Paul Krugman: Disinformation on Inequality (New York Times)
In his piece [Bret] Stephens trashes Obama, accusing him of making a factual error when he did no such thing; then proceeds to commit just about every statistical sin you can imagine in an attempt to minimize the rise in inequality. In the process he leaves his readers more ignorant than they were before. When this is what passes for argument, how can we have any kind of rational discussion?
Lisa Skye, Paul Rasche: Where Aren't They Now? 16 Overlooked Deaths from 2013 (Cracked)
The new year is all about one thing: contemplating the creeping black hand of death that waits to claim us all. And while the rest of pop culture will spend the next week or so talking about the Nelson Mandelas and Paul Walkers of the world, every year we like to stop and remember those whose passing didn't make headlines, despite the fact that each changed your life in some small way.
Sweded Trailers for 2013's Biggest Blockbuster Films (Geeks of Doom)
For those of you unfamiliar with this term, "sweded" basically means a group of amateur filmmakers get together with whatever resources they can scrounge up and make their own identical version of the slicker Hollywood trailers.
Ian Johnston: Fast food is the 'unhealthy choice', McDonald's tells its own staff (Independent)
"Fast foods are quick, reasonably priced, and readily available alternatives to home cooking," a post on the site said, according to US business news channel CNBC. "While convenient and economical for a busy lifestyle, fast foods are typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar, and salt and may put people at risk for becoming overweight."
Hugh Malcolm Downs (born February 14, 1921) is a long-time American broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer. He is perhaps best known for his role as co-host of the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20 from 1978 to 1999. In addition, he's served as announcer/sidekick for Tonight Starring Jack Paar, host of the PBS talk show Over Easy, and co-host of the syndicated talk show Not for Women Only.
In 1985, he was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as holding the record for the greatest number of hours on network commercial television (15,188 hours), though he lost the record for most hours on all forms of television to Regis Philbin in 2004.
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Jim from CA, retired to ID, was first, and correct, with:
Hugh Downs
Charlie said:
I guessed it was Hugh Downs.
Adam answered:
I think Philbin is paying Google not to divulge any previous results. So I'm going to say Betty White. After all, she was the very first woman to be on Television.
Marian wrote:
Regis Philbin
Alan J took the day off.
DJ Useo responded:
I was surprised yesterdays' trivia answer was Regis Philbin. I had no idea what the true answer was.
I gots no clue what todays answer is either, so I'll take a wild guess that it's Gordon Shumway, the alien nicknamed 'ALF' ( an acronym for Alien Life Form ).
Lois The Elderly Of Oregon replied:
This was a painful Trivia Question! Forcing people to
actually read almost an entire Wiki entry about Regis
Philbin only to discover the answer is Hugh Downs! 2014 is
getting off to a rough start, what with all this time spent
thinking of Regis. But it was worth it to learn fun facts
about Hugh Downs, like; he studied gerontology! I had to
look THAT one up too! A science devoted to the study of old
people. Why would a young man want to spend his time on
that? Maybe because back in the 40's and 50's, EVERYBODY
was old! Even the teenagers! Yes, look at photos from those
days. They ALL look so much older than their years! Probably
because of all the nuclear tests, like the ones that made
them giant ants and stuff that was running around out in the
deserts in those days. Anyway here is a picture of Hugh
Downs when he was a teenager, taggin' a wall, and smokin'
weed with sailors.
@Sally; you got my vote! You're grand in my book. Hope those
kids appreciate how lucky they are.
@BttbB; LOL! Yes, all of them!
Sally said:
Boy, I just don't know which performer held the record for most time spent in front of a television camera, from 1985 to 2004.
I tried to look it up, with no luck, and really don't have much time to look more today.
Big storm coming in...
This is what the media would have us believe is coming...
I went grocery shopping after the kids left because it is my regular shopping day. I tell you, EVERYONE and their uncle were out shopping before 9 AM! The minute the media says the word, SNOW, the mid-Atlantic people freak! They were shopping as if they will not be able to get to a store for months!
Bet half if it ends up being tossed out after the fact!!
PS: My little care kid John, hopes it, "Snows up to the roof" overnight, so if I'm not here tomorrow, you will know his wish came true...
