November 16, 2024 – 4:54 pm
In a comment to our previous post, our friend “Whitewall” observed that in the wake of the recent election, the Dems “currently overcome with a case of raging hormones, like before … just worse now.” Indeed they are. On the bright side, though, we can be thankful for X: I’m crying pic.twitter.com/JtG3ldaumh — Not Jerome […]
August 26, 2021 – 1:28 pm
I’d hate to seem cynical here, but it’s hard, sometimes, not to imagine that there is some sort of powerful and malevolent agency at work behind the scenes that has, in the past two years: 1) Unleashed the Wuhan Red Death upon the world; 2) Usurped the primary-election process to install Joe Biden as the […]
January 28, 2019 – 2:05 pm
With yet another hat-tip to Bill Keezer, here’s a therapeutic video.
Forwards vs. Backs, by Mick Colliss. (All of this snaps into focus for me now that I have a son-in-law who plays rugby, and a fearless, energetic grandson of almost two years who is obsessed with recreational spheroids. Thanks to Brendan Wright for sending it along.)
This is quite possibly the best thing I have ever read: the story of how a young man was banned from a hotel for 18 years. It involves a flock of seagulls and a suitcase full of pepperoni. Here.
October 24, 2017 – 3:47 pm
From Campus Reform: Prof: Algebra, geometry perpetuate white privilege The story is about one Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois. We read: “On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of […]
With a hat-tip to Nick Land: Anti-Fascist, Trump protesters applaud speech comprised entirely of Hitler quotes. This is the best thing on the internet today😂 pic.twitter.com/HD2CPusckI — Tennessee (@TEN_GOP) July 8, 2017
November 29, 2016 – 9:41 pm
We were treated to some grandmaster-level trolling at the Guardian yesterday, by one Godfrey Elfwick. Here.
October 12, 2016 – 12:29 pm
This is where we’ve got to.
Here’s a video that will change the way you look at… videos that will change the way you look at things.
I am not making this up: apparently Microsoft put a Twitter chat-bot online as part of an artificial-intelligence project, and after a few hours of online interaction it had turned into a Nazi. Microsoft has since deleted its tweets, but some more of them are here. The bot, called Tay, has now been taken down […]
March 20, 2016 – 10:56 am
“The grass has riz…” That’s the beginning of a bit of English doggerel I learned at my dad’s knee. According to EarthSky.org, spring (which arrived last night at 12:30 a.m. Eastern time) came earlier this year than it has since 1896. The reason? The March equinox can come on March 19, 20 or 21. And […]
With a hat-tip to Bill V., here’s an amusing clip from Egypt. I have no idea whether the subtitles are accurate, other than in the few spots I’m able to pick out a word or two. (Any Arabic speakers among you, readers?)
April 17, 2015 – 10:35 am
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at Hillary’s spontaneous Chipotle stopover.
April 14, 2015 – 11:16 am
Here’s a little logic puzzle that’s been making the rounds. There’s a ‘spoiler’ video at the bottom of the page, if you’re stumped.
April 18, 2014 – 10:49 pm
Here’s a fine online edition of Philogelos, the world’s oldest joke book.
I’m working late tonight, as I often do on Tuesdays. To ease my toil, I generally listen to classical music on Pandora; one of today’s highlights was the pyrotechnic allegro ma non troppo from the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor, by Camille Saint-SaÁ«ns, as played by the incomparable, and […]
January 26, 2014 – 11:58 pm
Here’s a mighty funny item from The Daily Show.
December 16, 2013 – 7:31 pm
I habitually prowl odd corners of the Internet, but plenary coverage takes time. There are still, I am reminded almost daily, large and undiscovered countries. I charted a new one today (although I had glimpsed its coastline from afar on several occasions). It began with a Tweet from the account calling itself “Outsideness”: https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/412591534668656640 This […]
From Scribd, a cheery riposte. Via @lachlan.
November 28, 2012 – 7:22 pm
Here. It’s all fun and games, until someone loses a leg.
October 29, 2012 – 4:36 pm
Rickles at Reagan’s second inaugural. Here.
October 18, 2012 – 10:04 pm
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama did a little standup comedy at the Alfred E. Smith Dinner tonight. Have a look. I’ve seen the President cracking wise before, but never Mr. Romney. I have to say, he was downright Carsonesque.
October 10, 2012 – 11:44 pm
OK, enough grim reality. Let’s all lighten up and take a break. Here, for example.
