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I wrote the following about this clip in Classified documents leak headlines 'Weekend Update' on 'SNL'.

It's a hilarious segment, but it doesn't make the kind of political, social, or economic statement like the clips I included; it just milks the running joke of dumping on Colin Jost. Look for me to embed it on my Dreamwidth journal later today. Stay tuned.


Here it is, just as I promised.

...and that meant I was too busy to blog here Monday and yesterday.  I didn't even realize I hadn't posted until I checked my timeline.  Oops.

I cut the following passage out of 9/11 memorials on the 20th anniversary because the NFL blocked the video from embedding. It went where the ellipsis is.

"Listening to Michael Arad talk about the placement of names to increase their significance to survivors reminds me of the first time I saw all the names displayed publicly as the backdrop to U2 Superbowl 36 halftime performance where the streets have no name...To this day, this is one of my favorite Super Bowl Halftime Shows and a welcome relief from the trend for more spectacle, even if it leads to Emmy Awards and nominations."

Three weeks ago, I posted Sweden discovered my blog after I tweeted in response to Greta Thunberg.

The blog has had 9.47K page views from Sweden in its entire 10-year history, currently ranking it 11th overall, 12th if one counts "Unknown Region." That means that it had 2.12K page views before this week, which wouldn't have earned it a place in the top 20, as the current holders of that spot, South Korea and Turkmenistan, have 3.25K page views each during the past decade. Anyway, this could be a coincidence, but I doubt it.

Swedish readers continued to visit my main blog after I wrote that. As of today, a month after the Swedes began visiting in force, the blog has received 39.2K total page views from the Scandinavian country over its history, which means it's had 37.1K page views just in the past month, more than double the ~14K from American readers, making it the number one source of my blog's readers.  Swedes, or at least people using IP addresses from Sweden, were the main contributors to Crazy Eddie's Motie News earning 51,602 page views last month, the most since October 2018, which I mentioned in Top posts during January 2021. part 1.  Their readership also allowed my main blog to reach its February page view goal on the 14th, leaving half the month to spare.  Wow.

Sweden is now 7th overall in the history of the blog, passing China, Australia, "Unknown Region," Germany, and Italy just the past three weeks.  I'd like to think it's because of Thunberg, her friends, and fans, but I have a sneaking suspicion a lot of those page views come from these guys.  I hope I'm wrong, but even if I'm not, I hope whoever is reading my blog is enjoying it and finding it useful.

Not that many people care, but I probably won't be posting much until next Wednesday.  Of course, now that I've written that, I might be able to write every day.

I've been a fan of the TierZoo YouTube channel since last fall, when PBS Eons collaborated with it on a video about elephants. It's based on the conceit that we're all playing a video game called "Outside" that has been going on since the origin of animals. Talk about living in a simulation! It explains evolution and adaptation in terms of video game strategies and tropes. Since I'm both a zoologist and a gamer, I find it both entertaining and enlightening.

With that out of the way, here is the channel's latest video about Crocodilians.


I checked all the relevant tags and found to my surprise that I hadn't posted any of their videos here before. It's time I made up for that oversight.

I penciled in these two topics to write about today: Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy, a tale of the Retail Apocalypse or Vox on reading pandemic infection graphs. Instead, I posted Justin Amash announces candidacy for Libertarian presidential nomination. I might revive them for May.

First, the meme I made for today's Drink to Steve Bullock making the second Democratic debate on National Daiquiri Day 2019.



Next, the new chart I made for On The Issues shows most of the Democratic candidates have moved left during the campaign, too.



I'll return to going from left to center tomorrow, that is if I don't celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.

As I promised in The most active pins on Pinterest during the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, here are the "most active on Twitter sometime later in May" I promised.

Most replied to on Twitter

Tesla joins the Retail Apocalypse by closing dealerships plus a driving update for March 2019: Pearl had the most responses on Twitter during both during the year and during March 2019 with 15 replies in 2 threads.

Kunstler, K-Dog, and I discuss prehistoric mammals for Darwin Day plus paczki on Fat Tuesday and Driving update for January 2019: Snow Bear tied for the most replied to on Twitter with 10 comments in one thread. The former was the most responded to during February 2019 and the latter was the most responded to during January 2019.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from Broken Peach and Crazy Eddie's Motie News earned an honorable mention for most responded to on Twitter during December 2018 with one reply in one thread from Broken Peach itself.

Most retweeted and liked on Twitter

'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' examines the rise of authoritarianism had the most liked tweet on Twitter with 8 likes and tied for the most retweeted single tweet with 6 retweets. It was also the most liked and retweeted during February 2019.

Earth Overshoot Day 2018 is the earliest ever tied for most retweeted during the eighth year of the blog with 6 retweets.

Six posts tied for second most liked tweet during the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News with six each,
"Death of a Nation" and "Fahrenheit 11/9" earn four Razzie nominations each, including two shared ones for Donald Trump,the most liked tweet during January 2019, Schwartzenegger and Attenborough address U.N. climate conference in Poland and 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah' examines GM's proposed plant closings and layoffs tied for most liked during December 2018, Star Wars Drinks for Star Wars Day was the most liked during October 2018, and 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah' takes on the Florida recount and Seth Meyers checks in on Andrew Wheeler as Trump announces he'll nominate Wheeler for permanent head of EPA tied for most liked on Twitter during November 2018.

With that, this part of my documenting the most popular posts from Crazy Eddie's Motie News on social media other than Facebook is done!