I sent the following cartoon to my daughters because this exactly describes the kind of thing I would do to them.
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I sent the following cartoon to my daughters because this exactly describes the kind of thing I would do to them.
It was pretty funny. If you can’t see the embedded video, go here.
Anyone who has watched the film 2001: A Space Odyssey will never forget the voice of HAL 9000, the computer that was the real star of that film. Douglas Rain, the Shakespearean actor who provided the voice, died on November 11 at the age of 90. That somber, flat, atonal, imperturbable voice, concerned and yet somehow menacing, is etched in the memory and I can recall it easily and immediately. For those who cannot, here is one key scene. (Keir Dullea’s performance is often overlooked. He deserves a lot of credit for his reaction shots to a disembodied voice.)
One of the most encouraging signs on the social issues front is that while businesses are doing extremely well with Donald Trump and the Republicans sending all the tax cuts their way, they are not willing to sign on to the anti-LGBT war being waged by the administration, especially against the transgender community.
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There is something fascinating about watching time-lapse films of plants that show them moving. Plants move so imperceptibly slowly that they seem inert so it is disconcerting to see them growing and moving towards water and sunlight as if they have a sense of awareness. Here is a case where an almost dead plant comes back to life after being given water.
(Via Rusty Blazenhoff)
I wrote earlier about the strange phenomenon of extreme right wing parties in Germany that have been associated with xenophobia and anti-Semitism actively wooing the Jewish community and having some success, to the consternation of the major Jewish organizations in that country, surprised by the willingness to support a party that is overtly against their own community.
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I came across an astonishing but little reported item about the most recent mass murder that took place in California last week. Apparently the killer Ian Long actually made a Facebook post around the time he carried out the rampage where he mocked the predictable reaction that people would have after the killing.
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this french bulldog playing with a balloon is the most wholesome thing on the internet today😊 pic.twitter.com/9wvypOZafS
— Ian Laking (@IHLaking) November 8, 2018
I normally do not watch commercial TV but for the past six weeks, I have been watching season 3 of The Good Place on NBC rather than waiting for about a year to watch all the episodes commercial-free on Netflix. As expected I have found the commercials to be annoying though I understand the business model that requires TV networks to use them to pay for the programming. I just wish the commercial breaks were not so frequent. Maybe fewer but longer breaks, say one at the beginning of a half-hour episode, one in the middle, and one at the end.
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John Oliver reminds us that the cruel and inhumane policy of separating children from their parents is still very much with us as large numbers of children have not been reunited and, incredibly, some cannot even be found in the system.