My wife works in an anchovy processing plant. They do the entire process: freshly caught fish go in and cans come out. Last Friday, she came home very stressed.

Anyone who lives in Spain and has a television that they turned on this past Easter will have seen video of two celebrities kissing on a balcony under a McDonalds sign. I care zero about the Spanish celebrity gossip scene that overruns the broadcast networks day and night. I do my best to [...]

I’m way late to the game on bringing this topic to the blogosphere, but I wanted to post a few comments on this, now infamous, comment made by Geraldine Ferraro, the gist of which was, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position [as a Democratic nominee front runner].” [...]

I miss Jon and Stephen. Luckily the writers are still generating content.

I was just flipping randomly through some of our upper cable channels and came across a blast from the past. We get this “ESPN Classic Sports” channel (the only ESPN channel we get) that shows old games from years ago. I can barely muster the interest to watch live sports, so you can [...]

In the instantly ubiquitous video of Miss Teen South Carolina’s response to a fairly simple beauty contest question, she uses the phrase “US Americans”. If you’re in the minority that haven’t seen the video yet, go watch it, cry a little bit, and come back.

Learn from our mistakes? What mistakes?

Google News (my browser homepage) uses sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms to group news stories together. It does a really excellent job, and any bias shown is that of a whole media. Still, occasionally it makes mistakes, often with humorous consequences. Check out the juxtaposition of the story with the image here:

Most mornings I watch the previous day’s edition of the NBC Nightly News (with Brian Williams). Yesterday, they did a report on “Bullfighting in Spain” (viewable with ads at link above), where Brian introduced it as,
And now we go to Spain, where, tonight, perhaps the best known national custom is under attack. A [...]

For my post yesterday, I tried to upload, to Revver, the following video of the birthday trio blowing out their candles.