You may recall my post of a couple of months ago about how members of the Ohio congressional delegation were using legal maneuvers to prevent Alaska’s Mount McKinley being changed to Denali, its original Athabascan name, simply because president McKinley was from Ohio and even though he had never been to Alaska or had anything to do with the mountain.
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Jimmy Kimmel imagines what a campaign commercial for Trump might look like based on what he has told us so far about his plans. And I have to admit that it captures Trump’s style accurately.
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The annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe gives out awards for the funniest jokes (these are voted by attendees I believe) and they have announced the top ten winners for the current year. The winner was Darren Walsh for this one: “I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It’s Hans-free.”
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The people at Bad Lip Reading have figured it out and released the video.
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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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