First Looks category archive

David discusses the storm of stupid that the California fires seem to have sparked in right-wing reactions thereunto. (Warning: Short commercial starts at the 4:30 mark.)

We are a society of stupid.

Florida Woman.

Off to drink liberally.

Mr. Lucky.

The tongue-in-cheek humor is quite delightful. And, as someone who was a fan of The Wild Wild West when I was a young ‘un, I quite enjoy watching Ross Martin in this earlier role.

I’m watching it on Tubi, but, given the proliferation of streaming “services,” you can likely find it in other places.

I have removed Yellowdoggranny from the sidebar as her site seems to gone dormant.

Yeah, I know.

Who pays attention to sidebars these days?

Juanita Jean is hanging up her keyboard.

She will be missed.

At Psychology Today Blogs, Jennifer Gerlach muses on what lessons we can learn from Bugs Bunny.

If you have not done so, I highly recommend that you read Lena Horne’s autobiography.

Give me a break.

Seth takes a closer look at the drone drama in New Jersey.

Jennifer Gerlach, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, reports on a recent study that seems to confirm that “social” media isn’t.

A study of 23,532 people explored possible relationships between self-esteem, narcissistic personality traits, and social media use. Of interest, low self-esteem and narcissistic personality traits are both correlated with high levels of social media engagement (Andreassen et al., 2017).

Follow the link for her thoughts on the matter.

And remember, you don’t use “social” media. “Social” media companies use you.

Off to drink liberally.

And it is a scam.

You can voucher on it, as the Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts points out.

It appears that, in reaction to Elon Musk’s antics, some Tesla owners are bumper-stickering it to him.

Can you think of someone who might be a suitable subject for testing the validity of this theory?