Sen. Barack Obama is now the official and historic nominee for the Democratic Party as Sen. John McCain (as in "no way, no how, no McCain") is the designated nominee for the Republican Party. He picked Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska as V.P. HEY, it only took them 24 years to take a woman seriously.
A new day is dawning. Why live another four years in darkness perpetrated by Bush and He Who Must Not Be Named?
Choose freedom, prosperity and a renewal of the "audacity of hope." talk about the historic speech at Mile High Stadium (ok, it's Invesco, too). Tell me your stories about the convention, Denver! Were you at the stadium? The Pepsi Center? Demonstrating? I want to hear all of your stories.
PAUL KRUGMAN: Feeling No Pain (nytimes.com)
The difference between the parties is that Democrats say that working Americans are getting a raw deal and Republicans believe that people have nothing to complain about.
Joan Baez is back (timesonline.co.uk)
Age has not wearied Joan Baez, the queen of protest, but it's calmed her down ... a bit, Will Hodgkinson finds.
Will Harris: A Chat with Sir Tom Jones (bullz-eye.com)
"Pretty much from 'It's Not Unusual' on, they realized that the ladies were really interested in what I was doing! What people too often forget, though, is that men like what I'm doing as well; I had to keep reminding them, 'You know, these women aren't coming to my shows alone; they've got husbands and boyfriends who're coming along with them!'"
EDWARD KOSNER: Review of "The Godfather of Tabloid" by Jack Vitek (online.wsj.com)
Long after its fabled Elvis, O.J. and Monica splashes, the National Enquirer made news last week when Democratic pol John Edwards admitted that he'd cheated on his cancer-stricken wife with a blond campaign aide and lied about it, although he insisted he wasn't the father of what the Enquirer inevitably called her "love child."
Charlie responded:
I guess Rocky doesn't count here. The only true flying mammals are bats, so the answer is
B: 1
And they understand hyperbolic geometry.
mj wrote:
For the second day in a row
I'm going with B, 1. It's a batty answer.
The DC Madman replied:
Bats are the only ones I know of.
Adam in NoHo said:
Bats fly, at least. As a species, I'll say B, 1.
Steve B replied:
Answer: 1, Bats..
DanD wrote:
Oh come-on, EVERYBODY knows that Vampire (bat)s (and all their cousins) fly! So that's at least one classification of flying mammal, or "B."
Talkin' about vampires, I'm sure that everybody knows by now that J. McCain has pulled another "hole" card out of his sleeve by playin' his Alaskan pussy-deuce. Jesus, are America's current generation of progressive feminists that stupid? Certainly, McInsane thinks they are!
"Back in the day, I knew a REAL feminist who would have ripped the Repug's whole pResidentially misogynistic election crew a new cavernous hole between their legs had they insulted her intelligence this much! By the hairy teaties of Venus, what where they thinking when some Rove-substitute decided to switch out that mean-assed Democratic "H" bitch for whom my friend may have voted with some goddam Moose-gobbling (runner-up) neo-con beauty queen?
And a petty-ass'd crooked one at that?
Where's George Carlin when you really need him?
Marian the Teacher answered:
One, bats fly but several others can glide such as the "flying" squirret.
Sally said:
When I was a child, and asked my mother something absurd - such as, "When can I go on the bus alone," she would quickly reply: "'When chicken's fly,' that's when missy..." It didn't take me long to connect that some creature's fly, and others just want to do so...
Therefore, I am guessing the answer to be one animal (B) if you consider the bat in that equation.
PS: Hey, joeyb, who could forget the image of a nun, with her trusty ruler in hand - leaping over desks in a single bound - going after some unsuspecting nasty boy?? I hope it wasn't you?? (Joking!) :)
Jim from CA responded:
I can only think of bats....so the answer must be l....
Joe S ("You will, I trust, excuse me if I... do not join you... but I have already dined, and I never drink... wine."
~ Dracula) wrote:
At first I thought this was a trick question, maybe there is another flying mammal besides the various kinds of bats. Then I decided it is a trick question because bats are the only flying mammal. Flying foxes, flying squirrels, even Rocket J. Squirrel, can only glide.
Thanks to Charlie for the picture.
Coming Eventually! - 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' on DVD!
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 10', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Dateline', followed by the movie 'National Treasure'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a 2-hour RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives'.
The CW offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', then a RERUN'Aliens In America', followed by a RERUN'The Game', then a RERUN'Girlfriends'.
Faux has a RERUN'Til Death', followed by another RERUN'Til Death', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'Married....With Children', followed by an old 'Raymond', then the movie 'The Perfect Marriage'.
