Paul Krugman's Column: Bernanke's Perry Problem (New York Times)
Political opposition has already crippled fiscal policy; instead of helping to create jobs, the federal government is pulling back, acting as a drag on output and employment. With the Fed also intimidated into inaction, it's hard to see any end to the ongoing economic disaster.
Andrew Tobias: Dinner With Warren Buffett
… if you do look at the accomplishments, you'll find that, though blocked at every turn by the opposition, they are very real. Universal health insurance paid for by a tax on income above $250,000? Sounds pretty Rooseveltian to me. And if women are a constituency Democrats should not take for granted, how about tripling their representation on the Court or signing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act or (moving from the lofty to the nitty-gritty) removing the co-pay on birth control coverage?
Jim Hightower: "Vermont: First in the Nation"
"We have a problem, we need to solve it." This comment by House Speaker Shap Smith of Vermont reflects a no-nonsense, hands-on, can-do attitude you don't often find in legislatures these days. … But Smith and a big majority of his Vermont colleagues refused to play games with one of the biggest issues confronting them and the people of every state: affordable health care for all.
Froma Harrop: Scott Brown No Shoe-in for Re-Election in Mass (Creators Syndicate)
When Scott Brown was elected U.S. senator from Massachusetts in a special election last year, Republicans rejoiced. They had wrested the Senate seat held by the late liberal icon Edward Kennedy in a Democratic stronghold. Brown remains quite popular at home. But as he faces the voters again in 2012, will that matter?
"Meet Omar Shamshoon (Homer Simpson)" (neatorama.com)
If you've ever visited the Middle East, you know that when American TV programs are shown on Arab TV, culturally sensitive content is often altered or removed. Turns out some shows aren't so easy to "Arabize.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
Who was the only actor to give voice to his character in all the different animated versions of Winnie the Pooh from Walt Disney - from Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) all the way through to Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)?
A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations and nature.
The term derives from the German glitschig, meaning 'slippery', possibly entering English through the Yiddish term glitsh.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
from the German glitschig, meaning 'slippery', possibly entering English through the Yiddish term glitsh
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
The term derives from the German glitschig, meaning 'slippery', possibly
entering English through the Yiddish term glitsh.
Charlie wrote:
The word glitch is from the German glitschen via the Yiddish gletshn, to slip
(Charlie's picture didn't open, and this was the first one that popped up on the google. ~m.)
Marian responded
Yiddish
Adam answered:
Some reference books, including Random House's American Slang, claim it comes from the German word glitschen ("to slip") and the Yiddish word gletshn ("to slide or skid").
bebo replied:
US government?
Sally said:
The word glitch is believed to have been originated from two words. A Yiddish word 'glitshen' and a German word 'glitschen' meaning to slide or slip.
PS: Media has whipped up the masses now - including me - by saying things like, "Worst storm ever in NYC!" Bridges. subway, buses being closed, and mass evacuations from Long Beach Island (NJ) to Long Island (NY). Of course it is a perfect beach day here (hot and humid), so the die-hard's are still sneaking into the waters. I am spending the afternoon putting stuff into the garage, taking my plants in, and shoring up my basement. If the power goes out, I lose my sump-pump, and that is not good... I should be here tomorrow...
MAM wrote:
The term derives from the German glitschig, meaning 'slippery', possibly entering English through the Yiddish term glitsh.
PS Thanks to Charlie for the 6 good pictures of actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance.
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
NBC opens the night with the movie 'A Walk In My Shoes', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Paul Rudd hosting, music by Paul McCartney.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NASCAR Sprint Cup', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW offers the infomercial 'The CW 2011 Fall Preview Special', followed by an old 'American Dad', then another old 'American Dad'.
Faux has 'Cops', another 'Cops', followed by an old 'American Dad', then an old 'The Cleveland Show'.
MY here has LIVE'MLB Baseball', with the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels visiting Arlington, TX.
AMC offers the movie 'Kill Bill, Vol. 1', followed by the movie 'Kill Bill, Vol. 2'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[7:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[8:00 AM] Doctor Who - 4 - The Doctor's Wife
[9:00 AM] Doctor Who - 5 - The Rebel Flesh
[10:00 AM] Doctor Who - 6 - The Almost People
[11:00 AM] Doctor Who - 7 - A Good Man Goes to War
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 1&2
[4:00 PM] Doctor Who - 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - 4 - The Doctor's Wife
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - 5 - The Rebel Flesh
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - 6 - The Almost People
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - 7 - A Good Man Goes to War
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 - Let's Kill Hitler (50 minutes)
[9:50 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Companions (70)
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 - Let's Kill Hitler (50 minutes)
[12:50 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Companions (70)
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 - Let's Kill Hitler (50 minutes)
[3:50 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Companions (70)
[5:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Rachel Zoe Project', another 'Rachel Zoe Project', 'Millionaire Matchmaker', and another 'Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Scary Movie 4', 'Kevin Hart: I'm A Grown Little Man', and 'Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny'.
