'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Suggestion
Re: Fair & Balanced
In The Mail
Mush Baughlimb
I am Mush (not a racist or antifeminist) Baughlimb who is always
right (wing) in my opinions and politics.
I will be traveling this great Republican Christian country of
ours and reporting to you my views of what we can do to keep it
great, white, Christian, republican, and free.
I will be traveling the roads of America in my brand new
Humgulpper SUV.
A vehicle that every true republican Christian American should
strive to own (or at least a brethren of it's kind).
The Humgulpper takes every advantage to use fossil fuels in the
most inefficient way possible.
It holds over fifty gallons of gasoline and can get over six
miles per gallon.
It is powered by a sixteen cylinder, turbo charged, cast from
platinum motor.
It's got the good old fashioned CFC air-conditioning that does
less to the ozone layer then all the volcano eruptions over the
past six centuries (take that you liberal, scum sucking,
ecoloonies).
It will carry up to four people, their golf bags and luggage in
complete luxury.
The interior is done in endangered Peruvian shrew leather.
And comes equipped with all usual options including a microwave,
full entertainment center, and CFC mini fridge.
I also would like to mention my favorite feature. And that is the
Humgulper will crush almost any non-Christian, liberal,
democrat's vehicle.
And on top of that, my accountant has found a loop hole in the
tax laws that now allows me to write it off my taxes.
I don't make this stuff up folks.
But, it seems that there is a law that was written to help out
farmers (those whiny ignorant democratic liberal people of the
land. They need to get off their smelly OLE farms and get real
jobs). And that law states that if you have a vehicle that is
over a certain weight and you use it for business, you can write
it off.(The Humgulpper weighs in at over a very impressive four
tons!)
...MUSH ALERT.....It seems that there is know a move on
by those liberal, civil rights, non-christian, pabulum puking
democrats who hide behind the constitution to change this law.
It seems to me that we have yet another vicious attack from the
godless liberal democrats on the good Christian republican
American people of this country.
Who work hard in this great land of ours. So that they can buy
and have it all.
I say what about the tax cuts for those lazy, no count, liberal,
working poor? Who by the way must be liberal democrats. Other
wise why are they the so called working poor. (Think about
it.) They should get up off their whiny duffs and find better
paying jobs !!!!!!
Mush (I swear I am not a racist or antifeminist) Bauglimb.
Thanks, Mush!
Check back for Part 2 tomorrow!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
Day #2
Dr. Paul Is An Idiot
Thanks, Mark!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The weather is too hot still, but no where near as bad as Michelle is experiencing in AZ.
Gasoline has spiked nearly 20 cents in the last week in this area.
Did the farmer's market/CostCo loop today. Grapes & peppers & gorgeous tomatoes.
Does anyone know if Jim Lampley is still married to Bree Walker?
Tonight, Friday, CBS has more 'NFL Preseason Football', so the left coast will fill with local programming and the movie 'Gattaca'.
On a RERUN Dave are Harrison Ford and Annie Lennox. (RERUNs all next week)
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Stone Cold Steve Austin and Junior Senior.
NBC starts the evening with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', then a RERUN 'Boomtown'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Jackie Chan, the cast of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", and Mya.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Kelly Rowland and the Polyphonic Spree.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Matthew Modine, Aaron Boone, Kim Cattrall, Mitch Fatel, animal expert Jarod Miller, and Smash Mouth.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN 'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH 'Whose Line?' then another FRESH
'Whose Line?', then '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Sex Pistols, with this week's guest co-host Super Dave Osborne.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Reba', followed by a RERUN 'What I Like About You', then another RERUN 'Reba', followed by
a RERUN 'Grounded For Life'.
Faux has a RERUN 'Bernie Mac', followed by a RERUN 'Wanda At Large', then a RERUN 'Boston Pubic'.
UPN has the movie 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.
Check local PBS listings for 'NOW With Bill Moyers' - even it has been dumped for the 2nd week in a row on KCET.
A&E has the movie 'Pride & Prejudice'.
AMC has the movie 'Trepass', followed by the movie 'Midnight Express', then the movie 'Motel Hell'.
BBC -
[7pm] 'Ground Force' - Bristol;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Peckham;
[8pm] 'Coupling' - Split;
[8:40pm] 'Behind the Screen' - Manchild;
[9pm] 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[9:40pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[10:20pm] 'Coupling' - Split;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - The Dixie Chicks/Ashton Kutcher;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Barbara Hershey;
12:00 am 'The Office' - Episode 4;
[12:40am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[1:20am] 'Coupling' - Split;
[2am] 'Coupling' - Split;
[2:40am] 'Behind the Screen' - Manchild;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - The Dixie Chicks/Ashton Kutcher; and
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Barbara Hershey. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'The American President', followed by the wonderful movie 'Waiting For Guffman'.
