Charles Babington: Anger at Bush May Hurt GOP At Polls (washingtonpost.com)
In Collierville, Tenn., school bus driver Charlotte Bruce is worried Bush will prove ruinous to GOP candidates this fall. "He's making such fools out of Republicans that no matter what the Democrats present, that's the one that's going to get in," she said. "And that's frightening," because the country needs bipartisan balance, she said. Bruce, 54, said she is a moderate Republican and has given money to the party, but now she is exasperated with Bush and his economic policies. She recounted a conversation with neighbors who support Bush because of "moral issues." "I said, 'While he's not killing babies, he's killing you' " with high gasoline prices, a soaring deficit and other problems, Bruce said. "He is going to bankrupt us all."
Beth Quinn: 'Recipe for Holy War: Add two nut jobs and stir'
[Bush] like a child with a serious case of ADHD. He's lost interest in Iraq and is looking for a new toy to break. Iraq, after all, has turned out badly, so he's doing what he always does when he makes a mess of something - he's turning his attention elsewhere and starting a whole new mess.
PAUL KRUGMAN: Enemy of the Planet (The New York Times)
Lee Raymond, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, was paid $686 million over 13 years. But that's not a reason to single him out for special excoriation. Executive compensation is out of control in corporate America as a whole, and unlike other grossly overpaid business leaders, Mr. Raymond can at least claim to have made money for his stockholders.
Froma Harrop: 'Newport mansions offer needed tax day reminder'
COME to Newport, R.I., and see what America was like before the income tax. The Elms is a Gilded Age mansion graced by a Louis XV ballroom and tapestries from Imperial Russia. Its owner made his tax-free fortune off the coal mines of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Down the street is Rosecliff, a copy of the Grand Trianon at Versailles and financed by Nevada's Comstock Lode. Steamships and railroads paid for the Vanderbilts' 70-room Breakers and equally lavish Marble House. Like the other Newport mansions, they were used for only a few weeks in the summer.
Jane Smiley: Notes for Converts (huffingtonpost.com)
Bruce Bartlett, The Cato Institute, Andrew Sullivan, George Packer, William F. Buckley, Sandra Day O'Connor, Republican voters in Indiana and all the rest of you newly-minted dissenters from Bush's faith-based reality seem, right now, to be glorying in your outrage, which is always a pleasure and feels, at the time, as if it is having an effect, but those of us who have been anti-Bush from day 1 (defined as the day after the stolen 2000 election) have a few pointers for you that should make your transition more realistic.
David Bruce: Wise Up: Passover/Easter (athensnews.com)
During Easter service at the Hunter Community Church in Franklin, Ohio, the pastor and choir carried lighted candles in a procession down the aisle. A small boy in the congregation saw the lighted candles and started singing, "Happy birthday to you."
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Amazing Race 9', followed by a FRESH'Criminal Minds', then a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Craig Ferguson, Alexis Bledel, and Tom Russell.
On a RERUNCraig (from 4/13/06) are Ray Romano, Ken Shamrock, and Tom Caltabiano.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Celebrity Cooking Showdown', followed by a FRESH'Heist', then a RERUN'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kiefer Sutherland, Kristin Chenoweth, and Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
On a RERUNConan (from 10/14/05) are Dolly Parton, and Molly Sims.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 3/8/06) are Aisha Tyler and Big City Rock.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Alias', followed by a FRESH'Invasion'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Eva Longoria, Dick Cavett, and Dresden Dolls.
The WB offers a FRESH'One Tree Hill', followed by a FRESH'Bedford Diaries'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'Unam1mous'.
UPN has a FRESH'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN'Veronica Mars'.
A&E has 'Copycat Crimes', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', still another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', yet another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', and 'Biography' (Andre The Giant).
AMC offers the movie 'The Tall Men', followed by the movie 'The Comancheros', then the movie 'Bend Of The River'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 7;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served' - Fifty Years On;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[4pm] 'My Hero' - Pregnant;
[4:40pm] 'My Family' - Shrink Rap;
[5:20pm] 'My Family' - Desperately Squeaking Susan;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - McCann;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 55;
[8pm] 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 1;
[8:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - McCann;
[9pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Episode 2;
[10pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Episode 4;
[11pm] 'The Robinsons' - Episode 5;
[11:40pm] 'Coupling' - The Freckle, the Key, and the Couple Who Weren't;
[12:20am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 9;
[1am] 'What Not To Wear' - Episode 2;
[2am] 'What Not To Wear' - Episode 4;
[3am] 'Trust' - Episode 1;
[4am] 'Trust' - Episode 2;
[5am] 'Trust' - Episode 3;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', still another 'Top Chef', and a FRESH'Top Chef'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'House Party IV', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'South Park', and a FRESH'Mind Of Mencia'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Dennis Quaid.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Caitlin Flanagan.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Engineering Disasters 18', and 'Oakland Bridge'.
