Saturday Night Live Colon Blow commercial (1989)

One of my favorite SNL fake commercials

More delays on return to office worksites

“I was wrong on this.” A new Covid wave is upending corporate plans to get offices back to normal https://t.co/syshntyFoE
— Bloomberg (@business) December 16, 2021

Apple will delay bringing its workers back to the office until a "yet to be determined" date, while giving all of its corporate and retail employees $1,000 to buy equipment for their home offices. https://t.co/y7MXaZ27AR
— CNN (@CNN) December 16, 2021

New: Washington Post staff just told there will be a phased return to office, with some people on Jan 31 and the rest on Feb 15. The Post will be mandating boosters and requiring weekly testing at the office.
— Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) December 15, 2021

I wrote about the perfect date for a Return to Office: April 25, when it's not too hot, not too cold and all you need is a light jacket.

JK!! The perfect RTO date doesn't exist, CEOs are saying. My @nytimesbusiness look at how company plans went haywire https://t.co/4cGQZfONY7
— Emma Goldberg (@emmabgo) December 11, 2021

Gilligan’s Island Super Bowl commercial

This was a great commercial from many years ago.

I was playing a trivia machine game at a bar and one question was what color was Gilligan’s shirt – red, yellow, or blue? I didn’t know. It was always gray on our black and white TV.

57-years ago today ‘Gilligan's Island' premiered on CBS… (and I watched it every day after school for years) https://t.co/pbdaYxX154
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 27, 2021

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— Pictures of Nixon (@picturesofnixon) August 27, 2022

The media’s misleading tweets on Air Force vaccinations

They are emphasizing the small number of people who won’t get vaccinated instead of the large majority who have been vaccinated.

97.3% of active duty members are partially or fully vaccinated. That should be in the tweet. Mandates work. https://t.co/XC2aKfVIah
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 14, 2021

You should have tweeted that around 97% of active duty members are vaccinated. Instead, you buried it in your article. Mandates work.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 14, 2021

The Air Force has discharged 27 service members for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine, a spokeswoman said, making these likely the first troops to be removed from the military for failure to obey the vaccine mandate. https://t.co/dfdruN2Qww
— CNN (@CNN) December 14, 2021

U.S. Air Force removes 27 service members for refusing COVID-19 vaccine https://t.co/nY04ijcA6p pic.twitter.com/xlGjOhJlXy
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 14, 2021

This is the right way to discuss this. Most media tweets I have seen emphasize the small number of military members who won't get vaccinated. https://t.co/KqhkOUrSNy
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 14, 2021

Trump and Russia tweets

Conservatives who lost their shit over one stray remark from Obama to Medvedev would still make this guy the Commander in Chief and give him the nuclear codes, and I don't think we should ever let a day go by without reminding everyone what that means. https://t.co/SUnCWPlApp
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 13, 2021

A concise summary, by @jon_rauch, of documented relationships between the Trump campaign and Russian intermediaries. Bookmark for refutation of "hoax" propagandists. https://t.co/wAa7flW56a pic.twitter.com/BmLYRIhE1A
— Will Saletan (@saletan) December 13, 2021

Putin barrels toward invading Ukraine, encouraged by Trump https://t.co/mHv373BqST
— Todd Gitlin (@toddgitlin) December 11, 2021

Rand Paul is a hypocrite

He wants federal relief for Kentucky (which is appropriate) but voted against relief for other areas hurt by weather events.

We must help Kentucky and the other states brutalized by tornadoes this weekend.

However always remember, this is who Rand Paul is when it’s your state hit with a disaster.

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— Chris Hahn (@ChristopherHahn) December 12, 2021

CNN's @JohnAvlon Ridicules Rand Paul Seeking Federal Aid After Blocking It for Other Disasters: 'Socialism For Me but Not For Thee' https://t.co/BbvgS8IH1w
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 13, 2021

Thank you @POTUS for your rapid approval of Kentucky’s Major Disaster Declaration. Our entire congressional delegation came together to support @GovAndyBeshear’s request. I appreciate the Administration’s quick work to speed resources to help deal with this crisis. pic.twitter.com/3rBPGcDMmK
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) December 13, 2021

Fox presented this statement from Rand Paul before airing his interview complaining about “conditioning the American individual to submit to government” pic.twitter.com/VHIvnSFraG
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 12, 2021

I remember the Picturephone

The Picturephone was a big deal at the 1964 World’s Fair which I went to several times. Unfortunately, it never caught on with the public. Of course, now we can use our cell phones and computers as picturephones. The old one looks primitive but it sure seemed futuristic then.

