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Laugh, laugh, I thought I’d die…

Neatorama tell us all about the history of canned laughter, and a man named Charley Douglass who built ‘The Laff’ Machine.’. In the late 1940s, CBS sound engineer Charley Douglass came up with the...

Right Wing Rage, explained.

I often wonder about the propensity of the Right Wing in this country toward rage – they always seem to be mad about something. This paragraph (courtesy of Mentalhelp.net) goes a long way towards...

The Secret of Abbey Road’s Success? Limitations.

The Atlantic’s piece on Abbey Road has a lesson for young musicians – don’t try to be perfect. In some ways, the process of recording music is very much the same as it was...

Who Needs Doctors? Just Shoot The Damn Ebola.

Paranoia, ignorance and rejection of science drive conservative reaction to infectious diseases. Why listen to doctors when you’ve got military brass opining on the subject? In a CBS News poll taken Oct. 15-16, Democrats...

Yeah, Christie’s still an arrogant jerk.

This, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with modern conservatism – New Jersey governor Chris Christie, telling Matt Lauer that he knows more about Ebola than the CDC. From Politics Today (video at...

Jellyfish in Concert, Germany 1991

If any band fit the cliche of being in the right place at the wrong time, it was Jellyfish. They came up smack in the middle of the Age of Grunge, playing bright, shiny...

Experts agree: Mandatory Quarantines are bad.

From one of my two daily reads – Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has been absolutely tireless in trying to deal in facts and science as regards Ebola. Charles points out that the...

OK Go Owns Video

When the history of music videos is written, there will be something drastically wrong if these guys aren’t at the top of the ‘most innovative’ list. By far, one of the most ridiculously coolest...

Three easy steps to dial back Ebola Fear

Ebola. That simple word is the latest source of all men’s fears. Before that, ISIL. And the list above traces the Things That Were Going To Kill Us All, all the way back to...