Paul Krugman: Having It and Flaunting It (NY Times)
The first thing to say is that expecting the rich not to flaunt their wealth is, of course, unrealistic. If your sense is that the rich were more restrained in the 50s and 60s, well, that's because they weren't nearly as rich either absolutely or relatively. The last time our society was as unequal as it is today, giant mansions and yachts were every bit as ostentatious as they are now - there's a reason Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age.
Mark Morford: "Beyond domestic violence: What the hell is wrong with the NFL?" (SF Gate)
Let's say it like this: Expecting the NFL to emerge from all its terrible scandals of late as a smart, respectable bastion of cultural dignity - as opposed to the flamboyant, screaming temple of cash, cover-up, corruption and brain damage it is now - is like asking the NRA to swap bullets for flowers. You must be, like, high.
Andrew Tobias: At Peace
I thought my friend's sister's Facebook post was so beautiful, and - in the event some of us do not get to live forever - so wise, I wanted to share it: …
NPR: How Will You Die? (YouTube)
"No one can pinpoint exactly what will cause your death, but there are statistics that can give us an educated guess. Do you really want to know? Of course you do, because there are things we can do about the causes of death, for ourselves as well as for those things that cause other people to die -often prematurely- around the world. NPR tells us the most likely death scenarios." - Neatorama
Erin Gloria Ryan: Frat Alumni President Blames 'Drunk Female Guests' For Ruining Fun (Jezebel)
If you blinked at all, even for a second yesterday, you may have missed a doozy of a story that Forbes ran and very quickly deleted. Which is a shame, since the headline was "Drunk Female Guests Are the Gravest Threat to Fraternities," and the only thing more hilariously evil than much of the piece that followed was the Satan-y byline photo that accompanied the piece.
C. Coville: 4 Ways to Spot An Internet Bullshit Artist (Cracked)
I've long been fascinated with Internet fakers: the people who hang around forums and social media sites, vomiting lies out of every orifice like a drunken frat boy who's also possessed by a demon. A few now-defunct communities once cataloged these filthy, filthy liars, but apart from that, Internet fakers really don't get the attention they deserve. And that's weird, because over the years, I've noticed that they share a bunch of bizarre similarities.
What teen idol appeared on an episode of The Monkees entitled "Monkees at the Movies", playing a pompous surfer/singer named Frankie Catalina in the vein of Frankie Avalon?
Robert Cabot "Bobby" Sherman, Jr. (born July 22, 1943), is an American singer, actor and occasional songwriter, who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Sherman also appeared on an episode of The Monkees entitled "Monkees at the Movies", playing a pompous surfer/singer named Frankie Catalina in the vein of Frankie Avalon, performing the song "The New Girl in School" (the flip of Jan & Dean's "Dead Man's Curve", co-written by The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, Jan Berry of Jan and Dean, songwriter Roger Christian and Bob Norberg, who was a roommate of Wilson's at the time).
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Bobby Sherman
Charlie wrote:
Bobby Sherman
I originally liked the Monkees, then dismissed them as a teeny act. Nowadays I do credit them with some classic songs, but I can't say the same about Bobby Sherman.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Bobby Sherman
Deborah replied:
I know this - Bobby Sherman. I was a big fan of The Monkees and had a huge crush on Peter Tork. I also remember seeing a young Mickey Dolenz in a Walt Disney movie, I believe it was "Circus Boy." Okay, I'm old.
In other news, NorCal is having real rain, and it's wonderful. I hope it's helping the fire up by Dale.
TGIAF!
I was never a big Bobby Sherman fan
but I was a huge Monkees fan.
Man, I remember waiting anxiously for every episode.
I thought they were SO funny - especially Mickey.
I loved their music and it was 30 years before I found out that The Wrecking Crew was responsible for most of it.
But then, the Wrecking Crew was responsible for a LOT of '60's hits.
LOTS.
Yup, I thought The Monkees were the epitome of COOL.
The irony?
I thought Bobby Sherman was a pre-fab entertainer created by the music industry!
Pre-packaged and sold to gullible buyers.
Ah youth, hunh?
Marian said:
Bobby Sherman
MAM wrote:
Bobby Sherman ~ "Monkees at the Movies", 1967
DJ Useo answered:
It was Bobby Sherman. I own the Monkees show on dvd, so it was a cinch to answer.
I remember my older sister was so into him back then. I found him merely personable.
btw- Since the Wayne Newton trivia question the other day, I saw him on a Dean Martin roast
of Jack Benny. He was right funny. Who'da think'it?!
Dale Doughnuts of Diamond Springs, RainyNorcali replied:
Bobby Sherman is the epitome of the pointless 60's Teenybopper. I can't remember any song he ever did. I noticed him on TV as I was flipping through the channels. Ohhh! And he is a want to be policeman… A Captain in the L.A.P.D. Reserves.
