Judd Apatow made a short documentary of the friendship between Bob Newhart and Don Rickles. It doesn’t seem like they’d be friends, but seeing them together, it obviously works.
NewYorker: Bob Newhart and Don Rickles
NewYorker: Bob Newhart and Don Rickles
“I love that they became friends because they both played Vegas and neither wanted to cheat on their wives,” Apatow said.
Scavenger’s Reign is a lovely animated series. The animation is visually stunning. The music is creative, soothing and creepy, all at the same time. The plants and animals are completely alien. Nothing looks like anything on Earth, but it all looks like it could exist.
The plot is simple. People get stranded on an alien planet. Each person gets into some trouble while trying to get to the main spaceship. The series is more about an alien planet than it is about the characters. I found it very engaging.
WaPo: What We Know About Aliens
It came from space, hurtling at tremendous speed: a mystery object, reddish, rocky, shaped like a cigar. Its velocity was so extreme it had to have come from somewhere far away, in the interstellar realm. The astronomers in Hawaii who spotted it in 2017 named it ‘Oumuamua, Hawaiian for “a messenger from afar arriving first.”
Don’t forget the unexplainable Wow! signal detected by Ohio State in 1977.
Like a magician, Sparky never reveals how he does his tricks.
The fire had burned down in the wood stove, so this morning it was 65o . I put a sweater on him until the fire could be stoked back up. By the time I’d taken my shower, he was out of it.
Getting him into the sweater was like stuffing a sausage, I can’t imagine how he managed to take it off.
Joanne got Sparky some gifts for Thanksgiving. Here’s Sparky wearing the sweater he needed when we were camping in Fargo.
Free Press: David Sedaris Punching Down
Words, we are now regularly reminded, are violence. So too is silence. I read not long ago that capitalism is violence, as is misgendering someone. Ignoring someone is violence, but so too is paying them attention.
Sedaris is a cosmopolitan humorist, so he is describing coastal people and what is written by influencers on social media, but many young people don’t seem very resilient.
In February 2021, then-president Kristina Johnson launched an initiative to hire 50 professors whose work focused on race and “social equity” and “100 underrepresented and BIPOC hires” (the acronym stands for black, indigenous and people of color). These reports show what higher education’s outsize investment in “diversity, equity and inclusion” looks like in practice. Ohio State sacrificed both academic freedom and scholarly excellence for the sake of a narrowly construed vision of diversity.
WSJ: New Approach to Back Pain
WSJ: New Approach to Back Pain
It seems like everyone I know has suffered from a bout of lower back pain. What we used to call Lumbago, and is now, often called Sciatica.
Symptoms may range from a twinge when remaining in a particular position too long up to being unable to move without excruciating pain. Every doctor had the patient go through the same process.
WSJ: Stop Worrying About Sleep
WSJ: Stop Worrying About Sleep
Everyone knows that getting eight hours of sleep is the key to health and happiness.
Everyone should know to doubt anything that everyone knows. The knowledge that “everyone knows” is built from half-assed news reports, advertising and unverified assertions made often enough.
No matter how you vote or what you think of the events at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, it unconscionable that all video had not been immediately made public.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) publicly released footage from the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
House Republicans had the authority to release the video, and they did not.
This video looks like American citizens were entrapped. It’s a small sample, but for the stability of the country, all video should have been made available many months ago.
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