Greg Sargent: Does Obama camp see upside in pissing off the left? (washingtonpost.com)
The story exploding on the left right now is that the Obama campaign's state director in New Mexico sent out an email containing a blog post mocking Paul Krugman and the "firebagger liberal blogosphere"for criticizing the debt ceiling deal negotiated by the White House. Liberal bloggers are asking whether this is the latest sign that the Obama team sees percentage in dumping on the left - or "hippie punching," as the blogospheric parlance has it.
Andrew Tobias: Valley Forge
For all the obstacles, this Administration averted a depression, restored America's standing in the world, launched an educational "race to the top," doubled auto efficiency standards, killed Bin Laden, appointed two progressive Justices, extended health insurance to 30 million people, preserved the social safety net . . . and on and on and on. It's a VERY long list.
Jim Hightower: A corporate mule v. FAA workers
I'm often asked, "Do Republicans serve any real purpose in Congress?" Yes, they do. They proudly serve as the plodding pack mules of Corporate America, dutifully hauling any load that a corporation piles on their backs, no matter how odious.
Susan Estrich: Worst Week (Creators Syndicate)
I don't know Bachmann. She might be a perfectly nice woman. But she is never going to be president. Not only that, but the better she does the worse it is for the Republican Party.
Penn Jillette: I don't know, so I'm an atheist libertarian (CNN)
"I don't know" is not an apology. There's no shame. It's a simple statement of fact. When Richard Feynman didn't know, he often worked harder than anyone else to find out, but while he didn't know, he said, "I don't know."
Michele Simon: Safe, Organic Animal Foods Too Expensive? Eat Less (foodsafetynews.com)
In an email exchange with Dr. Richard Raymond over my recent article on the massive Cargill recall of Salmonella-tainted ground turkey, the former head of food safety at USDA warned me that a likely result of tightened food safety laws would be "higher food prices making meat and poultry unaffordable sources of protein to some." To which I replied: "I have no problem with that."
I Remember Ed Wood (neatorama.com)
This piece was written by someone who knew him -in fact, the reluctant star of Plan 9, Gregory Walcott.
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mj said:
You wouldn't like him when he's angry
Bill Bixby played the nephew. Also Eddie's father and a Magician and ambulatory broccoli.
Baron Dave ("Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) wrote:
David Bruce Banner, The Magician
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Ray Walston
Adam answered:
The criminally underrated Ray Walston.
Charlie responded:
Bill Bixby in the series, Jeff Daniels in the film.
Charlie's photo didn't open, so I substituted this one ~m)
Sally said:
I'm thinking the character of Tim O'Hara was played by Bill Bixby.
Uncle Martin and nephew, Tim.
PS: The svelte JoeS is back and not a day too soon!! Missed ya Mr S!
Bruce S replied:
Another Martian spacecraft crash lands on Earth. It happens to be Martin's 11-year old nephew, Andromeda, played by Wayne Stam (b. 1952)
Bill Bixby played Tim O’hara
MAM wrote:
Bill Bixby
[Bill Bixby and Ray Walston
Tom B replied:
That was the late lamented Bill Bixby.
And, Joe S answered:
Bill Bixby.
Ya know... I really liked My Favorite Martian, I watched it every chance I got. I don't know why, it's just some shows tickle your funny bone I guess.
Hi Sally, I'm back.
Donald M wrote:
How about 'Rover'?
Thank you for rescuing him.
Nancy Maynard made a great point with
I'd name him Bart!
And, Steve said:
Obiviously, his name is Doodlebug.
Previous Reader Responses:
Michael D in Port Saint Lucie, FL replied to DanD with:
DanD you are absolutely correct. It was only an illusion that I "owned" them. After I posted that I realized how foolish it must sound. Of course I was subservient to them. And I dearly miss them.
DanD wrote:
Wow, you've changed the descriptive parameters! Let's see now, how to
keep this name PG ... "Two-Buck Fluff-n-Stuff?"
maurice said:
ANNIE
Kate M suggested:
As soon as I saw the kitty the name "Skylar" came to mind. Don't know why but he/she seems like a Skyler to me.
