Dana sez, Fascinating discussion (video+transcript) on the Hungarian election, with a lot of details that never made it into the Western media. You’ll love the zebras. (Paul Krugman)

These are the sweetest little videos. Love the one with the frog. (h/t The Kid Should See This)

Quote: “The Epstein files offer the public an education in the ideology of an elite in which some people mattered too much to them to be held accountable and others mattered so little that crimes against them were of no significance.”–Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian (h/t Kottke)

Yes, in fact, you will sit still for sixteen minutes on how to cook eggs. (h/t Laughing Squid)

It turns out that Stephen Colbert is an even bigger LOTR nerd than I am. And I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t realize until I saw Dominic Monaghan without the hobbit ears that he also played one of my favorite characters on Lost. (h/t My feed, which on occasion does show me something I actually want to see.)

Quote for the day

[Smaug’s] rage passes description—the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. –J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again

Outro…

With of course the rap version.

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