Dale of Dry Diamond Springs, Norcali, answered:
Hugh Downs who had 10,511 hours in 1997. Wow, that's an oldie! Wow, he even sang! Whaddya think, Hugh and Babs? Fidel? Senator Brooke? Pee-Wee, Yeah!
BttbBob replied:
Who what? WHO WHAT?
AAAAAAAAAAAA-H-H-H-H-H!!!!!
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
- Philip K. Dick
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Like now... May I be excused, please? Thank-yew-very-much...
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Now, then... Where was I? Oh, yes, of course... I just wanted all y'all E! fans to know that I absolutely did not make any 'New Year's Resolutions"...
Why change now?
MAM wrote:
Hugh Downs ~ The Tonight Show, Concentration, Today Show, and 20/20 (15,188 hours).
And, Joe S replied:
Well, this looks like a real tuffy, let's fire up old Fred and see what he has to say. What? Wait a minute! Fred's not working. Oh wait, I see the problem, no bars and the battery is almost gone. Gotta recharge.
In the meantime on to other more pressing issues. Lois, in case you were wondering what Sally and I had to say when discussing you, we felt you fit in here very nicely. And because of that, just for you, NAKED MONKEES!
I know, I know. They're naked monkeys and not what you wanted, but there are no pictures of naked Monkees out there because no one wants to see them. But here, just for you are pictures of scantily clad men, not naked, but very attractive. They aren't naked because they are all Native American men, the best looking men in the world, but very modest. I'm sure others will enjoy these pictures as well. Sally, MAM?
Ok, the first three are Adam Beach because he's so cool and he looks a lot like me. The last picture is me, many years and miles ago in South Dakota. You're welcome.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Undercover Boss', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNDave (from 10/7/13) are Tom Hanks and Two Door Cinema Club.
On a RERUNCraig (from 12/9/13) are Demi Lovato and Louie Anderson.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Grimm', then a FRESH'Dracula'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 10/11/13) are Perez and Tenacious D.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 12/13/13) are Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Lewis, and Austin Mahone.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 10/23/13) are "Behind the Mask", Kitten, and Duologue.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by another RERUN'Last Man Standing', then a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 12/17/13) are Mark Wahlberg, Bruce Dern, and Polica.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Carrie Diaries', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall it's TBA.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Shooter', followed by the movie 'Batman'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: PLANET OF THE DEAD
[9:00AM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY-Season 4 - Ep 2 - Rendition
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 20 - Tin Man
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 21 - Hollow Pursuits
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 22 - The Most Toys
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Glass House
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Walnut Tree
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Blackberry's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 7
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 1
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 14 - Sub Rosa
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 15 - Lower Decks
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 16 - Thine Own Self
[9:00PM] STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
[11:30PM] STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 13 - Homeward
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 14 - Sub Rosa
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 15 - Lower Decks
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 16 - Thine Own Self (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds', followed by the movie '2 Fast 2 Furious'.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', yet another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet one more 'South Park'.
FX has 'How I Met Your Mother', another 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by the movie 'Rush Hour 2', then the movie 'Rush Hour 2', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Dark Floors
[7:45AM] Enter the Dragon
[10:00AM] Hanna
[12:15PM] Batman & Robin
[3:00PM] Batman Forever
[5:30PM] Shanghai Noon
[8:00PM] Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
[10:00PM] Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
[12:00AM] Cabin Fever
[2:00AM] Cabin Fever
[4:00AM] Lake Dead (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Night and the City
[8:15AM] The Darjeeling Limited
[10:15AM] The Freshman
[12:30PM] The Pelican Brief
[3:30PM] A Time to Kill
[6:45PM] Kiss of Death
[9:00PM] The Professional
[11:15PM] The Professional
[1:30AM] Kiss of Death
[3:45AM] A Dangerous Method
[5:45AM] Lipsett Diaries (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then the movie 'X2'.
Musician Paul Simon returns a basketball as he attends an NBA basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in San Antonio.
Photo by Eric Gay
Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is set to visit Kentucky next month for a debate on science and creation with the man who founded the Creation Museum.
Founder Ken Ham wrote on his Facebook page that the museum will host Nye, the former host of a popular youth science show, on Feb. 4.
Nye has been critical of creationists for their opposition to evolution and asserting that the Old Testament is a literal account of the earth's beginnings. Last year in an online video that drew nearly 6 million views, Nye said teaching creationism was bad for children.
The event will be titled "Is Creation A Viable Model of Origins?" The museum is planning to charge admission.
