'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Wingnut Debate Dictionary
Found this great link on the discussion forum at
democraticunderground.com.
Mike
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That Atrios sure gets around.
Contributor Contribution
Re: Dan Quayle
And people say Dubya is dumb...
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
Dan Quayle
Alex
Thanks, Alex!
from Mark
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Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, breezy day.
The kid has his first cold of the season.
He spent the day moping around the house trying to blow his nose, but nothing was moving.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS, as usual, has '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then the made-for-tv-blonde-in-peril-movie, 'The Elizabeth Smart Story'.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then the made-for-tv-blonde-in-peril-movie 'Saving Jessica Lynch'.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH '10-8', then a
FRESH 'Alias', followed by a FRESH 'The Practice'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a FRESH
'Tarzan'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed
by a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Elizabeth Smart: The Long Way Home', followed by a 2-hour 'Biography'
(Cher), then the 2-hour 'Biography'
(Cher) runs again.
AMC offers the movie 'The Longest Day', followed by the movie 'Midway', then the movie 'Von ryan's Express'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 1;
[7pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Chertsey;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Dover;
[8pm] 'Faking It' - Show Girl to Show Jumper;
[9pm] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[9:40pm] 'Coupling' - The Man With Two Legs;
[10:20pm] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[11pm] 'Faking It'- Show Girl to Show Jumper;
[12am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[12:40am] 'Coupling' - The Man With Two Legs;
[1:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[2am] 'Changing Rooms' - Chertsey;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Dover;
[3am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[3:40am] 'Coupling' - The Man With Two Legs;
[4:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 5;
[5am] 'Faking It' - Show Girl to Show Jumper; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by 'Inside The Actor's Studio' (the voice cast of 'The Simpsons'), then 'The Restaurant',
followed by 'The Restaurant'.
History has 'History vs. Hollywood', 'We Can Make You Talk', 'Mail Call', and 'Extreme History'.
SciFi has 'Taken' (part 6 of 10), followed by 'Taken' (part 7 of 10).
TCM spends the late night celebrating
Lon Chaney.
[6am] 'The Last Days Of Pompeii' (1935);
[8am] 'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame' (1939);
[10am] 'South Pacific' (1958);
[1pm] 'Betrayed' (1954);
[3pm] 'Hatari!' (1962);
[6pm] 'The Magnificent Seven' (1960);
[8:30pm] 'It Happened Here' (1966);
[10:30pm] 'Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces' (2000);
[12am] 'Unholy Three' (1925) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'The Unholy Three' (1930) SILENT ;
[2:45am] 'Laugh, Clown, Laugh' (1928) SILENT ; and
[4:15am] 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1925) SILENT . (ALL TIMES EST)
David Gilmour, of the rock band Pink Floyd is seen at London's Buckingham Palace, Friday Nov. 7, 2003, after being awarded with the Commander of the British Empire, CBE, by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II for services to music.
Photo by Matthew Fearn
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
To Auction Movie Costumes
Debbie Reynolds
Actress Debbie Reynolds will auction off 300 movie costumes and props to raise money for a permanent museum for the rest of her Hollywood collection.
Reynolds, 71, who starred in the 1952 musical "Singin' in the Rain," said Friday she hopes to raise at least $2 million at the Dec. 6 auction to establish the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum.
The auction will include two needlepoint armchairs from "Gone With the Wind" and costumes and props used by Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and James Cagney in "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
A live auction will be conducted at Le Meridien Hotel in Beverly Hills. Bidders also may bid online at eBay or at
www.Autographs.com.
Debbie Reynolds
Revlon Renews Contract
Halle Berry
Actress Halle Berry will continue her contract to appear as a spokeswoman for Revlon Inc., the company said.
The Oscar-winning actress recently finished an advertising campaign for the New York-based Revlon's summer 2004 collection.
Other Revlon spokeswomen include Julianne Moore, Jaime King, Karen Duffy and Eva Mendes.
Halle Berry
Tom Smothers does yo-yo tricks during arrivals at CBS's 75th anniversary celebration Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003, in New York.
Photo by Louis Lanzano
Refuses Release Unless Others Freed First
Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will refuse freedom from house arrest until the country's ruling generals release dozens of her jailed colleagues, a UN rights envoy revealed.