My family and I have seven cats...the eldest (over 15 yrs.) is Nikki...her owner was tragically killed in an accident so I took her. Then there's Hope and Annie (two kittens I adopted via my aunt's very pregnant {couldn't get her to get the cat spayed} cat). Hanna (nicknamed "bear" as in Hanna Bear for her bear like face) who came to us via my best friend's husband from Missouri. She rode sixteen hours in a U-Haul from Kansas City to Detroit. Jake Mews is a small grey cat we adopted from a co worker who could no longer keep him and his brother Elwood (who had to be put down due to illness recently). Finally there are two recent adoptees William (a BIG orange Morris-like boy) and Tatiana a huge Maine Coon we found at the shelter. No one wanted Tati...all of her kittens were adopted out but no one wanted her...but me! We love and care for them all but there is never a dull moment in our home! Thanks for reading about our feline family and good luck to you and your friend!
Brian wrote:
Why name a cat, it's it's not gonna listen anyway. Badumpbum.
BTW I have two sleeping in front of me that showed up on my neighbors garage roof last month, couldn't get rid of them either. Who rescues who?
Tom in Ohio replied:
May I respectfully offer "Pussy Gabor." She looks so lovely and glamorous in her fur coat.
Jonathan K said:
I suggest "Major Kong" as in the attached image.
sara replied:
His little paws all white are so sweet. How about "Spats"? Like the well heeled men of the early thirties.
And, Rock wrote:
How about "Sugarfoot"
DanD commented:
In response to Michael D in Port Saint Lucie's cat-naming suggestion
where he presumes: " ... The three cats I ever owned were Amos, Otis
and Sherman."
You actually thought that you owned those cats? Boy, did they have
you bamboozled!
Michael D in Port Saint Lucie, FL suggested:
Marty, I'll throw my hat into the ring with "Jetsam" as in "flotsam and jetsam" seeing as how she was found at the shore. The three cats I ever owned were Amos, Otis and Sherman.
mj wrote:
Turquoise eye set in silver fur?
What else but Squash Blossom?
DJ Useo said:
All my prayers to the found kitten & you also for truly caring. My suggestion for a name is Shanna, after the she-devil. When I lived at the edge of a large woods in Michigan, people always dropped off felines apparently thinking "oh,goodie, a woods, all cats thrive in the wild'. It was actually very dangerous with all kinds of predators, and feline leukemia around. I always took in cats & kept many. Actually managed to find homes for the rest. Good homes, too, from what I saw. Everyone, if you don't have a cat, or maybe only one, go today & rescue a cat. You will love yourself for the act, & the cat will double it.
Gene wrote: CF + for Chinese Food - hehehehehe
CY said:
She looks exactly like my Pookster, down the the toe-mittens.
She has amny names, but we can share:
Sweetface, McSplat, Pookarozzi, Roadkill, Whiner.
Sally said:
From the looks of that picture, I'd say: "Whomee?"
PS: Enjoy your new kitty...
Michelle in AZ wrote:
Spitfire
BadtotheboneBob replied:
Awwww... I love little kitties... then they grow and become cats, but that's cool. It's kinda like our own kids, ya know. I look proudly upon my grown up, successful daughter of 27, but often wistfully think back to when she was small... then she drops off 'Maddie Muffin' for me to play with and I get to do it all again! Being a 'grampa' is the best job in the world...
Anyway, my choice for this little ball of fur is... 'Tuffy'... for no other reason than it was the first thing that came to mind.
Linda >^..^< suggested:
Has to be Sweetheart!
DanD wrote:
"She's smart, playful, and quite a little ball of fire, fleas and fluff."
Name? FIREBALL!
STAMFORD, Conn. -- A renegade fundamentalist (evil) Kansas church (cesspool) professing the demise of the United States because of its liberal policies on homosexuality, abortion and divorce is threatening to protest the Friday funeral for fallen Stamford SEAL Brian Bill. (Oh, now it's abortion and divorce, too? What next? SpongeBob?)
