Paul Krugman: Taxing the Speculators (nytimes.com)
While a financial transactions tax would not completely prevent any future crisis, it could generate substantial revenue while providing a useful check on reckless short-term speculation.
ANONYMOUS : Thanks for Robbing My Disabled Daughter (thestranger.com)
My disabled 19-year-old daughter was shopping in the U-District. Knowing her, she was probably walking around with her purse partly open, in spite of my frequent reminders about how risky that is. Before she left the U-District, she realized that her wallet was gone. She had about $50 cash, her ID, and her cash card from Social Security and DSHS. I bet that you used it for meth, coke, heroin, or whatever you use to indulge your worthless lowlife body.
Paul Constant: Reviews of "Our Choice" and "Going Rogue" (thestranger.com)
Our Choice is even more impressive than An Inconvenient Truth, because it's all about improvement, with very little of what conservatives would dub "liberal whining." It also reframes political issues as moral imperatives; Gore advocates the education of young girls worldwide as a population-control issue, for instance, and he has rock-solid figures to prove the importance of that education.
Garrison Keillor: United we gather
We now interrupt Mrs. Palin's book tour to bring you Thanksgiving, a grand old holiday, and we in the book business are thankful for her, that a busy woman who wanted to tell her story chose the medium of ink and paper between hard covers. Her tour is not about politics. It's about books.
BRIANA HERNANDEZ: Lesbian Web Series We Can't Get Enough Of (curvemag.com)
While network television has made strides in incorporating lesbians into popular programming, the Internet is really where it's at for quality queer series. With a so many indie web series to watch it's easy to get tangled up in the world wide web, so here are 17 of our faves. Log on and stream to your lezzie heart's content.
Publisher Harper Collins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. Its print run already has been increased from 1.5 million copies to 2.5 million... In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" started at 200,000... The Wingnuts are going bonkers!
Do you consider Sarah Palin a legitimate political threat or merely a ditzy cultural doofus and a rabble-rousing, egotistical, power-broker wannabe?
zEN mAN (observing Michaela Salahi, dressed in a gold leaf red sari (with her husband Tareq) literally crashing Obama's state dinner for the Indian Prime Minister)
Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to Paraguay and the southern part of Brazil.
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Ned was first, and correct, with:
South America - The pineapple is native to southern Brazil and Paraguay
where wild relatives occur. It was spread by the Indians up through South
and Central America to the West Indies before Columbus arrived. In 1493
Columbus found the fruit on the island of Guadaloupe and carried it back to
Spain and it was spread around the world on sailing ships that carried it
for protection against scurvy. The Spanish introduced it into the
Philippines and may have taken it to Hawaii and Guam early in the 16th
Century. The pineapple reached England in 1660 and began to be grown in
greenhouses for its fruit around 1720.
Marian the Teacher responded:
Paraguay and Brazil
Charlie wrote:
I would not have guessed this one
Origin: The pineapple is native to southern Brazil and Paraguay where wild relatives occur. It was spread by the Indians up through South and Central America to the West Indies before Columbus arrived. In 1493 Columbus found the fruit on the island of Guadaloupe and carried it back to Spain and it was spread around the world on sailing ships that carried it for protection against scurvy. The Spanish introduced it into the Philippines and may have taken it to Hawaii and Guam early in the 16th Century. The pineapple reached England in 1660 and began to be grown in greenhouses for its fruit around 1720.
Leo replied:
Pinapples are native to the American tropics and subtropics, particularly southern Brazil and Paraguay.
Alan J answered:
South America
MAM answered:
Pineapples are native to South America.
Sally said:
Well, I have tried to find your page today via the AOL
search, and when I hit the link, I get your page from last March! Then, I decided to be creative and went to Bart's page, linked there, and same thing? I'm bummed, but should get some points for trying??
Anyhoo, hope you had a wonderful Turkey Day,
And, Joe S wrote:
Paraguay and the southern part of Brazil.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'The Good Wife', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', and '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with the RERUN infomercial 'Merry Madagascar', followed by the movie 'The Incredibles'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Gerard Butler hosting, music by Shakira.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Grey's Anatomy'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Nobody's Perfect'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY has an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Unforgiven', followed by the movie 'The Green Mile'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 4
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 18
[1:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Oscars
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Mixing Bowl
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 11 Utopia
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 The Enemy of My Enemy
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 12 Something Worth Fighting For (Part 1)
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 10 Willem Dafoe, Lily Allen
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 The Enemy of My Enemy
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 12 Something Worth Fighting For (Part 1)
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 10 Willem Dafoe, Lily Allen
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 The Enemy of My Enemy
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 12 Something Worth Fighting For (Part 1)
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 10 Willem Dafoe, Lily Allen
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 5
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 8 Whittington (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'America's Next Top Model', another 'America's Next Top Model', still another 'America's Next Top Model', and the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Waiting...', followed by the movie 'The Ex'.
