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Friday Fun Link – Eric Bischoff TEDx Talk on the Similarity Between Pro Wrestling and Today’s News Media

Following up on my post earlier this week about the death of the Dynamite Kid, here’s another wrestling related one… Eric Bischoff started as an announcer in the old AWA then worked his way up until he was head of WCW when it came close to knocking off WWE as the dominant wrestling promotion in the […]

¶ Posted 07 December 2018 § FridayFunLink § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, television

Friday Fun Link – Trump Sings Ariana Grande

This is pretty funny… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4nrQaPIsA …though, to be fair, Obama also got the same treatment:

¶ Posted 30 November 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § Politics § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language, music

Music Monday – “Get me drinking’ that moonshine/Get me higher than the grocery bill/Take my troubles to the highwall/Throw ’em in the river and get your fill”

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was really getting into Tyler Childers – watching videos of him, reading articles about him, dreaming about taking “road” trips to see him, joining Facebook groups about him, playing his songs (badly) on guitar and listening to his music non-stop. At the time, I made a Music Monday […]

¶ Posted 12 November 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music, travel

Big Winners of 2018 Midterm Elections

Sure, this clip is from Fox News but with such a beautiful grammar error, how can I not post it?

¶ Posted 07 November 2018 § Humour § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history, language

The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

As we head towards a massively important election on Tuesday, I’ve been thinking about the differences between liberals and conservatives. Here’s a couple videos on the differences and why:

¶ Posted 04 November 2018 § News § Politics § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, history

Brazilian Inmates Can Read Books To Shorten Their Sentences (Not So Much in The US)

This is a pretty cool, innovative program with a lot of potential to pay ongoing dividends. And of course, the US is doing the opposite with prisons in Pennsylvania where inmates are no longer being allowed any form of print book sent by family members or charities but they can buy overpriced, overly restricted ebooks, […]