Fred Phelps Jr., (R - Pythius) spokesman and son (spawn) of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred W. Phelps (R - Lucifer), said Wednesday that five or six church members (R - Astaroths) are on their way to Stamford for Bill's services.
"That's the idea. We are doing as many SEAL funerals as we can," he said in a phone interview from Kansas (Gehenna).
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Flashpoint', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNDave (from 7/25/11) are Brian Williams, and Tim Robbins & the Rogues Gallery Band.
On a RERUNCraig (from 7/18/11) are Elizabeth Banks and Rich Fulcher.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Friends With Benefits', followed by another RERUN'Friends With Benefits', then 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 6/14/11) are Kim Kardashian, Lior Suchard, and Randy Travis (R-Bachmann) featuring Josh Turner.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 7/28/11) are Julianne Moore, Dominic Cooper, and Beyonce.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/12/11) Rob Riggle, Hugo, and the Greenhornes.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by a FRESH'Karaoke Battle USA', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/9/11) are Jessica Alba, Steve Martorano, and Luke Bryan.
The CW offers a RERUN'Nikita', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with old 'Simpsons', and some local crap.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Cowboy Way', followed by the movie 'Caddyshack', then the movie 'Summer Rental'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 13 - Kate Hudson, Russell Kane, Tinie Tempah
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 12 Casa Roma
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Evolution Of The Daleks
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Lanterna
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 24 Menage a Troi
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[9:00 PM] The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - 6 - The Almost People
[1:00 AM] Doctor Who - 7 - A Good Man Goes to War
[2:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 21 The Perfect Mate
[3:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 22 Imaginary Friend
[4:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 23 I, Borg
[5:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 13 Beyond the Sea (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'America's Next Top Model' all night.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Comedy Central Presents' (Donald Glover), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Rob Riggle), still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Amy Schumer), and still another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Bret Ernst).
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Hitman', then the movie '12 Rounds'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'American Restoration', and another 'American Restoration'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Water
[8:30AM] Polish Wedding
[10:45AM] Last Summer in the Hamptons
[1:00PM] Water
[3:30PM] Polish Weddingl
[5:45PM] Watching the Detectives
[7:45PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[10:00PM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Roller Kingdom
[10:30PM] Whisker Wars - The Beard Circuit
[11:00PM] Whisker Wars - West Coast Showdown
[11:30PM] Evil Dead 2
[1:15AM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Roller Kingdom
[1:45AM] Whisker Wars - West Coast Showdown
[2:15AM] Young Broke and Beautiful - Baltimore
[2:45AM] The Making Of: Transformation
[2:50AM] Nosebleed
[3:00AM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[5:15AM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Trashicorn; Bury Me Naturally
[5:45AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor Danny DeVito stands on his star with his family, wife Rhea Perlman, left, and their children, from third left, Jacob, Lucy and Grace, as he is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
Seems like former "Golden Girls" actress Betty White really does have the Midas touch.
White, 89, is both the most popular and most trusted celebrity with Americans and the person most likely to drive up the business of a brand she might choose to endorse, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
But the Reuters/Ipsos poll suggested that companies should stay away from Paris Hilton and Charlie Sheen if they want to promote their products.
The socialite and reality TV actress, and the fired "Two and A Half Men" star topped the list of the most unpopular and least trusted personalities and were deemed most likely to damage any brands they choose to support.
White scored an 86 percent favorable opinion in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, beating Oscar winners Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock and Clint Eastwood in the survey of the 100 most popular personalities. She easily edged out Britain's Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton (5th), Oprah Winfrey (6th), and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (15th) in the most trusted personalities ranking.
The red-haired bully from the movie "A Christmas Story" is preparing for a courtroom slugfest with Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.
Actor Zack Ward, who played Scut Farkus in the 1983 film, has sued Warner Bros for using his image in toy action figures without his permission.
The suit, filed on Tuesday in California federal court, charges that the studio had no right to license Ward's likeness for use in consumer merchandise. Ward wasn't consulted and didn't authorize the production of the Scut Farkus figurine, the complaint said.
