zEN mAN (observing not so poor Tiger Woods trying to decide if he should keep up his crazing whoring ways....for $2,000 per babe...or buy his wife back for $350 million.....now thats an expensive trick)
Paul Krugman: What We Have Less Of (New York Times)
Matthew Yglesias asks a very good question - but I have a pretty good answer. Yglesias asks, if the middle class is under pressure, what exactly is it that ordinary American families have less of (or rather, had less of before the Great Recession struck). After all, people do seem to have more stuff. But one important answer is, they have less time - specifically less family time.
Paul Krugman: Populism, Republican Style (New York Times)
I guess there is some innovation here: finally, Republicans have stopped being the party that only want tax cuts, and have started becoming the party that wants to cut taxes for the rich while raising them on ordinary families. Populism!
Mark Shields: Strangers to Self-Importance (Creators Syndicate)
Advised by the show's producer, Mike Holden, that Brian might ask me to name the memorable politicians whom I had met, I tried to figure what, beyond their all having been respected leaders during careers in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill of Massachusetts and Morris K. "Mo" Udall of Arizona and Republican Gerald R. Ford of Michigan had in common. Each of these men, I concluded, was in the inspired phrase of the late, great columnist Mary McGrory: "a stranger to self-importance. "
Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please (LA Weekly)
Confession: I love America. Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. Not music, not even pizza. People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and MLK are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.
Ari LeVaux: It's OK To Eat Quinoa (Slate)
Don't buy the media's hand-wringing about Bolivians who can't afford quinoa. The real effects of Western demand are complicated.
Scottie Pinwheel (YouTube)
"Six Scottie puppies named Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Nigel, and Annalise get their goats milk in one circular dish. And this happens every time! A pup-etual motion machine? No, this one runs its course when the milk is all gone."-Neatorama
"Home on the Range" is the state song of the American state of Kansas. Dr. Brewster M. Higley (1823-1911) originally wrote the words in a poem called "My Western Home" in the early 1870s in Smith County, Kansas. The poem was first published in a December 1873 issue of the Smith County Pioneer under the title "Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam". The music was written by a friend of Higley's named Daniel E. Kelley. Higley's original words are similar to those of the song today but not identical. The song was adopted by settlers, cowboys, and others and spread across the USA in various forms. It was officially adopted as the state song of Kansas on June 30, 1947, and is commonly regarded as the unofficial anthem of the American West.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Kansas
Charlie wrote:
Kansas (I figured it had to be somewhere around there.)
Adam answered:
Texas? No, Kansas.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Kansas
Sally said:
"Home on the Range" is the state song of the Right-wing American state of Kansas.
Gee, my Catholic school nuns were from Kansas!
Now I understand...
PS: I am perplexed this morning.
Aljazeera news is on TV, covering all the world events. ATST, so is the serial, "Lone Ranger," last chapter of the week, on Cozi.
I SHOULD be watching the world news, but, heck, "Who is that masked man, anyway?"
Marian replied:
Kansas
Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
BttbBob responded:
Wild Azz Guess Moment - Wyoming?
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'Late Again' + Segue Event - Had yesterday's answer all set and saved and then fell asleep early before I sent it. I blame the pain meds (Best excuse in the world, that). Anyway, I would've sent it separate today for the archive, but then not as many E! fans wouldn't see it and it jibes so nicely into a following memo. So, here goes (A boon, I beg, Boss... a two-fer today, as it were, and then there's the segue thingy) - Saturday's answer:
An excellent question to exercise the mind, I'm sayin'... pondered it at length, I did, but wound up discombobulated to the point of not even being able to make a confident guess... So, I looked it up. 'Williams', it seems, is the answer. This member...
... is by far my favorite of that group and I love this particular film he did.
Good Morning Vietnam AC first broadcast - YouTube (the monologue was all ad-lib and is hilarious beyond measure) I'm not sayin' it's his best, just that there are so-o-o-o many things I can identify with on a very personal level in it. I should make a project out of watching it again, notebook in hand, and make a list of them all - people, places, things, situations etc... Gad, did I have to endure not a few boob-ish Lieutenants like Hauck... and martinets like Sgt Major Dickenson during my six years of wearing the green and khaki like the dudes in the video (or whites or scrubs in the hospitals)...
