Hillary Clinton Endorses Obama (hillaryclinton.com)
The way to continue our fight now - to accomplish the goals for which we stand - is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States. ... Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. And that is why I will work my heart out to make sure that Senator Obama is our next President and I hope and pray that all of you will join me in that effort. . . .
Howard Witt: Jesse Jackson optimistic about the 'ebb and flow' of the civil rights movement (Chicago Tribune)
Jesse Jackson: Martin Luther King, locked out of the system, says he's against the Vietnam War, almost alone. He gets dumped on by the press, the government, everybody. By 2008, you can win the nomination being against a war! Today, the anti-war movement is the mainstream, which is another victory for the continued struggle.
Jim Higgins: Author fights for electronic rights with his teen hero (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Moving briskly through a hotel lobby in his gym shoes and white ear buds, writer Cory Doctorow could pass for an older version of Marcus Yallow, the propulsive teen hero of his new novel, "Little Brother" (Tor, $17.95). Like Marcus, Doctorow thinks fast, explains often, breathes online networks and cares deeply about privacy, freedom and electronic rights.
ROBERT COSTA: "The Shredder Cometh: An Interview with Tim Reynolds" (popmatters.com)
Guitarist Tim Reynolds has recently joined Dave Matthews Band on the road and in the studio for the first time since 1998. Last week, Reynolds spoke with PopMatters' Robert Costa in an exclusive backstage interview to talk about DMB and his own band TR3.
Lulu Author Interview: Alison Wade (lulublog.com)
Alison Wade has compiled a great cookbook of recipes by some of the greatest runners in history including Joan Benoit Samuelson, Sebastian Coe and more. The book features 100 recipes from 90 contributors.
zEN mAN (I'm not superstitious but....I never stay in a room on the 13th floor, never take a seat in row 13 on a plane and age 13 was my worst year....it's just that Friday the 13th has always been a great day)
Duane Doberman was a character in which TV series?
A: Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe
B: Have Gun - Will Travel
C: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
D: The Phil Silvers Show
E: The Untouchables
Source
Vic in AK was first, and correct, writing:
OOH OOH, I know this one, he was a fat slob on D: The Phil Silvers Show
mj responded:
One of the originals
D, You'll Never Get Rich.
McDonald replied:
I will go with c, Dobie Gillis
Alan J was correct with:
The Phil Silvers Show
Charlie answered:
Pvt. Doberman, yes, I loved the show back then.
D: The Phil Silvers Show
I didn't remember who played him, it was
Maurice Gosfield, about whom Phil Silvers said:
"Phil Silvers, the star of The Phil Silvers Show, in his 1973 autobiography, said of Gosfield that he had a pomposity and condescension off-screen, behaving 'like Clark Gable playing a fat man.'"
Marian the Teacher said:
The Phil Silvers Show
Sally wrote:
Private Duane Doberman was a character in (D) "The Phil Silvers Show" (circa 1955) TV series. The role was played by Maurice Gosfield.
From clear and mild northern Jersey,
PS: My SIL never made his flight on Tuesday - after SEVEN hours sitting on the runway, the flight was canceled! The flight originated from Boston, but he was able to go back home as there were NO MORE flights going out that night. (Boston passengers got to sleep on the floor of the airport I guess...) There was NO food, H2O, or bathroom use while waiting, BTW! I think that is inhumane myself. Good thing I wasn't there, I would not have been gracious about it at all! Since this situation is becoming more common nowadays, why isn't the Airline Industry making better provision for passengers? And, talk about wasting fuel... (SIL said the plane was idling all the while!) Discracia!
Bob C responded:
The answer is the Phil Silvers Show aka Sgt. Bilko.
He was uniquely adorable! "Oh Sarge!"
Tony In Philly answered:
D: The Phil Silvers Show?
jim d replied:
D as in Doberman
And, Jim from CA said:
I do believe that he was a character on the Phil Silvers Show...
Heard from a publisher today, and next week we'll have some new 'prizes' for the trivia question of the day - copies of Robert Scheer's new
book 'The Pornography of Power'. Pretty cool.
My Girlfriend Jenn runs this animal rescue/shelter down in Baja Mexico.
She is the one holding the dog missing a front leg, she found him tied up to the gate of the shelter one morning and thought he was injured in a recent accident but ended up discovering that it was an old injury that had actually healed around the bone and was causing the dog no obvious discomfort. He was subsequently operated on and had his leg amputated . And through the shelters web-site (www.sfanimalrescue.org/) had several offers for adoption even before he was brought to the States.
