"one woman’s exploitation reverberates through her children 50 years later. This family’s mother, Henrietta Lacks, unwittingly provided the cells that led to a medical breakthrough in the ’50s: When she received cancer treatment at Johns Hopkins, the cervical cancer cells were found to be immortal, dividing themselves…

All this 4/20 talk just makes me think about how much I miss hash. It used to be readily available when I was in university, and I always liked it better than pot, which tended to make me paranoid. But three or four BTs was like 2.5 pints, without the need to pee.

As Buddy Cole would say, "That's something you don't see every day."
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Not sure how much he's worth, but to be fair I would seriously consider doing at least two of those things if I were a gazillionaire.

Well he did say that he once had a boss as a ditch digger who said "All I want to see is asses and elbows, that's it!"

Parenting: you're doing it right.

Not having cable, I only see what's posted on YouTube, so it's usually only the central story and I can usually put up with the formula for that 17-20 minutes because he's often dealing with subject matter I don't know that much about. (Also I find the accent soothing.) But it's rare for me to laugh at anything he…

Both of those are fair points. But: most actors can also remember when they were struggling to make a living and how relieved they were when they got their SAG cards because it meant they'd get health insurance. And: being an actor also usually means having some empathy with other people - the ability to get into…

Yeah, exactly. He worked with two openly gay men on Frasier, too. And I haven't heard anything about him being a raging racist either, and his issues with women appear to be interpersonal rather than anything having to do with finding them inferior as a group. I don't think I'd want to invite him to dinner, but he's…

I always got the impression he's more of a "I want to keep my money" Republican than a "you people are morally degenerate" Republican. And also possibly (ironically) a "law and order" Republican, given the losses he's experienced.

That's the hilarious dichotomy of this guy; as an actor he comes off like Olivier, but in terms of his personal tastes he's more like Don Simpson.

The guests, I assume, are CBS-mandated, which is a shame. But the monologue is still pretty awful. Colbert's timing isn't terrible, obviously, but he was always an improv or sketch comedian; he never did stand-up. And Batiste's interjections are annoying as hell. Paul Shaffer's musical stings and constant…

I still can't believe they fired him. I know advertisers were jumping ship, but I was sure that if the ratings stayed strong the admen would crawl back once no one was paying attention anymore. I have rarely been so pleased to be wrong.

The second point is fair. Stewart did get very repetitive towards the end (and John Oliver's presentation got there even quicker, IMO, even if the stories he's doing are a lot more varied). But, as you point out, Colbert was never just an O'Reilly impressionist, and the Rally wasn't about compromising with…

Theresa May just announced one in the U.K. too, about an hour ago I think.

Seen from a different angle, the kid actually appears to catch the hat. I still think the nicer thing to do would be to hand it back to him (having been one of those clumsy kids who would definitely have failed to catch the hat) but it looks like he was just having some fun. Or "fun."

His Sandler impression is apparently what got him the gig, so…

A genuine LOL from me, thank you for that.

Yes, but my point is that if the ratings stay high, the advertisers will come back once the public's not paying attention anymore.

She's still the most useless, I think. It's possible they could have hidden from the lab guy, but they absolutely could have hidden from Mail Robot's babysitter.