AMC offers 'Mad Men', another 'Mad Men', still another 'Mad Men', followed by a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 1 Smith and Jones
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 2 The Shakespeare Code
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 3 Gridlock
[4:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 3
[7:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 4
[8:00 PM] Being the Sexiest - Being The Sexiest
[9:00 PM] Skins - Ep 3 Jal
[10:00 PM] Skins - Ep 4 Chris
[11:00 PM] Being the Sexiest
[12:00 AM] Skins - Ep 3 Jal
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[1:00 AM] Skins - Ep 4 Chris
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[2:00 AM] Being the Sexiest - Being The Sexiest
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[3:00 AM] Skins - Ep 3 Jal
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Alanis Morrisette and Dame Edna Everage
[4:00 AM] Skins - Ep 4 Chris
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 24 Ardingly 24
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Detling 32
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 21 Innes
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 23 Morris
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 21 Innes
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 24 Pender
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder', 'Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious', 'Ralphie May: Girth Of A Nation', and 'Dane Cook: Vicious Circle'.
FX has the movie 'X2: X-Men United', followed by the movie 'XXX', then the movie 'XXX', again.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', and 'MonsterQuest'.
IFC -
[8:00 AM] Jules et Jim
[9:50 AM] IFC News Special
[10:00 AM] The Last Metro
[12:15 PM] A Slipping-Down Life
[2:15 PM] Seed
[3:45 PM] IFC in Theaters
[4:00 PM] The Last Metro
[6:15 PM] A Slipping-Down Life
[8:15 PM] When Will I Be Loved
[9:45 PM] Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone
[11:00 PM] Z Rock
[11:30 PM] Z Rock
[12:00 AM] Henry Rollins: Larry Flynt Redux
[12:15 AM] Spanking the Monkey
[2:00 AM] Z Rock
[2:30 AM] Z Rock
[3:00 AM] Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone
[4:15 AM] Spanking the Monkey (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'Unbreakable'.
Sundance -
[04:45 AM] September 11
[07:00 AM] Three Seasons
[09:00 AM] Ben Harper, Justie Currie & Bryan Adams
[10:00 AM] Episode 5
[11:00 AM] Madeleine Albright + Ashley Judd
[12:00 PM] The White Countess
[02:15 PM] Just Say No
[03:00 PM] Episode 5
[03:35 PM] Everything's Cool
[05:10 PM] Recycle
[05:45 PM] In Short: The Art of Seduction
[06:30 PM] Episode 2
[07:00 PM] Flower & Garnet
[09:00 PM] Episode 7
[10:00 PM] A Room for Romeo Brass
[11:35 PM] Six Shooter
[12:00 AM] The Great Yokai War
[02:15 AM] In Short: The Art of Seduction
[03:00 AM] Episode 5
[03:30 AM] Episode 7
[04:00 AM] Household Saints (ALL TIMES EST)
Artist Robert Indiana poses Thursday, Aug. 29, 2008 at his studio in Vinalhaven, Maine. Indiana, who in the 1960s created the pop icon LOVE, now has created a similar image with HOPE, with proceeds going to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
Photo by Joel Page
Julia Roberts has returned to work with Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani to raise money for the fight against AIDS in Africa, designing a T-shirt to be sold under the "Red" label.
The Academy Award-winning actress has drawn the symbolic tree of life with the words "revolution.evolution.devotion" arching over its foliage.
The words are behind the acronym for "Red," the name of a product-branding alliance to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Money raised from events and product sales tied to the label have raised more than $110 million since it began in 2006, according to a statement from Giorgio Armani.
A gallery employee looks at "Freddie" by Craig Stevens, a Lego sculpture of singer Freddie Mercury, part of the View Basket: Art Bought Online at the Hayward Gallery in London August 28, 2008. The exhibition of more than 100 works, both amateur and professional, were all purchased on internet auction site eBay.co.uk with a budget of
Photo by Luke MacGregor
Tara Hui climbed under her deck, nudged past a cluster of 55-gallon barrels and a roosting chicken, and pointed to a shiny metal gutter spout.
"See that?" she said. "That's where the rainwater comes in from the roof."
Hui is one of a growing band of people across the country turning to collected rainwater for non-drinking uses like watering plants, flushing toilets and washing laundry.
Concern over drought and wasted resources, and stricter water conservation laws have revitalized the practice of capturing rainwater during storms and stockpiling it for use in drier times. A fixture of building design in the Roman empire and in outposts along the American frontier, rainwater harvesting is making a comeback in states including Texas, North Carolina, and California.
The average American uses 101 gallons of water a day at home and in the yard. Add in agricultural and industrial water use and that climbs to an average of 1,430 gallons per day per person.
Tibetan exiles and supporters staged a symbolic 12-hour fast for peace in Tibet on Saturday as Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama joined in from his hospital bed.
The global fast, which organisers said would be joined by supporters worldwide, aimed to highlight the "Tibetan cause" and push for world peace.
Thousands of Tibetan exiles and supporters thronged the main temple in the northern hilltown of Dharamshala, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based, to pray for peace in Tibet as well as around the world.
The Tower of Pisa is being challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe's most steeply leaning tower.
Retired geometrician Jacob van Dijk said measurements this week on Bedum's 36-metre church tower of Walfridus revealed it is now leaning more than its Italian rival, which lost part of its tilt following restoration works.
At a height of 55.86 meters, Pisa's tower leans about 4 metres, while Bedum's tower leans 2.61 metres on its height of 35.7 metres. If both towers were the same height, Bedum would have a greater tilt of 6 cm, Van Dijk argues.