This about Bobby… On Frank Zappa's Fillmore East - June 1971 album, vocalists Howard Kaylan (Eddie) and Mark Volman (Flo) play a rock star and a groupie in dialogue between songs; at one point, Volman (as the groupie) asks, gushingly, "Do you know Bobby Sherman?!" Good ole Flo and Eddie! Alass…Groupies…Jimi….Plaster Casters.
Lois Coming From Oregon With A Bananna In My Ear responded:
Dale has forced me to check in if only to dispell the
implication that my absence from the site is due to having
been arrested while trespassing in Keanu's shower. If only
life were that pleasant. Anyway, Bobby Sherman, who contains
almost the identical DNA as that of J. Fred Muggs, appeared
with the Monkees and now is one with the great circle of
life.
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CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Amazing Race', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Stupid Human Tricks, Ted Danson, and Andrew Norelli.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Ben Kingsley and Bojana Novakovic.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'The Mysteries Of Laura', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, and Robert Plant.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/8/14) are Luke Wilson, Max Greenfield, and Banks.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/13/14) are John Slattery, Night Terrors of 1927, and Cristela Alonzo.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 9/1/14) are Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Anthony Anderson, and Bastille.
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'Gotham'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rambo: First Blood Part II', followed by the movie 'Rambo II', then the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 7 - The Unicorn and The Wasp
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Silence in the Library
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY-Season 4 - Ep 3 - Dead of Night
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Evolution
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Ensigns of Command
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 8
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 9
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light
[8:00PM] FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
[11:00PM] FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
[2:00AM] INTRUDERS - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Shepherds and the Fox
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 23 - I, Borg
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by the movie '2 Fast 2 Furious', then the movie '2 Fast 2 Furious', again.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', followed by the movie 'Coming To America', and 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith', followed by the movie 'This Means War', then the movie 'This Means War'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-CLARK GREGG WEARS A NAVY BLAZER & WHITE COLLARED SHIRT
[6:30AM] TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE
[8:15AM] BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY
[10:15AM] KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST
[12:00PM] TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE
[1:45PM] SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
[4:15PM] MACHETE
[6:30PM] THE PUNISHER
[9:00PM] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
[11:15PM] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
[1:30AM] WONDERLAND
[3:45AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-ALL YOUR FAVORITES ARE BACK
[4:15AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-GOING ALL THE WAY
[4:45AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-DUMB PUBLIC
[5:15AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-PAYCHECKS!
[5:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-AZIZ ANSARI (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Rectify-Weird As You
[7:00AM] Little Odessa
[9:00AM] Big Night
[11:30AM] Safety Not Guaranteed
[1:15PM] The Contender
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Mother Love
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Conduct Unbecoming
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Matrimony
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Working Mom
[8:00PM] Law & Order-D-Girl
[9:00PM] Law & Order-Turnaround
[10:00PM] Law & Order-Showtime
[11:00PM] Law & Order-Mad Dog
[12:00AM] Tenderness
[2:15AM] Pan's Labyrinth
[4:45AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Bikini
[5:00AM] Loredana, Esq.-Dirty Talk and Stolen Identities (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Damien: Omen II', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown', then a FRESH'Z Nation'.
Surf's up, bro. But maybe not if you're Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.
In a David-and-Goliath-type standoff, the tech billionaire, who owns land that includes access to a northern California beach, had drawn heated criticism for blocking that access. On Wednesday, he lost a court battle over this coveted sector of coastal land.
In what's being called a landmark case, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Barbara Mallach ruled that Mr. Khosla, who was sued by the coastal protection group Surfrider Foundation, did not obtain the requisite permit to block access to the land.
As a result, Khosla must now reopen the gate to Martins Beach, a popular spot with locals located near Half Moon Bay. A co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Khosla purchased the land in 2008 for $32.5 million. In 2010, he blocked access by closing the only public gate to the beach. He even hired guards to keep people out.
Judge Mallach ruled that Khosla's acts violated the California Coastal Act of 1976, which says the state's coastal areas are an important public good to all people. Should Khosla wish to close the gate at any time in the future, Mallach ruled, he must apply for what's called a coastal development permit, meaning the gate would be closed while he makes changes to his property.
The Red Hot Chili Pipers perform at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Ryder Cup golf tournament, at Gleneagles, Scotland, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014.
Photo by Matt Dunham
Your dollars could quite literally pave the way to a Nikola Tesla museum.
A group that's restoring the inventor's Wardenclyffe lab in Shoreham, New York, is selling engraved bricks to fund a museum at the site.
