Usually, I post the video essays from John Oliver's remarkable HBO show, Last Week Tonight in the Saturday Interesting Stuff column.

But because news – particularly political news – moves at warp speed these days and Oliver's show airs late Sunday night, by the next Saturday, it is often ancient history.

That was true just this last Saturday when I posted his video about the Republican Convention when the Democratic Convention had ended only two days previously.

So in the interests of time, here is John Oliver's take on the Democratic National Convention that took place in Philadelphia last week. Don't miss it.

To readers who live in countries other than the U.S. who have emailed to ask that I make the Oliver videos available for them to see, I am sorry that I cannot make that happen. The entity (person, network, corporation, etc.) that posts video to their website or YouTube page or elsewhere licenses them for certain countries. I can't change that.

Actually, because HBO is a paid service, I'm surprised I'm still able to post the Oliver videos even for the U.S. and worry that the day will come when no one but HBO subscribers will be able to watch Oliver's show anywhere. That will be a big disappointment and a loss to everyone.