'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Jazz From Hills
Filthy Habits
It's filthy to chew gum you found underneath a bus seat on its way from Little Ferry, New Jersey to Manhattan. It's filthy to lick toilet seats in LaGuardia Airport. It's filthy to lick toilet seats in general.
It's also filthy to categorize abuse of authority which is what is happening with the committee investigating 9-11 and who to blame for the tragedy.
The committee, although its supposed function is to find facts, we all know that will not happen. It never does with these committees. They turn into excursions of the absurdities and idiosyncracies of the personalities of all involved.
The filth on the telly this morning was Rice of the Condoleeza type will TESTIFY!! on Thursday. Does anyone want to bet how many times this woman of very high intelligence will say something to the effect of " I don't recall", "I don't remember that conversation", ad nauseum. Then the media will pounce on her background, how she was raised as a young black woman who fought her way to the top, and, gee, where do the facts of the committee wind up? Fourth page, third column blurb.
Then Bunnypant's absurdities and idosyncracies of his personality will come out. First "I don't recall", "I don't remember that conversation", ad nauseum, and then the story of how he was raised a priviledged kid will come out, how he floated his way through law school after Daddy bought his way in there, how he drove into shrubbery and got a DUI, past cocaine use, driving his father's oil biz into the ground(of which Harken Energy stocks have yet to be taken serously about how and when Smirky bailed as CEO), and other shit. No true credible facts will be the focus of this circus event. It's a shame for the families whose children are dying every day now, and for the victims and families of 9-11. God, what a waste. If politicians would truly debate facts, issues, and policies rationally, the sideshow element of the fat lady with seven toes would maybe go away.
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Reader Suggestion
Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon
I'd like to put in a word for the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon on the Cartoon
Channel. On Friday, they will be running episodes 11-15 at 8:00(edt) and
16-20 at 9:00(edt). Check your local listings.
When seen back-to-back like this you get the feel for what
Lucas is trying to do with Episode 3 of Star Wars. I watched episode 19 of
the series Wednesday night and can see what steps will lead Anikin down the
road to Vader. This is more of a cartoon for adults than something like the
smurfs.
I do have to admit though I'm not that fond of the renderings of
characters. Some like Yoda come off great, but the humans usually look like
Greek pottery figures.
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Fake Scoop Spotlights
Fake News Scandal
First Jason Blair of The Times, then Jack Kelley of USA Today. Now this sensational story from the Humor Gazette about a five-time Pulitzer nominee gone bad. His biggest scoop -- that Justice Clarence Thomas flashed the Republicans an "OK" sign before voting with the 5-4 majority to give George W. Bush the 2000 election -- was just a scam.
Are there lessons to be learned from the fictional case of rogue reporter Arturo Dimanche? Probably not. But this fake news exclusive from the Humor Gazette pokes hard fun at the world of journalism and helps put America's troubling flurry of fake news into humorous perspective.
Humor Gazette
Thanks, John B!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Overcast & cool.
I've been cold all day & still not talking a lot.
After tonight, I will no longer watch KNBC's newscasts. Freaking Condi apologists, with a hefty helping of 'Blame Clinton'.
Where does GE rank on the list of world's arms manufacturers? Probably near the top. War is good for their profit margin, I guess.
Tonight, Friday, CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'Joan Of Arcadia', followed by a RERUN
'JAG', then a RERUN 'The District'.
Dave & Craiggers are delayed to allow coverage of 'The Masters Golf Tourney - 2nd round highlights').
On a RERUN Dave (from 2/19/04), are Sarah Jessica Parker and Nelly Furtado.
On a RERUN Craiggers it's TBA.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'Third Watch'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Quentin Tarantino, the latest fired "Apprentice", and Jet.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan is Jason Bateman.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are David Alan Grier, Lennox Lewis, Demetri Martin, DJ Reach, and the Walkmen.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'George Lopez', followed by a FRESH 'The Big House', then a FRESH
'Hope & Faith', followed by a FRESH 'Bonnie', then a FRESH 'The D.A.'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 3/10/04), are David Alan Grier, Marla Sokoloff, and Pat Green, with guest co-host Kevin Nealon.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Reba', followed by a RERUN 'What I Like About You', then a RERUN 'Grounded For Life', followed by a FRESH 'The Help'.
Faux has 'Stupid Behavior Caught On Tape', 'The World's Craziest Videos', then a FRESH 'Forever Eden' (replacing the cancelled 'Wonderfalls').
