Max Boot: Here are 14 reasons I'll vote for any Democrat over Trump (Washington Post)
I may not agree with Warren or Sanders on most issues, but I am confident they would not do any of the offensive and even impeachable acts that Trump commits with mind-numbing regularity. That is reason enough to vote for them, even if I would prefer a more moderate alternative. Saving U.S. democracy from a mad king matters more than the specific policies of his successor.
Dana Milbank: This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for American democracy (Washington Post)
… these are not ordinary times. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment not just for Democrats but for American democracy. If the anti-Trump majority doesn't prevail next year and resoundingly repudiate the hatred, isolation and drift toward autocracy, it won't much matter what happens later. Abrams, Bullock and O'Rourke owe it to the country to end the reign of President Trump's enablers in the Senate.
Dylan Brown: "Larger and More Befuddling Questions: On Jane Tompkins's 'Reading Through the Night'" (LA Review of Books)
IN READING THROUGH THE NIGHT, literary scholar Jane Tompkins examines her chronic illness and relationships with her mother and husband by way of close-reading the works of V. S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux. Though fairly modest in scope and low in stakes, Tompkins's interest in her material is infectious - the best professors seem to share this quality - and the excavations of her past produce sharp observations about the interplay between our internal lives and the books we read.
The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of Hertz Global Holdings Inc., is an American car rental company based in Estero, Florida that operates 10,200 corporate and franchisee locations internationally. As the second-largest US car rental company by sales, locations, and fleet size, Hertz operates in 150 countries, including North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation owns Dollar and Thrifty Automotive Group-which separates into Thrifty Car Rental and Dollar Rent A Car.
In 1959, the advertising firm of Norman, Craig & Kummel (NCK) was selected as the new advertising agency for Hertz. NCK developed the slogan "Hertz puts you in the driver's seat", which was first used commercially in September 1959. NCK changed the wording to "Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat" by October 1959. Popular a cappella quartet The Hi-Lo's sang the Hertz song for the commercials. Hertz used the line in the early 1960s in print, signs, and television. The series is listed as number 65 in the top 100 advertising campaigns of the 20th century by Advertising Age magazine.
Mark. was first, and correct, with:
"Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat."
Alan J answered:
Hertz.
Stephen F said:
Hertz Car Rental
mj wrote:
They, apparently
Didn't need to try harder than any one. Hertz.
Randall replied:
Let Hertz put YOU in the driver's seat
Your Libtard, Snowflake, Socialist friend, Roy in Tyler, TX responded:
While I prefer Enterprise ("We'll pick you up") for all my rental car needs, I do remember those Hertz commercials where they promised to put me "in the driver's seat." I also kinda liked the "We try harder" folks over at Avis.
Dave wrote:
Hertz. That advertising campaign was countered by Avis, whose slogan became, "When you're only #2 you try harder," which proved to be the more effective plea and Hertz fired its ad agency. A later long running Hertz ad featured football player O.J. Simpson racing through airports, hurdling turnstiles, to get to the Hertz desk and grab the keys, where he never had to wait in a long a line. O.J. Simpson ads for Hertz lasted from the mid-70s to the '90s when he was dropped as a spokesman for some reason.
Photos: In 1966 for a promotion, Hertz offered for rent 1,000 Shelby Mustangs in black with gold stripes (all other '66 Shelby Mustangs were white with blue stripes). Rumor has it that some gear heads rented the cars with the intention to swap the hot rodded Shelby 305 horsepower engine with the 210 horsepower standard Mustang V8, without it being noticed when the cars were turned in. Other Hertz Shelby's were driven to the nearest track and raced. | O.J. Simpson in happier times.
I forgot to include this photo of "first daughter's hilarious fashion sense." Lady of the Lagoon? Frog Princess?
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, said:
The company that wanted to put you in the driver's seat was the same one that later helped O.J. stop running through airports.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat
Deborah wrote:
Hmmm…pretty sure it's Hertz.
Hot and very humid Wednesday. We even had 2 brief rain showers. The air smelled lovely for a few minutes.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Hertz."
Cal in Vermont answered:
Hertz did. I wonder how many people they killed or maimed trying to put them in the drivers seat? Probably dropped them out of a hellicopter...
Dave in Tucson replied:
Believe it was Hertz who wanted to put me in the driver's seat. When I was fourteen a neighbor up the street who owned a red 1964 Impala SS convertible with a white top & white interior. Gawd, I wanted that car! Probably worth mega-bucks today.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Let HERTZ put you in the driver's seat.