I am so proud of the work Jennifer does and if it weren't for the 130°F heat I would probably be there helping her (I'm a cold weather woof, gets above 70 and I burst into flames)
Coastal Eddy hung around for another day. Woo hoo.
The local Faux outlet (KTTV-11) aired the first segment of the 7:30pm 'The Simpsons' in Spanish.
After the first internal break it returned in English. ¡Qué lastima!
Wonder if anyone wrote a DR?
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a RERUN'NUMB3RS', then another RERUN'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Whoopi Goldberg, Spencer Pratt (R-Loves McSame), and Nick Griffin.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Elizabeth Perkins and Augustana.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Most Outrageous Moments', followed by another RERUN'Most Outrageous Moments', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Larry the Cable Guy, Bob Costas, and Ashanti.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Michael Strahan, D.L. Hughley, and Brian Scolaro.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly are John Cho, Dean Edwards, and Your Vegas.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Jim', then another RERUN'Jim', followed by an unwatchable '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are John Leguizamo, Dan Abrams, and Secondhand Serenade.
The CW offers a FRESH'WWE Friday Night Steroid SmackDown!'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'Hollywood Homicide'.
MY has 'Meet My Folks', followed by 'Paradise Ho-Tell'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH'Bill Moyers Journal', and a FRESH'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio'.
AMC offers the movie 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day', followed by the movie 'Escape From New York', then the movie 'King Kong'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 17
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 18
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 12
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 28 Newark 37
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 29 Derby 5
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 4
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 5 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Hal
[8:40 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 6 It's the Arts
[9:20 PM] That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 6
[10:00 PM] Newsnight
[11:00 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 5 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Hal
[11:40 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 6 It's the Arts
[12:20 AM] That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 6
[1:00 AM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 5 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Hal
[1:40 AM] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Ep. 6 It's the Arts
[2:20 AM] That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 6
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Episode 8
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Episode 9
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 28 Newark 37
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 29 Derby 5
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 35 Spencer
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 36 Wheatley
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Bravo's A-List Awards', followed by the movie 'Beverly Hills Cop', then the movie 'Beverly Hills Cop II'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', and 'Live At Gotham'.
FX has the movie 'Cheaper By The Dozen 2', followed by the movie 'Cheaper By The Dozen 2', again, and '30 Days'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Ice Road Truckers', and 'College Basketball'.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] A Decade Under The Influence: Part 3
[06:50 AM] Dark Blue World
[08:45 AM] Separate Lies
[10:15 AM] Beyond the Sea
[12:15 PM] Dark Blue World
[02:15 PM] Separate Lies
[03:45 PM] Beyond the Sea
[05:45 PM] Girls Will Be Girls
[07:15 PM] Lost and Delirious
[09:05 PM] Urbania
[11:30 PM] Witchblade #24
[12:00 AM] Sleepaway Camp
[01:30 AM] Short: Wide Awake in Nothing
[02:30 AM] Witchblade #24
[03:00 AM] Sleepaway Camp
[04:30 AM] Lost and Delirious (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', followed by 'Charlie Jade', then a FRESH'Doctor Who', followed by a FRESH'Battlestar Galactica'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] The Syrian Bride
[06:45 AM] Man Push Cart
[08:15 AM] Binta and the Great Idea
[09:00 AM] Episode 2
[10:00 AM] Business
[10:35 AM] Crude Impact
[12:20 PM] Episode 4
[01:00 PM] Patch
[01:30 PM] Episode 2 - New York
[02:00 PM] The Sea Inside
[04:15 PM] Gilaneh
[06:00 PM] Mike Myers + Deepak Chopra
[07:00 PM] This Revolution
[08:35 PM] Patch
[09:00 PM] Gipsy Kings, Natasha Bedingfield & Iron Maiden
[10:00 PM] Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
[11:30 PM] Binta and the Great Idea
[12:00 AM] Little Odessa
[02:00 AM] Gipsy Kings, Natasha Bedingfield & Iron Maiden
[03:00 AM] Episode 7
[03:30 AM] Episode 2: Didn't Mean To
[04:00 AM] Jude (ALL TIMES EST)
Siegfried Fischbacher, left, and Roy Horn, of the illusionist team of Siegfried & Roy, play with a six-week-old white-striped tiger cub at their Las Vegas home, Thursday, June 12, 2008. The pair are welcoming five new tiger cubs to their exotic habitat on the Las Vegas Strip. Fischbacher said Thursday that working with the tigers is the perfect rehabilitation for Horn, who was critically injured when he was mauled by a 380-pound white Bengal tiger onstage in 2003.
