Tom Danehy: An Open Letter to the Guy on the Other Side of The Great Divide(Tucson Weekly)
… Ana's a DACA kid and just a few days earlier, the Arizona State Supreme Court had coldly driven a stake into the heart of her academic future when they decided that kids like her-set apart through no fault of their own-would no longer be able to pay in-state tuition to attend Arizona's community colleges or universities.
Helaine Olen: "Mulvaney to bankers: Here's how the game works" (Washington Post)
When Donald Trump campaigned for president, he repeatedly explained how his extensive experience as a business executive dealing with politicians made him uniquely qualified to clean house in Washington. As he put it: "As a businessman and a very substantial donor to very important people, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do." Many voters took statements such as this to mean Trump would actually "drain the swamp." Instead, President Trump has set off a tidal wave of corporate kowtowing and currying of favor that in another country we might call corruption.
Cal Thomas: Evangelicals can't serve two masters (Statesville Record & Landmark)
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other." (Matthew 6:24) The verse refers to money, but in light of today's debate about the unaccountable devotion many Christian leaders have for President Trump it is not a stretch to apply it to their relationship with him.
J. Wellington Wimpy, generally referred to as Wimpy, is one of the characters in the long-running comic strip Popeye, created by E. C. Segar in 1934 and originally called Thimble Theatre, and in the Popeye cartoons based upon the strip. Wimpy was one of the dominant characters in the newspaper strip, but when Popeye was adapted as an animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios, Wimpy became a minor character; Dave Fleischer said that the character in the Segar strip was "too intellectual" to be used in film cartoons. Wimpy did appear in Robert Altman's 1980 live-action musical film Popeye, played by veteran character actor Paul Dooley.
Wimpy is Popeye's friend. In the cartoons, he mainly plays the role of the "straight man" to Popeye's outbursts and wild antics. Wimpy is soft-spoken, very intelligent, and well educated, but also cowardly, very lazy, overly parsimonious and utterly gluttonous. He is also something of a scam artist and, especially in the newspaper strip, can be underhanded.
Hamburgers are Wimpy's all-time favorite food, and he is usually seen carrying or eating one or more at a time - e.g., in Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor he is seen grinding meat or eating burgers almost the entire time - however, he is usually too cheap to pay for them himself. A recurring joke involves Wimpy's attempts to con other patrons of the diner into buying his meal for him. His best-known catchphrase started in 1931 as, "Cook me up a hamburger. I'll pay you Thursday." In 1932, this then became the famous, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
J. Wellington Wimpy
Gene said:
My role model for gluttony and mooching, J Wellington Wimpy, AKA Wimpy.
Mark. wrote:
J. Wellington Wimpy, Wimpy for short.
Alan J answered:
Wimpy.
mj replied:
The nickname of someone very close to me
That's Wimpy, part of Pop Eye's posse.
Stephen F responded:
Wimpy
zorch said:
That's Wimpy, from the Popeye cartoons.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
J. Wellington Wimpy aka Wimpy from Popeye
Roy in Gohmertstan, Texas replied:
Popeye's good buddy, J. Wellington Wimpy, will "gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
Dave responded:
Wimpy, a character in the Popeye cartoons. No Seaman, just a grass combing Lubber. Kind of a hanger on, a running joke of sorts, always trying to mooch a hamburger. From his ample girth he must have been pretty successful.
Kevin K. of Washington, DC responded:
His name was J. Wellington Wimpy, usually just called "Wimpy", and he was a
friend of Popeye and Olive Oyl.
He had food issues, as well as being chronically broke.
Deborah wrote:
That's Wimpy, who was featured (IIRC) in Popeye cartoons.
Back to seasonal weather, happy for more spring and less summer.
Gary E.K. said:
sir Wimpy
David of Moon Valley replied:
i do remember Wimpy since Popeye cartoons were a part of my childhood
Daniel in The City answered:
Wimpy, from Popeye
Dave in Tucson responded:
That polite mooching gentleman is none other than Wimpy!
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Wimpy."
Michelle in AZ wrote:
Wimpy
Jon L said:
Is that Wimpy?
Billy in Cypress responded:
J. Wellington Wimpy
Rosemary in Columbus replied:
Wimpy
Harry M. answered:
Wimpy
Joe S wrote:
Wimpy, and that's all I got to say about that.