FX has the movie 'The Family Stone', followed by the movie 'Click', then the movie 'Epic Movie'.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by the movie 'Tombstone', and 'The White House Behind Closed Doors'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] Manic
[7:55 AM] Tyger
[8:00 AM] Seven Samurai
[11:30 AM] Iron Monkey
[1:00 PM] Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy
[2:00 PM] Food Party
[2:15 PM] Shopping
[4:00 PM] Bruce Lee: His Last Days, His Last Nights
[5:30 PM] Iron Monkey
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] Arrested Development
[8:00 PM] Bullet
[10:00 PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
[11:00 PM] The Hot Spot
[1:15 AM] Intermission
[3:05 AM] Bullet
[4:45 AM] Bruce Lee: His Last Days, His Last Nights (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[02:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[04:15 PM] Che: Part Two - Guerrilla
[10:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[03:00 PM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[10:00 PM] Che: Part Two - Guerrilla
[06:35 AM] Che: Part Two - Guerrilla
[02:30 AM] Che: Part One - The Argentine
[04:45 AM] Che: Part Two - Guerrilla
[05:10 AM] Colma: The Musical
[06:55 AM] Sleeping Betty
[07:05 AM] Kill Your Idols
[08:25 AM] Paper Covers Rock
[11:00 AM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 108
[11:30 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Craig David, James Morrison & Dave Matthews
[12:30 PM] Lights in the Dusk
[01:45 PM] Paper Covers Rock
[03:20 PM] Le Doulos
[05:15 PM] Choking Man
[06:45 PM] Metroland
[08:30 PM] Man Shops Globe: Man Shops Globe - 108
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Sean Penn + Jon Krakauer
[10:00 PM] Hunger
[11:40 PM] Madame Tutli Putli
[12:00 AM] Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands
[01:45 AM] Monster
[03:35 AM] A Girl Cut In Two
[05:35 AM] Hunger (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Lake Placid 2', followed by the movie 'Beyond Sherwood Forest'.
Students hold a banner reading 'University occupied' as a flare burns beside it during a protest rally in Zurich November 27, 2009. The students demonstrated against changes to be made under the Bologna-Process, a Europe-wide reform of higher education.
Photo by Arnd Wiegmann
UNAIDS on Friday launched a campaign to address rampant discrimination against people living with HIV in China, with the help of Chinese NBA megastar Yao Ming.
The campaign, launched with China's health ministry, will see posters and videos of Yao and his fans, including some with HIV, displayed on giant screens in 12 cities across China, the United Nations agency said in a statement.
People who are HIV positive in China experience high levels of stigma and discrimination.
Model Shermine Shahrivar, left, and actor Thomas Kretschmann, right, pose for the media at the party after the Bambi 2009 media award ceremony in Potsdam, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009.
Photo by Gero Breloer
The Arabian Horse Foundation has established a scholarship in honor of the late actor Patrick Swayze and his wife.
Swayze and wife Lisa Neimi owned Arabian horses and competed in shows for several years. The foundation is the charitable arm of the Denver-based Arabian Horse Association.
Foundation President Larry Kinneer of Dayton, Ohio, said Friday that the scholarship honors Swayze for his career and the couple's "love of the Arabian breed and contributions over the years to AHA youth programs."
The scholarship will be awarded each spring to a youth involved with Arabian horses who seeks a performing arts career. It was launched with a pledge from Iron Horse Farms in Canton, Ga.
While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year.
The study finds that about 40 percent of all the food produced in the United States is tossed out.
Meanwhile, while some have plenty of food to spare, a recent report by the Department of Agriculture finds the number of U.S. homes lacking "food security," meaning their eating habits were disrupted for lack of money, rose from 4.7 million in 2007 to 6.7 million last year.
The new estimate of food waste, published in the journal PLoS ONE, is a relatively straightforward calculation: It's the difference between the U.S. food supply and what's actually eaten, which was estimated by using a model of human metabolism and known body weights.
