China builds complete 57-story skyscraper in record 19 days
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Bag of Randomness
- DaughterGeeding has a doll with a toy thermometer. BoyGeeding wanted to play with it but thought it was a rectal thermometer and he attempted to try on himself. So yesterday I have to give a talk about never to put anything up that part of his anatomy.
- We got a soft-opening invite for the new Nebraska Furniture Mart that allows us to go between now and March 18.
- Speaking of furniture, I must see a Cindy Crawford Rooms To Go commercial no less than eight times a day. And here I thought she was overexposed in the Nineties.
- I really like how OU’s president has tackled that frat issue head on. It’s weird how those guys didn’t want black men to be a frat brother but would worship them and plan days and trips around what they do on the football field. S— got real once a recruit backed out.
- OU closes fraternity over racist chants — and African-American chef loses job
- No Spoilers – Jonathan Banks is the actor that plays Mike Ehrmantraut on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’, and after watching last night’s episode I want to write a letter to every Emmy voter and tell them why Banks deserves the award and not to bother watching anyone else’s work. Gosh, he was outstanding. Also, I recently found out he was in the movie Airplane! You can catch his four-seconds of glory in this clip starting at the 14-second mark.
- Kevin Spacey was on Letterman last night and he talked about Jack Lemmon, one of his mentors. This quote he attributed to Lemmon tugged the heartstrings a tad, “If you’ve done well in the business you wanted to do well in, then it’s your obligation to spend a good portion of your time sending the elevator back down.”
- I knew Elvis wrote a letter to Nixon, but I didn’t know it was on American Airlines stationary.
- Any Democrat that criticized Karl Rove for using his personal email for administration purposes when he worked in the White House but are excusing Hillary Clinton are hypocritical idiots.
- I could appreciate golf more if each swing was treated like a free throw in basketball where the crowd could yell as much as they want, as if noise was an element of the game. I think the Ryder Cup does this. It’s the pretentiousness and all of etiquette of the sport that turns me off.
- I ran across a great football question on Twitter over the weekend – Who will leave the NFL first, Tom Brady or Johnny Manziel?
- Maps – What Every U.S. State Is Best/Worst At
- Meet Mark Cuban’s lawyer who has the coolest, most challenging job in the legal profession
- White House Communications Czar Dan Pfeiffer reveals the strategy—and looks to the future of POTUS PR in the social media era
- Gawker – Every Single Product Advertised in the Super Bowl, Reviewed by Me
- Quiz – A shocking amount of what we’re reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms. Can you tell the difference? Take the quiz.
- Buzzfeed – A team of Cornell researchers figured out how fast a zombie outbreak would spread across the United States.
- GIF – The game of LIFE according to ‘The Simpsons’
- Today’s dose of ‘MURICA! – Minor league baseball team unveils funnel cake bacon cheeseburger
- McKale? McDonald’s to roll out kale in US: Sources
- Ghostbusters franchise in the works, second movie to feature dudes again
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LEGO Back To The Future
I love how Doc’s hair “moves” because of the wind when he’s by the clock. It’s the little things that make me laugh.
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Politico Took A Pole on the Trustworthiness of Network and Cable News
Fox News has the most trusted network and cable news coverage in the United States, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Monday. But network TV is much less trustworthy than it was in the days of Walter Cronkite, American voters say.
In comparison rankings, 29 percent responded that they trust Fox News the most. CNN follows with 22 percent, CBS News and NBC News are at 10 percent, ABC News at 8 percent and MSNBC at 7 percent.
Asked whether they trust the journalistic coverage of each network, 20 percent said they do “a great deal” for Fox, and 35 percent said “somewhat.”
Comparing today’s programming with the heyday of network news, only 7 percent of those surveyed think the information presented now is more trustworthy, with 48 percent responding that it is less so and 35 percent answering that it is about the same.
Among Republican voters, 58 percent say they trust Fox News the most, with 13 percent favoring CNN, 7 percent for NBC and CBS, 5 percent for ABC and 2 percent for MSNBC.
With Democrats, CNN is the top choice with 32 percent, 15 percent for NBC, 14 percent for CBS and MSNBC, and 8 percent for ABC. Only 3 percent trust Fox News most.
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