High child mortality rates in conservative Afghanistan are linked not just to war but to mothers being uneducated and having little or no say when their children need medical help, a study has found.
Child mortality rates in Afghanistan are among the highest in the world, and one out of every five Afghan children (or 191 out of every 1,000 live births) will not survive beyond age five.
The study of 2,474 children from 1,327 households in Kabul province found that diarrhoea (32.5 percent), acute respiratory infection (41 percent), emaciation (12.4 percent) and stuntedness (39.9 percent) were among the most common health problems, said the article published in the latest issue of BioMed Central Public Health.
Up to 18.3 percent of the mothers also delivered their first child before they were 16, which meant they were married when they were still children, the researchers wrote.
The researchers defined a lack of education as not having attended school for at least a year.
In this hand out image provided by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Friday. Aug. 29, 2008, a 2,300-year-old gold wreath among human bones in a water-logged gold jar found is seen. Archaeologists say the discovery, at the ancient city of Aigai in northern Greece, is very important due to the richness of the artifacts and the unusual circumstances in which they were buried. The finds appear to have been removed from a grave and concealed under the marketplace of Aigai, the heart of the ancient city.
Thousands of Mexicans marched in the capital on Saturday to protest against a wave of kidnappings and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime.
Holding candles and dressed in white, demonstrators on the capital's Paseo de la Reforma main street carried posters and pictures of kidnap victims and signs saying, "Enough Is Enough."
Protests were planned throughout the country, especially along the U.S.-Mexico border where increasingly brazen drug gangs are battling each other for control of smuggling routes. More than 2,300 people have been killed in drug murders this year.
Kidnapping jumped almost 40 percent between 2004 and 2007, according to official statistics. Police say there were 751 kidnappings in Mexico last year but independent crime research institute ICESI says the real number could be above 7,000.
On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets.
The deadly disease sylvatic plague was discovered in May in a huge prairie dog town in the Conata Basin. The black-tailed prairie dog is the main prey of ferrets, and the disease quickly killed up to a third of the area's 290 ferrets along with prairie dogs.
The disease stopped spreading with the arrival of summer's hot, dry weather, but it poses a serious threat to efforts to establish stable populations of one of the nation's rarest mammals, said Scott Larson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Pierre.
The plague, which is carried by fleas, is the biggest danger to ferrets' survival in the Conata Basin and other sites that still have ferrets, said Larson, who is coordinating ferret conservation efforts among five federal agencies.
Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months - the first such increase in three years - as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees, officials said Saturday.
Some 8,147 square kilometers (3,088 square miles) of forest were destroyed between August 2007 and August 2008 - a 69 percent increase over the 4,820 square kilometers (1,861 square miles) felled in the previous 12 months, according to the National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, which monitors destruction of the Amazon.
The country lost 2.7 percent of its Amazon rain forest in 2007, or 11,000 square kilometers (4,250 square miles). Environmental officials fear even more land will be razed this year - but they have not forecast how much.
Italy agreed Saturday to pay Libya US$5 billion as compensation for its 30-year occupation of the country, which ended in 1943.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi signed a memorandum pledging a US$5 billion compensation package involving construction projects, student grants and pensions for Libyan soldiers who served with the Italians during World War II.
In return, Italy wants Libya to crack down on illegal migrants turning up on Italian shores, and Italy will fund US$500 million worth of electronic monitoring devices on the Libyan coastline.
Gadhafi received Berlusconi under a big tent in Benghazi where they discussed the agreement over lunch. The Italian leader said US$200 million of the package would be for infrastructure projects over the next 25 years, including a coastal highway stretching across the country from Tunisia to Egypt.
Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies.
These days, all he sees are the fluorescent lights of hotels, restaurants and highway overpasses. He says he'd have to row a good two miles to see trees lit up with the magical creatures of his younger days.
"The firefly populations have dropped 70 percent, in the past three years," said Preecha, 58, a former teacher who started providing dozens of row boats to compete with polluting motor boats. "It's sad. They were a symbol of our city."
The fate of the insects drew more than 100 entomologists and biologists to Thailand's northern city of Chiang Mai last week for an international symposium on the "Diversity and Conservation of Fireflies."
The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflight stance to flee in the opposite direction, ensuring a clean getaway, they said in a finding that helps explain why flies so easily evade swipes from their human foes.
"These movements are made very rapidly, within about 200 milliseconds, but within that time the animal determines where the threat is coming from and activates an appropriate set of movements to position its legs and wings," Michael Dickinson of the California Institute of Technology said in a statement.
In response to a threat from the front, the fly moves its middle legs forward, leans back and raises its back legs for a backward takeoff. If the threat is from the side, the fly leans the other way before takeoff.
A mask from the Wari culture recently uncovered in a pyramid called Huaca Pucllana is seen in Lima, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. A team of Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered what they say are three 1,300-year old mummies from the Wari culture in the heart of Lima.
Photo by Karel Navarro
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