PAUL KRUGMAN: The Right's Man (The New York Times)
It's time for some straight talk about John McCain. He isn't a moderate. He's much less of a maverick than you'd think. And he isn't the straight talker he claims to be.
The Science Of Sexual Orientation (cbsnews.com)
There are few issues as hotly contested - and as poorly understood - as the question of what makes a person gay or straight. It's not only a political, social, and religious question but also a scientific question, one that might someday have an actual, provable answer.
A Laughing Matter (newyorker.com)
... one thing that was interesting in talking to the students at this panel was that a lot of them said, "You know, when I first started watching 'The Daily Show,' I didn't get all the jokes, because I didn't know what all the references were, and that actually made me start reading the news."
zEN mAN (remembering this photo of our 1956 chevy station wagon at Wawona "Big Trees" near Yosemite Park.....that night we watched the "Fire Fall".....those days have all disappeared...save the pictures)
I know it was 2000…that doesn't make it any easier. NPR should have a program…"All Things Rocky and Bullwinkle." I need more R & B…you must help me…I can't get enough!
love,
Willow
Well, my dear Willow - looks like there's a new
Rocky and Bullwinkle movie on the horizon.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Panama', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Vin Diesel, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
On a RERUNCraig (from 2/16/06) are Kiefer Sutherland, Amy Adams, and Rocco Deluca & the Burden.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser: Special Edition', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then another RERUN'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Queen Latifah, Carl Reiner, and Rob Zombie.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Macaulay Culkin, and Billy Bragg.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Amanda Bynes and Aimee Mann.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'George Lopez', followed by a FRESH'Freddie', then a RERUN'Lost' (runs 1 minute long), followed by a FRESH'Invasion' (starts 1 minute after the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Randy Jackson, former Attorney General Janet Reno, and Hard-Fi.
The WB offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Geek'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'The Loop'.
UPN has a FRESH'America's Next Top Model', followed by a FRESH'Veronica Mars'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Inked', 'Spying', and another 'Spying'.
AMC offers the movie 'Office Space', followed by the movie 'The Princess Bride', then the movie 'The Goonies'.
BBC -
[1pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Ep. 15 Wetherby 19;
[1:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Ep. 16 France 14;
[2:40pm] 'Blackadder' - Nob & Nobility;
[3:20pm] 'Blackadder' - Sense & Senility;
[4pm] 'At Home with the Braithwaites' - Episode 3;
[5pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 3;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 19;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 30;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[9pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[9:30pm] 'Increase Your House Price by Ten Grand' - Episode 3;
[10:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 20;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Live From the Grillomat;
[11:40pm] 'Comics Unleashed' - Episode 5;
[12:20am] 'Comics Unleashed' - Episode 6;
[1am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[1:30am] 'Increase Your House Price by Ten Grand' - Episode 3;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 20;
[3am] 'McCallum' - Ep. 2 Sacrifice;
[5am] 'Cambridge Spies' - Episode 1;
[6am] 'BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'TV Moments', another 'TV Moments', 'Viral Videos', another 'Viral Videos', 'Top Chef', and another 'Top Chef'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Drawn Together'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Natalie Portman.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Al Franken.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Meteors: Fire In The Sky'', and another 'Modern Marvel'.
IFC -
[6AM] The Cup (1999);
[7:45AM] Short: Little Valerie;
[8AM] Jump Tomorrow (2001);
[9:45AM] Love Liza (2002);
[11:15AM] Tango (1998);
[1:15PM] Target (1985);
[3:15PM] Love Liza (2002);
[4:45PM] Jump Tomorrow (2001);
[6:35PM] Target (1985);
[8:45PM] Media Lab Results (2006);
[9PM] Thirteen (2003);
[10:45PM] Pollock (2000);
[1AM] Thirteen (2003);
[2:45AM] Pollock (2000);
[5AM] The Name Of This Film Is Dogma 95 (2000). (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[7AM] Mermaids;
[9AM] Seven Times Lucky;
[10:30AM] Keepintime: A Live Recording;
[11:30AM] In Short: In Short: Festival 4;
[12PM] Resist. With the Living Theatre;
[1:30PM] Purple Hearts;
[2:50PM] Mermaids;
[4:45PM] Twentyfourseven;
[6:30PM] The Glass Menagerie;
[8:45PM] Cock Fight;
[9PM] Kath & Kim: High and Dry;
[9:30PM] Harvie Krumpet;
[10PM] Assisted Living;
[11:30PM] In Short: In Short: Festival 4;
[12AM] Head-On;
[2AM] Darkman;
[3:45AM] Head-On;
[5:45AM] The Glass Menagerie. (ALL TIMES EST)
Shirley Manson, the lead singer of the band Garbage, waves to photographers backstage at the twenty-first annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction dinner, New York, Monday, March 13, 2006. Manson inducted the band Blondie in to the hall of fame.
