Alexandra Petri: The important thing about impeachment is we all had fun and learned a lesson (Washington Post)
Look, at the end of the day, what is impeachment really about? Is it a process whereby the House accuses a president of an offense; the Senate tries, using evidence, to prove whether he committed it; and then he may or may not be removed from office? No, it turns out! It's - more of a journey, really. The important question to ask at the end of this process is not, "Did it serve as a check on the president's powers?" but, "Did it help to bring us closer together?" Well, you can't close ranks around a president without getting a little closer to each other.
Alexandra Petri: Something truly horrible happened at the State of the Union! (Washington Post)
Nancy Pelosi tore up Trump's speech. Afterward, not before, when it might have done some good. She tore right through it, as if it were an established norm and she were the Trump administration. As if she were the Trump administration and it were the visa application of a person from one of now 13 countries. She tore right through those innocent pages, and they fell to the top of the desk, unheard - almost like a female accuser of Trump.
Helaine Olen: Mitt Romney and John McCain both defied Trump. That's not a coincidence. (Washington Post)
Both were men of principle who ran for president because they wanted to do something good for the world. … I am not religious, but it occurs to me that a line from the New Testament suits this moment: "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul?" Romney will likely never be president of the United States, but he still possesses his soul, and we as a nation, even on this sad and infuriating day, are the better for it.
Andrew Tobias: "Overturning An Election; The State of the Union Is Factually Flawed"
• "Trump claimed the economy is 'the best it has ever been.' But GDP growth fell to 2.3% last year and economists predict further slowing this year.
• "He said he brought about low unemployment by reversing 'years of economic decay' and 'failed economic policies,' when in fact over 1 million more jobs were added in the 35 months before he took office than in the first 35 months since.
• "Trump boasted that the 'unemployment rate for women reached the lowest level in almost 70 years.' That's true, but it had been trending down for several years before he took office.
• "The president wrongly said, 'After decades of flat and falling incomes, wages are rising fast.' They've gone up under Trump, but also have risen under the last several presidents." - from FactCheck.org. (There were many more errors. This is part of the summary.)
Dutch-born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk entered into a uniquely successful partnership in 1955, managing a new force in popular music. By what name is van Kuijk better known?
First manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s, this product was reworked and pitched at young children in the 1950s. What is the name of this compound that was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame 1998?
Play-Doh (similar to "dough") is a modeling compound used by young children for arts and crafts projects at home. It is composed of flour, water, salt, borax, and mineral oil. The product was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s. The product was reworked and marketed to Cincinnati schools in the mid-1950s. Play-Doh was demonstrated at an educational convention in 1956 and prominent department stores opened retail accounts. Advertisements promoting Play-Doh on influential children's television shows in 1957 furthered the product's sales. Since its launch on the toy market in the mid-1950s, Play-Doh has generated a considerable amount of ancillary merchandise such as The Fun Factory. In 2003, the Toy Industry Association named Play-Doh in its "Century of Toys List".
The non-toxic, non-staining, reusable modeling compound that came to be known as "Play-Doh" was a pliable, putty-like substance concocted by Noah McVicker of Cincinnati-based soap manufacturer Kutol Products. It was devised at the request of Kroger Grocery, which wanted a product that could clean coal residue from wallpaper. Following World War II, with the transition from coal-based home heating to natural gas and the resulting decrease in internal soot, and the introduction of washable vinyl-based wallpaper, the market for wallpaper cleaning putty decreased substantially. McVicker's nephew, Joe McVicker, joined Kutol with the remit to save the company from bankruptcy. Joe McVicker was the brother-in-law of nursery school teacher Kay Zufall, who had seen a newspaper article about making art projects with the wallpaper cleaning putty. Her students enjoyed it, and she persuaded Noah McVicker (who also sold the putty) and Joe McVicker to manufacture it as a child's toy. Zufall and her husband came up with the name Play-Doh; Joe McVicker and his uncle Noah had wanted to call it "Rainbow Modeling Compound".
Play-Doh was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 1998.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Play-Doh.
Randall wrote:
Play Doh
Alan J answered:
Play-Doh.