Snow falls in the Cultural District of downtown Pittsburgh during evening rush hour on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. A storm expected to bring more than a foot of snow, stiff winds and punishing cold pushed into the Northeast on Thursday, extending Christmas break for some students while posing the first test for New York's new mayor and perhaps the last challenge for Boston's outgoing one.
Photo by Gene J. Puskar
"I am sorry Daniel Clowes," read a message in the Los Angeles sky on New Year's day that was apparently commissioned by Shia LaBeouf, who posted a photo of the writing on his @thecampaignbook Twitter feed.
The actor has been tweeting for several days to express his remorse for closely copying the comic "Justin M. Damiano," by graphic novelist Daniel Clowes, in his short film "Howard Cantour." "Ghost World" author Clowes lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
The skywriting was visible across several parts of Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon, including Hollywood, Glendale and Studio City. A company called Worldwide Sky Ads tweeted that their team the Skywriters was responsible for the message.
On New Year's Eve, La Beouf tweeted that his resolution is to "work on being a less controversial tweeter." But it's hard not to view the whole thing as an elaborate art project, since many of the tweets he sent in apology were themselves lines from other works.
A "Breaking Bad" fan in Florida, who watched the series finale of the AMC meth drama with the show's cast after winning a contest, has been arrested after perhaps mimicking the show's characters a bit too much, Florida television station WPTV reports.
Ryan Lee Carroll, who attended a Los Angeles screening of the "Breaking Bad" finale in September at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, won a contest sponsored by series star Aaron Paul. He was arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple drug charges.
Carroll, 28, has been charged with possession of a synthetic narcotic and possession of a controlled substance, both felonies, along with a misdemeanor charge of keeping a shop or vehicle for dangerous drugs. He was arrested after authorities began investigating the San Carlos Park, Fla., residence Carroll is renting.
Prior to attending the screening, Carroll enthused about the show with a drug-laced reference that perhaps, considering recent events, has taken on an added layer of relevance.
"If you start watching it, you can't stop," Carroll told Naples News. "It's highly addicting, just like the meth they make (on the show)."
A woman sits on a chair, which is part of an art installation of school chairs and tables hanging from a wall, while posing for a photo in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur January 2, 2014. Malaysia begins the first day of the new school year of 2014 on January 2.
Photo by Samsul Said
A mission to put humans on Mars that drew 200,000 applicants has selected more than a thousand candidates who will now be tested to come up with a final list of 24 would-be Mars-dwellers.
Mars One was set up in 2011 by two Dutch men with the goal of establishing permanent human life on Mars in 2025. They hope the project will be funded by investors and the rights from the documentary-cum-reality TV broadcasting of the tests, training and final selection.
The 1,058 candidates who got through to the first round come from all over the world. By far the largest number - 297 - are American, followed by 75 Canadians and 62 Indians.
They must now undergo rigorous tests, including simulations of life on Mars and coping with isolation, co-founder Bas Lansdorp said.
A lawyer who blew JK Rowling's cover when she wrote a detective novel under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith has been fined 1,000 pounds ($1,650) and received a written warning from a British legal watchdog.
Chris Gossage, a partner at Russells Solicitors, which represented the Harry Potter author, leaked one of the publishing world's biggest secrets to his wife's best friend - who then tweeted Galbraith's real identity to a journalist.
Rowling, Britain's best-selling author, was furious when she found out that a partner at her London-based law firm had revealed she was the author of "The Cuckoo's Calling".
After taking legal action against Gossage and his friend Judith Callegari, Rowling accepted an apology from the law firm which paid her legal costs and made a substantial, undisclosed donation to a charity of her choice, the Soldiers' Charity.
A Tuareg band performs folkloric songs in the desert during the 19th Ghat Festival of Culture and Tourism, in Ghat, about 1,360 km (845 miles) south of Tripoli December 30, 2013. In the annual event, Tuareg tribes from the region and tourists meet to celebrate Tuareg traditional culture, folklore and heritage. Picture taken December 30, 2013.
Photo by Esam Omran Al-Fetori
More than 6.6 million people attended events with Pope Francis at the Vatican from his election in March to the end of 2013, figures released on Thursday showed, compared to 2.3 million for former Pope Benedict in all of 2012.
