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Another Week: Number 110

Another Week: Number 110

Trump’s deranged plane crash press conference, ‘Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music,’ the Unrivaled Basketball League, and the new ‘CBS Evening News.’

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Another Week: Number 63

Another Week: Number 63

Joe Biden or Donald Trump? Pick one. Four years ago, Trump failed his big test badly. Plus ‘Triumph of the Will’ (1935), ‘Poor Things’ (2023), and ‘The Zone of Interest’ (2023).

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Another Week: Number 40

Another Week: Number 40

Harvest Moon afternoon at Brown’s Lake; ‘Frank’ (2014), ‘When We Were Kings’ (1996), ‘Savior Complex,’ CNN Max: Live news from CNN without cable

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Another Week: Number 21

Another Week: Number 21

‘The Way to Heaven’ in a McDonald’s bathroom, ‘Lewis Black: Tragically, I Need You,’ ‘The Great’ Season 3, FRONTLINE: Clarence & Ginny Thomas, Tears for Fears: KCRW Live from The Village Studios, ‘A World of Calm.’

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Another Week: Number 20

Another Week: Number 20

The robin nesting in our backyard, ‘Clarkson’s Farm,’ Season 2, ‘White House Plumbers,’ debt ceiling, ‘Jimmy O. Yang: Guess How Much?,’ ‘Air’ (2023)

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Another Week: Number 8

Another Week: Number 8

A death in my family, Super Bowl LVII, ‘Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark,’ Mike Pence fights a subpoena, ‘Nate Bargatze: Hello World,’ Bing + ChatGPT = HAL 9000?

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Another Week: Number 7

Another Week: Number 7

‘80 for Brady’ bad reviews, website spring cleaning, 65th Annual Grammy Awards, President Biden’s State of the Union Address, Hallie Jackson exits MSNBC, ChatGPT: artificial intelligence for what?

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Another Week: Number 6

Another Week: Number 6

Shrimp Cocktail, NFL Conference Championships, Tyre Nichols killed by Memphis Police, ‘He Gets Us’: $100 million ad campaign for Jesus, Three Pines, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Fillmore – 1997, Branson

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Honey Boo Boo on CNN with Brooke Baldwin, John Berman

Honey Boo Boo on CNN with Brooke Baldwin, John Berman

Here's a little TV moment that I'll be reliving in nightmares for a while. Apparently, "Honey Boo Boo" is the nickname of Alana Thompson, the breakout star of TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras beauty pageant show who will now be featured in her own TLC spinoff, Here Comes...

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Potassium iodide: Thyroid protection from nuclear radiation

Potassium iodide: Thyroid protection from nuclear radiation

Watching coverage of the Japan nuclear meltdown over the last couple of days — as well as the related discussion of the risk of nuclear plant meltdown here in the United States — the distribution of potassium iodide there made me wonder: What does potassium iodide...

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NBC’s Kerry Sanders reporting live while driving

NBC’s Kerry Sanders reporting live while driving

This was a very odd sight today. It's NBC correspondent Kerry Sanders reporting live from Wellington, Florida about the dangers of teens and their "car surfing" (also known as "ghost riding"). For both the intro and outro of the story...

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President Obama in Racine, Wisconsin

President Obama in Racine, Wisconsin

When news broke last weekend that President Barack Obama would be holding a town hall meeting here in Racine on June 30, the area media struggled to understand its purpose. On a national level, there is currently no sharper political analyst than MSNBC's Rachel...

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Staffordshire, England: Metal detector finds gold treasure

Staffordshire, England: Metal detector finds gold treasure

(Photo courtesy of The Staffordshire Hoard website.) When the school year started a few weeks ago, I began hearing a strange beeping sound in the late afternoon. After a couple of days, I finally realized it was coming from some guy over at the school. He has been...

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Rick Sanchez and baby talk news

Rick Sanchez and baby talk news

Rick Sanchez has that special something. It's more complicated than simply being someone people love to hate. There is a certain rare balance of unimaginable awfulness and underlying vulnerability that makes some of the world's biggest egos simply irresistible....

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Election Day 2008: Live blog

Election Day 2008: Live blog

9:17 a.m. — I've got some leftover sauce reheating in the microwave. I'll mix it with the egg noodles boiling on the stove and call it breakfast. MSNBC is on my TV, and I can see my local polling place from my living room window. It's 61 sunny and clear degrees...

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The Atlantic: Magazines and coffee beans

The Atlantic: Magazines and coffee beans

One of the first realizations that hit me when the World Wide Web was emerging was that magazines were doomed. Suddenly, all the color and photos and graphics and layout possibilities of magazines could go through a wire along with the text, without waiting for...

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Keith Olbermann’s special comments

Keith Olbermann’s special comments

I watch TV news all day long for a living, so it's unlikely that I would want to watch more of it when I'm finally off work at 7 p.m., and yet that's what I find myself doing these days. Radio legend Steve Dahl was a very early enthusiast of Countdown with Keith...

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