Paul Waldman: Explosive new allegations against Kavanaugh demand a full investigation - now (Washington Post)
Then comes the most explosive part of Swetnick's affidavit. She says it was known that Judge, Kavanaugh and others would spike the punch at these parties with grain alcohol or drugs to make girls inebriated, and that the boys, including Kavanaugh, would "'target' particular girls so they could be taken advantage of; it was usually a girl that was especially vulnerable because she was alone at the party or shy."
Josh Marshall: A Ready Willingness to Lie (TPM)
He doesn't say he never drank. He doesn't say he never went to parties. But lots of people who knew him say he was a hard partying kid who frequently drank to excess and was a belligerent drunk. He denies that. He's lying. That's not a worse lie than lying about sexual misconduct or assault. But it's crystal clear. There aren't three witnesses. There seem to be dozens. It's okay to be a hard partying kid. It's certainly not something that precludes you from later government service. But he's clearly lying about it as part of his defense against these vastly more serious allegations.
Greg Sargent: Brett Kavanaugh and the moral ugliness of casual lying (Washington Post)
Never mind, for now, the bigger matters that Kavanaugh stands accused of misrepresenting and falsifying. This sort of casual lying about trivial things that one should own up to belongs in its own category of reprehensibleness. It betrays a special order of contempt for one's listeners to feed them obvious crap about matters that most ordinary people would forgive, if only the speaker copped to them.
Josh Marshall: This Is a Very Weird and Suspect Choice (TPM)
… there are some real questions worth asking about the political views of Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona prosecutor chosen by Judiciary Committee Republicans to do their questioning of Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford. But judged entirely on its own, this is a truly bizarre decision, quite apart from all the obvious optics about hiring an outside person to avoid having the Committee Republican men question an alleged victim of sexual assault.
Dan Danehy: Tom has some ideas about where our local cops should be handing out traffic tickets (Tucson Weekly)
A four-way stop is not that difficult. You wait in line, then you finally reach the stop sign, at which time you STOP, then proceed through the intersection, one car at a time. Unless you're a rich, white lady who drives a Lexus or some jerkweed in a big pick-up truck, in which case you don't need to stop and you can race through the intersection two or three cars at a time. I swear, one of these days, there's going to be gunfire at that intersection.
Clayton Moore (born Jack Carlton Moore, September 14, 1914 - December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character the Lone Ranger from 1949-1951 and 1954-1957 on the television series of the same name and two related movies from the same producers.
With the "March of the Swiss Soldiers" finale from Rossini's William Tell overture as their theme music, Moore and co-star Jay Silverheels made history as the stars of the first Western written specifically for television. The Lone Ranger soon became the highest-rated program to that point on the fledgling ABC network and its first true hit. It earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1950.
In 1958, Moore began 40 years of personal appearances (including for the short-lived Lone Ranger Restaurants in Southern California), TV guest spots, and classic commercials as the legendary masked man. Silverheels joined him for occasional reunions during the early 1960s.
Jay Thomas was an annual guest on The Late Show with David Letterman during the Christmas season, where he told a true story about how he met Moore which he called his "Lone Ranger story".
Moore often was quoted as saying he had "fallen in love with the Lone Ranger character" and strove in his personal life to take The Lone Ranger Creed to heart. This, coupled with his public fight to retain the right to wear the mask, linked him inextricably with the character. Moore was so identified with the masked man that he is the only person on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as of 2006, to have his character's name along with his on the star, which reads, "Clayton Moore - The Lone Ranger". He was inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1982 and in 1990 was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Moore also was awarded a place on the Western Walk of Fame in Old Town Newhall, California.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
The horse looks like Silver, so I would guess that's the Lone Ranger.
Roy Adams, Voting Blue in Texas, wrote:
That's Jay Silverheels, Kemosabe! AKA The Lone Ranger's Native American sidekick, Tonto.
Dave said:
The Lone Ranger. Clayton Moore played the title character from 1949-1951, and then from 1955-1957 when the series was cancelled. Most seasons of The Lone Ranger were 52 weeks of first run episodes, followed by 52 reruns the next year. The exception was the last season where the usual 1950's standard of 39 first run episodes were released. The ambitious producer filmed the last season in color out of his own pocket, even though ABC only broadcasted in black and white in '57. The Lone Ranger wasn't cancelled because of low ratings, the producer had the idea he could make more money on The Lone Ranger theatrical films, but only two low budget offerings were released (both starring Clayton Moore), The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). Occasionally Hollywood has released re-imaginings of the Lone Ranger but they have all sucked hard and were humiliating, or even shameful, failures. For years the actor Clayton Moore made a few bucks appearing at mall openings and such dressed as an aging Lone Ranger, but in the '80s was hit with a court injunction to stop when a studio decided to make a new super-lousy Lone Ranger movie (that failed anyway). Moore was reduced wearing oversized sunglasses instead of the mask at his public appearances. Dontcha hate lawyers?