PS Sold my two city lots today. Wooded, hillside, lake view, been on the market for 3 years. Happy to sell, sorry to see 'em go. I really liked them, very peaceful and quiet, and right in town. BttbB, sold them to a Coast Guardsman assigned to an ice breaker
I have 3 calendars in my apt. and not a single one mentions that April 27th is Arbor
Day, although all 3 show that April 25th is "Administrative Professionals Day"
because, you know, Administrative Professionals don't get enough recognition in this
world!
Anyway, in honor of the day I'd like to recommend this site that my brother
(Monte in Montana) referred me to a few weeks ago. It's perfect for Arbor Day,
however, I must warn you there is nudity in every single picture (gasp!). It's a
beautiful collection of photos staged over the years with people and nature, called
the TreeSpirit Project. Check it out!
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
Hitting the road - as dear old dad would say "catch ya on the flip-flop".
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Mandy Patinkin and Heather Pasternak.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 3/13/18) are Patton Oswalt, Darren Criss, and ZZ Ward featuring Fitz.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Blindspot', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Dr. Phil McGraw, Hailey Baldwin, and Julio Torres.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 4/9/18) are Tiffany Haddish, the War on Drugs, and Gil Sharone.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/22/18) are Jim Sturgess, Creeper, and Max Winkler.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', followed by a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The CW offers a FRESH'Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'Life Sentence'.
Faux fills another night with LIVE'2018 NFL Draft - Round 2', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'American Ninja Warrior', followed by another old 'American Ninja Warrior'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'A Bronx Tale', followed by the movie 'Heist'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-Where Silence Has Lease
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-Elementary, Dear Data
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-The Outrageous Okona
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-Loud as a Whisper
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-The Schizoid Man
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7-Unnatural Selection
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-A Matter of Honor
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-The Measure of a Man
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-The Dauphin
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Contagion
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 12-The Royale
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Time Squared
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 14-The Icarus Factor
[7:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN (1992)
[10:00PM] DAVID BOWIE: FIVE YEARS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1
[11:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN (1992)
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Nowhere To Hide - Plains
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Race Against Time - Coasts
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-Living With Predators - Conservation (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'The Notebook', followed by the movie 'The Notebook', again.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', followed by the movie 'Big Daddy'.
FX has the movie 'Marvel's The Avengers', followed by the movie 'Thor', and 'Trust'.
History has Ancient Aliens', another 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] PORTLANDIA-Rose Route
[6:30AM] MR. WOODCOCK
[8:30AM] M*A*S*H
[11:00AM] HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART I
[1:00PM] THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
[4:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-That Special Tug
[4:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Humiliation Is a Visual Medium
[5:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Love Isn't Blind, It's Retarded
[5:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-My Tongue Is Meat
[6:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Ergo, the Booty Call
[6:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-The Unfortunate Little Schnauser
[7:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-The Spit-Covered Cobbler
[7:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Golly Moses, She's a Muffin
[8:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Burro
[8:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-And the Plot Moistens
[9:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Just Once With Aunt Sophie
[9:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Arguments for the Quickie
[10:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-That Pistol-Packin' Hermaphrodite
[10:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Working for Caligula
[11:00PM] THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
[2:00AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Hard Rock Metal & Video Music Pioneers
[2:15AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Dr. Ruth Good Sex Special
[2:45AM] M*A*S*H
[5:15AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Hard Rock Metal & Video Music Pioneers
[5:30AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Dr. Ruth Good Sex Special (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:10am] the andy griffith show
[6:45am] the andy griffith show
[7:20am] the andy griffith show
[7:55am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] the queen
[1:00pm] criminal minds
[2:00pm] criminal minds
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] logan's run
[3:30am] hap and leonard: mucho mojo
[4:30am] hap and leonard: mucho mojo
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Tomorrowland, followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park III', then hours & hours of old 'Futurama'.
NBC's renewed love for Saturday Night Live is heading to the Emmys. The network has tapped "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che to host the 2018 telecast.
The network hasn't had an SNL personality host the Emmys since Eddie Murphy back in 1983, instead relying recently on late-night hosts - like most every other awards show.
It's certainly a timely move for the network. SNL continues to enjoy a cultural renaissance thanks to the current political climate. Its 2016-17 season, which tackled the presidential election and its fallout, marked the first time in decades that the show nabbed an Emmy for best variety show. SNL is hardly a stranger to the Emmys though. It is the most nominated TV series of all time.
