Tom Danehy: Tom has some thoughts about the sports world (Tucson Weekly)
When I started writing this column, the temperature was 108 degrees outside. I was going to try to make the point that it no longer mattered how hot it was; it was football season. For decades, that first Saturday of college football signaled the long-awaited change. While it would officially still be summer for another three weeks or so, on the horizon were shorter days, cooler nights, bone-dry humidity levels, and, above all else, a reason to watch "SportsCenter" again.
Andrew Tobias: A Remarkably Simple Solution
You may have read that the Republicans killed the bill that would have allowed your kids to refinance their federal student loans at today's lower rates. If I were saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans, this would make me crazy. But there is a really simple solution. Want your student loan payment slashed? JUST VOTE! … Democrat, November 4, because the Republicans in Congress are all that stand in the way of this being done.
Top Close Calls Compilation 2014 (YouTube)
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Who was the author of Lecherous Limericks, More Lecherous Limericks, Still More Lecherous Limericks, and Limericks: Too Gross; or Two Dozen Dirty Stanzas?
Lecherous Limericks (1975) is the first of several compilations of dirty limericks by celebrated author Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). The book contains 100 limericks.
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Deborah replied:
Sweet blessed rain! Haven't seen the wet stuff in NorCal since March. I hope this helps snuff the fires around here.
Your answer: Isaac Asimov. What a brilliant mind, and racy as well.
Marian responded:
Isaac Asimov
Dale of Smoky Diamond Springs, Norfireycali said:
Isaac Asimov. I hadn't thought of Lecherous Lyrics in 30 years. Laugh on!
Thanks Bob.
King Fire…went from 18,544 acres yesterday to 70,144 acres this morning. Still no property losses and they arrested an arson suspect. My daughter got to go home last night. Here's a picture of a Pyrocumulus Cloud at the King Fire taken by CHP.
DJ Useo answered:
Isaac Asimov be the correct answer. All my friends had those books.
Often, they'd be confiscated if taken to school.
Here's my version of his style of limerick. I just now wrote it myself.
"Selective Lover"
There once was a lecher named Jeeter,
who had a girlfriend & thought he'd go meet her,
but she sent him away,
which ruined his day,
when she insisted on keeping his peter.
MAM wrote:
Isaac Asimov ~ American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. 1920 - 1992
Randall responded:
Totally don't know
BttbBob, from semi-retirement, replied:
None other than a member of my own personal pentarchy of Science Fiction writers... that genius who said...
Yeah, I can relate - Har!... an' he was also a 'Master Lecher' (I think it was a hobby for him... the sideburns are a dead giveaway, ya know) Oh, the other members of the pentarchy are - Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson and Frank Herbert... jus' so's ya know... an' of their personal peccadilloes, I haven't a clue... nor do I wish to.
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CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNDave (from 9/9/14) are Michael Strahan, a Top Ten List presented by 2014 U.S. Open Men's champion Marin Cilic, Richard Branson, and Interpol.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Morgan Freeman and Genesis Rodriguez.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Running Wild With Bear Grylls', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon is James Spader.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/4/14) are Heidi Klum, Kieran Culkin, and Leslie Jones.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/12/14) are Richard Ayoade, Franz Ferdinand, and Royal Canoe.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by another RERUN'Last Man Standing', then a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 9/11/14) are Morgan Freeman, Julianne Hough, and Ingrid Michaelson.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a FRESH'Utopia', followed by a RERUN'Red Band Society'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'Sixteen Candles', followed by the movie 'The Bucket List', then the movie 'Ocean's Eleven'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 11 - Utopia
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The Sound Of Drums
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH-Season 3 - Ep 3 - Day Three
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 17 - When The Bough Breaks
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 18 - Home Soil
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 13 - Cafe Hon
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Zeke's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 8
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 9
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 22 - Imaginary Friend
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 23 - I, Borg
[8:00PM] ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
[11:00PM] ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
[2:00AM] INTRUDERS - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Ave Verum Corpus
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 21 - The Perfect Mate
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 22 - Imaginary Friend
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 23 - I, Borg (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Cheaper By The Dozen', followed by the movie 'Cheaper By The Dozen', again, then the movie 'Office Space'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Key & Peele', another 'Key & Peele', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', followed by the movie 'Role Models'.