UPN has a FRESH 'Game Over', a RERUN 'Game Over', a RERUN 'One On One', and a RERUN 'Rock Me Baby'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for the BEST program on over-the-air-TV, 'NOW With Bill Moyers (& David Brancaccio)'. Tape it or Tivo it - it's worth the effort - and then some!
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Airline', 'Laci Peterson', and the movie 'Reservoir Dogs'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Bravados', followed by the movie 'The War Of The Worlds', then the movie 'An American Werewolf In Paris'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Farrier;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Kimberley;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - St. Leonards-On-Sea;
[8pm] 'Waking the Dead' - Final Cut;
[10pm] 'Take Me' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'Waking the Dead' - Final Cut;
[[1am] 'Take Me' - Episode 1;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Kimberley;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - St. Leonards-On-Sea;
[3am] 'Waking the Dead' - Final Cut;
[5am] 'Take Me' - Episode 1;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Samuel L. Jackson), 'Cirque du Soleil's Quidam', and 'Cirque du Soleil: Saltimbanco'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', followed by the movie 'The Original Kings Of Comedy'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Banned From the Bible', 'Heaven & Hell', and 'Apocalypse'.
IFC -
[2PM] 'IFC Short Film Collection II';
[4PM] 'The Thin Blue Line' (1988);
[5:45PM] 'Running With The Bulls' (2002);
[6:30PM] 'Among Giants' (1998);
[8PM] 'Welcome To The Dollhouse' (1995);
[9:30PM] 'At The Angelika 83' (2003);
[10PM] 'Dinner For Five 30' (2003);
[10:30PM] 'Rocked With Gina Gershon' - Episode 1 (2003);
[11PM] 'Cube' (1997);
[12:45AM] 'IFC In Theaters';
[1AM] 'Dinner For Five 30' (2003);
[1:30AM] 'Rocked With Gina Gershon' - Episode 1 (2003);
[2AM] 'The Prime Gig' (2000);
[3:45AM] 'Kicking And Screaming' (1995);
[5:30AM] 'At The Angelika 83' (2003). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', 'Andromeda', 'Stargate SG-1', and another 'Stargate SG-1'.
Sundance -
[2PM] 'Chasing Buddha' (Documentary);
[3PM] 'Siddhartha' (Feature);
[4:35PM] 'Shorts Program 110' (Short);
[5PM] 'Honey For Oshun' [Miel para Oshun] (Feature);
[7:35PM] 'Golden Gate' [Palace II]' (Short);
[8PM] 'Borstal Boy' (Feature);
[9:35PM] 'Detective Fiction' (Feature);
[11:30PM] 'Tanner '88: The Boiler Room' (Short);
[12AM] 'Habit' (Feature);
[1AM] 'Criminal Lovers' (World Cinema);
[3:35AM] 'Women In Love' (Feature);
[5:45AM] 'Siddhartha' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[7:15am] 'Life Begins For Andy Hardy' (1941);
[9am] 'Flesh' (1932);
[11am] 'The Lost Squadron' (1932);
[12:30pm] 'Little Big Shot' (1935);
[2pm] 'Muss 'Em Up' (1936);
[3:15pm] 'We're Only Human' (1936);
[4:30pm] 'Fight For Your Lady' (1938);
[5:45pm] 'Over The Wall' (1938);
[7pm] 'Trouble in Sundown' (1939);
[8pm] 'Magnificent Obsession' (1954);
[10pm] 'Send Me No Flowers' (1964);
[12am] 'Something Of Value' (1957);
[2am] 'Senso' (1954);
[4am] 'Side Street' (1949). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Television entertainment mogul Ted Turner is honored Wednesday, April 7, 2004, with the 2,251st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. From left, actresses: Ann Rutherford, Cora Sue Collins, Turner, Betty Garrett, Margaret O'Brien, and Esther Williams.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
New Spin Off
'Queer Eye'
Fashion-challenged women will get their due when a companion to "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" arrives on Bravo.
Set to debut next year, the distaff spin-off of Bravo's smash series will be set in Los Angeles, where a team of gay stylists will be dispatched to help their female charges look, feel and live better.
'Queer Eye'
Being Sued
Prince
A college student has sued Prince and his bodyguard for allegedly assaulting him after he took a picture of the rock star getting off a flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Anthony Fitzgerald of Edina filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court.
It states that Prince's bodyguard, identified only as "Trevor," lunged at Fitzgerald on Dec. 29 "in an aggressive, threatening manner," then grabbed his digital camera, leaving him "stunned and humiliated."