NBC is clearly hoping it can goose the Emmys' ratings with a return to Monday for the Sept. 17 ceremony. The move, which keeps it from interrupting or running against coverage of Sunday Night Football, worked out surprisingly well when the network last did it in 2004. (Instead of September, that one aired in August before the football season began.)
The Television Academy and the broadcast networks are said to still be hammering out details for the next rights deal for the annual telecast. It is expected to return to the four-network rotation when the current contract expires with this 2018 ceremony.
Screen legend Robert De Niro isn't just calling out Donald Trump anymore. He's also apparently done with the president's supporters.
IndieWire asked the two-time Oscar winner about the success of the "Roseanne" reboot, in which the title character is a Trump supporter, as comedian Roseanne Barr is in real life.
"I've never seen her show before, I didn't know she was supporting Trump, but I have no interest in that," De Niro told the website. "We're at a point with all of us this where it's beyond trying to see another person's point of view. There are ways you can talk about that, but we're at a point where the things that are happening in our country are so bad and it comes from Trump."
"I don't care about Roseanne," he concluded. "They want that thing, fine. We have real issues in this country."
De Niro's comments should come as no surprise, given what he's said about Trump in the past. Earlier this year, De Niro dismissed the president as a "fucking idiot" and a "fucking fool," then hit him with a new nickname: "jerk-off-in-chief." He also said Trump had "sullied the presidency," called America under Trump "a tragic dumbass comedy" and raged about the "bullshit" cuts to arts programs that were proposed in the president's budget.
Tears and expressions of grief met the opening of the nation's first memorial to the victims of lynching Thursday in Alabama.
Hundreds lined up in the rain to get a first look at the memorial and museum in Montgomery.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice commemorates 4,400 black people who were slain in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. Their names, where known, are engraved on 800 dark, rectangular steel columns, one for each U.S. county where lynchings occurred.
A related museum, called The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, is opening in Montgomery.
Ava DuVernay, the Oscar-nominated film director, told several thousand people at a conference marking the memorial launch to "to be evangelists and say what you saw and what you experienced here. ... Every American who believes in justice and dignity must come here ... Don't just leave feeling like, 'That was amazing. I cried.' ... Go out and tell what you saw."
The Crocodile Hunter was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, more than a decade after his shocking death. Irwin was killed by a stingray while filming a documentary series in 2006 at the age of 44.
Irwin's widow, Terri, and their two kids, Bindi and Robert, were on hand to honor the conservationist and TV personality.
In a touching speech, Terri remembered her time with Steve, and encouraged fans to follow his "love of everything." 14-year-old Robert then took the mic for a few words, before Bindi teared up while paying tribute to her father.
"I'm going to get a little bit emotional because it's such a special day," she said, breaking down and hugging her mother. "I have to tell you that I, never in my wildest dreams, imagined that this would become a reality, and this is such an honor as a family to continue in dad's footsteps... so thank you for being here today and supporting us."
Pittsburgh's monument to native son Stephen Collins Foster has returned to its old stomping ground.
A Department of Public Works crew removed the controversial statue of the Antebellum songwriter known as the father of American music early Thursday from Forbes Avenue in Oakland and hauled it by flatbed truck to a facility in Highland Park. The city will store it until officials find it a permanent home.
The 1,000-pound, 10-foot-high bronze statue stood at the entrance to Oakland's Schenley Park for 74 years after the city moved it from its original location near the entrance to Highland Park to prevent vandalism.
The city plans to replace the statue with a memorial to black women and has scheduled public meetings to gather suggestions before deciding on a theme.
Foster, who was born in Pittsburgh on July 4, 1826, wrote more than 200 songs, including such time-honored favorites as "Oh Susanna," "Camptown Races" and "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair."
A self-declared Bible "researcher" and conspiracy theorist who has predicted a number of failed doomsday dates is trying a new tack. Instead of giving a date, he's giving a range.
David Meade, whose views fall well outside mainstream Christianity, told the Guardian that the biblical "rapture" will take place at some point between May and December of this year. When that happens, the world won't end but rather the faithful will be plucked off the Earth, leaving the rest behind for seven years of tribulation. Then, he said, there will be 1,000 years of peace and prosperity before the world actually ends, which would occur by the year 3025, give or take.
"So the world isn't ending anytime soon - in our lifetimes, anyway," Meade assured the Guardian.