The Vatican said the figures were based on the number of tickets issued for papal events where they are needed, such as general audiences, Masses and private audiences.
They were also based on estimates of the number of people at events where tickets are not needed, such as his weekly appearance from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square.
The Vatican did not issue comparative figures on Thursday but figures released on January 4, 2013 showed that some 2.3 million people attended all events presided by Benedict in 2012.
People walk in a park where Christmas trees and ice sculptures are on display during New Year celebrations in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, January 2, 2014.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
The tiny Chinese city of Macau has again smashed its annual record for casino earnings as revenues last year hit a staggering $45 billion, further underlining its outsize position as the world's biggest gambling market.
Gambling regulator data released Thursday showed that Macau's three dozen casinos raked in 33.5 billion patacas ($4.2 billion) in December. That brought revenue for 2013 to 360.8 billion patacas ($45 billion), up 18.6 percent from the year before.
Analyst Grant Govertsen of Union Gaming Research estimated that Macau's take would be more than seven times the amount earned on the Las Vegas Strip.
The former Portuguese colony's once-lethargic casino market has thrived since the government ended a gambling monopoly a decade ago and let in foreign players such as Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd.
All six casino operators in Macau, an hour by high-speed ferry from Hong Kong, are pouring billions into new megaprojects in the district in a fresh round of expansion.
A Nepalese man climbs the Boudhanath stupa, a world heritage site, as he works to renovate it in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. The Boudhanath Stupa is an important pilgrimage site for Buddhists.
Photo by Niranjan Shrestha
Two Utah paintings by the mysterious British graffiti artist Banksy were the targets of vandalism on New Year's Eve, possibly ruining one of the works in the town that hosts the Sundance Film Festival.
Brown spray paint Thursday covered a Park City mural that depicted a young boy with a pink halo and angel wings kneeling to pray behind a can of pink paint. The clear protective covering over the image had been shattered.
The second piece, of a cameraman stooped to shoot video footage of a flower, was not defaced, but the covering had been cracked.
The murals have become local points of pride since they appeared three years ago, and Park City police said they don't have a motive for the crime.
Surveillance footage captured a lone white male suspect tampering with the art about 2 a.m. Tuesday, and authorities expect to release images of the man Friday to aid their search, according to police Sgt. Jay Randall.
Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture of seven-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher to wish him a speedy recovery at Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha January 2, 2014. Schumacher was in a stable condition on Wednesday, three days after suffering brain injuries in a skiing accident, his agent Sabine Kehm said outside the hospital treating him.
The New York Times and Guardian newspapers have called for clemency for Edward Snowden, saying that the espionage worker-turned-privacy advocate should be praised rather than punished for his disclosures.
The papers - both of which have played a role in publishing Snowden's intelligence trove - suggested late Wednesday that the former National Security Agency contractor's revelations about the United States' world-spanning espionage program were of such public importance that they outweighed any possible wrongdoing.
"Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight," the Times said, calling either for a plea bargain, some form of clemency, or a "substantially reduced punishment."
The Guardian said it hoped "calm heads within the present (U.S.) administration are working on a strategy to allow Mr. Snowden to return to the U.S. with dignity, and the president to use his executive powers to treat him humanely and in a manner that would be a shining example about the value of whistleblowers and of free speech itself."
Both newspapers published their editorials online within a few hours of one another, but Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said the papers' appeals weren't coordinated ahead of time.
Longtime conservative New York radio host Bob Grant (R-Racist) has finally died at age 84.
His death Tuesday in Hillsborough, N.J., after a short illness was confirmed by New York radio station WABC.
Grant once derided Martin Luther King Jr. as "that slimeball." He was fired from WABC in 1996 for acid-tongued remarks he made following the plane crash death of the first black U.S. commerce secretary, Ron Brown. He later returned to WABC.
Grant was born Robert Ciro Gigante in Chicago in 1929. He began his broadcasting career in the late 1940s at WBBM in Chicago. He moved on to radio and TV jobs in Los Angeles and New York and was named afternoon drive time host at WABC in 1984.
Keeper Ben Baker looks at a Bell's Anglehead Lizard as it sits on the end of his pencil during a photocall for the annual stocktake at Chester Zoo in Chester, northern England, January 2, 2014. The annual stocktake is a compulsory count, with the results data shared with zoos around the world and used to manage the international breeding programmes for endangered animals.
Photo by Phil Noble
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