Daniel in The City said:
Hertz
Joe S wrote:
All I remember about that is Hertz. I was never too interested in rental cars.
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• Like many people in the arts, conductor Marin Alsop reads at least some of her reviews. Like many people in the arts, she tends not to remember the good reviews, but she definitely remembers the bad reviews. For example, she remembers her very first review, which she received after conducting a major concert in New York. The review stated, "We should think that this person is talented, but we don't." She says, "I stayed in bed for a couple of days after that."
• In 1975, Beverly Sills made her Metropolitan Opera debut in The Siege of Corinth, which also starred Shirley Verrett and Justino Diaz. This production was much anticipated, and Ms. Sills wondered aloud during a rehearsal whether the critics would think the production had lived up to the anticipation. In those days of political correctness, Mr. Diaz said, "How can we miss? I'm a Puerto Rican, Shirley is black, and you're a Jew. Who would dare to criticize us?"
• Herbert Hughes, the music critic for the Daily Telegraph in London, compiled a book of Irish melodies. At the request of tenor John McCormack, Mr. Hughes was his accompanist at a concert at the Hippodrome in which Mr. McCormack sang a number of those Irish melodies. Mr. Hughes was quite nervous, and after the concert, he said, "John, I'll never write another unkind word about an accompanist!"
• After George Bernard Shaw heard a young Jascha Heifetz play the violin, he sent him this note: "Young man - Such perfection annoys the gods. You should play one or two wrong notes after each performance to appease them."
Death
• Chick Webb was a jazz and swing bandleader and drummer, and he was a Good Samaritan. As a child, he suffered from tuberculosis of the spine and he became hunchbacked as a result. When a member of his band developed tuberculosis, Chick paid his hospital bills. He hired good musicians, and other bandleaders sometimes offered them more money and so they occasionally left his band. Trumpeter Taft Jordan said, "If a sideman left him, even without notice, Chick would take him back whenever the guy needed work." Chick once gave his vocalist Ella Fitzgerald a ring. She said, "I thought it was something he wanted me to try on for size for his wife, but he said it was for me." When Chick met Ella, she was orphaned and did not have a legal guardian, so Chick and his wife adopted her and hired her to sing in his band. He died of pneumonia on 16 June 1939. He said his last words to his mother, whom he smiled at: "Sorry. I gotta go."
• Austrian conductor Karl Böhm disliked serving in the military as a young man because the officers were so autocratic. On a hot day during which he and his fellow soldiers had been drilling hard, he asked for a drink of water. The Lieutenant ordered him, "Back straight, knees bend, and hop to the fountain." Mr. Böhm obeyed the order, hopping approximately 300 meters to the fountain, but just before he reached it, the Lieutenant ordered, "About turn." Mr. Böhm then had to hop back to the other soldiers without having had a drink of water. Many officers were like that, and Mr. Böhm had little respect for what little intelligence they had. About one officer, he said, "I bet he'd sign his own death warrant." Mr. Böhm then filled out a death warrant for the officer, slipped it into a pile of papers that the officer had to sign - and the officer signed his own death warrant (which was not carried out, of course).
• In 1974, music maven Quincy Jones suffered two brain aneurysms that could have killed him. Hospital staff shaved his head so that he could be operated on, and doctors estimated that he had a one percent chance of surviving the operation. In fact, the hospital staff kept his hair in case his family wanted it glued onto his corpse for an open-casket funeral. When he woke up after the operation, he discovered that family and friends had planned an elaborate memorial service for him, so he decided to go ahead with it. After all, his friend Frank Sinatra had once advised him, "Q, live each day like it's your last. And one day you'll be right." Mr. Jones attended his own memorial service with two metal plates in his head, and when he saw all of the talent that had showed up for the service, he thought, "That's some lineup."
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a RERUN'Magnum PU', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 7/24/19) are Chris Wallace and Jamie Bell.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 7/31/19) are Patricia Arquette, Michael Peña, and the Bird and the Bee featuring Dave Grohl.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Ryan Seacrest, Robin Thede, and Derren Brown.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 7/23/19) are Beto O'Rourke, Retta, and Hunter Schafer.
Carson 'The Scab' Daly is pre-empted.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'American Housewife', followed by a RERUN'Fresh Off The Boat', then 'What Would You Do?', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Nick Offerman, Keke Palmer, and Brockhampton.