Adam answered:
A middle-aged Clayton Moore as 'The Lone Ranger'.
Based on his shirt and me >extremely< limited knowledge of Westerns.
Deborah responded:
That's the Lone Ranger, sans signature black mask, with his horse Silver. I have vague memories of watching the show as a little kid. Ah, memories.
Mac Mac replied:
The lone ranger
mj wrote:
The one on the right
Is Clayton Moore who played John Reid aka the Lone Ranger. The one on
the left is Silver.
Daniel in The City said:
That's Clayton Moore, the "Lone Ranger"
Billy in Cypress responded:
That looks like Clayton Moore who played "The Lone Ranger" and I am surprised to see a picture of him without his mask, although the mask would have been giveaway to his identity. As I recall, Clayton Moore was always in character when appearing in public and never removed his mask.
Alan J answered:
The Lone Ranger.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
I believe that is Clayton Moore unmasked.....aka The Lone Ranger
Cal in Vermont wrote:
I have no earthly idea.
Joe S said:
Only guessing, but it looks an awful lot like Brisco County Jr. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
• On April 24, 1915, the Turks began to commit genocide against the Armenian people because the Armenians lived both in Turkey and in Russia, the enemy of Turkey. By the time the Turks were defeated in 1918, they had killed over a million Armenians, and in the famine that followed the end of the war, hundreds of thousands more Armenians starved to death. Should such atrocities be remembered, or is it better to forget them? Adolf Hitler provides the answer to that question. When he decided to "kill without mercy all men, women, and children of Polish race or language," some people told him that they were worried about world opinion. Hitler responded, "Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?"
• Near the end of his life, the heart of Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco grew weaker, and his cardiologist, Dr. Ignacio Chávez, recommended that he stop the strenuous work of painting huge murals and instead concentrate on the less strenuous work of creating easel paintings. However, Mr. Orozco refused to take this advice. Instead, he remarked to his wife, "I'm not going to do as the doctor says and abandon mural painting. I prefer physical death to the moral death that would be the equivalent of giving up mural painting."
• The French Revolution degenerated into a Reign of Terror, and in September of 1792, mobs gave 1,400 political prisoners trials that lasted one minute each, then executed them with guillotines. The death toll did not stop there, as more and more innocent people were killed. In 1794, Antoine Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry and a true French patriot, died at a guillotine.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt almost did not become President of the United States. As he was speaking in Miami, Florida, a would-be assassin fired a gun at him, but missed and hit Chicago mayor Anton Cermak instead. Mr. Cermak died a few days later, but not before telling Mr. Roosevelt, "I'm glad it was me instead of you."
• African-American dancer-cum-choreographer Katherine Dunham accomplished many things in her life, winning the National Medal of the Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement. She once said, "I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'"
• Some European countries treat their cemeteries as living gardens. They are designed as much for the living as for the dead, and they include such things as picnic areas and jogging, bicycling, and hiking paths.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Kristen Bell and Nik Dodani.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 8/16/18) are Allison Janney, Judd Apatow, and Death Cab for Cutie.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Manifest', followed by a RERUN'New Amsterdam', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Paul Giamatti, Common, and Shin Lim.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/19/18) are Matthew McConaughey, Taran Killam, and Lady Antebellum.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/4/18) are Laura Harrier, Sofi Tukker, and Michael Mando.
ABC opens the night with the FRESH'Truth & Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 09/18/18) are Annette Bening and John Mayer.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a RERUN'Masters Of Illusion', then a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux has a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'The Cool Kids', then a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hard To Kill', followed by the movie 'Armageddon'.
BBC -
[7:05AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 9 - EPISODE 11-Heaven Sent-Part 1.
[8:10AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 9 - EPISODE 12-Hell Bent-Part 2.