Photo by Stuart Ramson
The Sex Pistols didn't show up, Blondie had a public row and Black Sabbath asked another band to play their music at an awkward night of inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Other inductees were the late jazz icon Miles Davis, who was cited for his contribution in helping create a fusion of jazz with rock and roll, soul, funk and hip hop, beginning in the 1960s.
A and M Records co-founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss received a lifetime achievement award in the non-performer category.
The evening began with a tribute to late soul legend Wilson Pickett, featuring Solomon Burke, and ended with a salute to hurricane ravaged New Orleans featuring Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint and The Band's Robbie Robertson.
Annie Proulx, whose 1997 short story inspired the film "Brokeback Mountain," has penned a scattershot blast in a British newspaper unleashing her anger over the film's best-picture Oscar loss.
Proulx criticizes Oscar voters and the Academy Awards ceremony in the 1,094-word rant, which appeared in Saturday's issue of The Guardian, a liberal paper boasting 1.2 million readers daily.
Academy members who vote for the year's best film are "out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city," Proulx writes.
"If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit choices," Proulx advises.
Founders of A&M Records Herb Alpert (L) and Jerry Moss pose backstage at the 2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York March 13, 2006.
Photo by Brendan McDermid
Actor Alec Baldwin joined other professional artists on Capitol Hill Tuesday to kick off Arts Advocacy Day and lobby Congress for arts funding.
Speaking to a standing room only crowd of members of lawmakers and state arts officials, Baldwin commended Congress for several years of funding increases to the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1996, the Republican-controlled Congress slashed the agency's budget by 39 percent and voted to phase out all funding.
Americans for the Arts, along with the Congressional Arts Caucus, organized the breakfast event. Other speakers included Tony Award-winning actor Brian Stokes Mitchell and American Ballroom Theater founder Pierre Dulaine.
Mike Wallace, the hard-driving reporter who has been with "60 Minutes" since its start in 1968, said Tuesday he will retire as a regular correspondent on the show this spring.
A television news legend who was the last person an accused wrongdoer would want to see on his doorstep, Wallace said he'll still do occasional reports for the show. CBS News President Sean McManus referred to him as a "correspondent emeritus."
Wallace said that "CBS is not pushing me" and that he'll keep an office at the CBS News headquarters.
Fired by news that Wallace and Gromit have won a fourth Oscar for their creator, fans in the pair's hometown called Tuesday for a statue to be erected of the balding cheese lover and his long-suffering canine companion.
Matthew Symonds, a local councilor in Bristol where Nick Park and Aardman Animations created the now-famous pair, said it was time to recognize the contribution that Wallace and Gromit have made to the city in southwest England.
Liza Minnelli arrives at her 'Liza With A Z' event, Monday, March 13, 2006 in New York. The event celebrated Minnelli's 60th birthday and a viewing of the restored 1972 TV concert event 'Liza With A Z'.
Photo by Stephen Chernin
Family, friends and the theater community came together Monday for an emotional, yet often joyous memorial celebrating playwright Wendy Wasserstein, "an extraordinary woman, who led an extraordinary, exemplary life."
Scenes from several of Wasserstein's plays, including "Uncommon Women and Others" (Wasserstein's first success), "Isn't It Romantic," "An American Daughter" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Heidi Chronicles," were performed, some with their original casts. Among the actors appearing were Meryl Streep, Swoosie Kurtz, Jill Eikenberry, Linda Lavin, Robert Klein, Joan Allen and Boyd Gaines.
Other speakers ranged from Mary Jane Patrone, a friend from her college days at Mount Holyoke, to playwright Christopher Durang to Daniel Sullivan, who directed four of Wasserstein's plays, including "The Heidi Chronicles" and "The Sisters Rosensweig" to her niece, Pamela Wasserstein.
In an unusual and little-known case, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office has seized four computer hard drives from a Lancaster newspaper as part of a statewide grand-jury investigation into leaks to reporters.
The dispute pits the government's desire to solve an alleged felony - computer hacking - against the news media's fear that taking the computers circumvents the First Amendment and the state Shield Law.
The state Supreme Court declined last week to take the case, allowing agents to begin analyzing the data.
"This is horrifying, an editor's worst nightmare," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington. "For the government to actually physically have those hard drives from a newsroom is amazing. I'm just flabbergasted to hear of this."
A three-month-old Southern Tamandua, also known as an anteater, walks during a press preview at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo March 13, 2006. The baby Southern Tamandua was born last November, the first time an anteater has been borne and raised at an aquarium or a zoo in the country, an aquarium official said.
Photo by Issei Kato
Two former members of the defunct new wave rock band the Cars have refueled the group, installing singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren in the driver's seat and will hit the road as the New Cars, they announced on Tuesday.
The new model, featuring Cars lead guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboardist Greg Hawkes, will be accompanied on tour by fellow classic pop refugees Blondie, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday.
Also aboard the New Cars are bass player Kasim Sulton, who has played with Rundgren, and former Tubes drummer Prairie Prince.
Sean Connery is suing a country club for allegedly using his "worldwide celebrity" to fatten its reputation and refusing to pay money owed him after he ended his membership.
