If there is a silver lining to this election campaign, it’s that Saturday Night Live is suddenly good. Or at least it has good segments. I can’t stop thinking about the Sarah Palin rap and how good it was. I’ve got it down to three reasons why: When I say political humor rap, you say [...]

Via kottke, Truthful TV title cards.

Apparently I wasn’t the only one a little intrigued by McCain’s mention of the “$3 million dollar overhead projector” earmarked for the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. The Adler planetarium was even compelled to issue a press release: The Adler’s Zeiss Mark VI projector – not an overhead projector – is the instrument that re-creates the [...]

I love Germany Fed up with all of the cars parked along the street in her quiet neighborhood, an 89-year-old grandmother in Germany started slashing their tires. Altogether some 50 tires were vandalized before a neighbor spotted and reported the nefarious nana. The granny, Heidi Kohl, eventually confessed and was fined, but the story doesn’t [...]

The Big Picture hosts a jaw-dropping set of photographs from photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Wait until you have a few minutes to look at every one of them. The photographs will be part of an exhibit of 150 4×6 foot prints that will be on display in New York in 2009. I hope they’ll make their [...]

Via kottke.org, The Money Meltdown: a one page clearinghouse for the key facts of the current financial crisis. If your eyes are rolling back in your head, you can just watch the last clip, and all will be explained.

Roger Ebert on the performances of the vice presidential debates: When she was on familiar ground, she perked up, winked at the audience two of three times, and settled with relief into the folksiness that reminds me strangely of the characters in “Fargo.” … But who did she resemble more? Marge Gunderson, whose peppy pleasantries [...]