A blog about societal, cultural, and civilizational collapse, and how to stave it off or survive it. Named after the legendary character "Crazy Eddie" in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye." Expect news and views about culture, politics, economics, technology, and science fiction.
Red 3 has been banned for use in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990. Why is it still in our food?
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In 1990, the FDA banned the use of Red No. 3 in topical drugs and cosmetics. Their cited reasoning was that the color additive was “not shown to be safe,” because when fed to rats, Red No. 3 was found to slightly increase the risk of thyroid cancer. Today, that same dye is still found in candy corn, ring pops, Pez, and nearly 3,000 other foods that we eat, which raises the question: If it’s not safe to put on our skin … is it really safe to ingest? Many researchers, advocates, and now state lawmakers say no.
Last year, California passed a bill formally banning Red Dye No. 3 and several other additives from food in the state. The bill gives the food industry until 2027 to remove the additives from their products. The industry is already responding, with companies like Pediasure quickly removing the dye from their shakes.
The question remains, though: Where is the federal ban on Red No. 3 in food if the FDA deemed it unsafe for topical uses over 30 years ago?
California, which has an economy larger than India, might just get Red Dye No. 3 effectively banned nationwide. Yay for my old home state!
"Call Me" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie, and the theme to the 1980 film American Gigolo. Produced and composed by Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, with lyrics by Blondie singer Debbie Harry, the song appeared in the film and was released in the United States in early 1980 as a single. "Call Me" was Nº1 for six consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, where it became the band's biggest single and second Nº1.
"I Was Made For Lovin' You" is a song by American hard rock band ??Kiss, originally released on their 1979 album, Dynasty. It was released as the A-side of their first single from the album, with "Hard Times" as the B-side. I Was Made for Lovin' You" was Kiss's first songwriting collaboration with Desmond Child, who also wrote songs for the albums Animalize, Asylum, Crazy Nights, Smashes, Thrashes & Hits, and Hot in the Shade. "I Was Made for Lovin' You" was the band's second Gold single, selling over 1 million copies. The single was certified Gold in the U.S. on August 16, 1979, and in Canada on August 1, 1979. The song was one of the band's few singles to chart in the UK in the 1970s, peaking at No. 50.
"Joker & the Thief" is a song by Australian rock band ?Wolfmother. The song serves as the sixth track and sixth single from the band's eponymous debut studio album. It was released in Australia on 28 October 2006 and in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2006. "Joker & the Thief" has been featured in several films, video games and TV shows including The Blacklist, The Hangover, Shoot 'Em Up, NHL 14, Rock Revolution, Jackass Number Two, Impractical Jokers: The Movie, The Out-Laws, Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore 2, Here Comes the Boom, MLB 07: The Show, Need for Speed: Carbon, Shrek the Third, Lego DC Super-Villains, Preacher, The Man from Toronto, Ted Lasso, and The Artful Dodger. It is also available as downloadable content for the music video game series Rock Band.
After singing 'One Way or Another' from 'Hocus Pocus 2' last year, I guess Broken Peach realized that Blondie songs worked for them. Now I wonder which Blondie hit they might cover next. "Rapture" covers the right subject matter for a Halloween special — the man from Mars who eats cars and guitars — but I don't know if has the right musical style. Maybe "Heart of Glass" or "The Tide Is High" would work better for them — that or another KISS song. We'll see.
I'm going on a tangent with the encore, Man! I Feel Like A Woman! Is the band in costume? Sort of, as the singers are wearing black cat suits and black cat ears. Works for me.
"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain from her third studio album, Come On Over (1997). Written by Twain and her longtime collaborator and then-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who also produced the track, the song was released first to North American country radio stations in March 1999 as the eighth single from the album, and it was released worldwide later the same year. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is a country pop song with a lyric about female empowerment and remains one of Twain's biggest hits worldwide.
Jack and Sally are the most adorable of Halloween couples. In past episodes we make the Pumpkin King shot which honors Jack Skellington. Since we are re-making the drink we figure this one would also include his stitched up lady.
Each day we are creating a new drink for 31 days of Halloween inspired by iconic characters that go bump in the night.
RECIPE
JACK
INGREDIENTS
2 oz. pumpkin pudding
2 oz. spiced rum
2 oz. heavy cream
Whipped cream
Candy corn
INSTRUCTIONS
Combine pudding and liquid in a shot glass. Mix until well combined.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Top with whipped cream and a piece of candy corn.