September 26, 2012 – 9:44 am
Here’s an item from Iowahawk, posted way back in 2006, that’s as relevant today as the day it was written. Update: As is this.
August 19, 2012 – 4:20 pm
Boy, everybody‘s on Twitter these days.
August 12, 2012 – 8:56 pm
This little physics game is highly addictive.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Victory Deals Blow to Unions
Here’s a hilarious newspaper clipping, sent to Lawrence Auster by a reader: Read the caption carefully.
Sad news: Peter Bergman, founding member of the Firesign Theater, has died at 72. His New York times obituary is here. For those of us of a certain age and sensibility, Firesign needs no introduction. For the rest of you, there’s YouTube.
February 8, 2012 – 5:28 pm
To distract us from worldly worries and woes: two brainteasers from Jeopardy! star Ken Jennings. Two puzzles: NOT SO HARD and YES VERY HARD. NOT SO HARD. Can you think of a food that becomes a synonym for “later’ when it’s spelled backwards? YES VERY HARD. I just wrote down a lower-case, seven-letter word”“something you […]
January 11, 2012 – 11:07 am
Here’s a dispatch from our senior White House correspondent, Milton Polchek: WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 – Michelle Obama, the first black woman to serve as First Lady, took to the airwaves recently to express her irritation at being characterized as an “angry black woman”. Mrs. Obama could not be reached for comment, but a close friend […]
November 18, 2011 – 12:07 am
More Shatner! This time a cautionary tale, and a timely one, too. Can you believe this guy’s 80 years old?
October 25, 2011 – 8:19 pm
Researchers at UC Berkeley have persuaded the Universe to disclose another of its secrets: the origin of Jewish humor. Story here. What’s that you say, boychik? You lack familiarity with the subject matter? Well relax, you’re mishpocheh, so for you, no charge. Look below the fold for a few free samples.
September 24, 2011 – 12:28 pm
My friend Danny Fisher over at Wish I Didn’t Know directs us to a montage of harsh moments from vintage coffee commercials.
September 17, 2011 – 12:16 am
Here’s a video of a drive from Seattle to Maine, with a frame taken every 90 seconds.
With a hat tip to a commenter at Mangan’s, here’s a story that needs to be told: America’s forgotten Negro astronauts.
Here’s a pungent partisan punchline, from a president who could actually tell a joke.
My friend and colleague, the extravagantly gifted software engineer, globe-trotting bon vivant, and intrepid adventurer Yaniv Sarig, has sent me a outrageously funny item that will, I’m afraid, only evoke incapacitating hilarity in those of you who know a thing or two about programming. But it’s too good not to share, so here it is. […]
Here I am working late again — so for this evening, just a link. It’s a good one, though: a collection of vintage Tom Lehrer videos. Here.
From James Taranto, on l’affaire Strauss-Kahn: What’s the difference between an orthodox Marxist and a French Socialist? The French guy thinks the state should seize the means of reproduction.
February 14, 2011 – 11:03 pm
Well, I realize that I’m probably the only person outside of Pyongyang who didn’t already know about this website, but my son just introduced me to the Perry Bible Fellowship. My first click of the ‘Random’ link brought me to this, and I was stuck for the next hour or so.
February 12, 2011 – 12:11 pm
From Stephen Fry, by way of David Duff: A girl goes into a bar and asks for an example of double entendre, so the barman gives her one.
February 1, 2011 – 10:59 pm
Allan Sherman, Dean Martin, and Vic Damone. A previous age of the world.
November 16, 2010 – 8:15 pm
President Obama published a children’s book today, called Of Thee I Sing. In the book, which takes the form of a “tender, beautiful letter to his daughters”, he praises various figures from American history. We note in passing that among the “great Americans” profiled is Sitting Bull, who is best known for having led a […]
September 9, 2010 – 10:39 pm
Tonight a cold front has moved through the Northeast, and suddenly it feels like fall outside, which is always just fine with me. If there’s one thing I detest (and longtime readers will know that’s something of a lowball estimate), it’s a hot September. But right now there’s a cool, crisp breeze coming through the […]
In the Park Ridge Herald-Advocate, there’s an article (linked to in today’s Best of the Web) about what Peter, Paul, and Mary used to eat on the road. It contained this fishy little morsel from from Noel (Paul) Stookey (emphasis mine): “Until the ’80s, there was usually the (standard) deli tray backstage,” said Stookey, calling […]