Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's Real MLK Problem (ehrenreich.blogs.com)
At first I took it as another, yawn, white rip-off of black culture and creativity: the Rolling Stones appropriating the Bo Diddley beat, Bo Derek sporting corn rows, and now Hillary giving Lyndon Baines Johnson credit for the voting rights act of 1965. If you had to give this honor to a white guy, LBJ was an odd choice, since he'd spent the 1964 Democratic convention scheming to prevent the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party from taking any Dixiecrat seats. By Clinton's standards, maybe Richard Nixon should be credited with the legalization of abortion in 1972.
Tom Danehy: Most of what the Legislature's proposing should be sent straight to a dual-flush toilet (tucsonweekly.com)
Since it's an election year, I don't expect much from our various legislative bodies, what with all the fundraising, cocktail parties, trips to the Minneapolis airport men's bathroom, political conventions, campaigning, looking into the baseball steroid scandal, trying to locate the rocker that Ron Paul fell off of, political junkets, extended summer vacations, DUI traffic stops and subsequent appearances in court. Still, hope springs eternal, and maybe a few things can get done. Who knows?
On The Dick Van Dyke Show, the writers' office where Rob works is a recreation of the writers' bullpen from "Your Show of Shows", where Carl Reiner worked as a writer. The character Rob is based on Reiner and the character Buddy Sorrell is based on then-television comedy writer ?.
A: Woody Allen
B: Mel Brooks
C: Sid Caesar
D: Danny Simon
E: Neil Simon
A: A copy of the constitution
B: His badge
C: A bullet
D: Betty Lou's phone number
E: Juanita's phone number
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Marian the Teacher was first, and correct, answering:
First I thought it was a phone number, but then I thought, logically and realized that with the choices it had to be either the bullet or the Constitution. Regecting the huge document I knew it had to be the bullet.
mj nailed it with:
It may not have been magic, but he kept a single bullet in his pocket. C.
Chipshot responded:
Sheriff Andy made bumbling Deputy Barney Fife of the Mayberry Sheriff's Office keep his gun holstered and unloaded, but allowed him one bullet which he was told to keep in his shirt pocket. Apparently, Fife was quick to assess a situation and, much like our current "president," had a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. Keeping the gun empty and the bullet in his pocket made Fife have to think a little before doing something stupid. Pity we haven't been able to come up with something like that to keep Bush from doing all the stupid shit he's done these past 7 years!
Wanda replied:
A bullet
Leo said:
Sheriff Andy Taylor allowed Barney to carry a single bullet for his gun. Barney kept it in his shirt pocket.
BadToTheBoneBob answered:
C: His one (and only) bullet
S. Bennett Barney kept his one and only bullet in his shirt pocket as whenever Barney loaded his gun it had a knack for going off. Thelma Lou used to complain about Barney being quick on the trigger too. Now there's a mental visual I bet you wish you didn't have right now.
Alan J was right, again, with a succinct:
A Bullet
'The' Bruce replied:
A bullet, turning green with disuse.
Ted said:
A single bullet......
bebo responded:
I think he kept his one & only bullet in his shirt pocket. C:
ducks said:
his buwwet.
(that's for the elmer/bugs/daffy fans out there... hey laughing boy, no more buwwets)
Sally got it:
Who could forget that Barney Fife keep a bullet (C) in his shirt pocket! I loved that show!
A few years ago I was transferring flights at the N Carolina Airport. When we were disembarking the plane, I found myself behind a group of senior citizens. As they approached the stewardess at the exit, several ladies queried, "How far is it to Mayberry?" And, they were dead serious too... I was busy looking down and praying that no one would think that I was with that group. They took the news that, "Mayberry" was a fictitious town quite badly. I heard words such as, "Dang," "Shoot," and even a "Dagnabit!" I hope you're not shocked... Sigh.
Jim D answered:
A bullet.
DanD wrote:
EVERYBODY (who's ever faithfully watched the RFD crowd) knows that Barney
kept his one single chance in all his life to confront "the perps" with
terminal force in his shirt pocket ... it's where Sheriff Andy required
him to put his one lonely load. You see, being rather wise to the
unconventional psycho and potential mass murder that Barney really had
the potential to be, there was absolutely no way that America's
small-town version of a benevolent tyrant was going to actually allow his
Chihuahua masquerading as a pit-bull to actually carry a loaded piece ...
even if it had only one bullet in it.
For that matter, do you really think that Dick Cheney would let Dubya
walk around the West Wing with a loaded Glock? Right now, drama in the
White House is quite similar to that which used to happen in Mayberry,
but without all the comedic love.