April 20, 1964: Picturephone Dials Up First Transcontinental Video Call

Did you know that video phones were first introduced by AT&T in 1964 at the World's Fair?! pic.twitter.com/6GY9Gg9zQy
— Hollywood Horror Museum (@horrormuseum) June 9, 2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGrxhLkRs6N/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Covers: Prisoner of Love

Here’s another song covered by James Brown. The original version of “Prisoner of Love” was recorded in 1931. Brown’s version was released in 1963.

Anti-vaccine advocates are wrong

They’re doing bizarre stuff like trying to undo the vaccine.

Republicans eager to buck vaccine mandates have embraced the argument that immunity from earlier infections should be enough to earn an exemption. Scientists says vaccines offer a more consistent level of protection for people who have had COVID-19.https://t.co/3FFIDu1RhV
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 21, 2021

Florida Gov. DeSantis signs several anti-vaccine mandate bills into law. https://t.co/L7gfoKU2P9
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 18, 2021

and there’s this:

Baking soda and epsom salt baths take covid misinformation to a new level. @uche_blackstock talks to @kendisgibson and @lindseyreiser about the new push by anti-vaxxers to "detox" their vaccines. pic.twitter.com/F4dYIOGAKA
— MSNBC Reports: Weekends (@MSNBCweekends) November 13, 2021

New (and a particularly wild one) from me + @BrandyZadrozny :

Anti-vaxxers are caving to mandates and getting the shot.

Then they're scrambling to "undo" it by drawing blood, cupping, or… bathing in Borax.

It doesn't work. They're still vaccinated.https://t.co/95ctZ6YTGT
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 12, 2021

In my latest, I investigate the unproven and dangerous 'de-vaccination' treatments sweeping social media.

I found blood letting, electric shocks and toxic bleach offered as ways to purge the COVID vaccine from the human body (1) https://t.co/N893PvjdrH
— Tom Porter (@Finneganporter) November 26, 2021

“The other contagion”: Covid misinformation and vaccine-bashing from pundits like Tucker Carlson has radicalized a wave of parents into rejecting ordinary childhood immunizations and vaccines they previously accepted — with potentially lethal consequences. https://t.co/geSnRcE6p8
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 26, 2022

The #polio outbreak in NY has #antivaxxers celebrating, spreading lies, and generally happy.https://t.co/EIR6UYw0Xd
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 17, 2022

A story about anti-vaccine harassment:

I spent 30 minutes on the phone with an important person in the community who runs a highly regarded non-profit health organization. I asked them to endorse polio vaccination messaging.

They refused.

I couldn’t understand it.
— Blimi Marcus DNP RN (@MarcusBlimi) August 18, 2022

Republicans blocking confirmation of Biden appointees

They’re willing to hurt the US to make Biden look bad

The Biden administration has struggled to fill key State Department positions, in part because three Republican senators have stalled the confirmation process: @SenTedCruz, @HawleyMO, and @marcorubio.
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 17, 2021

Your morning reminder that Senate Republicans are blocking the confirmation of our NATO and EU Ambassadors so as to deliberately hamper global security.

Why? Because they believe global instability will hurt Biden, and hurting Biden is all that matters. https://t.co/2xZC5W6S22
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 14, 2021

.@SenTedCruz @HawleyMO & @marcorubio harming America & our critical national security interests by blocking the confirmation of US ambassadors to important posts around the world, including China. Differences of opinion are healthy but self-sabotage isn't. https://t.co/KMGup9pqj5
— Jamie Metzl (@JamieMetzl) November 17, 2021

Amid Republican blockade, just 9%, of Biden's ambassador nominees have been confirmed by the Senate compared with 77% for Obama at this point in his tenure and 70% for Trump. ⁦@CMcBinDC⁩ https://t.co/0Ni4wOAZvf
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) November 11, 2021

It is not an exaggeration to say that Little Marco Rubio, by putting holds on key ambassadorships to China and Spain, is undermining America's national security for crass political gain. Shameful.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) November 17, 2021