SALLY
INGREDIENTS
2 oz. pumpkin pudding
2 oz. creme de cacao
2 oz. heavy cream
1 oz. blue curacao
Pumpkin whipped cream
Candy corn
INSTRUCTIONS
Combine pudding and liquid in a shot glass. Mix until well combined .
Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Top with whipped cream and a piece of candy corn.
Candy corn in both recipes? Perfect, because today is Candy Corn Day!
As always, drink responsibly and stay tuned for more Halloween posts through the end of the month plus a bonus Day of the Dead entry. Trick or treat!
MOONLIGHT AND TOMBSTONES is from our new dark fantasy ORIGINAL album, Twin Destinies! The companion dark fantasy novel was written by New York Times Bestselling author, Debbie Viguié!
BLOOD MOON DAWNING is from our new dark fantasy ORIGINAL album, Twin Destinies!
As I wrote last year, the Harp Twins have five more videos of songs from the Twin Destinies and Celtic Charms albums on their YouTube channel, but I'm saving them for future Halloween posts. I'm an environmentalist who conserves his resources, after all.
INGREDIENTS
1.5 oz vodka
1.5 oz pomegranate juice
1.5 oz blood orange juice
1 tbsp simple syrup
Half a lime
Red Candy “Blood” for Rimming Glass
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup water
red food coloring
Combine sugar, water, and syrup in a sauce pan. Cook over medium-high heat until it reaches 300 degrees on a candy thermometer. Stir in food coloring. While the mixture is still hot dip in cocktail glasses. As the candy cools it will drip slightly down the glasses And harden in place.
Drink responsibly and stay tuned for more Halloween posts through the end of the month plus a bonus Day of the Dead entry. Trick or treat!
As for what will fill the spaces left by the closed stores, there's always Spirit Halloween. I have a CityNerd video about the seasonal store chain to share for Spooky Season.
Spirit Halloween comes in for a lot of criticism for leasing vacant and often distressed strip mall space for a few months, and then packing up shop on November 1, leaving a moribund shopping center no better off than it was before. But is there more to the story? And is the success of Spirit's business model a symptom of much deeper problems in the way we've planned and designed our cities?
Another installment of the Investigating Heinous Land Uses series!
Ray "CityNerd" Delahanty remarked in one of his live streams (I think 2023 Year In Review + Q & A) that he found this video's viewership disappointing, but I enjoyed it enough to save it until today. Speaking of saving material for another year, both Company Man and CNBC have recent videos about Spirit Halloween, but I'm going to be a good environmentalist and conserve my resources.
Say it once, say it twice, third times the charm. Today's episode is a drink perfect for the recently deceased. This Beetlejuice and Lydia inspired cocktail is perfect this Halloween Each day we are creating a new drink for 31 days of Halloween inspired by iconic characters that go bump in the night.
RECIPE
BEETLEJUICE
INGREDIENTS
2 blackberries
1 oz. black sambuca
1 oz. Irish cream
INSTRUCTIONS
Add berries to a shot glass.
Pour black sambuca into shot glass.
Using a barspoon, layer the Irish cream on top.
LYDIA
INGREDIENTS
2 oz. lemon vodka
4 oz. blood orange soda
Lime juice
Drizzle of grenadine
INSTRUCTIONS
Add all ingredients over ice and stir.
Drink responsibly and stay tuned for more Halloween posts through the end of the month plus a bonus Day of the Dead entry. Trick or treat!
The 1974 movies Black Christmas and Texas Chain Saw Massacre gave rise to what would become one of cinema’s most enduring genres: the slasher film. In this special episode, we’ll talk about the origins, evolution and cultural impact of these gory popcorn films and take a close look at the key tropes—masked killers, final girls, and gore—that continue to make make slashers iconic. Here's why slashers—from Halloween to Dead By Daylight—are here to stay.
So this year marks the 50th anniversary of the first true slasher films. No wonder Dr. Zarka picked the topic for this year's special. Good work, even if this is not my favorite sub-genre of horror; I prefer zombies and vampires.
“Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” created what has become one of the most recognized icons of horror fiction, but behind fiction there is always a bit of fact, and Frankenstein’s monster was truly a creature of its time.
