Well, this new year is starting off much better than expected. It’s not often that a schadenfreudey moment like the self-immolation of Harvard’s Claudine Gay lasts an entire month, so by all means let’s revel in it for another week. Let it roll over us like hot chocolate syrup on a vanilla ice-cream sundae. (I’m sure some ninny somewhere will think this imagery racist, unless they stop and think about it for a moment, which they won’t.) It’s been so much fun we almost ignored the new Jeffrey Epstein documents, which didn’t hang themselves. Now on to MIT!
My original contribution. . .
The map we’d like to see. . .
Headlines of the week:
So, “The Thing” was a documentary?
Signs your household had a great Christmas:
IYKYK: the single greatest MST3K episode ever. And I want one.
I keep hearing that some old copyrights ended this week. So let’s test this proposition:
I’m down for the dancing sandwiches. . .
And finally. . . an Israeli news broadcaster in action:
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