Sometimes, a pet can add to your life: Climbing the mountain to this year’s wisdom from our time‑tested gurus: In Scotties Playtime, Ali Redford has been saving up items with which to greet the New Year, presenting bits and pieces, mostly short videos. Most about a minute or less. Pretty good: Bright, humorous, cheerful, short.…

Never steal her cookies! For more wisdom, we go to our proven sources of internet acumen: In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson recounts how a child’s mistaken phone call 70 years ago prompted the North American Aerospace Defense Command to start annually tracking Santa’s Christmas sleigh progress. The same history is now…

As we seldom see her: To somber, less joyful matters: Author John Scalzi recounts famous quotes and moments of genius from films produced by Rob Reiner. He begins with his own post on social media: Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap,…

We begin with a clear case of projection: We continue with our trusted web prophets writing their words on internet walls and blogging halls: Author and educator Amanda Nelson narrates Donald Trump’s awful, awful week Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit starts with a Trump threat to Indiana Republicans: Indiana Republicans give their answer, suggesting that Trump…

Elle Cordova brings us the hidden drama of the ultimate grammar match: Let’s shift from the exacting heights of grammar to earthy wisdom from our cherished sources: This in from last Saturday: Anybody see what’s wrong with this? Almost everybody! Good. All…    …except one. Basic math must not be part of the curriculum at Wharton.…

Marc Maron is awestruck at how great America is once more becoming:. More from our ever-flowing fountain of internet wisdom: Brian Beutler points out that, with so much of the Epstein cover and cower strategy crashing, there’s a bunch Trump and Bondi can still try to shuffle and hide evidence: The Epstein coverup is unraveling…

So why is he so obsessed? Why does he target late night talk show hosts with a special venom all his own? Perhaps we can be reminded that humor can be used as a weapon painful to bullies themselves: That bullies see their attacks on the vulnerable as devastatingly clever wit. That they see humor…

Who doesn’t need a bit of inspiration about democracy right now? This is worth the 87 seconds as the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus reminds us that the true moment of beauty last week was not the counting of the votes, but the voting that came first: More wisdom from our internet friends: Juliet…

This can happen when you give a guy a hard time: Now we go for some W4 – WorldWideWebWisdom: Author and blogger John Scalzi has thoughts on the election, Trump’s reaction, Republican reaction, NYC, and more. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz watches Tuesday’s returns and says the thundering sound we’re hearing is the returning heartbeat…

Shamelessly stolen from The Onion about this time in Trump’s first term (still fits): On to the usual internet suspects: In Scotties Playtime Ali Redford says good night and good Halloween week, providing us this: Infidel753 presents a few Happy Halloween wishes. Definitely is worth a review: My favorite, even though others are as great:…