Connery is seeking more than $500,000 for breach of contract and more than $500,000 for "unjust enrichment" from the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Superior Court.
The suit claims the golf club was aware of the actor's lucrative status as an "internationally renowned celebrity and famously avid golfer" when it invited him to join in 1990 at a special initiation fee of $35,000.
Clear Channel Communications Inc., the nation's largest radio station owner, says the Justice Department has closed two antitrust investigations into its broadcast and concert business without taking action.
Separately, the company disclosed Tuesday that during 2005 its chief executive and chief financial officer received restricted stock awards worth $5.84 million apiece and options to buy 355,000 more shares apiece.
Chief Executive Mark Mays was paid $879,107 in salary, Chief Financial Officer Randall Mays got $787,441, but neither received bonuses, which had amounted to $1.7 million each the previous year. They are the sons of Chairman L. Lowry Mays, who was paid $750,944 last year, plus $1.17 million in restricted stock and 505,000 options, according to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Musicians Elvis Costello, right, and Robbie Robertson, play in an all-star tribute to New Orleans at the end of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, Monday, March 13, 2006, in New York.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
Michael Jackson got a day's reprieve on a deadline to pay a $100,000 fine and $306,000 in wages he owes Neverland Ranch employees.
Jackson now has until 5 p.m. Wednesday to pay the penalty and remit back wages owed dozens of workers, who complained to the state that they hadn't been paid since Dec. 19.
FBI anti-terrorism agents spied on a peace group simply because it opposed the Iraq war, part of an "unprecedented campaign" to spy on innocent citizens, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Tuesday.
FBI documents acquired under the Freedom of Information Act and provided to reporters show the FBI conducted surveillance of the Pittsburgh-based Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice at anti-war demonstrations and leaflet distributions in 2002 and 2003.
One of the FBI documents, unveiled at a news conference by the two groups, carried the headline "International Terrorism Matters" and referred to the FBI's work with an anti-terrorism task force that includes several agencies.
The memo called the Merton Center "a left-wing organization advocating, among many political causes, pacifism."
"I don't know about Brad Pitt, leaving that beautiful wife to go hold orphans for Angelina," Michael Douglas snipes in GQ's April issue, hitting newsstands March 21.
The 61-year-old Douglas also took swipes at actresses Renee Zellweger and Julia Roberts: "I mean, don't ask me what happened with Renee Zellweger. I don't know how you get married for four months. And Julia with Lyle."
As for his marriage to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, Douglas says he's "been fortunate. You learn to respect something of value and nurture it and treat it well."
Tourists look at the long-awaited rupture of the leading edge of the Perito Moreno glacier as the waters of Lake Argentino open a tunnel in the glacier, widening it until it collapsed in a massive explosion of ice fragments and water, near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian privince of Santa Cruz, southern Argentina, March 13, 2006. The Perito Moreno glacier, part of the Los Glaciares National Park, a World Heritage site, is unusual in that it is still growing forward at the accelerated rate of between 30 and 60 cm per day.
Photo by Horacio Cordoba
When marine scientist Ray Berkelmans went diving at Australia's Great Barrier Reef earlier this year, what he discovered shocked him -- a graveyard of coral stretching as far as he could see.
"It's a white desert out there," Berkelmans told Reuters in early March after returning from a dive to survey bleaching -- signs of a mass death of corals caused by a sudden rise in ocean temperatures -- around the Keppel Islands.
Australia has just experienced its warmest year on record and abnormally high sea temperatures during summer have caused massive coral bleaching in the Keppels. Sea temperatures touched 29 degrees Celsius (84 Fahrenheit), the upper limit for coral.
"My estimate is in the vicinity of 95 to 98 percent of the coral is bleached in the Keppels," said Berkelmans from the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
It was 9:30 on a Saturday night and Carol Jantsch was at an ultimate Frisbee tournament when her cell phone rang with an audition invitation from the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of America's finest symphonies.
Almost one year later, after beating out 194 other musicians during an arduous tryout process, the 21-year-old University of Michigan senior is the first woman - and perhaps the youngest person ever - to earn a tuba seat with a top-five U.S. symphony.
Carol Jantsch became interested in low brass when she was 9 at an arts camp. She picked up a euphonium, the tuba's smaller cousin, and could play it immediately.
In this photo provided by the Zoological Society of San Diego, keepers fed a 2-day-old California condor chick at the San Diego Zoos Wild Animal Park using a condor puppet, Tuesday, March 14, 2006. This is the first California condor chick to hatch this season. It marks the 128th condor to hatch at the Wild Animal Park. Two more eggs are in incubators, while three others are being incubated by their parents. Keepers expect more eggs to be laid through May. The hatchling will be raised through the process of puppet rearing, where keepers feed the chick with a condor puppet to disguise their presence. At a month old, the Parks animal care staff will begin a gradual introduction process allowing the chick visual contact with other condors. By 5 to 6 months of age, the condor chick will fledge and join a mentor bird that will teach the youngster how to behave like a condor.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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