The United Nations' Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who on Thursday became only the second outsider to meet the opposition leader, said Aung San Suu Kyi was in high spirits but unwilling to accept any "privileges" from the junta unless other political prisoners arrested after May unrest were released.
Several local contacts and foreign diplomats in recent weeks have been turned away at the gates of her guarded lakeside villa, where Aung San Suu Kyi was shifted to house arrest in September after more than three months of secret detention, which the junta described as "protective custody".
Aung San Suu Kyi
Calls On Europe
Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi said in an interview to appear Monday that Muslim women living in Europe should be free to wear the headscarf required by Islam.
The isssue of the headscarf is a topical and sensitive one in Germany and France.
In Germany the 16 states (Lander) are divided over whether the headscarf should be tolerated in public schools, after a ruling by the country's constitutional court in September that said it could be worn in schools but allowed individual states the right to ban it.
In France the issue arises regularly, most recently in the case of two sisters who were banned from their school at the start of the new school year for refusing to take off their scarves.
Shirin Ebadi
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Rocks For Fire Victims
Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd has added a benefit concert in San Diego to its current string of club dates in advance of its forthcoming Flawless/Geffen album, "Life on Display."
The Nov. 15 show at San Diego rock club Soma will raise money for a Salvation Army fund created to help victims of the forest fires in Southern California. Tickets went on sale Friday (Nov. 7) via Ticketmaster's Web site and will be available Saturday via traditional outlets.
Puddle of Mudd
The skulls of Pedro Marcos, left and Maria de Marcos adorned with garlands and cigarettes are decorated after being blessed by a catholic priest in a church at the Cementerio General, the largest cemetery in Bolivia, in La Paz on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003. One week after Day of the Dead celebrations, the skulls of relatives are brought in to the church to be blessed and decorated. Believers say they can read the future in the cigarette ashes that fall on the floor.
Photo by Dado Galdieri
Opens in London
Rod Stewart Musical
British rocker Rod Stewart on Friday joined the ranks of nostalgia-fueled tribute musicals seeking box-office success in London's theater scene.
The raspy-voiced singer's classic 1970s and '80s hits have inspired a new show to rival West End musicals based on the back catalogs of Abba and Queen.
"Tonight's the Night," which opened in London Friday, features more than 20 of Stewart's hits, including "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy," "Sailing" and "Maggie May."
It was written by comedian and dramatist Ben Elton, responsible for turning rock group Queen's output into the musical "We Will Rock You," which was panned by the critics but has become a huge box office success.
Rod Stewart Musical
Kicks Off North American Tour
Andrea Bocelli
It wasn't quite the Met. Opera star Andrea Bocelli kicked off his North American tour Friday night at the new Save Mart Center in Fresno, a California farming city.
The Fresno Grand Opera paid the 45-year-old tenor more than $1 million to perform at the center's opening, betting that Bocelli's star power could fill the huge new arena.
About 14,000 music lovers attended Bocelli's concert, with 1,100 paying $276 for the top tickets. All but 1,800 seats cost more than $100.
Andrea Bocelli
/www.bocellionline.com
Nashville Rejection
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash's near sweep of this year's CMA Awards was a long time in coming. He last received awards from the Country Music Association in 1969, when he took home five awards, including entertainer and male vocalist of the year. Cash's daughter, Cathy, says that being overlooked by the Nashville music industry hurt her father.
"I think it bothered him a little bit because that's your peers and that was his art, and he was so proud of his art," Cathy said. "I don't think it made him mad or bothered him as much as it maybe hurt his feelings. He was really sensitive and he was always rooting for the other guy, but I think it stung."
Despite the 34-year lag, son John Carter Cash says his father's three new CMA awards are better late than never: "It would've been great if it would've happened earlier--that his career would've gotten the notice that it deserved three years ago, four years ago. However, that it happened now it can't be denied, it's importance, and I guess they forgave him."
Johnny Cash
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Indie Agency Auctions On eBay
Super Bowl Ad
Throwing out a long-shot resembling a Hail Mary football pass, an independent advertising agency has offered to develop a Super Bowl commercial for the highest online bidder at eBay, starting at a price of 99 cents.
Independent advertising agency Boone/Oakley, which has yet to create a Super Bowl ad, said on Friday it would devise three concepts for a show-stopping commercial to air during the Feb. 1 National Football League's championship game.
Its launching the offer much like a quarterback's prayer in the wind pass to receivers in the end zone, hoping someone will come up with the big catch.
