Or were the apes the real pushovers? Bwaahahah. I saw this Quora answer in Google: "Evolution doesn't work that way. New World monkeys reproduce offspring that can reproduce just fine the way they are." But what about when they over-populate? Seems like it would be an advantage for some of them to mutate into a…

This story about U.S. radar on an island in northern Norway reminded me of Fortitude. Look at the bar scene with the band! https://www.nytimes.com/201…

Anastasia's blood had to go somewhere.

Also they once had an anchor quit on air in D.C. and walk off the set. She was tired of the propaganda. Then it happened again with a correspondent in London. (Each was a U.S./U.K. journalist, they hire locally.)

RT was one of the English-language news segments on MHZ Worldview's programming, back when I watched it as an over-the-air subchannel of the local PBS affiliate. They also had France 24, Deutsche Welle, Airang, NHK and the Chinese state broadcaster, and a bunch of outdated European murder shows with subtitles. Since…

The touchiest part of the whole thing is it hinges on them being snowed by Russian propaganda, or at the least, well-timed leaks about the Clinton campaign. Nobody wants to admit that. But really the charge is that while they may have been die-hard Trumpsters, there were other people in the middle who were swayed by…

RT gave those critics a place to play pundit on TV. I sort of wish MSNBC (and CNN, and Fox I guess) were less repetitive and obsessed with the one or two breaking stories, and also invited on a wider range of pundits. But it is what it is. CNN did have on a pro-Iranian pundit once (I think it was CNN). Her point was…

Stone and Dennis Rodman will be the new Lordy's Privy Council, replacing the NSC. (North Korea just released the imprisoned American student who took the sign in his hotel room, according to Tillerson.)

Apparently T.J. Miller deleted the tweets, then some Twitter guy named RaradraF, who mods r/LateShow, reposted them as an image, which you can search for and see in Twitter, but are not on @RaradraF. Twitter is confusing for such a simple platform. Here is the image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media…

The theory that JFK was about to withdraw the U.S. from the Vietnam War, as I recall it.

Eh, might be a garbage story. Recordings about Sessions, not of Sessions.

The rumor is the CIA has recordings of Session's third meeting with Kislyak, at the Mayflower. That makes it different! Al Franken is talking about it on MSNBC, apparently.

#6 Ally Sheedy. Mr. Yang! This is when Psych got a little too convoluted to understand without paying attention. Also starring Jimmi Simpson, who is not Michael Pitt. I'm starting a rumor season 4 of Fargo will be a musical. That's all folks!

Sy Stallone was a child of artists. One of my favorite passages in Wikipedia

The expensive kind, too.

Doesn't need to pass laws, Obama handed him a rock solid economy! Besides, and speaking of rocks, he can have his face chiseled on Mt. Rushmore by executive order, I'm sure. It will be above all the other ones, no matter how much concrete that takes.

Biggest news of the day (in my opinion) were the Russian protesters bravely engaging the forces of Putin yet again, all over the country. When I think of Russian resilience I think of their scientists suicidally going into Chernobyl or their cosmonauts flying half-broken ships with depressed improvisation, but most of…

They were the only good thing on what I saw of the Tonys this year. I missed Bette Middler but I did see James Earl Jones relegated to a video recap.

It's been on some cable channel recently. Seeing actors I like in their high school guises has not been great for me. Or maybe it's just too real! A young Michelle Williams really would be like that! Katie Holmes's voice is buzzing like a chainsaw, but then again it's known linguistically most innovation happens in…

Lord Buckethead was pretty entertaining (and polite) on a recent CBC news interview I heard via podcast. He likes to contest elections in sitting prime minsters' home constituencies, which you can do in the UK since the member doesn't have to live in the district. The Monster Raving Looney Party also ran there, a…