A worker holds a Faberge jewelled gold and enamel cigarette case by Michael Perchin, formerly belonging to Imperial Highness Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess Vladimir, and dating from 1899-1903, at Sotheby's auction house in London, November 27, 2009. Auction houses are banking on a recovery at next week's series of big Russian art sales in London, which they expect to show that the market dominated by new money is through the worst of the recession.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
A nude photo of film director Roman Polanski, who is now being held in a Swiss prison, and his wife Sharon Tate taken shortly before she was brutally murdered, will be sold at an upcoming auction where it could fetch more than $10,000, organizers said.
The large-scale gelatin silver print, from an image taken by David Bailey in 1969 just months before actress Tate and four others were brutally slain by followers of Charles Manson, was printed in 1988 when it was earmarked for a traveling photography exhibition.
The portrait depicts the couple from the waist up. Tate poses in profile to the camera with her right arm over Polanski's shoulder, and Polanski's arms are wrapped around his wife's torso. Both are gazing into the lens.
The roughly 33-inch by 33-inch photograph was published in Bailey's book, "Goodbye Baby & Amen: A Saraband for the Sixties."
The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on White House grounds, a spokeswoman for the program's network said Thursday.
The couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, gained access to the dinner President Barack Obama hosted for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday, although they had not been invited, prompting a security review by the Secret Service, which acknowledged that procedures were not followed properly.
Bravo Media confirmed late Thursday that Michaele Salahi is being considered as a participant in the upcoming "The Real Housewives of D.C." program and on the day of the dinner was being filmed around Washington by Half Yard Productions, the producer of the program.
Visitors take a close look at an artwork by German artist Arne Felix Magold during an exhibition in Hamburg November 27, 2009. The work is made up of 612 slices of toasted bread and placed with the aid of a computer program by the artist.
Photo by Christian Charisius
The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.
The two agencies said Friday that the new rules, which were to take effect on Dec. 1, would be delayed until June 1 of next year.
A key Democratic opponent of the ban on online gambling praised the action and said it would give Congress time to overturn a law passed in 2006 when Republicans controlled Congress.
The delayed rules would curb online gambling by prohibiting financial institutions from accepting payments from credit cards, checks or electronic fund transfers to settle online wagers.
U.S. bettors have been estimated to supply at least half the revenue of the $16 billion Internet gambling industry, which is largely hosted overseas.
Tiger Woods was injured early Friday when he lost control of his SUV outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said Woods' wife used a golf club to smash out the back window to help get him out.
The world's No. 1 golfer was treated and released from a hospital in good condition, his spokesman said. The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods' vehicle hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor's yard after he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m.
Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor told The Associated Press that officers found the 33-year-old PGA star lying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering over him.
The accident came two days after the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing a New York night club hostess, and that they recently were together in Melbourne, where Woods competed in the Australian Masters.
Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage - humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.
Organizer Maria Mastalerz says the weeklong "performance" aims to attract interest in a play, "Caveman," showing in the Polish capital. But she says it also carries a message that humans today are not all that different from their prehistoric ancestors.
Dressed in furs and animal skins, the young woman and man smoked a fish over a fire Friday, poking it with a stick, or stared from behind bars at startled zoo visitors.
One hundred years ago, a wealthy couple built a mansion in Hollywood and installed a speaking tube allowing them to order a Scotch whisky from their servants -- a handy trick, but nothing compared to what the home's later occupants would conjure up.
Today under the name The Magic Castle, the mansion is a private club for magicians that has been around for 46 years, and is known by tricksters all over the world.
This month, the castle celebrated the 100th anniversary of the construction of the mansion that houses it. To mark the occasion, the club threw a gala party and had a magician wriggle out of a straight jacket while hanging from a crane.
The Magic Castle is a show business haunt, but it's not in the business of showing off. Instead of an open door policy, the club perched in the Hollywood Hills has more of a sliding bookcase policy, as visitors must carry an invitation from a member to get inside.
Nancy Bellavia Mangione, the mother of jazz musician Chuck Mangione and jazz pianist Gap Mangione, died Wednesday. She was 95.
Chuck Mangione, a flugelhorn player, achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." He has released more than 30 albums since 1960. He won his first Grammy Award in 1977 for the album "Bellavia," which was named after his mother.
This September 2009 photo released by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries shows a spicebush swallowtail caterpillar on a leaf in a hardwood swamp in Wells, Maine. Scientists say the finding confirms that particular species of butterfly breeds in Maine, 75 years after the last reported sighting.
Photo by Phillip deMaynadier
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