HBO offers a FRESH 'Real Time With Bill Maher'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Greatest Raids', 'Heavy Metal', and more 'Modern Marvels'.
SciFi has 'Tremors: The Series', 'Stargate SG-1', 'Scare Tactic', and another 'Scare Tactic'.
TCM celebrates Katharine Hepburn for the next 24-hours.
[6am] 'Mary of Scotland' (1936);
[8:30am] 'Spitfire' (1934);
[10:30am] 'Undercurrent' (1946);
[12:30pm] 'Without Love' (1945);
[2:30pm] 'Alice Adams' (1935);
[4:30pm] 'Little Women' (1933);
[6:30pm] 'Katharine Hepburn: All About Me' (1993);
[8pm] 'Woman Of The Year' (1942);
[10pm] 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938);
[12am] 'The Philadelphia Story' (1940);
[2am] 'Holiday' (1938); and
[4am] 'Song Of Love' (1947). (ALL TIMES EDT)
People watch the moon rising over the sky of Athens from the vantage point of a hill near the airport. Thousands of Greeks flocked to the country's archeological sites, kept open to allow them to watch the August full moon, the year's largest, from a romantic setting.
Photo by Aris Messinis
The Show Didn't Go On
Broadway
Twenty-two shows — 19 musicals and three plays — went dark Thursday, their normally blazing marquees unlit. Outside the usually packed TKTS half-price ticket booth in Times Square, there were no crowds — only a few forlorn, would-be theatergoers.
Refunds or exchanges would be available from the point of purchase, said Jan Svendsen, a spokeswoman for the League of American Theatres and Producers.
The luckiest show in town Thursday was "Say Goodnight Gracie" — no evening performance was scheduled.
Broadway
Named Worst Rock Band
Insane Clown Posse
Insane Clown Posse, the Detroit rap duo beloved by teenage boys for their creepy face make-up and X-rated lyrics, have been named the worst band ever by Blender magazine.
The music publication's September issue said Insane Clown Posse "sound even stupider than they look," and derided them for rapping about "40-ouncers and venereal disease."
No. 2 on the list was 1970s supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer, followed by once-hirsute balladeer Michael Bolton, mellow jazz saxophonist Kenny G. and the Jefferson Airplane pop spinoff Starship.
Insane Clown Posse
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Some Pulling Schwarzenegger Films
Cable TV Networks
"The Running Man" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be running any time soon on Sci Fi channel.
The cable TV network said on Thursday it was pulling an entire night of Schwarzenegger programming featuring three of his films including "Running Man" and "Conan The Destroyer" on Aug. 24, becoming the second cable network in two days to take his movies off air.
Sci Fi, owned by Vivendi Universal, will instead offer viewers a slate of California-themed disaster movies.
One day earlier, FX, owned by News Corp., said it had decided to pull Schwarzenegger flicks from its line-up until after the political situation was resolved.
Nevertheless, cable channels TNT and Turner South, both owned by AOL Time Warner, said they were proceeding with plans to air "Red Sonja," and "The Terminator" this month.
Cable TV Networks
Papers Give Glimpse
Ingmar Bergman
The personal papers of the notoriously private Ingmar Bergman, which got their first public airing on Thursday before a European tour, show how a stumbling actor and writer grew into one of the greatest film directors.
Just turned 85 and mostly ensconced on the remote Baltic Sea island of Faro, the director who rarely gives interviews handed over a jumble of notebooks, diaries, photo albums and film and theater scripts to the Swedish Film Institute for posterity.
The doodles and snapshots give a glimpse into the youthful imaginings of the creator of "Wild Strawberries," "The Seventh Seal" and "Fanny and Alexander," which won him an Oscar in 1982.
"Ingmar Before Bergman," previewed for the media in the same cavernous studios where he shot much of "Fanny and Alexander," will accompany Bergman retrospectives in Helsinki, Paris, Rome and Turin until October. The huge archive will be available to researchers, and on the Internet, from 2004.
For more, Ingmar Bergman
Ram Singh Chauhan, 51, of from the Indian state of Rajasthan displays his 10.5 feet long moustache as two unidentified traditional dancers from Andhra Pradesh touch it in curiosity at the Travel and Tourism fair in Calcutta, India, Thursday, August 14, 2003.
Photo by Bikas Das
Getting Closer to 'Producers' Return
Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane is getting closer to returning to Broadway as the rapscallion Max Bialystock in "The Producers."
