Paul Krugman: Medicaid on the Ballot (New York Times)
If [Mitt Romney] wins, Medicaid - which now covers more than 50 million Americans, and which President Obama would expand further as part of his health reform - will face savage cuts. Estimates suggest that a Romney victory would deny health insurance to about 45 million people who would have coverage if he lost, with two-thirds of that difference due to the assault on Medicaid.
Marc Dion: More Freebies for Freeloading Bums (Creators Syndicate)
I'd give the poor people the computers because, in China, the government sits on the Internet to keep their own people down and because some Arab people used their computers to ignite a rebellion. At a time when the American governing classes (Democrat and Republican) sound more and more like the partially communist, all-oppressive people who run China and the religious zealots who run half the Arab world, I am in favor of the rebellious voice.
Esther Inglis-Arkell : The "London Fog" that killed over ten thousand people (io9)
Londoners will tell you that London is not actually that foggy. The famous London fog was actually the result of pollution. That's unpleasant, but for a few days in 1952, it turned into something more: The Great Smog. By the time the cloud that choked out the sun lifted, twelve thousand people were dead.
David Bruce: Wise Up! (Athens News)
The last time Erik Henrikson, critic for The Portland Mercury, thought that MAD Magazine was funny was when he was 12 years old - that is, until George W. Bush, whose incompetence was a boon to all satirists, became president of the United States.
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."
Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is a fictional character from the American animated television series Scooby-Doo, about the adventures of four crime-solving teenagers and Shaggy's pet great dane, Scooby-Doo. Shaggy is a cowardly slacker more interested in eating than solving mysteries. He is the only Scooby-Doo character (besides Scooby) to appear in all iterations of the franchise.
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Baron Dave ("I'm not opposed to reality imitating art of it doesn't get in the way." - Samuel R. Delany) said:
While I never liked Scooby Doo, the voice actors are interesting. Shaggy didn't map to any of the hippies I knew (though sort of looked like some of the hunters), but I always liked Casey Kasem's voice. Go fig.
Alan J wrote:
Shaggy from Scooby Doo
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is a fictional character from the American
animated television series Scooby-Doo
Adam answered:
Shaggy, Scooby-Doo's best friend. As I understand it, Shaggy is a trust-fund baby that keeps the Mystery Machine afloat.
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcal replied:
Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is a fictional character on the American animated television series Scooby-Doo, about the adventures of four crime solving teenagers and Shaggy's pet Great Dane, Scooby-Doo. He is a cowardly slacker more interested in eating than solving mysteries. He was the original slacker. I used to watch Scooby-Doo with the kids on Saturday mornings when they were mere tykes.
To everyone back East especially Sally, Joe and BttBob -Be safe!!!!
Sally said:
According to the Internets, he was better known as Shaggy, this skinny teenager who is never without Scooby by his side.
This should be him!
PS: Really bad here now, the wind is starting to blow... Scary too; the TV is so bad, every stating on the storm. I mean, you can only do what you can do...
Marian responded:
Shaggy, Scobby Doo's owner and best friend
BttbBob replied:
Can you keep a secret? I loathe 'Scooby-Doo'. Always have all these years now. Blech!... But, guess who likes it beyond measure? Yep... My grand-daughter, Maddie Muffin. Do-not-tell-her! She would be crushed and we can't be havin' that, can we now? (Although, when she's here and asks if it's on TV, I lie to her if I find out it is. I am not ashamed) She likes it so-o-o-o much that she was 'Daphne' for last year's Halloween. With her beautiful strawberry blond hair, she was a natural for the role. Had the dress, had the scarf, she was 'Daphne'... She was beautiful and all that stuff, but...
I liked her better as a dragon like Halloween '10!...
Behold! Maddie-gon the Fierce! With her wings, tail and loud roar (that I taught her) she was the scourge of the neighborhood, and that's a fact! Tremble in fear and hand over the treats!... That's what I'm talkin' about...
(Grabbing my bullhorn) Hello, SallyP! What's happening? Are you OK? Hang on tight! It'll be OK!
World Series finale: Congratulations, Giants. You are indeed the best team in Major League Baseball by far...
MAM wrote:
"Shaggy" ~ Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is the owner and best friend of the Great Dane, Scooby-Doo .
And, Joe S answered:
I know it's Shaggy because I looked it up on the Inter Webs, and that's the only reason I know because I've never watched that cartoon show and I, well, I never will.