Prince
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Appointed Dean of Pepperdine's Law School
ken starr
Pepperdine University has announced that, following a six-month search, Kenneth W. Starr has been chosen as the next dean of its law school. School President Andrew K. Benton, who made the final selection from six candidates, said his selection of the controversial Starr, formerly the Whitewater independent counsel who received national attention during the Clinton impeachment process, was among the "most important academic appointments" in the history of the university. Starr is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Starr will assume his post on Aug. 1, exactly 10 years from the month he assumed his Whitewater role. Before then, he reportedly had ties to the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. After Whitewater, Starr was involved with the Linda Tripp revelation of President Clinton's adulterous relationship with 24-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky, which led to the impeachment trial.
This is not the first time Pepperdine has offered Starr a dean's position. In 1997, when the Whitewater investigation was stalled, Starr accepted a similar offer from Pepperdine, only to stay at his post in Washington. According to Salon.com, "After word leaked he planned to resign from the Whitewater probe effective August 1, 1997, to accept a position as dean of Pepperdine University's law school, Starr reversed himself in the face of intense criticism. Even defenders questioned his judgment and he admitted his error."
ken starr
Dancers perform in the U.S. premiere of 'Les applaudissements ne se mangent pas' ('One Can't Eat Applause') by French choreographer Maguy Marin at The American Dance Festival, Durham, N.C., on June 21, 2003. Bounded by a three-sided curtain of brightly colored plastic strips, nine dancers commit acts of violence and cowardice against one another, sacrificing their humanity for survival against a greater, unnamed threat.
Photo by Bruce R. Feeley
Baby News
Messing - Zelman
Now it's "Will & Grace" - and baby. Debra Messing, co-star of the NBC sitcom, gave birth to a son Wednesday. The baby weighed 5 pounds and 14 ounces and was 19 inches long, publicist Annett Wolf said Thursday. It's the first child for Messing and her husband, screenwriter Daniel Zelman.
Messing, 35, was unable to appear in this season's final four episodes of "Will & Grace." She stars opposite Eric McCormack in the show about a straight woman and her gay best friend.
Messing - Zelman
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Author's Plane Identified
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A plane raised from the Mediterranean 60 years after it crashed, killing author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, has been identified and will be put on display in southern France, officials said on Wednesday.
Saint-Exupery, whose fable "The Little Prince" is considered a classic of flight, love and loneliness, disappeared on July 31, 1944, during a wartime aerial reconnaissance mission.
"The wreck of the plane that was raised last autumn near the Riou island has been identified as the (Lockheed Lightning) P-38 on which Saint-Exupery made his last voyage," said Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor of southern Marseille.
A French diver discovered the remains of the airplane off the coast of Marseille four years ago, after a fisherman hauled up a bracelet belonging to the author and aviator in 1998.
Saint-Exupery, born in 1900 to an aristocratic French family, tried several times to study liberal arts before deciding to become a pilot.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jannemiek Sonneveld, 27, turns her left eye to show the latest thing in body fashion, the Jewel Eye, in her hometown Driebergen, the Netherlands April 7, 2004. The eye jewel, made of platinum and available in the shape of a heart, a star or circle, is implanted under the cornea of the eye and is not visible unless the eye is turned. The procedure costs 500 euros.
Photo by Michael Kooren
Basic Cable Networks
Rankings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of March 29-April 4. Each ratings point represents 1,084,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 3.7, 3.97 million homes.
2. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 3.3, 3.59 million homes.
3. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 7:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.3, 3.57 million homes.
4. "Kids' Choice Awards" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.1, 3.31 million homes.
5. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.0, 3.21 million homes.
6. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.9, 3.16 million homes.
7. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.9, 3.12 million homes.
8. NCAA Women's Basketball Final Four: Minnesota vs. Connecticut (Sunday, 9:28 p.m.), ESPN, 2.8, 3.08 million homes.
9. "Real World XIV" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), MTV, 2.8, 3.01 million homes.
10. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 2.99 million homes.
11. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 7 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.94 million homes.
12. "South Park" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), Comedy Central, 2.7, 2.92 million homes.
13. Movie: "O Brother Where Art Thou" (Friday, 8 p.m.), TBS, 2.7, 2.91 million homes.
14. "Chappelle's Show" (Wednesday, 10:30 p.m.), Comedy Central, 2.7, 2.89 million homes.
15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.87 million homes.
Rankings
The Comoro black flying fox, shown in this undated photo, is a fruit bat found only on the Indian Ocean's Comoros islands. Hundreds of imperiled species around the world, including the Comoro, lack protection from human encroachment despite the vast amount of land set aside for conservation, a new study warns.
Photo by J.Morgan
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