The actor has cleared his schedule for early 2004, making it more likely that he and Matthew Broderick, the original stars of the smash Mel Brooks musical, will be able to come back to the show in January for three months. The two actors have been negotiating to rejoin the New York production.
Lane had a committment to star in "Butley," a play by Simon Gray, for Boston's Huntington Theatre Company from Jan. 2 through Feb. 1.
The darkly comic story of a self-destructive English professor, the play has been rescheduled for Oct. 24-Nov. 30 with Lane still in the title role, the Huntington announced Thursday.
Lane will, however, be on a New York stage before going to Boston. He opens off-Broadway Sept. 4 in "Trumbo," about blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo. It begins preview performances Aug. 26 and opens Sept. 4. Lane will appear in the show through Sept. 21.
Nathan Lane
Named Greatest Briton
Isaac Newton
The pioneering mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton has been named the greatest Briton of all time by overseas voters in a poll conducted by the BBC World satellite news network.
In second position came Britain's World War II leader, Churchill, with 17 percent of the vote, followed by the late Princess Diana with 13 percent.
The runners-up were Renaissance playright William Shakespeare, 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin and rock legend John Lennon.
Then came the 19th-century civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Queen Elizabeth I, the 17th-century general and statesman Oliver Cromwell and the 18th-century admiral Horatio Nelson.
Isaac Newton
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
MSGOP Job Training Program Continues
Jesse Ventura
MSNBC has dropped plans for a weeknight show starring Jesse Ventura, saying Thursday the former Minnesota governor will instead be host of a once-a-week program on Saturdays.
The network still hasn't announced a start date or a time slot for Ventura's program.
MSNBC announced it had signed the former professional wrestler for a topical talk show last winter, saying it would be on the air in March. But there were a series of delays as concepts were tested off-air, leading to questions about whether the show would ever appear.
In a news release, Ventura said he believes the Saturday time slot "is not as confining as weeknight programming and will allow me more freedom to strut my stuff and make my case."
On television, Saturday is generally the least-watched day of the week.
Jesse Ventura
Can Show in Puerto Rico
'Naked Boys Singing'
An appeals court has ruled that "Naked Boys Singing" can return to a city-run theater where it was twice canceled, but producers are following through with a backup plan to stage the musical at a private theater.
The court on Tuesday recognized the kriginal contract between City Hall and the show's producers allowing the production to be staged. The Puerto Rican version of the musical, written by Robert Schrock, features eight nude men dancing to Spanish-Caribbean beats such as salsa and plena.
The appeals court also agreed with producers that the Tapia Theater's board of directors censored the show prior to seeing it when they walked out on a dress rehearsal nearly two weeks ago.
'Naked Boys Singing'
Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean, right, inspects the butter cow with creator Norma 'Duffy' Lyons during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Photo by Charlie Neibergall
Court Rules Against
Chase Masterson
A federal appeals court rejected a "Star Trek" actress' lawsuit against dating service Matchmaker.com, ruling that a fake Internet profile posted with the star's comely image was not the company's fault.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday the personal profile information published on Matchmaker's service is solely up to the user's discretion and the company is immune from the lawsuit.
Christianne Carafano, who uses the stage name Chase Masterson, has appeared in numerous films and television programs, most notably starring as the alien character Leeta on the TV series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."
Carafano sued Matchmaker after learning that an online profile using her photos had been created in 1999. The profile included her home address, phone number and text stating she sought a dominant man with "a strong sexual appetite."
Chase Masterson
Jury Reaches Some Verdicts
Sizemore Case
A jury has reached verdicts on some of the 16 charges against actor Tom Sizemore, who is accused of abusing his former fiancee Heidi Fleiss, the judge in the case said Thursday.
Superior Court Judge Antonio Barreto Jr. had decided that as a precaution he would accept the verdicts already reached, but changed his mind when jurors sent word they wanted him to wait until they resolved the rest of the counts.
"I'm not going to do it if it's going to make the jurors uncomfortable," Barreto said after summoning lawyers to the courtroom. "I'm deferring to their wishes in this matter."
The jury was to resume deliberations Friday morning. They heard six days of testimony about the relationship between Sizemore and Fleiss, the former Hollywood madam.
Sizemore Case
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Willing To Take DNA Test
Hesshaimer/Lindbergh Claim
Three Germans who say Charles Lindbergh was their father said on Thursday they were willing to take DNA tests to prove they were the offspring of the legendary American aviator.
Brushing off doubts raised by Lindbergh's U.S. family and his biographer, the Germans told a news conference how Lindbergh spent several weeks a year with them during the secretive 17-year relationship that lasted until his death in 1974.