But on another note, our Baltimore family is safe, warm, dry and making use of WiFi. That makes me very happy.
Here's my little sweeties getting ready for a ride in the car. Ain't they cute?
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Vegas'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave David Letterman: are Kate Hudson, Ken Burns, and St. Vincent with David Byrne.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig Craig Ferguson is Jay Leno.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Go On', then a FRESH'The New Normal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are John C. Reilly, Jenni "JWoww" Farley, and Lifehouse.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Russell Brand, Andy Cohen, and Trey Anastasio.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Citizen Cope, Atlas Genius, and Wolfgang.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Happy Endings', then a FRESH'Don't Trust The Palin In Apartment 23', followed by a FRESH'Private Practice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Howard Stern, Tracy Morgan, and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings.
The CW offers a FRESH'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Emily Owens, MD'.
Faux has a FRESH'Raising Hope', followed by a FRESH'Ben & Kate', then a FRESH'New Girl', followed by a FRESH'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan', followed by the movie 'Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday', then the movie 'Jason X'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 7 - Ep 4 - Karen Gillan, Jennifer Lopez, Alan Davies, Ben's Brother
[9:00AM] MERLIN - Season 2 - Ep 8 - The Sins of the Father
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 10 - The Girl Who Waited
[11:00AM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 2 - Ep 4 - Resistance
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Classic American
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Giuseppi's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 1 - Episode 1
[4:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Trobiano's
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Anna Vincenzo's
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 4 - Luigi's D'Italia
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Burger Kitchen, Part 1 NEW
[10:00PM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Hot Sauce Hustle NEW
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 4 - Luigi's D'Italia
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Burger Kitchen, Part 1
[1:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Hot Sauce Hustle
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Classic American
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Giuseppi's
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 9 - Le Bistro (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Flipping Out', another 'Flipping Out', still another 'Flipping Out', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Out'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Brickleberry'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart it's TBA.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Alan Simpson.
FX has '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', followed by a FRESH'Sons Of Anarchy'.
History has 'The Men Who Built America', another 'The Men Who Built America', still another 'The Men Who Built America', followed by a FRESH'The Men Who Built America'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] From Within
[8:00AM] Seventh Moon
[9:45AM] Exorcismus
[12:00PM] From Within
[2:00PM] Seventh Moon
[3:45PM] Exorcismus
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm Dates a Family
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Reese's Apartment
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm Visits College
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Polly in the Middle
[8:00PM] Transporter 3
[10:15PM] Creepshow
[12:45AM] Cop Land
[3:00AM] No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker
[5:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:30AM] Undeclared-The Day After (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Love Lust & Breakfast
[7:00A] Bootmen
[8:40A] Brokedown Palace
[10:30A] Mammoth
[12:45P] Bootmen
[2:30P] Brokedown Palace
[4:20P] Lost in La Mancha
[6:00P] Great Expectations
[8:00P] ICONOCLASTS - Christy Turlington Burns + Tory Burch (Episode 4, Season 6)
[8:30P] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comedian Tig Notaro & Parenthood's Jason Ritter (Episode 4, Season 2)
[9:00P] The Fly
[10:45P] The Orgasm Diaries
[12:30A] Mutants
[2:00A] The Possession of David O'Reilly
[3:30A] Dead Hooker in a Trunk
[5:00A] THE DAY BEFORE - Jean Paul Gaultier (Season 1, Episode 4) (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Total Blackout', followed by a FRESH'Viral Video Showdown'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Katey Sagal, extreme pumpkin carver Tom Nardone, and Tommy Johnagin.
Actress Jessica Alba is shown with a projected photo of her daughter during the launch of Windows Phone 8 in San Francisco, California October 29, 2012.
Photo by Robert Galbraith
The man behind "The Avengers," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly" released a satirical video endorsing Mitt Romney this Halloween weekend, saying the Republican candidate has some unique qualifications.
Romney has "the vision and determination to cut through business as usual politics and finally put this country back on the path to a zombie apocalypse," writer and director Joss Whedon says in the video.
Though clearly joking, Whedon plays on themes used in more serious ads. Romney has promised to create 12 million jobs to help lift Americans out of poverty, but Whedon warns that a Romney administration would favor the wealthy, leading to economic and societal deterioration.