Photo by Louie Traub
Unlucky for some? Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday.
A study published on Thursday by the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) showed that fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur when the 13th of the month falls on a Friday than on other Fridays.
"I find it hard to believe that it is because people are preventatively more careful or just stay home, but statistically speaking, driving is a little bit safer on Friday 13th," CVS statistician Alex Hoen told the Verzekerd insurance magazine.
In the last two years, Dutch insurers received reports of an average 7,800 traffic accidents each Friday, the CVS study said. But the average figure when the 13th fell on a Friday was just 7,500.
Irish rockers U2 are selling a painting by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat valued at up to $12 million, Sotheby's auction house said Thursday.
Sotheby's said "Untitled (Pecho/Oreja)" will go under the hammer in London on July 1 and is expected to fetch between $7.8 million and $12 million.
It was bought by members of U2 in 1989 after being spotted by bass player Adam Clayton in a New York gallery and has hung in their Dublin studio ever since.
A male weedy sea dragon carries eggs on his tail at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Thursday, June 11, 2008. For only the third time ever in a U.S. aquarium, one of the endangered creatures is pregnant.
Photo by John Bazemore
Santa Fe, N.M., calls itself "The City Different," a community "brimming with bright, creative, and energetic residents." It is, according to a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts, overflowing with inspiration.
"Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005," released Thursday by the NEA, is a 140-page quantification of the state of the country's artists, from the total who call themselves artists (around 2 million, separated into 11 categories) to the locations where they're most likely to settle - such as New York, of course, and Los Angeles.
According to the NEA, artists earn some $70 billion annually, but have a median income of $34,800, well under the average for "professionals." Only one out of eight actors works full-time, and just one out of four musicians. The "struggling," if not the starving artist, is both stereotype and fact. NEA chairman Dana Gioia believes that Washington needs to regard them with the same concern as it does other workers.
Los Angeles-Long Beach has the most artists overall, around 140,000, followed by New York City, around 133,000. Nashville, Tenn., has the greatest concentration of musicians, Las Vegas the highest rate of "dancers and choreographers" and Orlando, Fla., home to Walt Disney World, leads in "entertainers and performers."
Canadians will be allowed to copy legally acquired music to their iPods and computers but would be banned from getting around any digital locks that companies might apply, under new legislation introduced in Parliament on Thursday.
The bill, introduced by Industry Minister Jim Prentice, would continue to exempt Internet service providers from liability for copyright violations by their subscribers, requiring them only to pass on notices of violations rather than to take down offending material as required in the United States.
It would also allow consumers to record television and radio programs for playing back at a later time, a practice known as time-shifting, but would prohibit people from keeping them indefinitely in a personal library of recordings.
The main opposition Liberal Party slammed the legislation as a half-baked measure that neglected consulting all sides.
Ben Jones figures he drank 43,000 beers, 2,000 jugs of whiskey, wine, gin and vodka, and smoked pounds of pot in the 20 years he was out of control.
With the help of a friend, he quit drinking cold turkey.
"A year later," he said, "I walked into an audition and was cast in what was to become one of the greatest television shows in the history of entertainment." That was "The Dukes of Hazzard." Jones would play the wisecracking mechanic Cooter on the popular TV series from 1979 to 1985.
In 1988, Jones was elected to Congress as a Democrat. Considering what he'd gone through, it was an emotional moment being sworn in.
He's written about his ups and downs in his autobiography, "Redneck Boy in the Promised Land" (Harmony).
An photograph of John Lennon is displayed on a Monkey Bike he co-owned with Ringo Starr at Bonhams auction house, in central London June 12, 2008. The picture and the bike are part of a collection of Beatles memorabilia which will be auctioned on June 18.
Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico
Sean Connery will offer the first public glimpse of his memoirs at this year's Edinburgh Book Festival, organizers announced Thursday.
The former James Bond star, a high-profile Scottish nationalist, will launch "Being a Scot" on Aug. 25, his 78th birthday.
The first - and, many say, the best - actor to play 007 on the big screen, Connery is a vocal supporter of the pro-independence Scottish National Party. He lives in the Bahamas and has said he will not reside in Scotland until it gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Among the 800 authors appearing at the Aug. 9-25 festival are Salman Rushdie, Louis de Bernieres and Margaret Atwood.