FX has the movie 'Friends With Benefits', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-EGGS
[6:30AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW
[6:45AM] SWAMP THING
[8:45AM] JAWS 3
[11:00AM] SWAMP THING
[1:00PM] CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
[4:00PM] SUPERCOP
[6:00PM] KILL BILL: VOL. 2
[9:00PM] KILL BILL: VOL. 2
[12:00AM] MACHETE
[2:15AM] THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN
[4:15AM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-HAIR SWAP
[4:45AM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-THIRD MEMBER
[5:15AM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-EGGS
[5:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-JESSICA ALBA (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Rectify-Act as If
[7:00AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Little Black Dress
[7:15AM] Time Bandits
[9:45AM] Out of Africa
[1:15PM] The Contender
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Extended Family
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Right to Counsel
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Girlfriends
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Pro Se
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Homesick
[9:00PM] Law & Order-Aftershock
[10:00PM] Law & Order-Causa Mortis
[11:00PM] The Honorable Woman-The Paring Knife
[12:15AM] Runaway Train
[2:45AM] Naked Lunch
[5:15AM] The Writers' Room-New Girl
[5:45AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Little Black Dress (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Waterworld', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then a FRESH'Z Nation'.
Actress Ann-Margret sits on her pink Harley Davidson motorcyle on display at the Kiehl's Nolita Store on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
The brilliant minds behind research studies about how Earth's magnetic field affects pooping dogs and why people see Jesus in toast were honored tonight (Sept. 18) during one of the most purposefully ridiculous ceremonies in all of science: the Ig Nobel Prizes.
Each year, the Ig Nobel Prizes (a parody of the somewhat more famous Nobel Prizes) are awarded to scientists whose research "makes people laugh and then think." Improbable Research, the organization that awards the prizes, runs the annual ceremony here at Harvard University's Sanders Theater.
And what a ceremony it was. Two "human sparkplugs" dressed in little more than silver body paint were welcomed on stage to usher speakers to the microphone, and paper airplanes flew through the theater on more than one occasion. But the food-themed night was truly about honoring science and the scientists who do it.
At first blush, most of the research featured during the ceremony seems frivolous, but upon further inspection, what's fun on the surface actually has a more important, scientific meaning. For example, this year's prize in Arctic science went to a group of researchers who dressed up like polar bears to see how reindeer in Norway would react compared with their reactions to humans.
While this polar bear research might seem ridiculous at first glance, it is actually related to climate change science. Because polar bears are getting stuck on landmasses later and later in the year due to melted sea ice, the scientists wanted to see how reindeer populations reacted to polar bears (or what the animals perceived to be polar bears) and compare it with the way they behave around humans. (The reindeer were much more calm when the humans just looked like humans.)
Actor Warren Beatty speaks at a ceremony at which Gov. Jerry Brown signed California Assembly Bill AB 1839, the Expanded Film and Television Job Creation Act, in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. The legislation more than triples the state's tax credit to $330 million a year for films and TV shows produced in the state.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
Airmen taking their enlistment or officer appointment oaths can omit the words "so help me God" if they choose, Air Force officials announced Wednesday.
The policy change comes after an atheist airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada struck out the words on his Department of Defense reenlistment paperwork and ran afoul of a policy that prohibits omissions. The case went up to the Department of Defense General Counsel, which issued an opinion saying the language could be left out if the airman preferred. All of the other military services have allowed the alternate language for years.
The case involved a technical sergeant who initially enlisted in 2003, before he was an atheist, according to attorney Monica Miller of the American Humanist Association. But his views changed, and he crossed out the words "so help me God" when he filled out reenlistment paperwork recently.
Military officials said the airman's unit was unable to process the documents because of the policy against omissions. Miller said he was told by his commanders Aug. 25 that he must swear to God or leave the service.
A familiar face - former cast member Darrell Hammond - is taking over for a familiar voice at "Saturday Night Live."
Hammond, who acted on the long-running comedy show from 1995 to 2009, is replacing announcer Don Pardo. He spent three hours in the announcing booth practicing on Thursday for the Sept. 27 season opener.
For all but one year of the NBC show's 40-year history, it was Pardo's voice that would announce the host, musical guest and cast members every week, and the veteran broadcaster continued the job even after he retired to Arizona. Pardo died at age 96 on Aug. 18.
While he was on the show, Hammond filled in for Pardo six times. NBC never announced the change, and although a few bloggers may have noticed something different, the sound was so similar that his role wasn't widely known.
Quincy Jones, left, a producer of the documentary film "Keep On Keepin' On," poses with ex-wife Peggy Lipton, right, and their daughter Rashida Jones at the premiere of the film at Landmark Theatres on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, in Los Angeles. The film depicts legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry and his friendship with Justin Kauflin, a blind, 23-year-old piano prodigy.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
In 2009, Dan Stevenson, a resident in Oakland, California's crime-ridden Eastlake neighborhood bought a 2-foot-high Buddha statue from a local hardware store and installed it on a median strip on an off-street in a residential area.
"It was just like a dump," Stevenson said of the median then covered in trash. "And it just got tiring."