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Segue...
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Memo to JoeS: "Turner" - Har! I get it!... The uniform thing, yeah, I know exactly what you mean. It was the same for us back in the early 70's as members of the 'Big Green Machine'. Get caught 'Off Post' in fatigues and it was an automatic 'Article 15'. It was civvies ('mufti' it was called by the old-timers) or the 'Class A uniform of the day'. Period. Oh, except those that had permission to live 'Off Post' could transit back and forth wearing fatigues in their cars, but stop at the store on your way home at your peril!
...I don't know when or why the uniforms regs changed. I suspect sometime after '03 and 'The Great Iraq Debacle' began and the reasoning was to inure the public to the fact that times are damn'd serious, indeed, dontcha know? Visual walking-talking (unsuspecting) propaganda, as it were, I'm thinkin'. I've remarked to numerous active duty types that I encountered in BDU's (Battle Dress Uniform, as they call 'em now) how wearing such a thing in public 'back in the day' was verboten and they just chuckle and reply that the BDU's are a damn'd sight more comfortable than the alternative. Can't say I blame them there, but somehow, Joe, I'm with you. I've never inquired of them as to why the powers-that-be changed the regs due to my above theory. Think about it... all those freshly scrubbed young faces walking around looking like they just came from 'Down Range' and will be right back there in a trice! Coming home from deployment, I can understand. But, I hardly think that the Pentagon cares about comfort and ease of the troops off base/post/ship etc. Speaking of the Navy, they have even gone to a 'camo' work uniform...
WTF! Blue and gray camo, bloused boots and Marine-style hat on a ship?
Or, sitting behind a desk stateside? Good grief! How absurd is that? If they were boat crewmen landing a Marine raiding party at night, maybe... Otherwise, it is to laugh at, I'm sayin'...
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The above commentary is about the uniforms, not the people wearing them necessarily. I take them as they come as individuals - some good, some not so good, some not good at all...
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Favorite line from William's monologue:
"What's the difference between the Army and the Cub Scouts? The Cub Scouts don't have heavy artillery" - Har!
MAM wrote:
Kansas
And, Joe S answered:
Kansas. Ordinarily I would post a link to YouTube so everyone could hear someone like Roy Rogers or Bing Crosby sing the song in question. Truth is, I hate the song and I don't feel anyone should have to listen to it. I'm not all that wild about Kansas either.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Melissa McCarthy, David Morrissey, and David Byrne & St. Vincent.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kathy Griffin and Michael Weatherly.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'Deception'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Catherine Zeta-Jones, Donny Deutsch, and Lady Antebellum.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Brian Williams, Max Greenfield, and Eric Burdon.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Rich Eisen, "The Rambler", and Divine Fits.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Jude Law, J.B. Smoove, and Gavin DeGraw.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Carrie Diaries', followed by a FRESH'90210'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'The Following'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'A Knight's Tale', followed by the movie 'Hulk'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] UNEXPECTED WILDERNESS
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 10 - Ep 13 - Alex Kingston, Reese Witherspoon, Reginald D Hunter, The Musgraves
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Blink
[11:00AM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 4 - Ep 16 - Blood on the Scales
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Sebastian's
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 15 - Brunches
[1:30PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 16 - More Brunches
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 3 - The Priory
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Classic American
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS-Volume 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS-Volume 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR WINTER OLYMPICS SPECIAL-Season 7
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR POLAR SPECIAL-Season 9
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR SEASON 15 SPECIAL
[9:30PM] TOP GEAR: 50 YEARS OF BOND CARS
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR APOCALYPSE
[12:30AM] TOP GEAR AT THE MOVIES
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 8
[3:30AM] TOP GEAR UNCOVERED
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Ep 4 Botswana Special (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', then a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', 'Brickleberry', and 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Bob Costas.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Michael Shellenberger.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups', then the movie 'Grown Ups', again.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by another FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whisker Wars-Return of the Passion
[6:30AM] Whisker Wars-The Wrath of Jack
[7:00AM] Letters From Iwo Jima
[10:00AM] Beyond the Gates
[12:30PM] Affliction
[3:00PM] Letters From Iwo Jima
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Stereo Store
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Hal's Friend
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Garage Sale
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Academic Octathalon
[8:00PM] Spy Game
[10:45PM] Fight Club
[12:30AM] Escape From L.A.