Dave said:
Play-Doh. Had to look it up. Our grandchildren love to make objects out of Play-Doh, then leave them on the table so they harden into statues by their next visit.
mj responded:
It started in primary colors
But after several weeks of random mixing reverted to grayish brown;
Play-Doh.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, wrote:
Well, I figured it was either Play-Doh or Silly Putty (both of which I played with as a child), and I guessed the wrong one. After using the google machine, I found out it was Play-Doh.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Play-Doh
Daniel in The City answered:
Play-Doh
Deborah replied:
After a cappuccino (home-mede) an a peach pastry (not home-made), I've decided it mush be Silly-Putty. I remember using it to pick up images from the Sunday comics.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Play Doh
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Today's answer has got to be Silly Putty.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is Play-Doh.
Joe S answered:
Silly Putty? I don't know, just guessing. Been out of sorts lately, haven't felt much like playing.
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"On April 26, 1937 mankind carried out its first-ever aerial attack on civilians by the military as part of Franco's Civil War. The bombings were carried out by Hitler's Luftwaffe 'Condor Legion' and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria. Pablo Picasso painted his well-known, often-criticized painting based on the attack by the Spanish government. I wondered what a survivor of this atrocity might make of our continued bombardments against civilians, especially in war-torn Syria."
• African-American bandleader Cab Calloway was a leader, and he taught his musicians a lot. One thing that he taught them is the importance of punctuality. He would say, "I gotta be here - you better be here." He also fired a trombone player, Claude Jones, because of a lack of punctuality. In addition, he told his musicians, "Cleanliness is next to godliness." One of the subtexts to that saying was that he was a sharp-dressed man, and he expected the musicians in his band to be sharp-dressed men. He bought them the clothing they wore on stage, and they bought their own sharp clothing to wear on the street. If a band member had a hole in his undershirt, another band member would give him a friendly warning: "You better watch those holes, man, or the bat's gonna get you." If he kept wearing the undershirt with the hole, someone would put his finger in the hole and say, "Did you call me a son of a b*tch?" Then he would walk off with his finger still in the hole and tear the undershirt. Even if the victim got angry, he did not fight because all of the other members of the band were in favor of being sharp-dressed. If a band member's hat started to look greasy or ragged, someone would throw it in the trash. When the band member asked if anyone had seen his hat, someone would reply, "Maybe the bat got it." By the way, one of the things that even a sharp-dressed man has to do occasionally is to empty his bladder, and when you're on a tour bus without a bathroom and in a hurry to get to your destination, the bus can't always stop. So the members of the band worked out a system. The band member with the full bladder would go to the front of the bus and yell, "Oil change." That was the signal for everyone on that side of the bus to roll up his window. Then the bus door would open and the band member would empty his bladder from the moving bus.
• Ross P. Mayo, a male nursing student working in the nursing station at an elementary school, ran into a problem when a little girl named Tammi came in to have a scratch treated. Even though he told her, "I am a nurse. I can help you. Trust me," Tammi was terrified because she thought that all nurses were female and she did not know who this strange man was. Fortunately, Ms. Walker, the school nurse, walked in and reassured Tammi. Even then, Tammi did not believe that Ross was a nurse. Ross asked Tammi why she did not believe that he was a nurse, and Tammi answered, "Because you're not a lady." Therefore, Ross decided to teach the students that some nurses are men. He addressed the 2nd-grade students because he felt that they would be able to understand what he had to say to them. He turned it into a game and had the children determine his occupation by asking him questions. It took a while, with the children guessing that he was a doctor or a dentist, but finally they figured out that he was a nurse. Ross was able to explain in words that the children could understand that some women are doctors and that some men are nurses. Before the meeting, the children had written about nurses. After the meeting, he had the children write again about nurses. The writing showed that the children had learned a lot about nurses. A sample BEFORE paper: "I think a nurse is a nice lady who helps people." A sample AFTER paper: "A nurse can be a lady or a man. Nurses are working in clinics, schools, and hospitals. And some nurses are going to people's houses, too. And a lady can be a doctor."
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Joe Mantegna and Coyote Peterson.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 1/14/20) are Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, and SHAED.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For The Bone Collector', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jennifer Lopez, Lil Rel Howery, and Andre D. Thompson.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 1/29/20) are Kristen Bell, Desus & Mero, Little Big Town, and Chris Coleman.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 1/21/20) is RuPaul.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'Dems Debate', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe 'Nightline In Prime'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 1/29/20) are Jessica Simpson, Lakeith Stanfield, and Orville Peck.