Fox News Channel referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama" in a graphic on Wednesday, the latest in a trio of references to the Democratic presidential campaign that have given fuel to network critics.
The graphic "Outraged liberals: Stop picking on Obama's baby mama" was flashed during an interview with conservative columnist Michelle 'Notch Baby' Malkin about whether Barack Obama's wife has been the target of unfair criticism.
In the past two weeks, Fox anchor E.D. Hill has apologized for referring to an affectionate onstage fist bump shared by the couple as a "terrorist fist jab," and Fox contributor Liz Trotta said she was sorry for joking about an Obama assassination.
"Obama's baby mama" was never said on the air. Malkin said during her interview that she had seen no gratuitous or cheap shots taken against Michelle Obama by Republican or conservative critics.
A green pigeon rescued from a household is freed by a zoo keeper at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, Thursday, June 12, 2008.
Photo by Anupam Nath
Jack Alderson was ordered never to talk about the secret weapons tests he helped conduct in the Pacific during the 1960s. He kept quiet for decades.
Sparse attendance at a 1993 reunion prompted Alderson, a retired Navy Reserve lieutenant commander, to speak out. He learned that more than half of the 500 or so crew members who took part in the tests were either dead or suffering from cancer, respiratory problems or other ailments. Alderson wondered whether his own skin cancers, allergies and chronic fatigue were linked to those tests or were simply the result of aging.
Alderson and other witnesses were to testify Thursday before a House Veterans Affairs panel considering legislation that would require more Pentagon disclosure about the Cold War-era germ and chemical weapons testing and extend benefits to veterans who participated in them. A similar bill is scheduled for a vote in the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee later this month.
In testimony prepared for the hearing, obtained in advance by The Associated Press, Bradley Mayes, the Veterans Affairs Department's director of compensation and pensions, calls the legislation unnecessary, "due to the lack of credible scientific and medical evidence that adequately demonstrates any statistically significant correlation" between the tests and participants' diseases.
Silver dental fillings contain mercury, and the government for the first time is warning that they may pose a safety concern for pregnant women and young children. The Food and Drug Administration posted the precaution on its Web site earlier this month, to settle a lawsuit - making the move a victory for anti-mercury activists.
The warning is not aimed at the general population, only at two groups already urged to limit mercury from another source - seafood - because too much can harm a developing brain.
The fillings, formally known as dental amalgams, "contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses," reads the FDA Web posting.
Used since the 1800s, amalgams' popularity already is dropping. They account for about 30 percent of U.S. fillings, still millions of people a year.
An exhibit showing a small and incredibly cluttered room belonging to reclusive Chicago writer-artist Henry Darger is seen as it was reassembled and on display at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, in Chicago. The room is where Darger typed out what is probably the longest fictional narrative in the English language - plus a shorter sequel, which is still about six times the length of the King James Bible. And it's also where Darger illustrated his works with hundreds of collages and watercolors; some of them nine feet long, and many of them double-sided. Darger died in 1973 at age 81.
Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast
Struggling actors and other performers would get a break under federal tax legislation introduced Thursday that doubles the limit under which they can deduct business expenses.
The Senate bill raises the income limit under which an actor or other performing artist can get the standard income tax deduction and also write off performance-related expenses such as headshots and transportation to and from auditions as "adjustments to income," rather than having to write these expenses off as itemized deductions.
The deduction was set in 1986 at a $16,000 annual income. Schumer's bill raises that to $30,000, indexes the cap to inflation and applies it to individuals, eliminating the "marriage" penalty under current law. Schumer and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., are the legislation's chief backers.
The shy, young deer nicknamed "Unicorn" because of the rare, single horn in the center of his head is drawing hundreds of curious visitors, park officials said Thursday.
"We have received so many calls from people and many are coming to see it," said Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, near Florence. "Sometimes he comes close to the fence, even if he is very shy."
The year-old Roe Deer was born in captivity with an apparent genetic flaw, Tozzi said. His twin, in contrast, has two horns.
Single-horned deer are rare but not unheard of but experts say the central positioning of Unicorn's horn is unusual. Tozzi speculated that similar anomalies might have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
Vancouver Aquarium's newest addition, a beluga whale only minutes old swims around in its tank after being born in Vancouver, Canada Tuesday, June 10, 2008. The calf and its mother Qila were doing fine after nearly three hours of labor.
Photo by Jonathan Hayward
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