I'm familiar with the story of how Mary Shelley created the story of Frankenstein and his creature. An ex-girlfriend of mine — not the oneI usuallymention — and I watched the movie Gothic on a date. It told the tale of the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and Dr. Polidori telling their "ghost stories." My take is that it was worth watching once, as I think the topic worth exploring, but I found it a bit too silly in spots to be taken seriously as an art film. Pity.
That Frankenstein is considered to be the first work of science fiction means that horror is its sister genre, not fantasy, as the movie and television versions of Frankenstein are portrayed as horror...Just the same, this video is very much about how science fiction reflects the anxieties of its time...
That Polidori's The Vampyre is considered the first piece of vampire fiction and shares a "birthday" with Frankenstein just cements the sibling relationship between science fiction and horror.
Splash of blue lightning (blue raspberry mix)
1 cup lemonade
1 oz vodka
2 oz. Pineapple rum
2 oz. melon liqueur
Muddle ¼ orange
I found the laboratory glassware, lab coat, and dry ice to be the perfect details to convey the scientific inspiration for the story. Also, drink responsibly!
Today's topic reminds me of last year's Monstrum on 'The Golden Age of Movie Monsters' for Halloween, which features Frankenstein's monster. I plan on sharing this year's Halloween episode tomorrow for the Sunday entertainment feature. Stay tuned for that and more Halloween posts through the end of the month plus a bonus Day of the Dead entry. Trick or treat!
The Empire Statesmen performing "Phantom of the Opera" at the 2000 Drum Corps Associates world championships at NBT Bank Stadium in Syracuse, New York on Sunday, September 3, 2000.
Kevin shared this to the rec.arts.marching.drumcorps.new group I run on Facebook, prompting me to respond "Subscribed to your YouTube channel and have this penciled in as the Halloween drum corps post to my blog." As my readers can see, I've followed through.
To update the closing of last year's spooky season entries, drink responsibly and stay tuned for more Halloween posts through the end of the month plus a bonus Day of the Dead entry. Trick or treat!
Normally, I'd answer the corn questions from the Food, Inc. worksheet, but I did that ten years ago, so I'm not doing it again. Instead, I tell my students that corn, along with E. coli, can be used for examples of three of Commoner's Laws, everything is connected to everything else, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and everything must go somewhere. Excess fertilizer washing off of corn fields causing dead zones works for all three.
While I've been skeptical about corn for fuel since the first year of the blog, I'm even more doubtful about it now. Seeing that it is the number one use of dense corn, although not the majority, is something I suspected but now know for sure. That's a statistic I can tell my students. Also, I did not know that growing corn for fuel has a larger carbon footprint than the equivalent amount of gasoline. It's a good day when I learn something new, and that makes today a good day, even if it's about something bad for the environment.
That concludes today's holiday entry. Stay tuned as I return to spooky season all the way to Day of the Dead.
Girls On Film / Psycho Killer
Lucca Summer Festival
23.7.2024
I'm recycling what wrote last year for "Danse Macabre" with an updated link, "Those images play better on the concert stage than they do in the official video." Same here.
I'm taking a short break from spooky season tomorrow for National Food Day, then spooky season resumes on Friday. Stay tuned.
An early happyNationalTVTalkShowHostDay! I'm celebrating early because I have the perfect three videos for today that my wife and I watched last night and because I plan on going full spooky season tomorrow for National Horror Movie Day. Priorities.
With two weeks until the election, Jon Stewart sifts through the increasingly weird and surreal election news: from Trump's ramble about Arnold Palmer's d*ck, to his shift at McDonald's, to Kamala Harris's campaign event with Liz Cheney. Plus, he breaks down the GOP's reaction to Trump's "enemy within" comment.
Stephen Colbert is among the millions of Americans who have already cast their vote for president, VP Kamala Harris deftly handled a MAGA heckler who interrupted her rally, and former president Trump subjected his rally goers to a 12-minute screed about a dead celebrity's genitalia.
May Kamala Harris not only lead in early voting, but in the final popular vote tally and the Electoral College, too.
@MarkRober is also an established YouTuber and his creation is part Ninja Warrior but hopes to make eating food out of the bird feeder more difficult, he greatly underestimated his opponents.
People also found simple pleasures while staying safe at home. May we not forget the lessons we learned during the pandemic.
That's a wrap for today's fake holiday. The next day inspired by Wester is Norther, which will occur on Sunday, January 19, 2025. In the meantime, stay tuned for whatever I can blog about next.
Bret Baier (Alec Baldwin) welcomes Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) for an interview on Fox News.
