Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, February 24, 2025

  • Hank Azaria does a plethora of voices on The Simpsons. Recently, and and the NY Times got together in this YouTube video to experiment with the possibility of AI taking over his craft. It will happen, it’s just not there yet.
  • It was a bit surprising, at least to me, that such a well-crafted opinion article appeared in a Baptist publication.
    • Why you should care about the Kennedy Center board
      Art, then, is a powerful medium. It has the potential to both reflect and to shape collective memory.Because of this, artistic and cultural institutions are the canaries in the proverbial coal mine of a society. Fascist regimes target them first to force a collective narrative on the masses. Once these institutions fall, independent media soon follows and there is no one left to publicly call out the actions of an oppressive state.

      This is why President Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center — one of the largest performing arts organizations in the United States — should alarm everyone.

    • In related news: Trump takeover sees Kennedy Center suffer ticket sale collapse, says report
  • A South Carolina man on death row for murder has chosen to be executed by a firing squad. Inmate Brad Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7. Sigmon, 67, chose the firing squad over the electric chair and lethal injection. He will be strapped to a chair, hood over his face, and a target on his heart, Then, three volunteers are expected to shoot him about 15 feet away. As to why he chose this option:
    • “If he chose lethal injection, he risked the prolonged death suffered by all three of the men South Carolina has executed since September—three men Brad knew and cared for—who remained alive, strapped to a gurney, for more than twenty minutes,” his lawyer, Gerald “Bo” King, wrote. “
  • A man accused of cannibalism and murder has been granted conditional release, according to the Connecticut Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB).
  • Seeing David Letterman appear on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, considering his history with the show and network, was a bit surreal. Paul and his band stood in for The Roots for the week, so I guess Dave was there to support a friend.
  • Federal employees who drive an electric vehicle will no longer be able to charge their ride at work.
    • The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down all of its electric vehicle chargers nationwide, describing them as “not mission critical.” The agency, which manages contracts for the government’s vehicle fleets, is also looking to offload newly purchased EVs.
  • A judge sentenced a New York man to 5 life terms but changed his mind 27 years later
  • ‘Everybody is looking at their phones,’ says man freed after 30 years in prison
  • At one point in my life, you could have easily convinced me that unions were only needed for how bad things were in the past, and there’s no current need for them. After seeing what Musk is doing and how he is going about it, there’s no better argument for them to be around, so give the guy on the bottom rung of the ladder a fighting chance at simply living and supporting his family.
  • Market Watch: Trump isn’t the first president to slash the federal workforce. How he’s doing it is a different story.
  • These three great questions can disrupt any conversation, at least according to this short video on Twitter.
    1. What would you suggest?
    2. What would it take for you to agree? Or you can rephrase it something like, “There’s a lot of conversation on this. What would it take to get everyone to agree?”
    3. Can you live with it?
  • A little bit of interesting local news that didn’t get noticed.

  • Before they shared the screen together on Star Trek, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy first appeared together on a 1964 episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. If you skip to the 1:05 mark, you’ll see them together in this clip.
  • This is one of the best-executed punches I’ve ever seen. I’m not condoning violence; I’m just impressed with the execution of the punch. He certainly didn’t pull his punch but followed through like you are supposed to do.
  • “I’m too tired to move” and “I need to pee” are probably two of the biggest rivalries that no one really talks about.
  • Here’s a short little video on how to easily create some coffee art to serve your loved one.
  • I thought about this tweet longer than I would like to admit. For me, it just depends on several factors that are going on at the moment this presents itself.

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