Ward's case is the latest in a spate of actions by actors seeking to recover merchandise profits related to classic film and television works. As recently as five years ago, such suits were rare because actors had little way of knowing if and when their images were being used by studios. That has changed, thanks to the Internet, as well as a steep increase in merchandising by studios, making the products more generally visible.
In April, four members of the 1970s show "Happy Days" sued CBS Studios Inc and Paramount Pictures, alleging they were owed royalties. David Cassidy also claims that he is owed a hefty sum in merchandise sales related to the 1970s television show "The Partridge Family."
The 39th annual Annie Awards, a celebrated but controversial prize in the world of animation, announced its "call for entries" on Thursday -- and in a major change from last year, TheWrap has learned that Disney/Pixar will be among the companies submitting entries.
Last year, the animation giant withdrew its support from the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, to protest Annie rules and judging procedures.
However, though Disney/Pixar has made no formal announcement, a source with knowledge of the ASIFA process says the studio will once again take part in the organization and its awards show.
The reason for the change of heart: significant voting-procedure and organizational changes have been made in the wake of February's Annies ceremony.
Actor Jason Momoa places his hands in cement during an appearance at Planet Hollywood Times Square to promote his new film "Conan" on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
A Polish judge has found a death metal singer innocent of offending religious feeling, ruling that his ripping up of a Bible during a show was a form of artistic expression consistent with the style of his band.
Adam Darski, who goes by the stage name Nergal and is the frontman for the death metal band Behemoth, was charged after he ripped up the Bible during a 2007 concert in Gdynia, in the country's north.
He was found innocent by a court last year but prosecutors appealed that verdict. The court issued an innocent verdict Thursday.
Concert video footage shows Darski throwing the torn pages to the audience and asking fans to burn them. According to the Polish news agency PAP, he also called the Bible "a deceitful book" and the church a "criminal sect" - strong language in this predominantly Roman Catholic country.
Judge Krzysztof Wieckowski, in issuing his ruling, said it considered Darski's actions "a form of art" consistent with the style of his band. He added that the court had no intention of limiting freedom of expression or the right to criticize religion.
British police made a new arrest Thursday in the country's tabloid phone hacking scandal, while an actress and her ex-soccer player husband announced they had agreed to a settlement with the now-shuttered News of The World tabloid.
Police in London confirmed a 38-year-old man, who they declined to name, was arrested at a London police station after he arrived voluntarily Thursday. He is the 13th person to be arrested so far in the saga - only one of those arrested has already been cleared.
Britain's Guardian newspaper reported the man was James Desborough, formerly the Los Angeles-based U.S. editor for the News of the World. The newspaper claimed that his arrest was related to activities that took place before he moved to the United States.
Both News International, the British division of Murdoch's News Corp. empire that owned the tabloid, and London police declined to confirm that Desborough was the suspect now being questioned.
This undated photo provided by Christie's auction house in New York shows a 1958 Gibson Flying V guitar owned by actor Richard Gere. Christie's says it will be selling 110 of Gere's guitars on Oct. 11. Gere says he's parting with the instruments to support humanitarian causes around the world.
News International, the British division of Murdoch's News Corp. empire that owned the tabloid, confirmed it has been sued by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was jailed in 2007 along with a reporter at the News of the World for hacking into the voicemail messages of royal staff.
Last month, News Corp. stopped making legal payments to Mulcaire, a day after Murdoch told lawmakers in a special parliamentary hearing that he would try to find a way to stop the payments.
News International spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop confirmed the Mulcaire lawsuit on Thursday but declined to comment further. A person familiar with the case said it alleged a breach of contract in respect to Mulcaire's legal costs.
In a separate development, lawyers for British television actress Leslie Ash and former soccer player Lee Chapman confirmed they had resolved their legal action against the News of The World.
The Air Force said Wednesday it is discharging a hero of the so-called birther movement who refused to report to duty in Germany for a few days earlier this month because he doubts President Barack Obama's citizenship.