With help from Matthew Inman - the man behind the popular Web comic "The Oatmeal" - the Tesla Science Center launched the crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo yesterday (Sept. 24).
The cheapest personalized bricks are being sold for $125, and $1,200 will get you a four-brick array. The organizers set a goal of raising $200,000 by Nov. 8. But lucky for them, Tesla, though he's been dead for more than 70 years, has a fervent fan base. As of this afternoon (Sept. 25), the campaign had pulled in more than $130,000.
An Ohio man's modest request this summer for a little help making potato salad culminates this Saturday in PotatoStock 2014 - a charity event to help end hunger and homelessness.
As a joke among his friends, Zack Danger Brown went on the Internet funding site Kickstarter in July to raise $10 for his first attempt to make the side dish.
But fans of potato salad - and Internet jokes - can be very serious. Before the funding period ended in early August, Brown's proposal had garnered international media attention and accumulated more than $55,000 from 6,911 donors.
Kickstarter participants are permitted to make a personal profit after all fundraising promises are fulfilled. Brown decided to donate his profits to the Columbus Foundation, to distribute to non-profit organizations.
An actor, playing the role of Ebola, is pictured before a performance during an awareness campaign against the virus at Anono school in Abidjan September 25, 2014.
Photo by Luc Gnago
Canada's first farm dedicated to growing saffron, the spice that's worth more than its weight in gold, is getting ready to harvest its first bumper crop.
But even that will weigh about the same as a pound of butter.
Pur Safran, located in the small Quebec village of St-Elie-de-Caxton, expects to harvest 450 to 500 grams of the precious spice before the end of October.
Saffron comes from the reddish-orange stigmas of a particular crocus flower and is considered to be the most expensive spice in the world.
The bulbs sprout in the fall, bloom into a fragrant purple flower which only lasts 24 to 48 hours, then reproduces by splitting into more bulbs under the snow. The plant's dormant phase is in the summer.
ESPN has suspended Bill Simmons for three weeks after he repeatedly called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a liar during a profane tirade on a podcast.
ESPN announced the suspension Wednesday.
"Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN's journalistic standards," ESPN said in a statement. "Bill Simmons did not meet those obligations in a recent podcast, and as a result we have suspended him for three weeks."
Simmons' podcast was released Tuesday. He said he thought Goodell lied about not knowing what was on a security video that showed former Ravens running back Ray Rice hitting his wife in an elevator.
An idol of Goddess Durga is kept for worship during the "Dashain", Hinduism's biggest religious festival, in Kathmandu September 25, 2014. Hindus in Nepal celebrate victory over evil during the festival by flying kites, feasting, playing swings, sacrificing animals and worshipping the Goddess Durga as well as other gods and goddesses, as part of celebrations held throughout the country.
Photo by Navesh Chitrakar
Pope Francis on Thursday sacked a Paraguayan bishop accused of protecting and promoting a priest described by his former church superiors in the United States as "a serious threat to young people".
In a statement, the Vatican said the removal of Ciudad del Este Bishop Rogelio Livieres Plano had been a "painful decision taken for serious pastoral reasons." There was no mention of the precise circumstances behind the dismissal of the conservative bishop, as opposed to the more customary acceptance of his resignation.
Livieres had been publicly attacked by his colleagues in Paraguay for his sponsorship of an Argentinian-born priest who was removed from his parish in the US state of Pennsylvania in 2002 following a civil suit over the alleged abuse of boys in his pastoral care.
The priest, Carlos Urrotigoity, was sent to Canada for psychological assessment. According to US media reports, that assessment concluded that the priest was "locked into" a sexual attraction to male minors, that he should be banned from the ministry, and that he should have no contact with young people.
Despite that verdict, Urrotigoity was able to resume his Church career. He moved to Paraguay in 2004 and has prospered there under the wing of Livieres, who is thought to be a member of the conservative Opus Dei sect.
The art piece "Stallion" by Scottish sculptor David Mach is pictured during a media preview before the Los Angeles Masters Grand Slam Indoor equestrian jumping competition at the Convention Center in Los Angeles, California September 25, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane says she was "saddened" to learn that a filing from her office, made in response to a lawsuit by a former state prison clerk who was raped by an inmate, suggested that the victim was to blame.
In a statement, the attorney general's office said Kane was unaware that her senior deputy included the defense in the filing until it was reported by the Centre Daily Times newspaper.
"Attorney General Kane is disappointed that she was not made aware of this matter prior to the filing," the statement read, "and was saddened to learn that the filing implied that the victim somehow contributed to this crime."
The victim, a 24-year-old typist, was working at Rockview State Prison, near Bellefonte, Pa., when she was brutally raped by Omar Best, a convicted rapist who had been transferred to Rockview after assaulting a female employee at a different state prison.