Residents started leaving flowers and candles at the base of the statue. Vietnamese women in prayer robes started regularly gathering at the Buddha to pray. What was once just a statue transformed into a shrine.
When people learned that Stevenson - who is not a Buddhist but hoped his gift to the community would help unify the neighbourhood - was responsible for the statue, they started leaving gifts on his doorstop.
San Francisco drag queens and a city lawmaker met with Facebook on Wednesday demanding the site change its policy banning users from using aliases online, but said they were rebuffed.
Facebook, the world's largest social media network, has cracked down on users with fake names. A company spokesman said it had locked scores of accounts in recent weeks, including hundreds owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors member David Campos and crossdressers from around the city said after the Wednesday meeting that the rule, which requires users to go by their legal names, endangers drag queen performers.
Drag queen performers, or men who dress in flamboyant female clothing for nightclub shows, usually use a stage name that has no relation to their real name.
Performers have said using their stage names on social media protects them from possible retribution from other employers, family members and stalkers. In addition, many see their stage name as an integral part of their identity.
Federal prosecutors seeking to put the billionaire creator of Beanie Babies in prison for hiding millions in Swiss bank accounts told appellate court judges Wednesday that the toymaker's sentence of probation threatens to erode the judicial system's ability to deter other tax evaders.
The hearing before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago delved into whether H. Ty Warner got off too easy given the lengths he went to conceal his crime, or whether the judge was right to essentially deem the misdeeds to be out of character for someone with a substantial record of charitable giving. While prosecutors rarely appeal sentences, they contend that the trial judge in this case inadvertently sent the message that there are different standards of justice for the rich and the poor.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Petersen rattled off the steps Warner took to conceal his wealth for more than a decade: lying to his own accountant, instructing the bank to destroy records and shifting money to another foreign bank when his came under scrutiny. He also warned the bank of "consequences" if his requests were not heeded, and only made efforts to come clean after learning his banker had been indicted, she said.
One of the appeals judges interrupted her, saying the trial judge, Charles Kocoras, considered all of that but acted within the bounds of the court's discretion by focusing heavily on Warner's character, in particular Warner's charitable work and private acts of generosity, which Kocoras described as "overwhelming."
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Monica Wehby on Wednesday blamed a former staff member for policy positions that matched statements from other Republicans word-for-word.
Wehby's campaign took down the entire issues section of her website a day after BuzzFeed reported that Wehby's health care plan was strikingly similar to poll questions tested by Crossroads GPS, a political group run by Republican operative Karl Rove. Much of Wehby's plan matched the Crossroads poll questions verbatim.
Another BuzzFeed report showed that Wehby's economic proposal matched material from two other Republican politicians, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and a 2012 congressional candidate, Gary DeLong.
Wehby, a pediatric neurosurgeon and former trustee at the American Medical Association, has made her health care expertise the centerpiece of her campaign against first-term Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley. Merkley's campaign said the revelation that her prescription for fixing the American health care system matched the poll-tested suggestions from Crossroads undermines her case.
In this image released by Polk and Company, Mia Farrow, left, and Brian Dennehy perform in "Love Letters," in New York. The play is made up of letters, Christmas cards, birth announcements and notes between a woman and a man over decades starting in 1937.
Photo by Carol Rosegg
Alongside dirt roads twisting through the dense tropical forests of Gabon, the scaly bodies of lifeless long-snouted pangolins dangle from sticks stuck in the ground by hunters.
The pangolin, a mammal that looks like an anteater but has the tough scales of a crocodile, has long been prized in central Africa as a bushmeat delicacy.
But growing demand for it from Asia, where pangolin scales are used in Chinese medicine to help women lactate and to cure skin disorders, now threatens to hasten its demise and rob African countries of a precious resource.
Conservationists say the demand boom is due to declining wild populations in Asia as well as high numbers of Chinese workers in Africa's resource and timber sectors, located in remote regions of the continent's interior.
All eight of the world's species of pangolin, which range from 30 to 100 cm (12 to 39 in) length, are threatened with extinction.
Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil sings to presidential candidate Marina Silva (L) of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) during a meeting with artists and intellectuals at a campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro September 17, 2014. General elections will be held in Brazil on October 5, 2014 to elect the president, the National Congress, state governors and state legislators.
Photo by Ricardo Moraes
Sotheby's auction house is selling nearly 550 photographs by American photographer Edward Weston.
They're being sold as a single lot in New York on Sept. 20. The set could bring $2 million to $3 million.
Edward Weston's images of landscapes, nudes, seashells, sand dunes and vegetation have a painterly soft-focus quality.
He was one of the founding members of Group f/64, whose members included Ansel Adams. The name derived from the aperture setting they used to maximize foreground and distance sharpness.
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