Staff Sgt. Daryn Moran expects to be discharged within the next week. Although the 41-year-old Nebraska man refused to report to duty and had called for Obama's arrest in statements on websites, several other things contributed to his discharge, including his opposition to Obama's decision to allow gays to serve openly in the military.
Moran, who has served nine years in the Air Force, drew the attention of the birther movement when he shared his views on Obama's citizenship on websites of groups that believe Obama was not born in the U.S. and therefore is not eligible to serve as president or commander in chief.
Moran was an ophthalmology technician with the 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, where he had been stationed since October 2010. He was put on leave sometime earlier this year after some of his co-workers at the eye clinic were bothered by comments he made about the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and about Muslim terrorists and how he thought Obama was connected to Muslims. One of the doctors at the clinic was Muslim.
Baseball fan Dean Bacon, of Vancouver, BC, wears a hat with the Canadian flag and a photo of SCTV comedy character "Doug MacKenzie," as he watches a rather slow-moving baseball game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, in Seattle.
Photo by Ted S. Warren
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point says it has reinstated a cadet involved in an airport scuffle with bodyguards for R&B diva Patti LaBelle.
Richard King, a member of the Class of 2011, was on already suspended separation for previous conduct when the March 11 scrape happened at an airport in his hometown of Houston.
In a lawsuit against the Grammy Award-winning LaBelle, he says three of her bodyguards attacked him for no reason. The singer has countersued, saying King was drunk and hurling racial slurs.
West Point says the 23-year-old King will start classes Monday. If he meets academic standards, he will graduate in December.
A federal appeals court in New York has rejected an $18 million class action settlement reached after freelance writers sued publishers.
The writers had said their copyrights were infringed upon when their works were reprinted online without permission.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Wednesday the 2005 deal had to be scrapped because the plaintiffs didn't adequately represent all members of the class. It says more than 99 percent of claims wouldn't be covered by the settlement because they involved writers who hadn't registered copyrights.
The settlement was reached after the Supreme Court in 2001 ruled freelance writers have online rights to their work. The case largely applied to articles, photographs and illustrations produced 15 or more years ago.
An Indian model displays designer Little Shilpa creations during the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011.
Photo by Rajanish Kakade
Police in southern New Jersey have ticketed a man after they say he struck a car driven by Howard Stern's sidekick Robin Quivers.
Police say Quivers was driving north on Route 9 in Barnegat Township on Sunday when Robert Crockett hit her vehicle and took off.
Witnesses provided police with information and that led them to the 50-year-old.
Police issued Crockett tickets for leaving the scene of an accident, failure to report an accident, reckless driving and operating an unregistered vehicle.
An orange-colored goo that streaked the shore of a remote Alaska village turned out to be fungal spores, not millions of microscopic eggs as indicated by preliminary analysis, scientists said Thursday.
Further tests with more advanced equipment showed the substance is consistent with spores from fungi that create rust, which accounts for the color, said officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The gunk appeared Aug. 3 at the edge of Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo community at the tip of a barrier reef on Alaska's northwest coast.
The substance quickly dissipated from the village lagoon and the Wulik River. But many of Kivalina's 374 residents worried about the long-term effect on the water quality - and some wildlife, fish and plants they use for food - from a phenomenon they had never seen before. There was a report of dead minnows found in the lagoon the night the substance appeared.
City administrator Janet Mitchell said those fears will only intensify with the latest analysis, which did not include toxicity tests. She herself is troubled about the community's dwindling reserves in village water tanks that will need to be topped off.
Scientists have not determined whether this spore is among the 7,800 known species of rust fungi or some kind of unknown arctic species. To do that, they would need two other pieces of the puzzle: the host of the spores and the "fruiting body," akin to the mushroom stage, said Steven Morton, a scientist at a NOAA lab in Charleston, S.C., where the final tests were conducted.
An owl looks on during an open day at the Leningradsky zoo in St.Petersburg August 14, 2011. The zoo celebrated its 146th birthday on Sunday, inviting the public to get a closer look at some of its animals.
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
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