The CW offers a RERUN'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a RERUN'The Big Stage', then a RERUN'Hypnotize Me'.
Faux has a RERUN'BH90210', followed by a RERUN'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', and 'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls', followed by the movie 'The Hangover', then the movie 'The Hangover', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Yellowstone
[6:30AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Very Erectus
[7:30AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Fix Everything
[8:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 6-Christmas Carol
[9:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 7-Emily
[10:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 8-Kitsunegari
[11:30AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 9-Schizogeny
[12:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 10-Chinga
[1:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 11-Kill Switch
[2:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 12-Bad Blood
[3:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 13-Patient X
[4:30PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 14-The Red and the Black
[5:30PM] REAL GENIUS (1985)
[8:00PM] TRADING PLACES (1983)
[10:30PM] TRADING PLACES (1983)
[1:00AM] REAL GENIUS (1985) -
[3:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 9-Night Terrors
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 8 - EPISODE 1-Deep Breath (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family', followed by the movie 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family', again, then the movie 'Madea's Family Reunion'.
Comedy Central has 2½ hours of old 'The Office', followed by the (R) 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Charlie Sheen'.
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Secret Service', followed by the movie 'Ride Along 2'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'The UnXplained'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Mummy's Dummies
[6:05A] The Three Stooges - No Dough Boys
[6:30A] Galaxy Quest
[9:00A] Revenge of the Nerds
[11:00A] Cheech & Chong Still Smokin'
[1:00P] Up in Smoke
[3:00P] That '70s Show - That Wrestling Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show - The First Date
[4:00P] That '70s Show - The Pill
[4:30P] That '70s Show - The Career Day
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Prom Night
[5:30P] That '70s Show - A New Hope
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - An Old Flame With a New Wick
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - I Remember the Coatroom, I Just Don't Remember You
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - Hey, I Can Pee Outside in the Dark
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - No Sniffing, No Wowing
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - My Doctor Has a Cow Puppet
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Just Like Buffalo
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - Can You Feel My Finger?
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Back Off Mary Poppins
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Enjoy Those Garlic Balls
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - A Bag Full of Jawea
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Go Get Mommy's Bra
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - Bad News From the Clinic
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - A Possum on Chemo
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - The Duchess of Dull-in-Sack
[1:00A] That '70s Show - That Wrestling Show
[1:30A] That '70s Show - The First Date
[2:00A] Sherman's Showcase - White Music
[2:30A] Sherman's Showcase - July 8, 1995
[3:00A] King Kong (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] 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 Perks of Being a Wallflower
[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
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:35am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Stephen King's It', followed by a FRESH'Killjoys'.
Staffers at this Seattle record store are used to coming across rare finds. But they never thought they would find a royalty check made out to Nirvana's lead singer, Kurt Cobain.
Easy Street Records found a check from Broadcast Music Inc. that was made out to Kurt D. Cobain of Olympia, Washington. It was dated March 6, 1991, a few months before Nirvana made it big with its rock album "Nevermind."
Store owner Matt Vaughan said he was tidying in the basement when he found the uncashed $26.57 check tucked in a collection of the rock band's tour itineraries. He had bought the itineraries along with a box of records back in 1993.
"Last week, I was moving some stuff around and guess found a moment of reflection, sat there in the basement and flipped through every page," he told CNN. "That's when these thin pieces of paper dropped out."
Inside the collection was also a $177 rent money order receipt of Cobain's from 1990.
Amazon, the biggest book vendor in the United States, recently started shipping preorders of Margaret Atwood's book Testaments. The problem, notably, is that Atwood's book is not supposed to launch until Tuesday, September 10. Amazon is violating the embargo that all sellers of the book have agreed to. And its indie bookselling rivals are pissed.
The book, which is a sequel to her seminal work, The Handmaid's Tale, has been one of the most anticipated novel releases this year. It's already in development as a series at Hulu, and just today was shortlisted for the coveted Booker Prize. Its leak would be tantamount to someone leaking the finale of Game of Thrones to Amazon customers who pre-ordered the new season.
Atwood's publisher, Penguin Random House, has already apologized for the embargo breaking in a series of tweets and a statement to Publisher Weekly.
Amazon has not yet commented publicly, but Gizmodo has reached out to the online giant and will gladly update this post should Amazon respond.