[9:35AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 1-The Pilot
[10:45AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 2-Smile
[11:50AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 3-Thin Ice
[12:50PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 4-Knock Knock
[1:50PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 5-Oxygen
[2:50PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 6-Extremis
[3:55PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 7-The Pyramid at the End of the World
[5:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 8-The Lie of the Land
[6:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 9-Empress of Mars
[7:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 10-The Eaters of Light
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 11-World Enough and Time
[9:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 12-The Doctor Falls
[10:25PM] DOCTOR WHO: TWICE UPON A TIME - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1
[11:50PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 1-The Pilot
[1:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 2-Smile
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 3-Thin Ice
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 4-Knock Knock
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 5-Oxygen
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 10 - EPISODE 6-Extremis (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by the movie 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith', then the movie 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith', again.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', 'Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny', and 'Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Hard Rock Metal and Video Music Pioneers
[6:15AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Movie Star President and Shock Rock
[6:30AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-NY Punk and Spaceman
[6:45AM] GRINDHOUSE PRESENTS: PLANET TERROR
[9:00AM] BATTLE: LOS ANGELES
[11:30AM] UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION
[2:00PM] UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS
[4:00PM] RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION
[6:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Good Morning Mrs. Butterworth
[6:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Baseball Was Better With Steroids
[7:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-818-jklpuzo
[7:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Whipped Unto the Third Generation
[8:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Mmm, Fish. Yum
[8:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Laxative Tester, Horse Inseminator
[9:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-For the Sake of the Child
[9:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Give Me Your Thumb
[10:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Untainted by Filth
[10:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Gorp. Fnark. Schmegle.
[11:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Captain Terry's Spray-On Hair
[11:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-That's Why They Call It Ball Room
[12:00AM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Warning, It's Dirty
[12:30AM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Fart Jokes, Pie and Celeste
[1:00AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Rock Photography and NYC Hip Hop
[1:15AM] RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION
[3:15AM] UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION
[5:45AM] COMEDY CRIB: THE SHOW (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:25am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] 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] a league of their own
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[5:59pm] law & order
[6:58pm] law & order
[7:58pm] law & order
[8:58pm] law & order
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[10:58pm] law & order
[11:58pm] law & order
[12:58am] law & order
[1:58am] law & order
[3:00am] a league of their own (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Twister', followed by a FRESH'Wynonna Earp', and 'The Purge'.
Actor Denzel Washington has helped mark the start of renovations at playwright August Wilson's childhood home in Pittsburgh.
The Tribune-Review reports Washington headlined a ceremony at the house Wednesday. The actor led a $5 million fundraising effort to restore it. Renovations are to be completed in 2020, when the August Wilson House is to become a center for art and culture.
Washington directed a 2016 movie production of "Fences," filmed the movie in Pittsburgh and plans to film other Wilson plays. He won a Tony in 2010 for his portrayal of protagonist Troy Maxson in the Broadway revival of "Fences."
Paul Ellis, Wilson's nephew, spearheaded the effort to restore the building to its 1950s-era look, matching how it appeared when Wilson lived there with his mother and five siblings.
The University of Minnesota has awarded the late rock star Prince an honorary degree to recognize his influence on music and his role in shaping his hometown of Minneapolis.
University President Eric Kaler and Regent Darrin Rosha presented the school's highest honor, the Doctorate of Humane Letters, to Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, in a ceremony on campus Wednesday evening. The university had been preparing to present it to Prince himself before his death in 2016.
Students from the university's School of Music were joined by guest artists including St. Paul Peterson and Cameron Kinghorn in paying tribute to Prince by performing music associated with his career.
While the event was free, it was booked to capacity ahead of time.
One acting legend is stepping in to fill the shoes of another in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Following Burt Reynolds' death on Sept. 6, Bruce Dern has signed on to take over his role in the Oscar-winner's sprawling historical drama, according to multiple sources.
Reynolds was slated to play George Spahn, the rancher whose land was overrun by Charles Manson and his followers in the late '60s. It was here where they plotted the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders.
Dern, who has collaborated with Tarantino on The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained, is a logical choice for the vacancy. Although the 82-year-old actor was on the shortlist of people who Tarantino suspected of leaking The Hateful Eight script, leading to controversy, it appears as though all is forgiven now.
Besides DiCaprio and Pitt, the film will also features performances from Al Pacino, Timothy Olyphant, Kurt Russell, Austin Butler, Emile Hirsch, Tim Roth, Lena Dunham, Lorenza Izzo, Maya Hawke, Luke Perry, Rumer Willis, Michael Madsen, Scoot McNairy and Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate.
Terry Crews will host the winter version of "America's Got Talent," called "America's Got Talent: The Champions."
The series, from NBC, Syco Entertainment and Fremantle, will launch in January and feature the regular judges panel from "America's Got Talent" - executive producer Simon Cowell, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel. Tyra Banks hosts the normal summer version of "AGT."