FX has the movie 'Bride Wars', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', and yet another '2½ Men'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'You Don't Know Dixie', and 'Hillbilly: The Real Story'.
IFC -
[1:30AM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Designated Drivers
[2:00AM] Whisker WarsDon't Mess With Texas
[2:30AM] Young Broke and Beautiful - Boston
[3:00AM] Taxi Driver
[5:30AM] Whisker Wars - West Coast Showdown
[6:00AM] The Making Of: Transformation
[6:05AM] Daltry Calhoun
[8:05AM] In America
[10:20AM] The Making Of: Transformation
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges - Three Lone Wolves
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges - Three Pests in a Mess
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges - Three Smart Saps
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges - What's the Matador?
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges - Who Done It?
[12:30PM] The Three Stooges - Whoops, I'm an Indian
[12:55PM] The Three Stooges - You Natzy Spy!
[1:20PM] The Three Stooges - Baby Sitters' Jitters
[1:45PM] Daltry Calhoun
[3:45PM] Last Days
[6:00PM] Wassup Rockers
[8:00PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[10:15PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (ALL TIMES EST)
India Arie performs during The Message in the Music concert in conjunction with the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.
Photo by Ann Heisenfelt
A private detective jailed for illegally intercepting voicemail messages on behalf of a journalist at one of Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids on Friday gave lawyers the names of the people he says ordered him to carry out the phone hacking.
Glenn Mulcaire's lawyer, Sarah Webb, said no details would be released before legal moves by her next week to prevent their publication while a police probe continues into allegations of phone hacking by the now closed News of the World newspaper.
Disclosure of the names would add pressure on News International, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch's News Corp and shed further light on how widespread phone hacking was at the tabloid.
Mulcaire, jailed in 2007 along with paper's royal reporter Clive Goodman, had been ordered to hand over the details by a court judge.
Webb said the document containing the names had been delivered late on Friday to lawyers representing actor Steve Coogan, who had sought the disclosure from Mulcaire.
Eddie Levert of the O'Jays performs during The Message in the Music concert in conjunction with the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.
Photo by Ann Heisenfelt
If there was a Golden Globe award for best milking of a semi-controversy, Ricky Gervais would easily walk away with the trophy.
The "Office" creator once again brought up his super-awkward hosting gig in January while speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival on Friday, claiming that NBC has asked him to host the awards ceremony for a third time, despite the mountain of ill will he created during his last go-round.
"I love NBC, I love the fact that they stuck by me through it," Gervais said during his appearance at the festival.
Asked if was considering returning to the Globes for a third time, Gervais admitted that he was, but said he's leaning against it.
The star of the Oscar-winning movie about dolphin-killing in Japan had only praise for a small island off the eastern coast that thrives on snorkeling with dolphins, and he urged the rest of the country to follow that example.
Ric O'Barry was heading to Taiji, the southwestern town made notorious in the documentary "The Cove," where the annual dolphin hunt is set to start Sept. 1. But he stopped along the way at the island of Miyakejima for a look at how dolphins can be spared and used for tourism.
Chikara Atsuta, an official with the tourism agency at Miyakejima, said he welcomed O'Barry's praise, and expressed hopes more people from abroad would visit the island of 2,700 people, 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of Tokyo.
Miyakejima's dolphins live in the area so residents have even given them names. In contrast, dolphins are migratory in Taiji and so the same kind of dolphin-watching would be difficult to duplicate.
German electronic musician Paul Kalkbrenner performs at the Rock-en-Seine Festival in Saint-Cloud, near Paris, August 26, 2011.
Photo by Benoit Tessier
Syfy started production in Vancouver Friday on an update of cult classic "The Philadelphia Experiment" that will star Malcolm McDowell and Nicholas Lea.
The plot of the time-travel thriller is modeled on an urban legend about a military experiment that was allegedly conducted during World War II that would have allowed a U.S. Navy destroyer to cloak itself from enemy tracking devices.
In the movie, this very ship turns up in the present while a team of researchers are trying to replicate the experiment, and chaos ensues.
Lea -- best known for playing the double-dealing Alex Krycek on "The X-Files" -- plays the sole survivor of the original experiment who must now help thwart the modern-day project. McDowell appears as the scientist who helmed the experiment back in 1943.
A new Missouri law prohibiting teachers from having private online conversations with students suffered a double setback Friday. First, a judge blocked it from taking effect because of free speech concerns. Then the governor called for its repeal.
The law limiting teacher-student conversations through social networking sites such as Facebook had been scheduled to take effect Sunday. But Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem issued a preliminary injunction blocking it until at least February, saying the restrictions "would have a chilling effect" on free speech rights.
A couple of hours later, Gov. Jay Nixon said he would ask lawmakers to repeal the restrictions during a previously scheduled special session that starts Sept. 6. Nixon's request goes even further than the judge's order, which was confined to private conversations on non-work-related websites. The governor also wants lawmakers to reverse new restrictions on work-related websites and abolish a requirement for schools to develop written policies by January on teacher-student communications.