IFC -
[6AM] The Widow of St. Pierre (2000);
[7:45AM] Frazetta: Painting With Fire (2003);
[9:30AM] Smoke Signals (1998);
[11AM] Hoop Dreams (1994);
[2PM] April: IFC Short Film Collection 1 (2006);
[4PM] Trust (1990);
[6PM] Hoop Dreams (1994);
[9PM] sex, lies and videotape;
[10:45PM] The Station Agent (2003);
[12:15AM] Dinner For Five #28 (2003);
[12:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2006);
[1AM] sex, lies and videotape;
[2:45AM] The Station Agent (2003);
[4:15AM] Storytelling (2001);
[5:45AM] Short: Blue City (1996). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not', 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters', 'Psychic At Large', and another 'Psychic At Large'.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story;
[7:30AM] In Short: In Short: Festival 4;
[08AM] Bright Young Things;
[10AM] Another Road Home (Director's Cut);
[11:30AM] Kiss of Life;
[1PM] Work Hard, Play Hard;
[2:45PM] Raggedy Man;
[4:20PM] Buffalo Bill and the Indians;
[6:30PM] In Short: In Short: Festival 4;
[7PM] Bright Young Things;
[9PM] Kath & Kim: Kath & Kim: Sport;
[9:30PM] Harvie Krumpet;
[10PM] Four Rooms;
[11:45PM] Cock Fight;
[12AM] Blonde Dolly;
[1:45AM] A Game With Stones;
[2AM] City of Men: Episode 3: The Mail;
[2:35AM] Female Perversions;
[4:30AM] Puberty Blues. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Cast member Bill Murray arrives at the premiere of 'The Lost City' at the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles April 17, 2006. The movie tells the story of a club owner who during the 50's is forced to flee from Havana, Cuba after being caught in the turbulent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. The movie opens limitedly in the U.S. on April 28.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
George Takei, who played helmsman Mr. Sulu in three "Star Trek" TV seasons and six movies, made a surprise appearance Monday after a busload of Soulforce Equality Riders tried to talk about faith and gay rights with students at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis.
The 33 activists are traveling by bus to 19 U.S. colleges with religion-based policies opposed to homosexuality. They were locked out of school buildings when they arrived at North Central, which is owned and operated by the Assemblies of God.
After sitting in front of the doors for most of the afternoon, the Soulforce riders and supporters rallied at a park across the street when Takei, who came out as a homosexual last year, stopped by.
Takei was in town to speak at a gay pride event at the University of Minnesota.
Citizens of Myanmar living in Bangladesh hold up pictures of Aung San Suu Kyi as they protest against a proposed gas project between India and Myanmar, in Dhaka April 18, 2006. India and Myanmar signed an agreement last month on sales of gas to state-run gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd. and building a pipeline from Myanmar to northeast India. Human rights groups have lobbied western oil companies to avoid Myanmar in protest at its detention of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and on other human rights issues.
Photo by Mohammad Shahidullah
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of the Aflac Inc. duck in television commercials for the insurer, was crowned "unsexiest man in the world" by an alternative newspaper on Tuesday.
"The parrot-voiced, pickle-faced comic is to sexy what Kryptonite is to Superman," The Boston Phoenix wrote.
New York Yankees pitcher Randy Johnson came in second followed by film critic Roger Ebert, television psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw and Fox television co-host Alan Colmes. Even actor Brad Pitt made the list, as the newspaper's 100th-least sexy man.
Discovered in an attic, the 50-foot scrap of film runs for only 38 seconds. It may turn out to be rare footage of a silent movie released in 1923. The Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center has done the detective work and reached a conclusion.
But nobody's talking - for now.