The CW offers a FRESH'Charmed', followed by a FRESH'Dynasty'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown!'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by the movie 'Captain Phillips'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - Two Broken Fingers
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - The House Within The House
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Woman Who Fell to Earth
[9:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Woman Who Fell to Earth
[12:20PM] DOCTOR WHO - Spyfall, Part 2
[1:46PM] DOCTOR WHO - Orphan 55
[2:52PM] DOCTOR WHO - Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
[4:03PM] DOCTOR WHO - Fugitive of the Judoon
[5:14PM] DOCTOR WHO - Ep 6
[6:25PM] TITANIC (1997)
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW
[12:00AM] TITANIC (1997)
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Woman Who Fell to Earth (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all old 'Chrisley Knows Best' all night.
Comedy Central has 2½ hours of old 'South Park', followed by 'The Comedy Central Roast Of James Franco'.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - If a Body Meets a Body
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Scotch
[6:45A] Rudy
[9:15A] Ghostbusters
[11:30A] Ghostbusters II
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[2:30P] That '70s Show
[3:00P] That '70s Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show
[4:00P] That '70s Show
[4:30P] That '70s Show
[5:00P] That '70s Show
[5:30P] That '70s Show
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] That '70s Show
[1:30A] That '70s Show
[2:00A] That '70s Show
[2:30A] That '70s Show
[3:00A] That '70s Show
[3:30A] That '70s Show
[4:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Women of the Prehistoric Planet (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
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[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
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[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] Troop Beverly Hills
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire', followed by the movie 'The Magnificient Seven'.
Disney CEO Bob Iger is doing what he can to make it right.
The company made headlines last week after it demanded that Emerson Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif., pay a $250 licensing fee for screening the live-action, 2019 version of The Lion King at a charity event.
Iger responded Thursday on social media that he'd like to join with those who have donated to the school in the wake of the story. He also apologized to the school, where the Emerson Dads Club showed the film - for an optional $15 entrance fee - last fall to support the PTA.
According to the local Berkeleyside website - the first news organization to report on the story - Disney's licensing company originally sent a letter to the school's principal and its parent-teacher association on Jan. 30. The letter said the school had violated copyright law and needed to pay a $250 fine.
The school reportedly received an email with the good news on Wednesday night: "Disney has instructed us to not pursue the fee for this situation," the message from Swank Motion Pictures read. "While we, and the Studios we represent, take unauthorized works seriously, we understand that this situation, done in error, was not a malicious act."
One of Mali's most prominent musicians has criticized the Transportation Security Administration after his "impossible-to-replace" instrument was destroyed by agents at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Ballaké Sissoko told NBC News via email that his custom-made kora - a 21-string bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa - was "totally destroyed."
"Normally they just open the flight case because of the strange shape of the instrument and case," he said. "This time, they disassembled and broke it."
In an earlier Facebook post about the incident, Sissoko, 52, said he discovered the instrument in pieces Tuesday at his home in Paris. He said he had boarded the flight Feb. 2. and arrived in the French capital the following day.
The case was accompanied by a note in Spanish from the TSA, which said: "Smart security saves time."
The latest development in the legal battle between Kesha and Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald marks a win for the music producer, who sued Kesha in 2014 for defamation after she accused him of drugging and raping her.
Dr. Luke claims that Kesha made up the accusation in order to get out of her recording contract.
A judge ruled on Thursday that the "Tik Tok" singer defamed Dr. Luke when she claimed in a text message to Lady Gaga that the producer had also raped Katy Perry, according to the ruling, which was obtained by Variety.
Further, the ruling found that Dr. Luke is not a public figure, which had been one of Kesha's defenses in the suit.
Thursday's ruling means the prosecutors in the case will not have to prove "actual malice" on Kesha's part in trial.
US evangelical preacher Franklin Graham (R-Pharisee), a staunch supporter of Donald Trump (R-Fake Hair), has been dropped by every venue booked for his planned UK tour.
The seven venues cancelled following public outcry about Mr Graham's views on Islam and homosexuality.
Mr Graham, the son of preacher Billy Graham, had planned to tour the UK from late May until mid-June, with a further event scheduled in London in October.
Liverpool's mayor, Joe Anderson, tweeted that the city is proud of its LGBT+ community and would not allow hatred and intolerance to go unchallenged.
