacific Time today (5/6/25), come back at 6:30 to watch them and their guests Gary Sassaman and me. If it's after 6:30 PDT, the […]
As many of you know, I've been the Voice Director on a lot of cartoon shows. Because of that, Tom Hancock sent me this question… I was listening to one of Jim Cummings' podcasts. (These are wonderful, BTW) He had on Bill Farmer and Rob Paulsen and they were reminiscing about all the fun that […]
Fact-Check.org tackles Trump's premise that when there's good financial news, he gets all the credit and when there's bad financial news, Joe Biden gets all the blame. Needless to say, this is a skewed viewpoint. Trump says the U.S. doesn't do much business with Canada. Daniel Dale of CNN says Canada is the largest customer […]
Looks like Randy Rainbow. Sounds like Randy Rainbow. Sings like Randy Rainbow. Must be Randy Rainbow… […]
Dave Marron wrote to ask… What do you think Mr. Hanna and Mr. Barbera would've thought about the updating (sexual and otherwise) of the Scoobies? Ordinarily, I'm leery of questions that involve mind-reading, especially mind-reading of the deceased. But in this case, I talked to Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera enough about this topic when […]
Trump continues to make up phony gas prices to claim success in lowering them. And his special envoy to sort out the Russia-Ukraine War is Steve Witkoff. Mr. Witkoff is now touting a bogus referendum to argue that the people in Crimea and other Russian-seized regions would rather be citizens of Russia. […]
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John Oliver last night — another pretty important takedown of an outrage being perpetrated in our country… […]
Donald Trump is interviewed on Meet the Press and gets an awful lot of things wrong. You get the idea this man thinks that if anyone tells him something that sounds good, it isn't a lie to repeat it and insist it's so? If anyone ever tells me I'm the best writer in the business, […]
As you may be aware, I had three separate trips to a hospital in the last few weeks — one because of a gallstone attack, one to have my gallbladder removed and one to deal with some unexpected complications from the surgery and/or the tests I had on the first visit. The first visit, I […]
Nathan Lane receives the 2024 Sondheim Award which honors those who have made important contributions to the performance and preservation of the works of Mr. S. Sondheim… […]