RELIGION AND POLITICS - Bashing Religious Zealots

This clip is from one of the best TV series on air, "West Wing," and in this case is the best argument on religions zealots to date.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION - Love Has No Labels

AMERICAN POLITICS - Trump Glasses

FLYING - A Message to Pilot From God

"This is GOD:  Stop flying!"

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Face Paint Video

Watch Face Paint Tell the Story of Human Evolution in 1:38 Minutes

DOGS - If I Could Talk

TELEVISION - Best of 2017

"The best, bingeable shows 2017 had to offer" PBS NewsHour 12/22/2017

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  If you’re planning a little TV binge-watching this holiday, there are plenty of great shows from the past year to catch up on.  Eric Deggans of NPR and Jen Chaney of Vulture join Jeffrey Brown to offer their top picks of 2017 for best TV and streaming shows.

HUMOR - Never Trust a Dog

VIDEO - 'Some Cats Just Know How to Roll'

Love this commercial.  Typically cat; snobbish, snooty, and cool.

Yapping dog bothering you, just roll-up the window.

My candidate for best commercial 2017.




OTHERS:

TRUMP NOT FILES - Covfefe

Covfefe:  Based on a True Typo

The Daily Show

VIDEO - ! It's Saturday Night Live !

Trump White House Sing Along, "Hallelujah Cold Open"

THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Facebook Impact

"Is Facebook taking its impact on society more seriously?" PBS NewsHour 5/3/2017

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SUMMARY:  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the company will add 3,000 more workers to monitor live video after problems with hate speech and violence, including murder and suicide.  Hari Sreenivasan talks to Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times about the ever-growing scope of the social media network and the company's responsibility.

JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour):  Now questions about the ever-growing scope of Facebook's empire and social network, and whether the company is embracing enough responsibility for its reach.

Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that they will add 3,000 more people to monitor live video, after problems with violence and hate speech.

Hari Sreenivasan takes it from there.

HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour):  The decision comes after a series of cases where people shared live video of murder and suicide, recent examples, a murder in Cleveland last month that was posted live on Facebook, and a man in Thailand posted video of him murdering his 11-month-old daughter.  It wasn't removed for 24 hours.

Once Facebook makes these announced hires, there will be 7,500 employees to monitor thousands of hours of videos uploaded constantly.

Farhad Manjoo is a tech columnist for The New York Times who has been closely covering Facebook.  He joins me now to talk about this issue and other questions facing the company.

Farhad, so let's first — today's news, how significant is this?

FARHAD MANJOO, The New York Times:  I think it's significant.

I mean, it's a significant sort of step up in their ability to monitor these videos, and it should help.  The way it works is, there's lots of videos going on, on Facebook all the time.  If somebody sees something that looks bad, that looks like it may be criminal or some other, you know, terrible thing, they flag it, and the flagged videos go to these reviewers.

And just having more of these reviewers should make the whole process faster.  So, it should help.  I mean, I think the question is why it took them a year to do this.

GUN CONTROL - The Bulletproof Poster

Americans for Responsible Solutions

POLITICS - 'Sean Spicer Press Conference' 2/4/2017

"Sean Spicer's SNL Press Conference Is Glorious" Crooks and Liars, 2/4/2017



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ASTRONOMY - God's View of Our Solar System

"To Scale: The Solar System"

On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits, a true illustration of our place in the universe.

A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh

ELECTION 2016 - The Day Trump Went to War

"The Night President Obama Took On Donald Trump" Frontline 9/27/2016

VIDEO OF THE DAY - Bashing 'Junk Studies'

The humorous view of  'Junk Studies'

This is way too funny!



SERIOUS NOTE:  "Studies" are NOT the same as hard science.  Hard science is a discipline that consists of:

1. Noting something in the world that may need a further look
2. Forming a Hypothesis (and UNTESTED idea)
3. Forming a test or tests for your Hypothesis
4. Running the test many, many times with repeatable positive results
5. If the results of the many tests is positive, you publish a Theory (a TESTED Hypothesis)
6. Other scientists read your Theory and can repeat the test with similar results
7. Other scientists may come up with another test of Theory, and get positive results
8. After a very long time, the Theory becomes accepted scientific fact (even though the title may still contain the word "Theory")

"Studies" are only statistical analysis of data.

POLITICS - 'Into the Future' on Trump

Video of the week:

VIDEO - And Hereee's Milt

TRUTH - I Am NOT a Label

I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White