Whedon also warns against a Romney agenda on social issues: "Romney is ready to make the deep rollbacks in health care, education, social services, reproductive rights that will guarantee poverty, unemployment, overpopulation, disease, rioting: all crucial elements in creating a nightmare zombie wasteland."
Actor Neil Patrick Harris (L) in costume poses with unidentified guest at Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner's annual Halloween Party at The Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, October 27, 2012
Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show will be wrapping after two seasons.
Warner Bros. said Monday that the marketplace made it increasingly difficult for "Anderson Live" to "break through" to viewers despite format changes.
The show switched to live broadcasts in its second year but struggled to match the ratings performance of daytime frontrunners including "Ellen" and "Live! With Kelly and Michael."
Warner Bros. says Cooper will continue with "Anderson Live" through summer 2013. He also remains the host of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
Storm Troopers, cyborgs, superheroes and other comic-book fans can count on their annual pilgrimage to San Diego for another four years.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders announced Monday that Comic-Con has extended its contract with the city through 2016. It had been set to expire in 2015.
The pop-culture convention draws 130,000 visitors from around the world and contributes more than $180 million to the city's economy, Sanders said.
Comic-Con began in San Diego in 1970 but has become so popular over the past four decades that it has outgrown the San Diego Convention Center.
Comic-Con spokesman David Glanzer said city officials and local businesses have helped the event remain in San Diego by allowing organizers to expand beyond the convention center to create a "Comic-Con campus" using meeting space in nearby hotels.
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is donating papers belonging to his father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, to Oxford University.
The archive, which fills 54 boxes, includes early drafts of the poet's work, as well as letters from actor John Gielgud and famous literary figures such as W.H. Auden, Robert Graves and Philip Larkin.
Daniel Day-Lewis stars this year in the much-anticipated film "Lincoln," about the assassinated U.S. president. He and his sister, Tamasin, said Tuesday they are thrilled that their father's papers will be housed at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and become accessible to students and researchers.
Cecil Day-Lewis, who studied classics and became poetry professor at Oxford, was appointed the U.K. poet laureate in 1968. He also wrote mystery novels and stories under the name of Nicholas Blake. He died in 1972.
From left, Ralph Johnson, Verdine White and Philip Bailey and Earth, Wind & Fire performs during the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation at the 15th Anniversary Fall Gala supporting cancer research on Saturday, October 27, 2012, in Greenwich, Conn.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Green Day is canceling the rest of its 2012 club schedule and is postponing the start of the 2013 arena tour.
Bass player Mike Dirnt says Billie Joe Armstrong's "well-being is our main concern" in the band's decision to clear the schedule through Feb 8.
He says in a statement Monday that Armstrong is doing well in his attempt to shake substance abuse problems that emerged publicly in September when the singer-guitarist had a profane meltdown on the stage of the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.
The Grammy-winning punks also moved up the release date of "Tre," the third installment in a trilogy of albums released over a period of months. The album will be released Dec. 11, more than a month ahead of schedule.
Supreme Court justices on Monday weighed copyright protections for publishers, creative artists and manufacturers in a global marketplace in a case that has attracted the interest of Costco, eBay and Google. The outcome has important implications for consumers and multibillion dollar annual sales online and in discount stores.
The court was about the only Washington institution open on Monday. The justices and spectators who braved the rain and wind saw a book publisher face off against a Thai graduate student in the U.S. who resold the publisher's copyrighted books on eBay after relatives first bought nearly identical, cheaper versions abroad.
The court seemed to struggle with whether it matters where the books were produced and first sold.
The justices' answer to those questions is of enormous interest to discount sellers like Costco and online business like eBay and Google that offer good prices on many products that were made abroad.
Publisher John Wiley & Sons won a copyright infringement lawsuit against the student, Supap Kirtsaeng. The high court is considering Kirtsaeng's appeal, which argues that Wiley lost its right to control resale of the books once his relatives bought them legally.
Kirtsaeng used eBay to sell $900,000 worth of books published abroad by Wiley and others and made about $100,000 in profit. The international editions of the textbooks were essentially the same as the more costly American editions. A jury in New York awarded Wiley $600,000 after deciding Kirtsaeng sold copies of eight Wiley textbooks without permission.
Contestant Lia Lebenszky performs during the Miss Belly-Dance Hungary competition in Budapest October 28, 2012. Lebenszky won the competition.