So we'll call it a definitive "C."
Rob & Ann replied:
Yes...one bullet,the hilarity that would ensue when he tried to get it out
is tattooed on my brain!
That MadCat JD responded:
ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREAT WHITE TRASH PECKERWOOD SHOWS. I THINK IT WAS A BULLET.
Mechaave replied:
One bullet.
Sheriff Taylor wisely ordered Deputy Fife to carry his revolver unloaded, keeping a single round in his shirt pocket. Not surprising, considering that Sheriff Taylor carried no firearm at all.
And, Joe ("All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.) answered:
I know I'm right this time. C: A bullet. His only bullet.
Every year I send a Christmas card to President Bush
and VP Cheney. You know -- something like "Peace on
Earth, Goodwill to Men". Each year they act like they
don't know how to read or open their mail. I dunno,
maybe it's hopeless.
But this year I received the attached response from
President Bush. He tells me that "our economy grew at
a vigorous rate last year." Really... And then
there's some yadda, yadda about we're going to "spread
freedom and peace around the world". That's the only
mention of "peace" by the way. Then he goes on about
American spirit, a loving God, and blessing America.
I tell you what -- make a copy of this and send it to
the folks you know next Christmas as your own
Christmas greeting. Change the names to reflect
actual people in your family, like "Laura" could
become "Hector" or "Fitzgerald" or whoever you're
spousing-up with. I bet you won't receive too many
cards in return.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'The Unit', then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Sen. John Edwards, Diablo Cody, and Josh Ritter.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Tony Shalhoub, Becki Newton, and Ryan Sickler.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Leno is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
On a RERUNConan (from 5/9/06) are Sean Hayes and Cheap Trick.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Audrina Patridge and Aidan Murray Medley.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Just For Laughs', followed by a RERUN'Just For Laughs', then a FRESH'Jim', followed by a RERUN'Carpoolers', then a FRESH'Boston Legal'.
Jimmy Kimmel is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
The CW offers a RERUN'Reaper', followed by a FRESH'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a RERUN'House'.
MY has a recycled 'Street Patrol', another recycled 'Street Patrol', then a recycled 'Jail', and another recycled 'Jail'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', 'Parking Wars', and another 'Parking Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Blazing Saddles', followed by the movie 'Rio Bravo', then the movie 'The Comancheros'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Glasshouse;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 15;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 2 Harrogate 41;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 3 Kedleston 48;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 10;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep 8 The Mouthtrap;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Episode 4;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Life On Mars - Episode 7;
[9:00 PM] Life On Mars - Episode 8;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] Life On Mars - Episode 7;
[12:00 AM] Life On Mars - Episode 8;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Episode 1 - 9 1/2 Minutes;
[1:40 AM] The World Stands Up - Episode 2;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 1;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 15 Stourbridge;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 16 Camberwell;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 2 Harrogate 41;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 3 Kedleston 48;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 9 Hawkridge;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 10 Eaton;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed'.
Jon Stewart is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
Colbert Report is FRESH, but writerless, and the corporate masters don't want you to know who the guests are.
FX has the movie 'Ice Age', followed by the movie 'Fantastic Four', and a FRESH'Nip/Tuck'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Siberian Apocalypse', 'The Universe', and 'Mega Disasters'.
IFC -
[07:35 AM] IFC News Presents: Spirit Awards Nominations Special 2008;
[08:05 AM] The Year of the Yao;
[09:35 AM] Gerry;
[11:25 AM] Media Lab Results;
[11:35 AM] Once Upon a Crime;
[01:15 PM] The Year of the Yao;
[02:45 PM] Gerry;
[04:35 PM] Once Upon a Crime;
[06:15 PM] The Chorus;
[08:00 PM] Minor Accomplishments #204: Jackie Meets Her Match;
[08:30 PM] The Business #204: TWOFUS;
[09:00 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut;
[09:05 PM] Marvin's Room;
[10:45 PM] Liam;
[12:25 AM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut;
[12:30 AM] Gabrielle;
[02:05 AM] Marvin's Room;
[03:45 AM] Liam;
[05:20 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Dark Angel', another 'Dark Angel', 'Guinea Pig', another 'Guinea Pig', and 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[04:50 AM] Breaking the Waves;
[07:30 AM] Da Kath & Kim Code;
[09:00 AM] Episode 7;
[09:30 AM] Episode 3;
[10:00 AM] The Liberace of Baghdad;
[11:30 AM] Omagh;
[01:30 PM] Short Hymn, Silent War;
[02:00 PM] Man Push Cart;
[03:30 PM] The Motorcycle Diaries;
[06:00 PM] Craig David, James Morrison & Dave Matthews;
[07:00 PM] The Beat That My Heart Skipped;
[09:00 PM] Everything's Cool;
[10:40 PM] Be Quiet;
[11:10 PM] A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints;
[12:50 AM] The Doom Generation;
[02:10 AM] Everything's Cool;
[03:50 AM] Be Quiet;
[04:20 AM] Touch the Sound. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and actor Matthew Broderick arrive at the premiere of 'Smart People' during the Sundance Film Festival, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008, in Park City, Utah.