Late last year Mr Graham jumped to Mr Trump's support when Christianity Today, the evangelical magazine started by his father, published a stinging editorial criticising the president's "grossly immoral character".
The human costs of war are huge and crippling. The financial costs can be, too.
According to a new estimate by the Costs of War co-director Neta Crawford, US taxpayers have paid nearly $2 trillion in war-related costs on the Iraq war alone.
Newsweek estimated that the total for the Iraq War comes out to an average of roughly $8,000 per taxpayer. The figure far exceeds the Pentagon's estimate that Americans paid an average of $3,907 each for Iraq and Syria to date. And in March 2019, the Department of Defense estimated that the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria combined have cost each US taxpayer around $7,623 on average.
The Costs of War Project through Brown University conducts research on the human, economic, and political costs of the post-9/11 wars waged by the US. Stephanie Savell, a co-director of the Cost of Wars Projects, told Insider it's important for Americans to understand exactly what their taxes are paying for when it comes to war-related expenses.
"As Americans debate the merits of U.S. military presence in Iraq and elsewhere in the name of the U.S. war on terrorism, it's essential to understand that war costs go far beyond what the DOD has appropriated in Overseas Contingency Operations and reach across many parts of the federal budget," Savell said.
More than one-third of all active-duty troops and more than half of minority service members say they have personally witnessed examples of white nationalism or ideological-driven racism within the ranks in recent months, according to the latest survey of active-duty Military Times readers.
The poll surveyed 1,630 active-duty Military Times subscribers last fall on their views about political leaders, global threats and domestic policy priorities. It offers a troubling snapshot of troops' exposure to extremist views while serving despite efforts from military leaders to promote diversity and respect for all races.
The 2019 survey found that 36 percent of troops who responded have seen evidence of white supremacist and racist ideologies in the military, a significant rise from the year before, when only 22 percent - about 1 in 5 - reported the same in the 2018 poll.
Enlisted members were more likely than officers to witness the extremist views (37 percent to 27 percent). Minorities were significantly more likely to report cases of racist behavior than whites (53 percent to 30 percent).
Overall, troops who responded to the poll cited white nationalists as a greater national security threat than both domestic terrorism with a connection to Islam, as well as immigration.
A massive decline of bumblebees - the world's most important pollinators - is now underway due to "climate chaos" and other human impacts on the world, scientists have warned.
A new study reveals bumblebees are currently disappearing at rates "consistent with a mass extinction", and are on course to be wiped out in just a "few decades".
The research by scientists at the University of Ottawa in Canada found in the course of a single human generation, the likelihood of a bumblebee population surviving in a given place has declined by an average of more than 30 per cent, with the climate crisis largely to blame.
"We have now entered the world's sixth mass extinction event, the biggest and most rapid global biodiversity crisis since a meteor ended the age of the dinosaurs," first author Peter Soroye said.
The researchers examined 66 bumblebee species across North America and Europe, using data collected over a 115-year period (1900-2015).
Ocean currents are moving faster today than they did two decades ago.
New research, published today (Feb. 6) in the journal Science Advances, finds that this acceleration is occurring around the globe, with the most noticeable effects in the tropical latitudes. The enhanced speed isn't just at the ocean's surface, but is occurring as deep as 6,560 feet (2,000 meters).
"The magnitude and extent of the acceleration in ocean currents we detected throughout the global ocean and to 2000-meter (6,560 foot) depth was quite surprising," study co-author Janet Sprintall, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, said in a statement. "While we expected some response to the increased winds over the past two decades, that the acceleration was above and beyond that was an unexpected response that is likely due to global climate change."
Winds over the ocean have been picking up at a rate of 1.9% per decade, the researchers found. This increase in wind speed transfers energy to the ocean's surface, and subsequently, deeper waters. About 76% of the upper 6,560 feet (2,000 m) of the oceans have seen an increase in kinetic energy since the 1990s. Overall, ocean current speeds have crept up about 5% per decade since the early 1990s, the study found.
The study was led by Shijian Hu, an oceanographer at the Institute of Oceanology in Qingdao, China. Hu, Sprintall and their colleagues were interested in understanding global changes to ocean currents because prior research had turned up a confusing picture. For example, currents in the subtropics that transfer energy from the equator to the poles have intensified over the last century. But some major regional currents, such as the Kuroshio in the western North Pacific Ocean, show little evidence of acceleration, the researchers wrote.
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