Also starring James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump, Ego Nwodim as the Fox News host of the women's town hall, Dana Carvey as Joe Biden, and Marcello Hernandez as the audience member at the Univision town hall. This sketch captured both Baier's obnoxious interviewing tactics and the contrast between Kamala Harris's seriousness and convictedcriminalDonald Trump's silliness, which featured prominently in Weekend Update: Trump Dances for 40 Minutes Straight at Campaign Rally.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Kamala Harris calling out Donald Trump for gaslighting Americans about January 6.
Trump telling his rally audience "Get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to vote for Trump. He's going to save our country," reminds me of what I wrote in George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel and Trump sells sneakers, that "he has long had a very bad case of 'L'État, c'est moi.' As far as he's concerned, he is the country." That's probably was why he called January 6, 2021 "a day of love." It was, for him, not for the country or anyone else. As for Trump working the fryer at McDonald's, I can say it's tougher than he thinks it is, because I worked in fast food while going to UCLA, first at Jack-in-the-Box, then at Wendy's. To repeat what I wrote in 'SNL' tries to turn a week of unfunny news into comedy and gets saved by Adam Driver and Olivia Rodrigo, "[he] should see what it's like from the other side of the counter!"
National Sweetest Day found its beginnings in a holiday founded by the National Confectioners’ Association in 1916 called Candy Day. On October 14, 1916, candy shops around the country filled newspapers announcing their sweetest treats and delights. Originally designated to be celebrated the second Saturday of every October, the confectioners’ convention in Detroit in May of 1916 made the final resolution. Walter C. Hughes, the secretary of the National Confectioners’ Association, encouraged Americans to patronizes (sic) their local candy shops, bakers, and druggist for the highest quality confections.
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Sweetest Day’s theme of charity and giving became apparent in 1921. At the time, four Michigan confectioners united with the Red Cross. Those confectioners included the Detroit Retail Confectioners, Detroit Wholesale Confections Club, Detroit Jobbing Confectioners Association, and the Michigan Confectioners Club. Together, they distributed thousands of bags of candy to hospitals, orphanages, shelters, and homes across Michigan. The celebration also included 100 regulation army target balloons, which dropped coupons worth a box of candy.
I'm willing to advocate for Detroit's role in creating Sweetest Day. If Dave knew, would he at least celebrate today?
I close with my tradition for today, embedding a video of Control Freq's Sweetest Day.
That's a wrap for today's holiday. Stay tuned for a highlights post of tonight's Saturday Night Live as the Sunday entertainment feature — Michael Keaton and Billie Eilish! — followed by a late celebration of Wester.
*I never thought I'd type this, but go Yankees! I'm rooting for a retro Subway Series between the Dodgers and the Yankees over a modern Subway Series between the Yankees and the Mets. It would so disappoint the cast of SNL, but at least they'd be unconflicted over who to root for.
We talk plenty about the presidential race on the 538 Politics podcast, but of course, that is not the only thing on the ballot this November. Americans will cast their votes in races for the U.S. Senate and House, as well as dozens of ballot initiatives.
In this installment of the podcast, we’re going on a road trip across the country to cover as many noteworthy downballot races as possible. We start in the 538 podcast studio in New York state, where House Democrats are hoping for a better outcome than their lackluster 2022 performance, and we end in Alaska. Grab your favorite snacks and get in!
Hearing Nathaniel Rakich and the rest of the panel discuss how Republicans overperformed in New York Congressional contests reminds me of how much differently those elections turned out than expected when I wrote FiveThirtyEight and Sabato's Crystal Ball examine Congressional redistricting in New York State. Two years ago, I quoted Sabato's Crystal Ball, which wrote "If the Democratic plan pans out as intended, the number of Republicans in the New York delegation will shrink from 8 of 27 to 4 of 26." It didn't work out as intended. That map got overturned and replaced with a court-drawn map that eliminated Democratic advantages. Add in a local red wave, and the Republicans won almost enough seats in the Empire State to flip the House of Representatives all by themselves. If the original map had been maintained, then the chamber likely wouldn't have flipped; all else being equal, Democrats would have retained control.
The court-ordered map has since been replaced by one that was created by the redistricting commission and approved by the state's legislature and modestly favors Democrats. That might help return the U.S. House to the Democrats. Then again, maybe not, as three seats in North Carolina are likely to flip back to the Republicans, while one seat each in Alabama, Mississippi, and New York will elect Democrats, while Georgia shows no change. That will be a wash. Democrats will have to count on California to regain their House majority and hope Alaska doesn't flip. Even so, the House looks better than the Senate for Democrats.
