• Month: August 2024

    Facebook doesn’t know satire from lies, and your crazy uncle is confused

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    Facebook doesn’t know satire from lies, and your crazy uncle is confused

    You may have noticed there’s an awful lot of fake stuff floating around on social media lately, especially on Facebook. If you haven’t noticed it, you might be one of the millions of gullible folks who believe anything. Even Donald Trump, that guardian of all that is true and holy, recently shared a post on his Truth Social account claiming that his opponent (whom he hilariously calls names like Kamabla) had a rally at an airport where “nobody” showed up and that her campaign created an AI image falsely showing thousands of people there. Again, he insisted “nobody” was there. […]

    All I am saying is give peas a chance

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    All I am saying is give peas a chance

    Photo: If there’s a shortage of these peas at your Winn-Dixie, it’s likely because they’re all in my pantry. There are many valid reasons to make fun of me. I dress like a beach bum every chance I get. I’m about as handsome as a ferret with mange (assuming ferrets can get mange, of course — I haven’t had time to fact-check that one). I also sing like a mangy ferret being run over by a garbage truck. When I get lab results back from my doctor, they usually put a handwritten note at the bottom like: “Is this a […]

    You don’t know what you don’t know — and that’s OK

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    You don’t know what you don’t know — and that’s OK

    When I first saw the inflammatory posts about the Algerian Olympian Imane Khelif immediately dispatching an Italian opponent who gave up 46 seconds into their women’s boxing bout — posts that often referred to Khelif as “a man” — my first, knee-jerk reaction was, “Whoa! That’s not fair! You can’t have men punching women in the Olympics!” As with most knee-jerk reactions that we’re all guilty of — some more so than others — the knee doesn’t quite hit the target. In other words, there’s more to the story. It turns out that Khelif was “determined” to be female at […]