Nixon, who signed the legislation last month, said Friday that the provisions about online communication are "causing substantial confusion and concern among teachers, students and families" and thus should be stricken.
A jury found movie producer Jon Peters was guilty on Friday of sexual harassment and ordered the man behind films such as "Batman" to pay more than $3 million to a former personal assistant.
The nine-woman, three-man panel awarded Shelly Morita $822,000 in compensatory damages. They found that Peters created a hostile work environment and acted with malice, which led to a second phase of the trial in which they awarded the Morita an additional $2.5 million.
Peters, a onetime hairdresser turned movie mogul whose producing credits include "The Color Purple," "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "Superman Returns," was not present for the verdicts. Along with former business partner Peter Guber, he also ran Sony Pictures movie studio for a time.
Morita, a 44-year-old single mother, sued Peters and his company, J.P. Organization Inc., in December 2006.
Google Inc, which has agreed to pay $500 million for accepting ads from Canadian pharmacies to sell in the United States, said in a statement that it should not have allowed the ads in the first place.
The U.S. Justice Department, which announced the settlement on Wednesday said that it represented all of Google's revenues from Canadian pharmacy advertisements and was one of the largest ever in the United States.
Google said in a brief comment that it had banned advertising of prescription drugs in the United States. The announcement was made in a February 2010 blog post.
"However, it's obvious with hindsight that we shouldn't have allowed these ads on Google in the first place," the statement said.
In this photo taken Aug. 23, 2011, dancers with River North Dance Chicago perform in "Nine Person Precision Ball Passing" during a dress rehearsal for the Chicago Dancing Festival in Chicago The festival ends Saturday, Aug. 27. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who once studied dance, wants the city to become a national center for dance.
Photo by M. Spencer Green
Let's get this right: Glenn Beck, the radio shock jock who recently left Fox News to form GBTV, loves Israelis and the Jewish people.
But his love for Jews seems to vanish when they open their mouths -- which led him to make some remarks that will undoubtedly be interpreted as anti-Semitic.
Beck, who recently hosted a "Restoring Courage" rally in Israel, said on his radio show Thursday that Jews drive him crazy when they talk over one another.
He then compared them to members of a family of eight constantly interrupting one another at dinner.
Beck quickly defended his remarks, adding that there is no one as pro-Israel as he. Beck has always been a staunch defender of Israel on his show, often to an extreme that makes many uncomfortable.
Four months before Anders Behring Breivik went on his killing rampage in Norway, a global operation that monitors trading in bomb-making materials told the nation's police that he had bought chemicals from a Polish company, a customs official said Friday. But police did not act on the information.
On July 22, Breivik killed 77 people in a bombing in Norway's capital and a shooting rampage on a nearby island, and he has since confessed to the mass killings.
Geir Hoiseth, who heads the border control department of Norway's customs agency, said Breivik's name came up as a result of the Global Shield program, a U.S. initiative, after he bought chemicals from a Polish firm.
Hoiseth said customs officials passed the information to Norway's security police, PST, in March. PST has confirmed that it was alerted to Breivik's purchase of chemicals from the company, but has said the transaction was legal and there wasn't enough information to warrant further investigation.
Maria dos Anjos, a 62 year-old official dunker, baths a young girl in the sea, Wednesday, Aug. 24 2011, as part of a ritual expected to heal and protect children from the Devil, in Sao Bartolomeu do Mar, Portugal. The ritual began at daybreak with children carrying black roosters around St. Bartholomew church three times, kissing a statue of the saint and then heading to the beach where they are dipped three times in the sea to complete the centuries old ritual.
Photo by Paulo Duarte
Photographer David Strick lost the first round in his copyright case against the Los Angeles Times, when a federal judge ordered arbitration this week.
Strick's movie-set photos were featured in the Times for nearly three years, until the paper opted not to renew his contract in 2010.
He sued the paper last May, claiming it continued to use his behind-the-scenes shots without his permission and cited more than 500 copyright violations. Strick is asking for damages that could amount to millions of dollars.
The Times maintains that it used the photographs as part of a licensing agreement it had with Strick.
Clark Gable's grandson pleaded not guilty on Friday to three counts of pointing a laser light at a police helicopter in July, momentarily blinding two officers.
Clark James Gable, 22, is accused of shining the green laser on a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter that was patrolling in the sky above a Hollywood event on July 28, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office.
The officers in the helicopter determined that the laser beam had come from a small red car, and police on the ground stopped the vehicle and arrested Gable, who was a passenger.
Prosecutors declined to file charges against the driver, Maximilian Anderson, citing insufficient evidence that the 23-year-old knew the laser was being pointed at the helicopter.
Free on $250,000 bail, Gable is due back in court on September 8, when a hearing will be scheduled to determine if there is enough evidence to require that he stand trial.
Masha the squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) gives a ride to her one-and-a-half month-old cub in their open-air cage at Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk August 26, 2011. The cub is the first squirrel monkey born in captivity at the Siberian zoo.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
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seems to have taken the day off.