Marijuanalegalization is a cause I've been following since at least 2012, when I posted Meanwhile, at the bottom of the ballot. I wrote then "I told one of my students that there would be two changes in his lifetime propelled by his generation--marijuana legalization and marriage equality." The past dozen plus years have proved that prediction correct. Here's to that coming true in Florida and carrying re-legalizing abortion along with it.
I'm encouraged that ElissaSlotkin to replace Debbie Stabenow and Ruben Gallego to replace Kyrsten Sinema are favored to win their Senate contests in Michigan and Arizona, respectively, but I wish Kamala Harris was running even with both of them. Sigh.
That's my reaction to FiveThirtyEight's virtual road trip. Follow over the jump for my personal driving update.
Hurricane Helene and Milton are painful reminders that our oceans are changing. Warmer ocean waters are acting on higher sea levels, causing catastrophic damage to our coastal communities. And what’s scarier is that the sea level rise we’ve witnessed over the past 30 years is nothing compared to what we’ll see in our lifetimes.
In this episode, we take a peek at brand-new flood imagery created by Climate Central’s FloodVision team - imagery that shows just what our coastal communities will look like in 2050, 2100 and beyond. And we’ll uncover detailed maps showing just what our coastlines will look like as the seas rise. So stay tuned to see if your home is on these maps, and what we can do to lessen the impacts in the future.
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
These models are going back to the Sangamonian Interglacial, which was warmer than the Holocene with higher sea levels to match, but did not have as much carbon dioxide as today's atmosphere. We have to go back 3.6 million years ago to the Pliocene for carbon dioxide levels like today's. As I wrote in 2021, "That was so long ago, terror birds and hyenas roamed North America." Sea levels were even higher then than during the Sangamonian, so in the long term, Maiya May and the experts she's interviewing may not be pessimistic enough. Worse yet, carbon dioxide levels are on the verge of passing the high estimates for the Pliocene and are heading to Miocene levels. Welcome to the 400 ppm world.
We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact it’s had on our evolution. Throughout time, part of the secret to our success as a species has been our early - and sometimes fatal - experimentation with food.
I couldn't resist revisiting paleo diets, a topic I haven't blogged about in a decade, today. Retrieving this video and the next when searching PBS Eons for "food" made it an easy choice.
These relatives of ours lived in Eurasia for more than 300,000 years. They were expert toolmakers, using materials like stone, wood, and animal bone. They were also skilled hunters and foragers, and may even have created cave art. So what caused the decline and disappearance of their population?
Well, in a way...it could’ve been us. But maybe not in the way you might’ve heard.
Hearing the fates of the Neanderthals from Spain, France, and Belgium reminds me of what I wrote about how Westworld treated evolution.
My wife and I are quite impressed at the depth of the ideas explored in the show. The creators have also done their research. Every time they mention something about evolution in Ford's dialog, they're right. This is especially true about the more disturbing concepts mentioned, like sexual selection contributing to the development of the human mind and what humans did to our nearest relatives. As someone who knows the field, that's both gratifying and unsettling.
"Do you know what happened to the Neanderthals, Bernard? We ate them."
Maybe, but it looks like the Neanderthals were eating each other as much or more than our ancestors were eating them.
As one of the sea's most hideous creatures, the hagfish represents all nature's bizarre little creatures. Seek out the icky and disgusting on Hagfish Day.
This video even mentions a 300 million year old hagfish fossil, so it connects to today's theme, although it didn't mention that people also eat hagfish. Maybe next year.
That's a wrap for today's multi-holiday post. Stay tuned for a drivingupdate tomorrow, as Pearl's odometer will turn over 66,000 miles today.
In this story from Weathered: Earth’s Extremes, Maiya May pours over giant risk maps with NASA scientist Marshall Shephard to learn the most significant impacts of our changing climate on each region of the US. Using some of the most powerful computers in the world, scientists can project how a warmer world will change our weather. She finds an answer to the question: where is the riskiest place to live as the climate warms, and how can we prepare?
The answer is Miami/Dade County/Broward County in Florida, the parishes just east of New Orleans in Louisiana, and Los Angeles County in California. Meanwhile, Oakland County is slightly more vulnerable than I had thought, but much better than Los Angeles. That makes me extra glad I moved from Southern California to Michigan 35 years ago!
