Truly some of the best comedy writing on TV.

This is one of my favorite Last Week Tonight segments. Everything about the issue is laid out so well, detailing the difference between remembering something and honoring it.

"Who was working that farm?" What an exchange

While being funny.

Imagine a 10-15 minute full report on a news channel. They could but that would be too hard.

America is depressing. Every once in a while I'll reread Charles Dickens' "American Notes for General Circulation":

"Nature smiles upon the country round; but jostling its handsome residences, like slavery itself going hand in hand with many lofty virtues, are deplorable tenements, fences unrepaired, walls crumbling into ruinous heaps. Hinting gloomily at things below the surface, these, and may other tokens of the same description, force themselves upon the notice, and are remembered with depressing influence, when livelier features are forgotten.

"To those who are happily unaccustomed to them, the countenances in the streets and laboring places, too, are shocking. All men who know that there are laws against instructing slaves, of which the pains and penalties greatly exceed in their amount the fines imposed on those who maim and torture them, must be prepared to find their faces very low in the scale of intellectual expression. But the darkness -- not of skin, but of mind -- which meets the stranger's eye at every turn; the brutalizing and blotting out of all fairer characters traced by Nature's hand; immeasurably outdo his worst belief. That travelled creation of the great satirist's brain, who fresh from living among horses, peered from a high casement down upon his own kind with trembling horror, was scarcely more repelled and daunted by the sight, than those who look upon some of these faces for the first time must surely be. I left the last of them behind me in the person of a wretched drudge, who, after running to and fro all day till midnight, and moping in his stealthy winks of sleep upon the stairs betweenwhiles, was washing the dark passages at four o'clock in the morning; and went upon my way with a grateful heart that I was not doomed to live where slavery was, and had never had my senses blunted to its wrongs and horrors in a slave-rocked cradle."

I just wish he didn't take so many "hiatuses..."

And you should come here more often!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017460937

I watch it on the HBO app on my TV. It's a wonderful 30 minutes that I tend to remember at some point during the week. Oh! That's right, I've got a Jon Oliver to watch!