While Amazon customers who pre-ordered found a welcome surprise in their mailbox thanks to the gaffe, indie booksellers are feeling very slighted. Publisher Weekly noted Lexi Beach of Astoria Bookshop. She tweeted her frustration in a thread last night.
Jim Carrey is continuing his series of no-holds-barred political cartoons with a new piece dubbing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a worse threat to the United States than Osama bin Laden.
The comedian, 57, tweeted a drawing Wednesday afternoon that depicted a hand dipping a 100 dollar bill into a bucket of blood, adding a caption to make it clear who the subject was intended to be.
"10,000 gun deaths in 2019 and the year is far from over," Carrey wrote. "What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn't hold a candle to Mitch McConnell."
Carrey's cartoon came a day after McConnell told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that any gun control legislation would have to wait until President Donald Trump decides on measures that the administration could support.
Grey squirrels eavesdrop on chattering birds to work out if danger has passed, according to a new study.
When the creatures hear birds sounding a predator call they freeze and look up or flee, researchers from Oberlin College in Ohio found. Then they stay on red alert until they hear birds tweeting casually again, indicating that the danger has passed and they can safely continue with foraging activities.
A total of 54 wild eastern grey squirrels in public parks and residential areas in the US state were examined by researchers.
They simulated potential danger by playing a recording of a red-tailed hawk - a common predator of squirrels and small birds. This was followed by a playback of either multi-species songbird chatter or ambient sounds lacking bird calls. Every time they monitored the behaviour of squirrels for three minutes.
They found the creatures became more vigilant when they heard the hawk's call. However, squirrels that were played bird chatter afterwards displayed fewer vigilance behaviours and returned to normal levels of watchfulness more quickly than those that did not hear bird calls after the hawk's call.
A French court ruled on Thursday that a rooster called Maurice could continue his dawn crowing despite complaints from neighbors, in a case the French media has cast as a battle between the old rural way of life and modern values creeping in from the city.
One of Maurice's owners, Corinne Fesseau, told Reuters the court in Rochefort, western France, rejected a demand from the neighbors that Maurice be silenced.
"Today Maurice has won a battle for the whole of France," said Fesseau.
Maurice, a 4-year-old rooster, lives on a small island off France's Atlantic coast. His crowing irritated a neighbor, Jean-Louis Biron, who is from the city and bought a second home next door to Maurice's owners. Biron brought the court case.
Maurice's case underscores decades-long tensions in France around city dwellers who buy summer homes in the countryside without being ready to cope with the realities of rural life such as animal noise, odors or insects.
The United States has blocked a UN Security Council statement on tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, rejecting any criticism of Israel and forcing the text to be scrapped, according to diplomatic sources Thursday.
In the first version of the six-point text, council members expressed "deep concern at the recent incidents" during a flare-up between the arch-foes across the "Blue Line" border.
The draft, drawn up by France, added that "members of the security council condemned all violations of the Blue Line, both by air and ground, and strongly calls upon all parties to respect the cessation of hostilities".
According to diplomats, Washington blocked the statement twice, calling for Hezbollah to be specifically condemned in the text.
Washington said it was impossible for it to back any statement putting Israel's right to self-determination on an equal footing with Hezbollah, which it considers a "terrorist organization", a diplomat explained.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of September 4, 2019:
1. The Rolling Stones; $13,544,597; $228.41.
2. Spice Girls; $9,750,671; $112.13.
3. Ed Sheeran; $7,794,393; $85.99.
4. Pink; $6,641,718; $110.34.
5. Paul McCartney; $4,736,387; $155.40.
6. Muse; $3,724,200; $81.80.
7. Dead & Company; $2,919,881; $88.69.
8. Jennifer Lopez; $2,226,025; $137.05.
9. Eagles; $2,188,760; $133.32.
10. Phish; $2,053,497; $65.24.
11. Ariana Grande; $1,980,436; $118.98.
12. Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,936,971; $123.42.
13. Take That; $1,906,219; $98.00.
14. Rod Stewart; $1,821,443; $109.25.
15. André Rieu; $1,789,585; $93.33.
16. Michael Bublé; $1,735,723; $112.94.
17. Jonas Brothers; $1,726,711; $115.36.
18. John Mayer; $1,600,983; $105.93.
19. Hugh Jackman; $1,542,918; $100.15.
20. Dave Matthews Band; $1,452,313; $71.28.
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