How did Native Americans end up on Reservations? We explore the complicated relationship between the Indian Nations and the United States of America. This episode unpacks the legacy of Treaties and their effect on modern legislation. We answer the most important question: why do Native Americans continue to live and grow their families there?
Watch Tai Leclaire breakdown all you need to know about the Reservation system and why “Rez Life” is critical to the Native American experience.
That's a fascinating exploration of the history of reservations and how reality ended up not matching what was promised in the treaties. I can see why so many people have watched it.
What’s the deal with “Pretendians”? Tai Leclare and experts dissect what it really means to be Native—whether it’s blood, initiation, or just a claim. This episode digs deep into the complexities of identity and last names in Indian Country.
I really wanted to put this first, but it didn't feel quite right to begin this entry with the last video posted. Still, excellent question, one that hits close to home, as "My wife, my ex-girlfriend, and my ex-wife all have Native American ancestry. At least two of them would qualify as Native Americans under U.S. government policy, and one of them is enrolled as a Cherokee..."
Why aren’t Native people– and their stories – ever the crux of your favorite films?
From films used as a tool of genocidal propaganda, to award-winning Indigenous stories in Hollywood, how far has Indigenous media representation come and where is it headed?
Tai Leclaire and experts track the past, present and future of Indigenous entertainment– and how the media and bias prevents Native people from telling their own stories.
While I haven't watched Reservation Dogs yet, I did blog about its Golden Globes and Emmy nominations, so it's on my list. The same is true of Prey, which I haven't watched (yet) but whose Emmy and Saturn Award nomination I covered. On the other hand, my wife and I have watched both seasons so far of Dark Winds, which was also nominated for a Saturn Award, and are looking forward to season three.
Today, many Native Americans live in food apartheid and insecurity.
But it wasn't always this way. Once, their lands were abundant with nutritious food sources—corn, bison, potatoes, squash, and more.
So… what happened?
Forced relocation meant that entire Indigenous food systems were ripped away. This triggered a public health crisis and forced a dependence on government rations that just can’t compare.
I blogged about fooddeserts when I began this blog. It's about time I resumed.
This final entry reminds me that Wednesday is both National Fossil Day and World Food Day. PBS Eons videos about the prehistory of food, anyone? Stay tuned.
Host Steve Harvey (Kenan Thompson) welcomes key players in the 2024 election, like Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph), Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg), Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan) and Joe Biden (Dana Carvey), to face off against Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day) and JD Vance (Bowen Yang) in a game of Family Feud.
Also Chloe Fineman as Kaitlan Collins, Dana Carvey as Joe Biden, and no one as Melania Trump. Too bad, it could have been Heidi Gardner, but it was probably funnier that she didn't show. Here's to hoping that the election turns out like the game with the Democrats winning.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Trump confirming he wouldn't agree to a second debate against Kamala Harris.
On the one hand, congratulations to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on raising one billion dollars. On the other, my wife and I are looking forward to no longer receiving fundraising texts and emails from the campaign.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like the Supreme Court declining to hear R. Kelly's appeal in his sex crime case.
The R. Kelly and Diddy news is enough to qualify this as the Sunday entertainment feature, but there will be more over the jump.
In the second of our pre-election series we look at America and... climate change. How could Kamala Harris or Donald Trump shape the global response to the climate crisis?
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As one of the world’s largest producers of fossil fuels and carbon emissions, the US plays a pivotal role in addressing climate change. The environmental policies of the next president could reshape American industry and the economy, while influencing the global fight against climate change.
Sumi Somaskanda speaks to the BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt and Carl Nasman, who covers US climate issues for the BBC.
Project 2025 is calling for the breaking up of the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA). Monica Medina, former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, joins Morning Joe to discuss as Hurricane Milton is set to hit Florida.
That's damage that's already been done and needs to be repaired. I'd rather not imagine the impact of breaking up NOAA, which paid my salary twice. That would make the consequences of extremeweather and other natural disasters worse.
This year’s presidential election will determine the fate of our democracy and, with it, hard-won environmental and climate gains. Project 2025, the conservative playbook for another Trump term, promises to completely eviscerate climate policy and empower Big Oil. Activist and author Bill McKibben and Monica Medina, a former top climate official at the State Department, DoD, and NOAA, join Ali Velshi to discuss what’s at stake this November. 'Biden has done more to support clean energy by far than any president before,' says McKibben. Trump “won’t just politicize the weather – he will weaponize it,” warns Medina.