Meade previously predicted the world would end on Sept. 23, 2017. At the time, he didn't offer a specific form of apocalypse. In the past, however, Meade has used "numerical codes" found in the Bible and claimed that a secret planet called Nibiru was on a collision course with Earth.
A team of Swiss scientists has performed a massive test of one of the strangest paradoxes in quantum mechanics, a huge example of the sort of behavior Albert Einstein skeptically called "spooky action at a distance."
The story begins more than 80 years ago. Way back in 1935, Einstein and physicists Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen found something strange. They entangled two particles - let's call them Alice and Bob - so that their physical properties were linked even across wide distances, and anything you did to one particle would impact the other. Intuitively, you'd think that if you had access to Alice, you'd know way more about her than you would about Bob, who's a distance away. This is also what you'd expect given Einstein's relativistic laws of physics at large scales. But the physicist trio discovered something odd, now called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox: By studying Alice, you actually learn much more about Bob than you do about Alice.
Later experiments using individual particles proved the physicists correct on this point. But this new experiment, published today (April 26) in the journal Science, shows that the effect still occurs using even a clump of nearly 600 supercooled particles.
It's not surprising, exactly, that a paradox originally framed in terms of two particles also occurs for clumps of hundreds of particles. The same physics at work in a very small system should also work in much larger systems. But scientists perform these ever-more-complex tests because they help confirm old theories and narrow down the ways in which those theories might be wrong. And they also demonstrate the capability of modern technology to put into action ideas that Einstein and his colleagues could think about only in abstract terms.
To pull off this experiment, the researchers cooled about 590 rubidium atoms (give or take 30 atoms) to the bleeding edge of absolute zero.
In 1894, gold prospectors digging up a peat bog near the Russian city of Yekaterinburg unearthed something bizarre: a carved wooden idol 5 meters long. Carefully smoothed into a plank, the piece was covered front and back with recognizable human faces and hands, along with zigzag lines and other mysterious details. It also had a recognizably human head, with its mouth open in an "o." For more than a century, the statue was displayed as a curiosity in a Yekaterinburg museum, assumed to be at most a few thousand years old.
This week, a paper published in the journal Antiquity argues that the statue was crafted from a single larchwood log 11,600 years ago, making it one of the world's oldest examples of monumental art. In age and appearance although not material, the authors write, the so-called Shigir Idol resembles the stone sculptures of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which are often cited as the first monumental ritual structures. Both monuments represent a leap beyond the naturalistic images of the ice age.
The idol also shows that large-scale, complex art emerged in more than one place-and that it was the handiwork of hunter-gatherers and not, as was once assumed, of later farming societies. "We have to conclude hunter-gatherers had complex ritual and expression of ideas. Ritual doesn't start with farming, but with hunter-gatherers," says Thomas Terberger, an archaeologist at the University of Göttingen in Germany and a co-author of the paper.
The first radiocarbon dating of the idol, in the 1990s, yielded a startlingly early date: 9800 years old. But many scholars rejected the result as implausibly old. They argued that hunter-gatherers couldn't have produced such a large sculpture, nor have had the complex symbolic imagination to decorate it.
The new dates come from samples taken from the core of the log, uncontaminated by earlier efforts to conserve the wood. "The further you go inside, the older [the date] becomes-it's very indicative some sort of preservative or glue was used" after discovery, says Olaf Jöris, an archaeologist at the Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution in Neuwied, Germany, who wasn't involved with the study. An antler carving discovered near the original find spot in the 19th century yielded similar dates, adding credibility to the result.
A man who was told a gold coin in his possession was a fake is set to become a millionaire after experts realised it was the real deal.
The collector, who wished to remain anonymous, was convinced his coin was a fraudulent replica of a special $5 coin produced by the San Francisco Mint at the height of the California Gold Rush in 1854.
Coin dealers agreed with him, since only three out of the 268 Liberty Head Half Eagles made were known to have survived into modern times.
But it was soon to be four after the man took it to the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC), a coin authentication company, whose experts confirmed it was an original.
"It's like finding an original Picasso at a garage sale. It's the discovery of a lifetime," NGC chairman Mark Salzberg said.
A scarlet cleaner shrimp provides its cleaning services to a yellow-edged moray eel (aka yellowmargin moray) in an Indonesian reef community.
Photo by Marty Snyderman
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