Barry Deutsch

Dec 6, 2024 | flipboard.com | Barry Deutsch

Shuntaro Tanikawa, Poet and Translator of ‘Peanuts,’ Dies at 92Shuntaro Tanikawa, Japan’s most popular poet for more than half a century, whose stark and whimsical poems, blending humor with melancholy, made him a kind of everyman philosopher ideally suited to translating the “Peanuts” comic strip and Mother Goose rhymes into Japanese, died on Nov. 13 in …

Dec 4, 2024 | flipboard.com | Barry Deutsch

The Inside Story of the Most Famous Joke from the First-Ever ‘Weekend Update’A lot has changed about Saturday Night Live over the last 50 years, but the faux newscast “Weekend Update” has always remained more or less the same. …

Nov 22, 2024 | flipboard.com | Barry Deutsch

"We Have To Fix It": A High School Teacher Went Viral For Talking About How Young Boys Not Facing Pushback Is A Serious Problem"They feel emboldened, and right now, especially, they feel like no consequences are coming their way. That's where we need to change." Note: Discussions of rape. Among the many questions plaguing teachers today, most recently, I can't stop coming across one: What is going on with the boys? In a viral …

Nov 11, 2024 | dailykos.com | Barry Deutsch

Monday, Nov. 11, 2024 Monday, November 11, 2024 at 10:06:14p GMTThis cartoon was drawn by Nadine Scholtes. You can read a blog post about this cartoon, and a transcript, here. I’ll also post the transcript in comments. Apparently I'm supposed to grow up and get a real job at some point, but thanks to my Patreon, I'm able to dodge that! If you enjoy these cartoons, please help me continue dodging. Was this story worth reading?

Oct 2, 2024 | flipboard.com | Barry Deutsch

News Media1 day agoWomen Are Sharing Times When Their Husbands Were Offered Pain Medication, But They Were Not, Despite Having The Same ProceduresBuzzFeed - Alexa Lisitza • 1dCan we please start taking women's pain seriously? Medical bias is an unfortunate reality in healthcare. In one study published by the National Library of Medicine, researchers found that of the nearly 1,000 emergency room visits investigated, women with acute abdominal pain were about 25% less …