Photo by Laszlo Balogh
William Faulkner wrote that the past is never dead. His heirs say their copyright to that phrase is very much alive.
The author's literary estate is suing Sony Pictures Classics for using a paraphrase of that line in Woody Allen's 2011 film, "Midnight in Paris." It's also suing Northrop Grumman Corp. and The Washington Post Co. for using a Faulkner quote in a newspaper ad by the defense contractor.
The first lawsuit says Sony infringed on the copyright when actor Owen Wilson slightly misquoted the line from Faulkner's "Requiem for a Nun." He said, "The past is not dead! Actually, it's not even past." The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Oxford, Miss.
The second lawsuit, filed Friday in Jackson, Miss., makes similar claims about the ad.
Former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan has settled a lawsuit with a disc jockey over a sex tape involving Hogan and the DJ's wife.
A statement by Hogan's publicist Monday says the terms of the settlement are confidential.
Hogan said in a lawsuit earlier this month that he had consensual sex with his best friend's wife, Heather Clem, six years ago in the Clems' home, but he didn't know he was being videotaped.
The disc jockey, Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, apologized to Hogan on Monday. Clem also said that he's convinced Hogan was unaware he was being filmed.
People wearing masks participate in a parade during the National Encounter of Mask festival in Aserri, near San Jose October 28, 2012.
Photo by Juan Carlos Ulate
Authorities say a security guard at Tom Cruise's Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion used a stun gun on a trespasser who turned out to be an intoxicated neighbor who may have mistakenly entered the property.
Police say 41-year-old Jason Sullivan was shot with a Taser at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday at the home on Calle Vista Drive. He was then treated at a hospital and arrested on suspicion of trespassing.
Police say neither Cruise nor his family were at the home when a guard saw a man climbing a fence to get onto the grounds. A guard shocked the man and held him for police.
The Iranian national symphony orchestra has been disbanded for lack of funds, musicians said Monday, another sign of the effects of Western economic sanctions..
Orchestra members told the semiofficial ILNA news agency Monday that they have not rehearsed together and have not been paid for three months.
Arsalan Kamkar, a violinist in the orchestra, told The Associated Press Monday that "only seven or eight members of the orchestra have valid contracts. Unfortunately the rest have not had contracts over the past months, and it seems unlikely their contracts will be extended."
The orchestra was reactivated just last year, after a two-year break.
A model displays a creation by designer Weizdhurm Franklyn, during the MTN Fashion and Design Week in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012.
Photo by Sunday Alamba
David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon are doing their shows without audiences and Jimmy Kimmel, visiting from his home base in sunny Hollywood, canceled a taping in Brooklyn. "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" are off the air completely. And all 40 of Broadway's theaters are dark because of the powerful storm bearing down on the East Coast.
Hurricane Sandy didn't just halt airline flights and the stock market on Monday, it also caused widespread cancelations across the entertainment industry.
Concerts planned for New York and New Jersey were canceled or postponed, including John Legend, Journey, and comedian Louis C.K. and the "Freedom to Love Now" show, which is now set for spring of 2013.
East Coast charity galas were also canceled, and fashion designer Prabal Gurung postponed the unveiling of his anticipated collection for Target until next week.
Fear not, "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" fans; there are at least four more years of answers in the form of questions and letter-turning thrills to come.
Both "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" have been renewed through 2016 on the ABC Owned Television Stations Group, CBS Television Distribution said Monday.
The renewal extends the syndicated mainstays for two more years past their current contracts with the ABC-owned television stations that run them, which include New York's WABC-TV; Los Angeles' KABC-TV; Chicago's WLS-TV; Philadelphia's WPVI-TV; San Francisco's KGO-TV; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.'s WTVD-TV; and Fresno, Calif.'s KSFN-TV. All told the markets covered by the stations account for 21 percent of U.S. households.
The re-up will bring "Wheel of Fortune" into its 33rd season and "Jeopardy" into its 32nd season. Though "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek had hinted recently that he's been mulling retirement, both he and "Wheel of Fortune" co-hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White recently renewed their contracts through the 2015-2016 season.
A girl dressed in traditional costume stands next to a decorated buffalo during Chonburi's annual buffalo race festival, around 75 km (47 miles) east of Bangkok, October 29, 2012.
Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom
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