Photo by Peter Kramer
The Golden Tomato Awards pay tribute to the best-reviewed films of the previous year as determined by the Web site RottenTomatoes.com, which compiles reviews from print, online and broadcast film critics to measure the percentage of favorable critiques.
"Ratatouille," the animated gem about a rat with unexpected culinary skills, earned a 96 percent ranking on the site's Tomatometer. The Irish romance "Once," which won for best limited release film and best musical, scored 98 percent.
"Atonement" scored the Golden Tomato for romance. "The Bourne Ultimatum" won in the action/adventure category, "Juno" was the best comedy and "No Country for Old Men" the best thriller.
"Away From Her" was named best drama, "Sicko" won best documentary and "Grindhouse" was the top horror flick. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" took a Tomato for science-fiction/fantasy and "Enchanted" won best family film. "The Host" was the top foreign film.
Stars from the 1970s cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show have been signed up to feature on a more cuddly project - a Disney animated series.
Richard O'Brien who played a creepy butler in the bizarre musical, Tim Curry, who played Dr Frank-N-Furter and Barry Bostwick who played Brad have all been reunited to star in children's show Phineas and Ferb.
O'Brien, creator and star of Rocky Horror, provides the voice of Lawrence Fletcher, father to one of the characters.
Bostwick, 62, has a recurring role as Grandpa Clyde in the series, while Curry appears as a British butler in an episode set in London.
Revellers from The Club Nacioal Group participates in the annual Carnaval Encarnaceno in the city of Encarnacion January 20, 2008.
Photo by Jorge Adorno
Rock star Lou Reed took a walk on the not-so-wild-side on Monday when he played a private concert for a group of Parisian financiers.
Reed played to an audience of around 500 bankers and business executives at a theatre on the Avenue Montaigne, a street full of haute couture shops off the Champs Elysees.
The concert, which was not open to members of the public, was organized by French finance company Carmignac Gestion.
Director Oliver Stone, who has made movies about Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, is developing a project about the current occupant of the White House, but promises it will not be a hatchet job, Daily Variety reported on Sunday.
Stone is in talks with Josh Brolin, who is starring in "No Country For Old Men," to play the title role in "Bush," the trade paper said.
He is shopping the script to financiers and hopes to start production by April, with a release date in time for the election in November, or the inauguration of Bush's successor in January.
Stone told Daily Variety that he planned to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush, focusing on such areas as his relationship with his father, President George H.W. Bush, his wild youth, and his conversion to Christianity.
A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer, misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for 220,000 pounds at auction, more than one thousand times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday.
Lot 424 is catalogued as: "A French claret jug: The rock crystal body carved with animals, the silver gilt mounts with enamelled decoration, 19th century, 30 cm. (cracked and damaged). In fitted box of Morel a Sevres. 100-200 pounds".
But experts believe it is a rock crystal ewer from the Fatimid dynasty which ruled parts of northern Africa and the Middle East in the 10th-12th centuries.
Only five examples were previously known to have existed.
At 110 years old, an Italian-born Foreign Legionnaire who wants nothing to do with the state funeral proposed by former president Jacques Chirac is the last man standing in France from World War I.
"The first men to fall in the trenches deserve to be honoured as much as the last," Lazare Ponticelli said, according to his daughter Janine Desbaucheron, upon learning of fellow veteran Louis de Cazenave's death on Sunday.
National mourning for de Cazenave, two months Ponticelli's elder and the second-last French veteran of the Great War, is clearly heartfelt.
Now the pressure on Ponticelli's family to allow for wider symbolic significance when the inevitable happens may yet become overwhelming.
The widow of Sammy Davis Jr. is suing two former business partners over the rights to the Rat Pack entertainer's life story and management of his legacy.
Altovise Davis says she gave her intellectual rights to Sammy Davis Jr. Enterprises Inc., formed in 2004 by Barrett LaRoda and Anthony Francis, in return for a one-third share in the business.
Things came to a head, according to the lawsuit, during negotiations with a studio that wanted to make a biopic about Davis. The movie was to be partly based on two books - "Yes I Can" and "Why Me?" - that Davis wrote with the help of friends Judy and Burt Boyar. Altovise Davis and the Boyars held copyright interest in the books.
