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Reflections on Columbus Day from John Oliver.

 

Not still a thing, however, in Seattle this year, where it was outright abolished and replaced by Indigenous People's Day:

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #IdleNoMore Columbus Day abolished in Seattle! pic.twitter.com/N1TBc0puLR
— Alex Garland (@AGarlandPhoto) October 13, 2014

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #IdleNoMore #AbolishColumbusDay #Seattle See more http://t.co/f73rjyucfP pic.twitter.com/9hsgsaPxDL
— Alex Garland (@AGarlandPhoto) October 13, 2014

#Ferguson Challenge

More comedy and social satire as Jon Stewart returns (August 26th show) with an extended *what is stupid* in mainstream news coverage on the past few weeks in Ferguson.  (And if I didn't have people like Jon and friends to tell me about it, I couldn't otherwise bear to watch it, myself.)

 

Senior Missouri Correspondent Michael Che gets in on the act, too, as he searches far and wide for a safe place from the "Shoot Me, State" - and starting out first in lovely southern California ..

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Are we there, yet, Mainstream News?

John Oliver also takes a good long look at Ferguson and with a youtube currently watched by more than 3,500,000 people.