Quote of the day

Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money needing a lot now.

–Bonnie Kelly (Charlie’s Mom), It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, S8E6: Charlie’s Mom has Cancer (2012).

Yeah, I’ve been re-watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, from season 1…

by Paul on March 26, 2017 at 4:37pm | Permalink
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25 Coolest Things Apple’s Workflow App Can Do

Tom’s Guide:

The Workflow app for iOS was always widely recognized as one of the platform’s most powerful apps. And now, it’s a part of the platform, after Apple bought Workflow and made the app available for free. Because of that, there’s never been a better time to give it a try. Here are 25 of the coolest things you can do with Workflow.

I don’t know if these are necessarily the coolest, but it’s a good sample of just what sort of things Workflow can do. It’s kind of like the Mac’s Automator for iOS. Very cool.

by Paul on March 26, 2017 at 10:43am | Permalink
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Masterpiece restored: Stolen Stradivarius will sing again

Ah!, some non-depressing news from Yahoo News Digest:

After a meticulous restoration that took more than a year, a Stradivarius violin that was stolen from the violinist Roman Totenberg and missing for decades is about to return to the stage. Mira Wang, a violinist who immigrated to the United States from China 30 years ago to study under Totenberg, will play the instrument at a private concert in New York on March 13.

by Paul on March 10, 2017 at 8:26am | Permalink
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“I’m working on a new book…”

Comedian Tim Cavanagh:

I’m working on a new book called ‘How to Commit a Murder-Suicide’—Chapter 1: Do the Murder First.

by Paul on February 24, 2017 at 5:27pm | Permalink
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Should Police Be Allowed to Keep Property Without a Criminal Conviction?

Civil asset forfeiture, a practice that allows law enforcement to permanently seize property without pressing criminal charges, funnels hundreds of millions of dollars into state and federal coffers every year.

by Paul on February 10, 2017 at 3:22pm | Permalink
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SNL: Sean Spicer Press Conference

Melissa McCarthy knocks it out of the ballpark:

Before we begin, I know that myself and the press have gotten off to a rocky start. When I say rocky start, I mean it in the sense of ‘Rocky’ the movie, because I came out here to punch you…in the face. And also I don’t talk so good.

by Paul on February 5, 2017 at 10:21am | Permalink
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How should the media cover a White House that isn’t afraid to lie?

Thanks for watching. Strikethrough is a new Vox video series focusing on media coverage in the age of Trump, or, as Sean Spicer would say, the biggest, most impressive video series of all time.

by Paul on February 2, 2017 at 2:58pm | Permalink
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the Inauguration

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was at Trump’s inauguration

Now coming up to the stand are the Trump sons, also know as the less-motivated Menendez brothers.

Do you like Melania? Did you see those naked pictures of her? Oh my god… well, let’s just say they should call her Laura No-Bush

It’s like a pickup joint for seniors. The last time I saw this much white hair Madonna was getting out of a limo without panties.

There we see former President Bill Clinton here. Bill Clinton, a stark reminder of a more dignified, gentile administration, when vaginas were probed by cigars, not by hand.

by Paul on January 25, 2017 at 3:20pm | Permalink
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on America

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter:

Let’s Make America Smart Again.

by Paul on January 20, 2017 at 8:18am | Permalink
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President Obama interviewed by Dateline’s Lester Holt

President Obama on Dateline NBC, “Barack Obama: The Reality of Hope”, 1/13/2017:

If you had told me at the beginning of my presidency, the day after in fact of my winning the presidency, that eight years later the economy would be stabilized, we would cut unemployment in half from its peak, that the stock market would have recovered, that incomes last year went up for everybody, of every age group, every racial group, every demographic, if you told me we’d provide twenty million people with health insurance that didn’t have it before, that we would see this explosion in clean energy and cut down our carbon emissions, that high school graduation rates were up at an all time high, I would have said alright, we did okay.

Couldn’t agree more. I didn’t vote for the guy, but I tend to use the test so well-expressed by President Reagan: “are you better off than you were four [or eight] years ago?” I can’t speak for anyone else, but the answer for me and my family, and clearly for the country as a whole, is a resounding “yes.” Our country, today, is better off—by almost any measure—than it was in January 2009.

By the way, I’d add to the list the taking out of Osama Bin Laden—something Bush had the opportunity, but not the will, apparently, to do in August 2007.

by Paul on January 17, 2017 at 4:37pm | Permalink
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