This "Champions" edition will bring together the most talented, memorable, wackiest and all-around fan favorite acts from past seasons of "AGT."
"America's Got Talent" has been the top show of the summer for the past 13 years, posting a 2.8 rating in the advertiser-preferred adults 18 to 49 demographic, when factoring in seven days of delayed viewing.
All day long, the surface of Esieh Lake in northern Alaska shudders with indigestion. This Arctic lake never fully freezes. Stand next to it, and you'll hear it hiss. Watch it, and you'll see it boil with ancient, bubbling gas. Light a fire over it, and the lake will fart a tower of flame higher than your head.
That's exactly what Katey Walter Anthony, an aquatic ecosystem ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, did in a popular YouTube video from 2010. Walter Anthony has been studying Esieh Lake for the better part of a decade (she also named it). Now, according to a profile written by Chris Mooney for The Washington Post, she knows the causeof the lake's odd behavior. The culprit is a constant seep of the greenhouse gas methane -a lot of methane - spilling out of an ancient reservoir of permafrost (or permanently frozen ground) deep below the tundra. [Photographic Proof of Climate Change: Time-Lapse Images of Retreating Glaciers]
Thanks to rising global temperatures, that permafrost is thawing, Walter Anthony said, and it's carving a hole through the bottom of the lake. While most of Esieh Lake has an average depth of about 3 feet (1 meter), the sections where the biggest methane bubbles are seeping out plunge down to up to 50 feet (15 m).
From these holes in the bottom of the lake, huge amounts of methane come gushing out - more than 2 tons of gas every day, according to one of Walter Anthony's colleagues - an amount that's equivalent to the emissions of about 6,000 dairy cows (cow farts are one of the world's largest methane sources).
While many climate models focus on the effects of carbon dioxide being released from thawing permafrost, methane emissions in lakes like Esieh have been largely overlooked until very recently. In a study of several underground Arctic lakes published Aug. 15 in the journal Nature Communications, Walter Anthony and her colleagues estimated that methane-seeping lakes could double previous estimates of permafrost-caused warming.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo set a new record when they created the strongest controllable indoor magnetic field ever - and subsequently blew up their lab in the process. Both incredible events may have happened in less time than it takes for you to blink your eye, but the entire thing was caught on camera for our repeated viewing pleasure.
The generator was built in a specially designed lab produced to test its material properties, which uses a method known as electromagnetic flux compression. The team was expecting the magnetic field to peak at around 700 Teslas (the standard unit for measuring magnetic field strength, not Elon's), but wound up at around 1,200. That means it's some 400 times higher than the fields generated by the powerful magnets used in MRI machines and about 50 million times stronger than the Earth's own magnetic field. As Motherboard points out, a fridge magnet has a strength of just 0.01 Tesla.
Let's be clear here: It's not the largest magnetic field ever produced. In 2001, Russian researchers created a magnetic field using explosives that reached 2,800 Teslas, which was so strong and uncontrollable it also blew up their equipment, but it couldn't be tamed.
Physicists with the university say their (mostly) controllable indoor magnetic field will further our understanding of how to reach the "quantum limit" necessary for nuclear fusion, a theoretical power generator that uses nuclear energy to produce heat for electricity in a bid for clean energy.
Lasting thousands of times longer than any of the world's strongest magnetic fields, UTokyo's magnetic field was so quick, it lasted just one-thousandth of a blink of an eye, yet it was sustained longer than any other attempt with similar strength, which is also promising.
Another sparkler has been dug up at Arkansas's Crater of Diamonds State Park.
A 71-year-old retiree from Aurora, Colorado made the find of a lifetime this month when she discovered an ice white diamond weighing nearly three carats, according to a news release issued Wednesday by Arkansas State Parks.
According to the finder, who wishes to remain anonymous, she had been searching for about 10 minutes with her husband, son, grandson, and granddaughter when she hit pay dirt.
"I was using a rock to scrape the dirt but don't know if I uncovered the diamond with it or not. It was just lying on the surface!," she said.
The Coloradan didn't realize that she had picked up a diamond, and thought it might be a piece of glass. Fortunately, she gave the gem to her son to put in his pocket. The family continued searching for another hour before having their rocks and minerals identified at the park's Diamond Discovery Center, where staff revealed that the Coloradan had found the largest diamond so far in 2018. Upon learning that she had found a large diamond, the finder said, "I didn't know what to think. I was shocked!"
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