The PBS television show "History Detectives" approached the center in January with the film fragment, which was discovered by an Elsmere, Ky., man in the attic of his grandfather's Cincinnati home. The film was in a canister labeled "Dangerous Hour - Eddie Polo."
A former circus acrobat, Polo was a stuntman who became known as "Hercules of the Screen." From 1920 to 1923 he appeared in films including "The Vanishing Dagger," "King of the Circus" and "Captain Kidd."
Months after doctors declared her cancer free, rock singer Melissa Etheridge is looking ahead to spending more time as a mom this fall, when her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, expects to give birth to twins.
A message announcing the pregnancy was posted this week on Etheridge's Web site, along with an answer to "the obvious question: we used an anonymous donor from a (sperm) bank."
Ballerinas of the English National Ballet perform at the Royal Theatre in Madrid during a dress rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's ballet 'Swan Lake' April 18, 2006. 'Swan Lake' will run April 19 to 25.
Photo by Andrea Comas
Actress Brooke Shields, whose first experience as a mother led to write a book about postpartum depression, gave birth on Tuesday to her second child with TV writer Chris Henchy, her publicist said.
The 40-year-old actress and her husband named their new daughter Grier Hammond Henchy, the couple said in a statement issued through People magazine.
The Tomkitten has arrived. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the public lovebirds dubbed TomKat by the media, had a baby girl Tuesday, said Cruise spokesman Arnold Robinson. The baby, named Suri, weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches long, he said.
The baby was born in Los Angeles but Robinson did not disclose the exact location.
The PGA Tour's new television contract with CBS Sports and NBC Sports has led to the LPGA Tour moving one of its major championships from network coverage to The Golf Channel.
And that's just fine with Herb Lottman, co-founder of the LPGA Championship.
"CBS decided they would rather take care of the boys than the girls," Lottman said. "We had an association with them for over 13 years. They made a change, and told us after the fact."
With an increased load of PGA Tour coverage starting next year, CBS has the Memphis tournament on June 7-10, 2007 - the same week as the LPGA Championship. Lottman said CBS officials asked that the final round of the LPGA Championship end at 3 p.m. Sunday, allowing the network to shift to the final round of the Stanford St. Jude Championship.
Hideaki Motoyama, project leader of the National Institute of Polar Research, holds a million-year-old ice sample in Tokyo April 18, 2006. A million-year-old ice sample drilled from 3 kilometres under the Antarctic and unveiled in Tokyo on Tuesday could yield vital clues on climate change, Japanese scientists said.
Photo by Toru Hanai
Writer and actor Malachy McCourt said on Tuesday he will run for governor of New York under the slogan "Don't waste your vote, give it to me."
Best known as the raconteur brother of "Angela's Ashes" author Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt said on his Web site that he will seek the Green Party nomination for November's election.
McCourt said he will run on a platform of promoting peace, ridding New York State of nuclear energy and abolishing the death penalty.
Indonesian farmers are silhouetted in front of Mount Merapi at Srumbung village, near Indonesia city of Magelang on April 15, 2006.
Photo by Dwi Oblo/Reuters
The first home Elvis Presley owned, a ranch style house in Memphis he bought as his career was taking off with "Heartbreak Hotel," is for sale online.
The modest, four-bedroom house at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis was posted on eBay Friday.
As of Tuesday morning, the lone bid was for $100,000 by Elvis Unlimited, an organization that operates an Elvis museum and shop in Randers, Denmark.
In March 1957, Presley gave up the house on Audubon Drive for a 14-acre estate with a two-story colonial house already known as Graceland, a home that Elvis would make famous.
A Japanese shop clerk displays the official World Cup 'Teamgeist' soccer ball for sale at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Official Shop Operated under licence by FamilyMart in Tokyo April 18, 2006. The shop, selling about 100 official items, opened on Tuesday ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany which will kick off in June. The shop will be open until July 16, 2006.
Photo by Issei Kato
The humuhumunukunukuapuaa officially lost its title as the state fish more than a decade ago but is set to reclaim the honor.
A bill reinstating the critter - known as humuhumu for short - passed the Legislature on Monday and heads next to the office of Gov. Linda Lingle for a signature.
The measure is credited by its introducer, Rep. Blake Oshiro, to the 6-year-old son of a friend and constituent, Joel Itomura. It was Itomura who brought the lack of an official designation for the humuhumu to the attention of Oshiro, D-Aiea-Halawa.
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