Barbara Crooker: Economics 101
What if the GDP was really made up of birdsong,
the limitless arithmetic of joy?
Abby Zimet: Stalin Is Dead, Tuckums Is Gone, The Masses Rejoice
Tucker Carlson will be difficult to replace, but the candidates are George Santos, the green M&M and 3 howler monkeys.
Mike Vargo: Delusions
I cannot help imagining René Descartes as a comedian. The surviving portraits show a polymath with a prominent nose and a sly smirk, as if to say “Heard this one?” … Continue reading
Robert Reich: What Must We Do Now?
My friends, this is a dark hour. Intolerance, cruelty, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and environmental destruction have been let loose across the land. Trump controls the Republican Party, the Republican Party … Continue reading
Todd Gitlin: Frightbart
The view from Steve Bannon’s propaganda site will scare the bejeezus out of you, which is its point. The home page of Breitbart.com, the quasi-official voice of Steve Bannon’s White … Continue reading
John Oliver Takes on Climate-change Deniers
John Oliver hosts a mathematically representative climate change debate, with the help of special guest Bill Nye the Science Guy, of course.
Video: John Cleese on Stupidity
Cleese explains why extremely stupid people do not have the capability to realize how stupid they are. Watch until the end.