According to the lawsuit, LaRoda and Francis killed the movie negotiations by demanding a "substantial" fee and credit as executive producers.
Models display creations inspired by Mickey Mouse to celebrate the Chinese New Year of Mouse by Hong Kong fashion designer Vivienne Tam during a promotional events at Hong Kong Disneyland Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. This year marks the year of the mouse in Chinese zodiac.
Photo by Vincent Yu
Kiefer Sutherland was released from jail early Monday after serving 48 days on a drunken driving charge, police said.
The actor was ushered out a back door and into a waiting car at 12:05 a.m. to avoid the media near the Glendale jail's main entrance, Officer John Balian said.
"It was a joint decision between him and our police department personnel that it would be better if he exited through the back," Balian said.
Sutherland spent most of his jail sentence by himself, interacting with fellow prisoners only when he was on the way to the laundry room where he worked cleaning sheets, pillowcases and blankets, Balian said.
Visitors can now see the Los Angeles Zoo's newest attraction, but he can't see them.
A blind harbor seal named Alfred, which made its debut Friday, was rescued off the coast of New Jersey nearly a year ago and, after a long search by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, the L.A. Zoo took him in October.
The seal has spent the time since in quarantine and is adjusting to his new surroundings. He was placed among four female companions at the Sea Life Cliffs habitat near the zoo's entrance.
Zoo officials say Alfred, who is missing one eye and is blind in the other but otherwise healthy, uses the sensitive nerve endings in his whiskers to find his way around his new home.
An aerial view of the swimming pool at the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city on the southern coast of Chile, some 100 km (62 miles) west of Santiago, January 21, 2008. Acknowledged by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest swimming pool, the lagoon measures 1,013 metres (3,323 ft)) in length, covers an area of eight hectares (20 acres), contains 250,000 cubic meters of water and is navigable in small boats.
Photo by Eliseo Fernandez
It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout.
Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has largely gone unnoticed.
What they've spotted so far is troubling. In interviews with The Associated Press, they described high blood pressure, kidney damage, even full kidney failure striking 10 to 20 years later in people who survived severe E. coli infection as children, arthritis after a bout of salmonella or shigella, and a mysterious paralysis that can attack people who just had mild symptoms of campylobacter.
These late effects are believed to make up a very small fraction of the nation's 76 million annual food poisonings, although no one knows just how many people are at risk. A bigger question is what other illnesses have yet to be scientifically linked to food poisoning.
Turkmenistan will end its seven-year ban on opera and the circus introduced by the Caspian nation's former eccentric leader, state media reported.
Saparmurat Niyazov, who cultivated an elaborate personality cult during his 21-year rule, died in late 2006 of a heart attack. He banned opera, ballet and the circus, saying they are "alien" to Turkmen culture.
The new leader, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has sought to promote a softer image for the gas-rich nation bordering Iran -- and reversed some of Niyazov's most eccentric policies.
A reveller dressed as a "Cabezudo" (Big head) takes part in the traditional feast of Beneidas of Sant Antoni, patron saint of animals, in Palma de Mallorca January 17, 2008.
Photo by Dani Cardona
A mailer from a congressional candidate's campaign contains a photo of his head attached to an image of a different body that makes him look thinner.
The photo is presented as a true image of Dean Hrbacek, a Republican former mayor of Sugar Land. In reality, it is a computerized composite of Hrbacek's face and someone else's slimmer figure, in suit and tie, from neck to knee.
Hrbacek, a tax lawyer and accountant, did not immediately return a call to his campaign headquarters by The Associated Press. He is seeking the nomination to run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson.
Campaign manager Scott Broschart acknowledged to The Houston Chronicle that the image is a fake. Hrbacek has been so busy that he had no time to pose for a full-length photo for the mailing, Broschart said.
A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
About 20 cows will participate in the project run by the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, about 40 miles north of Stockholm, officials said Monday.
Cattle release methane, a greenhouse gas believed to contribute to global warming, when they digest their food. Researchers believe the level of methane released depends on the type of food the eat.
Project leader Jan Bertilsson said 95 percent of the methane released by cows comes out through the mouth.
In this photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, 'Midget,' the youngest of six dourocoulis at the Bronx Zoo's 'World of Darkness' exhibit, stops on a tree limb Friday, Jan. 18, 2008 in New York. Dourocoulis, also known as 'owl monkey' or 'night monkey' is the only true nocturnal monkey and can be found in the wild from Panama to northern Argentina and Paraguay.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
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