The three Germans said they decided to reveal the secret of Lindbergh's dual life now -- two years after their mother died -- because they wanted to be recognized as his children.
They insisted they had no interest in the estate of the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic nor did they want to harm the American hero's legacy.
The director of the Lindbergh Foundation in Minnesota declined to comment on the claim or DNA test offer. German media have reported one daughter dismissed the claim as "nonsense."
For more, Hesshaimer/Lindbergh Claim
Seeking Divorce
Frost - Law
Actress Sadie Frost said Thursday she has begun divorce proceedings against Jude Law, the Oscar-nominated actor with whom she has three children.
The couple separated in January after more than five years of marriage.
Frost, 35, said she and Law wanted to make the process as painless as possible for the sake of their children. She also has a son, Finley, from her first marriage, to Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp.
Frost and Law married in September 1997. Their third child together, Rudy, was born in September. They also have a son, Rafferty, and a daughter, Iris.
Frost - Law
Two paratroopers float down to a target zone during practice for Leapfest XXI, in South Kingstown, R.I., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003. Each of the 200 paratroopers participating in Leapfest XXI, the 2003 International Military Parachute Competition, will throw themselves from helicopters 1,500 feet above the hard ground. Saturday's competition is scheduled to last from 7:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. at West Kingstown Elementary School. The free event is open to the public.
Photo by Joe Giblin
Makes Texas Town a Used Book Oasis
Larry McMurtry
Dusty streets, a blinking traffic light and churning oil rigs in the bone-dry hills are the backdrop for the classic movie "The Last Picture Show" -- and for an unlikely oasis for used book lovers.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Larry McMurtry, author of "Terms of Endearment," "Lonesome Dove" and "The Last Picture Show," has turned his hometown of Archer City, Texas, into what several book dealers say is one of the preeminent places in the United States to search for used books.
His store, called Booked Up, fills four buildings in the town square and has between 200,000 and 300,000 books on the shelves.
McMurtry would like to turn Archer City -- population 1,848 -- into a book town. About 140 miles northwest of Dallas, Archer City is an oil town set in rugged land. It was the location for "The Last Picture Show," a movie about despair and perversity in small-town America.
While his small town may seem like an unlikely place for a successful bookstore, customers come and the business turns a profit. Book dealers account for about 50 percent of sales and willingly travel to Texas to hunt for new treasures.
For the rest, Larry McMurtry
Reluctant Supporter Of Arnold
Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton's upcoming album Now has an unplanned connection to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California governor's race. In the chorus of the song "I'm Back," he sings, "I'm back/Like Schwarzenegger in the Terminator."
Frampton said that he and cowriter Gordon Kennedy came up with the track a while ago, and they couldn't have imagined how timely it would be now: "When we wrote that--that was, what, 18 months ago? Maybe even a little bit more? So, you know, Gordon and I couldn't believe it," Frampton said. "We're trying to get it to him now. Then someone says, 'Well, do you really want to endorse him?' I said, 'Well, I don't know--I'm not running. He's a liberal conservative.'"
While he might not exactly be in Schwarzenegger's corner, Frampton also said that Fleetwood Mac did pretty well by being attached to President Bill Clinton, so maybe teaming up with the potential California governor could work out for him.
Peter Frampton
Not Extinct After All
Borneo Bay Cat
A wild cat thought to be virtually extinct has been captured on film in the wild, a Malaysian scientist said Thursday.
"We have discovered a species thought extinct in Borneo," Mohd Azlan told Reuters by telephone from East Malaysia, where he led a research project for University Malaysia Sarawak and the state forest department.
A Borneo bay cat (Catopuma badia), about the size of a large domestic cat though with an extra long tail, triggered a remote camera in daylight on June 27, yielding a lone image from what was a two-month monitoring period.
Azlan, who previously tracked tigers in Peninsular Malaysia using so-called camera traps, said the data suggested there were at most a few of the animals in the area of the Lanjak-Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary under study.
The sanctuary, a tropical rainforest area closed to the public and adjoining a sister park across the border in Indonesia's Kalimantan, is home to orangutans, Bornean gibbons and hundreds of tree species.
Borneo Bay Cat
Biscuit, a snow leopard born about two months ago, hides under his mother Shikari at the Bronx Zoo in New York Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003. Biscuit's arrival marks the 100th anniversary of the zoo's program to breed the endangered snow leopards.
Photo by Gregory Bull
'Ark of Darkness'
"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).
Steve and Lilith flee to the heart of the anomaly and attempt to alter the structure of hell.
'The Osbournes'
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