We’re a little Super-Bowl-heavy at the start of the show, with plenty of talk of the big, terrible game and the mostly awful commercials between which the game took place. But then we’re on to the silliness of the San Francisco School Board, a review of the new Hulu documentary/one man show “In & of Itself,” and other topics. Enjoy!

Rundown

Start — Super Bowl LV, Tom Brady, Gambling

22:39 — Super Bowl LV commercials

40:25 — Jim Nantz’ myriad crimes against humanity

45:02 — San Francisco school board silliness

48:28 — A review of Derek DelGaudio’s In & of Itself

1:23:25 — Update on Abe’s 7th grade reading curriculum

Here’s a page with all of the 2021 Super Bowl commercials, in case you want to willingly subject yourself to what corporate America wants you to want this year.

Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker interviewed the president of the San Francisco Board of Education about their decision to rename dozens of schools around the city, including schools named for Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Paul Revere, and Senator Diane Feinstein.