Mano Singham
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The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had their fun with the hyperventilating reactions to the health care verdict. [Read more…]
The fact that CNN and Fox News initially reported the wrong verdict was, in my opinion, a trivial matter that merely told us something about the absurd premium placed on being first with news by even a few minutes, as if news was some kind of Olympics event where only the first place finisher got the coveted gold medal. [Read more…]
The political cartoonist has the knack of telling uncomfortable truths by putting things in stark contrast.
On Monday, the US Supreme Court struck down most of the provisions of the Arizona law SB 1070. As NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports, the sections that were struck down were “provisions that made it a state crime for illegal immigrants to seek or engage in work or to fail to carry documents proving they are in the country legally. Also struck down was the provision that authorized state and local law enforcement officers to arrest anyone based solely on the suspicion that the individual is in the country illegally.” [Read more…]
As envisaged by The Family Guy
This cartoon from xkcd made me think about how we measure the value of time.
One of the best stand-up comedians. I enjoy his stream-of-consciousness, seemingly random association style.
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…]