Not only did McKibben imagine what a U.S. without NOAA would be like, he compared it to convictedcriminalDonald Trump's response to the pandemic, "if we don't know, then we don't have to talk about it." He also brought up Ron DeSantis forbidding mention of climate change in Florida's official documents, all while the Sunshine State was already facing one of the worst hurricane seasons forecast. So far, that dire prediction is coming true. Speaking of which, Trump weaponizing the weather against his enemies isn't a prediction; it already happened during his time as President.
I have three more MSNBC videos about Project 2025 and climate policy to share, but I have papers to correct and dinner to grill, so I'm saving them for part 9. In the meantime, stay tuned for a highlights post of tonight's Saturday Night Live as the Sunday entertainment feature. Ariana Grande and Stevie Nicks!
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
RuPaul Charles - RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV)
Alan Cumming - The Traitors (Peacock)
Daymond John, Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O'Leary and Robert Herjavec - Shark Tank (ABC)
Kristen Kish - Top Chef (Bravo)
Jeff Probst - Survivor (CBS)
Nine editors voted for RuPaul to return to the stage, while two agree with the Gold Derby TV Awards voters that Alan Cumming will win. The experts are less sure with five picking RuPaul and four choosing Cumming. In contrast, the top 24 users agree with the editors that RuPaul will reign supreme for one more year, while four chose Cumming.
There has been no change since Sunday. I would pick RuPaul to RePeat.
I never did register at Gold Derby, but I would have been wrong anyway, as Cumming won. His win keeps the LGBTQ+ theme of today going, as Cumming is bisexual and an LGBT activist. That partially makes up for RuPaul's Drag Race, Queer Eye, RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked, and We're Here all being shut out, despite two of them being favored to win their categories.
Alan Cumming chats with ET's Nischelle Turner after winning Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program for season 2 of 'The Traitors.'
Cumming should be impressed by beating RuPaul; that's not an insignificant achievement.
Now to revisit the predictions for Cumming's second Emmy.
Outstanding Reality Competition Program
The Amazing Race (CBS)
RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV)
Top Chef (Bravo)
The Traitors (Peacock)
The Voice (NBC)
RuPaul's Drag Race has won this category five of the past six years, including earlier this year for 2023 and the forecasters at Gold Derby agree, as ten of eleven editors, eleven of sixteen experts, and fifteen users have chosen it as the winner. One editor, five experts, and six users think The Traitors could walk away with the statuette in an upset (three users haven't made up their minds yet). I would pick RuPaul's Drag Race given the opportunity.
Like me, the remaining top 24 users jumped on the RuPaul's Drag Race bandwagon with one user switching from The Traitors to RuPaul's Drag Race. I bet they regret that decision, as The Traitors won. Watch Reality Competition Program: 76th Emmy Awards from the Television Academy.
The Team from The Traitors accepts the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Program at the 76th Emmy Awards.
Congratulations to Cumming and the rest of The Traitors team!
Follow over the jump for the rest of the reality TV Emmy winners.
John Oliver discusses how Donald Trump has impacted our federal courts, what he could do if reelected, and how Judge Steve Harvey fits into our judiciary branch.
LOL, because it's not a tradition for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, although it is one for 60 Minutes.
As for Stephen's invitation to convictedcriminalDonald Trump to "go fvck himself," I second his emotion.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is honored to be the only late night television show on Vice President Kamala Harris's media blitz, while her Republican opponent is busy undercutting FEMA's efforts to dig out from the devastation of Hurricane Helene, and his friend Elon Musk is once again the internet’s favorite laughing stock.
I'm glad Stephen returned from break for this episode. Doing so was good for his show, Vice President Harris, and the country.
The Democratic nominee for president of the United States returns for her seventh visit to The Late Show and sits down for a four-part interview with Stephen Colbert. Watch as she and Stephen discuss the devastation of Hurricane Helene and the crude cynicism of Donald Trump who is spreading misinformation about FEMA's response as the potentially catastrophic Hurricane Milton approaches landfall in Florida. Stick around for three more segments with Vice President Kamala Harris!
I made Funkadelic's "One Nation under a Groove" my personal theme song for Harris's campaign back in 2019 and revived it once she began running again this summer, as shown by this tweet of mine.
