This week, Donald Trump embarrassed himself with an unfortunate spelling error, so he decided on a course of self-improvement.
I have to learn to spell better before America figures out I’m an imbecile. Maybe Professor Walnuts, Larry King’s educated monkey, can help me. He knows words good.
Lesson one. Type this: “The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.”
Starting me with a toughie, Walnuts.
Somebody please shoot me in the head.
Can do.
Wow, monkey brains all over the Lincoln Bedroom. Who’s gonna clean this shit up?
I’ll do it.
I’m choosing someone else, Mitt.
I was honored just to be considered for Secretary of Monkey Brain Mop-Up.
- Richard Seymour analyzes the discomfiting age of the troll.
- As their perp walk at Trump Tower reminds, Silicon Valley folks aren’t our best and brightest.
- Funny that McCarthy apologist Pat Buchanan now supports Putin’s pal Trump.
- The NYT explored the so-called “alt-right” movement, a.k.a. KKK 2.0.
- Tressie McMillan Cottom writes of President Obama’s faith in White America.
- Stewart Brand talks the ramifications of San Francisco’s 1966 Trips Festival.
- Oriana Fallaci asked John Glenn about encountering alien life forms in space.
- Dennis Overbye wonders about NASA’s future in the time of Trump.
- David Grinspoon explains why planets are likely to be either lush or dead.
- We’re living through a technologically enhanced Gilded Age.
- Vivek Wadhwa analyzes Stephen Hawking’s prescriptions for wealth inequality.
- Gavyn Davies considers the challenge of aiding the “losers of globalization.”
- Economist Richard Baldwin addresses the challenges of globalization.
- Ambient Capitalism is becoming entrenched in living rooms, casinos, etc.
- Read two smart if diametrically opposed pieces on automation.
- By 2050, the virtual and actual may have become become seamless.
- Vice analyzes what can be done to reform prison systems.
- Old Print Article: Monkey gland specialist flees fascism. (1941)
- Old Print Article: Clarence Darrow believes free will an “Absurd Idea.” (1931)
- A brief note from 1889 about a Detroit milkman.
- A brief note from 1911 about shaving cats.