The offer does not cover the cost of production or a coveted Super Bowl time slot from CBS -- where prices are running as high as $2.4 million for a 30-second commercial. But the ad agency hopes to draw advertisers looking for a fresh creative approach at a lower cost.
For the rest, Super Bowl Ad
Britain's Prince Charles admires renovation work while touring the Nagaur Fort in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
Photo by Emmanuel Dunand
Thin-Skinned Bully Says He's Misunderstood
O'Really
Bill O'Reilly is riding high in his "No-Spin Zone" but he's ticked off. Tired of being smeared. Tired of being misunderstood.
It might seem odd that there could be any mistaking his message. O'Reilly — combative and outspoken — hardly lacks for communication skills, nor for opportunities to demonstrate them.
How, then, can anyone miss the essential O'Reilly factor: a self-described regular guy granting good-sense respite from others' baloney and lies. He has christened this refuge the No-Spin Zone, and that is where he reigns.
On his show, O'Reilly is brash, sometimes imperious as he debates his guests, firing back with facts and figures that his critics say don't always bear up to scrutiny. But maybe it's just the heat of the moment, his need to win his grudge match with society's "in crowd."
Pull on your hip-waders, and read the rest - O'Really
Sculpture In Munich Museum
'Him'
It is a striking piece of art for Germany, where the horrors of the country's Nazi past have made it taboo to display Hitler in any form except in documentary films.
The sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, entitled "Him," shows a sad-looking Hitler wearing a modest suit and kneeling in an empty room with his hands folded together.
Among other pieces in the exhibition are works by Diane Arbus, James Coleman and Paul McCarthy.
'Him'
Merle Yost poses in his psychotherapy office. Yost struggled for decades with B cup-sized breasts before having them surgically removed.
Photo by Jeff Chiu
Truth Hurts
'McJob'
McDonald's says it deserves a break from the unflattering way the latest Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary depicts its job opportunities. Among some 10,000 new additions to an updated version released in June was the term "McJob," defined as "low paying and dead-end work."
In an open letter to Merriam-Webster, McDonald's CEO Jim Cantalupo said the term is "an inaccurate description of restaurant employment" and "a slap in the face to the 12 million men and women" who work in the restaurant industry.
Cantalupo also wrote that "more than 1,000 of the men and women who own and operate McDonald's restaurants today got their start by serving customers behind the counter."
McDonald's, the world's largest restaurant chain, has more than 30,000 restaurants and more than 400,000 employees.
'McJob'
In Memory
Joanna Lee
Joanna Lee, an actress and scriptwriter who wrote popular television programs like "Gidget" and
"Gilligan's Island," has died of bone cancer. She was 72.
Lee died Oct. 24 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
Lee won an Emmy in 1974 for writing the Thanksgiving episode of "The Waltons," the family drama she wrote for from 1972 to 1981. Lee also wrote and served as associate producer for the television movie
"Babe," a film about pro golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias, which won a Golden Globe in 1976.
Born in Newark, N.J., Lee moved to California at age 12 with her divorced mother. She began her acting career in the 1950s in television dramas such as
"Death Valley Days" and movies, including 1959's "Plan 9 From Outer Space."
Lee often addressed social issues in her films. A divorced single-mother of two, she often did films that focused on women's issues. In a 1976 interview with the Los Angeles Times she said, "the women I write about are winners. I want women to win in life."
Lee wrote and produced "I Want to Keep My Baby" in 1976. It was the story of a teenage girl who decides to give up her child for adoption. She also wrote the script for 1975's
"Cage Without a Key," about a girls' reform school.
Lee said that she related to unwed mothers because by age 20 she was a divorced single mother and had been a teenager when her son, Craig Lee, was born. Christopher Ciampa, the only child of her second marriage, was cast in her 1980 film
"Children of Divorce," which she wrote, directed and executive produced.
Survivors include her son, Christopher, and one grandson. Her son Craig died of AIDS in 1992.
Joanna Lee
Adult and juvenile harlequin bugs swarm a picket fence in Manly on Sydney's north shore November 8, 2003. The bugs often feed in groups, sucking the sap from tender young leaves shoots of vegetables, fruit trees and ornamentals and causing wilting and dieback. Gardeners can control the insects by picking them off by hand or use a contact insecticide.
Photo by Will Burgess
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