"Despite this knowledge," the lawsuit alleges, Best was allowed "to have unsupervised access to the offices of female employees" at Rockview. Video presented during Best's trial showed that the victim was choked unconscious and raped for 27 minutes.
Art handlers lift the 1797 Goya painting "The Duchess of Alba," to hang it in a gallery for the "Goya: Order and Disorder," exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in Boston. The exhibit, which opens to MFA members on Oct. 7, 214 and to the general public on Oct. 12, 2014, has works on loan from private collectors as well as museums around the world, including the Prado and the Louvre. It's the largest Goya exhibition in North America in a quarter century.
Photo by Steven Senne
The old trunk was locked when it was found by auction house workers clearing a long-vacant home that was about to be listed for sale.
The collection crew's members couldn't find the key, so they broke the lock. Inside were yellowed papers and blankets. Personal stuff, they figured.
Only back at the warehouse of Anchorage-based Alaska Auction Co. did they discover carbon copies of transcripts from the Nuremberg war-crimes trials. They also found a staff directory for the multinational tribunal that prosecuted scores of Nazi masterminds in those infamous trials, a translated letter to Nazi faithful that signs off with "Heil Hitler" and personal credentials and correspondence belonging to a lowly postwar stenographer who squirreled the mementos away for decades.
The late Maxine C. Carr's small collection is the featured lot in an auction of World War II relics scheduled to take place on Saturday.
Workers install the "Unconditional Surrender" sculpture by artist Seward Johnson of the U.S. outside the Memorial of Caen museum in Caen, September 25, 2014. The 25-foot statue of a sailor kissing a nurse is to spend a year in front of the Caen Memorial, a museum known for its extensive collection documenting the Normandy invasion in 1944 and World War II.
Photo by Stephane Mahe
Looking to put a patriotic spin on international sanctions over Ukraine, a local group is touring Moscow, urging passers-by to swap their Western-branded T-shirts for homegrown tops sporting pro-Russian slogans.
"Sanctions? Don't make my Iskanders laugh," reads one T-shirt, referring to a Russian missile system. "The Topol is not afraid of sanctions," says another, vaunting the power of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile.
A bus, decorated with the blue, white and red of the Russian flag, has already exchanged 10,000 tops this week and is due to keep on touring the capital until Oct. 6.
Some of the T-shirts on offer were printed with pictures of military hardware, while others are decorated with an image of the knotted red necktie, synonymous with the Communist Pioneer movement of the former Soviet Union.
The self-styled "ideologist" behind the campaign, Ksenia Melnikova, said the project was not funded by the Kremlin. The group's website lists Moscow's Vnukovo airport and two other Russian firms as corporate partners.
When an earnest but sometimes inept talk-show host took to public-access television in 1978 with a celebrity name-dropping show, it seemed incongruous that Skip E. Lowe would somehow outlast every other TV host from Johnny Carson to Jay Leno.
For one thing, his show aired on the kind of cable channels that carry school board meetings. For another, many of his guests were faded stars people weren't sure were still alive.
But the former child actor, who died Monday at age 85 of complications of emphysema, did just that.
Lowe filmed "Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood" for 36 years, broadcasting it on cable TV outlets in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. He filmed the last one just two weeks ago.
The result: Lowe assembled a cult following of fans in the cities where his show aired, including some of the entertainers he couldn't get on camera.
Martin Short acknowledged he based his unctuous, often bumbling Jiminy Glick character partly on Lowe, and Harry Shearer profiled Lowe for a 1998 New York Times Magazine story headlined, "Ineptness Has Its Virtues."
As the years passed, Lowe did manage to corral a few big names, even if some had dropped off the Hollywood A List by the time they did the show. Among them: Milton Berle, Marlon Brando, Shelley Winters and Mickey Rooney. Others included 1940s child star Gloria Jean; Sylvester Stallone's mother; Brando's son; and countless character actors.
Born Sammy Labella in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in Rockford, Illinois, Lowe recalled being badly bullied as a child because of his effeminate manner and penchant for wanting to entertain people. His mother moved him to Hollywood in hopes of getting him in the movies.
He landed several small parts as a child actor before growing up to be a song-and-dance man and master of ceremonies, performing in venues that ranged from nightclubs to strip joints.
He wrote two memoirs, "The Boy With the Betty Grable Legs," published in 2001, and "Hollywood Gomorrah," published earlier this year.
Japan's Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd's latest concept robots, "the Murata Cheerleaders", which balance on balls and synchronize as a team by utilizing its latest sensing and communication technology, are displayed during an unveiling event in Tokyo September 25, 2014.
Photo by Yuya Shino
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