[2:45AM] The Last Legion
[5:00AM] Action-Blood Money
[5:30AM] Action-Blowhard (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Girlfriends and Boyfriends (Episode 8, Season 1)
[7:00A] Full Grown Men
[8:30A] The Edge of Heaven
[10:30A] Visual Acoustics
[12:00P] The Crucible
[2:15P] Full Grown Men
[3:45P] The Edge of Heaven
[5:45P] The Crucible
[8:00P] Reversal of Fortune
[10:00P] THE STAIRCASE - Prosecution Trickery (Episode 4, Season 1)
[11:00P] Hoosiers
[1:00A] THE STAIRCASE - Prosecution Trickery (Episode 4, Season 1)
[2:00A] Reversal of Fortune
[4:00A] The Wave (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans', followed by a FRESH'Continuum', then a FRESH'Being Human', followed by a FRESH'Lost Girl'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Emmy Rossum, Dave Franco, and Los Straitjackets.
Actor Dick Van Dyke, who is receiving a lifetime achievement award, and his wife Arlene arrive at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 27, 2013.
Photo by Adrees Latif
Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson don't get together as much as they'd like. When they do, something amazing usually happens.
This time Kristofferson awarded Nelson with the first Kris Kristofferson Award, the Nashville Songwriters Association International's new lifetime achievement award. Then the two played together Sunday night at The Bluebird Cafe.
The pair teamed on hits like "Crazy" and "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" as Jamey Johnson looked on from a corner and producer Fred Foster watched from a stage-side table during an invitation-only gathering at the venue known as a songwriter's showcase.
The 76-year-old Kristofferson joked he was embarrassed the NSAI named the award after him. He's a founding member of the songwriter's organization, and like the 79-year-old Nelson, a member of its hall of fame.
Actress Marlo Thomas, producer J.J. Abrams, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Hawk Koch attend the 24th Annual Producers Guild (PGA) Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday Jan. 26, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Todd Williamson
"Argo" continues to shake up the Oscar race by taking the top honor at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday.
Ben Affleck, coming off winning Golden Globe Awards for best motion picture drama and director for the real-life drama, received the award handed out at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Affleck also stars in "Argo" as the CIA operative who orchestrated a daring rescue of six American embassy employees during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. George Clooney and Grant Heslov share the producer award with Affleck as "Argo" beat out the Civil War saga "Lincoln," which has a leading 12 Academy Awards nominations.
Other nominees in the PGA movie category were "Les Miserables," ''Zero Dark Thirty," ''Beasts of the Southern Wild," ''Django Unchained," ''Life of Pi," ''Moonrise Kingdom," ''Silver Linings Playbook," and Skyfall."
Nearly 2,000 years ago, at a time when Egypt was under the control of the Roman Empire, a young woman with an elaborate hairstyle was laid to rest only yards away from a king's pyramid, researchers report.
She was 5 feet 2 inches in height, around age 20 when she died, and was buried in a decorated coffin whose face is gilded with gold. A nearby pyramid, at a site called Hawara, was built about 2 millennia before her lifetime. The location of her burial is known from archival notes.
High-resolution CT scans reveal that, before she was buried, her hair was dressed in an elaborate hairstyle.
"The mummy's hair is readily appreciable, with longer strands at the middle of the scalp drawn back into twists or plaits that were then wound into a tutulus, or chignon at the vertex (crown) of the head," writes a research team in a paper published recently in the journal RSNA RadioGraphics. They note that it was a popular hairstyle at the time, which may have been inspired by a Roman empress, Faustina I, who lived in the second century.
Today, thanks to research and reconstruction work that includes high-resolution CT scans, anthropological analysis, 3D printing and facial reconstruction drawing, this woman, along with two other mummies, are being brought back to life. Their three-dimensional faces and hair, carefully reconstructed by professional forensic artist Victoria Lywood, of John Abbott College, are set to be revealed tomorrow (Jan. 25) at the Redpath Museum at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Actor Robert De Niro, left, and producer Harvey Weinstein attend the 24th Annual Producers Guild (PGA) Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday Jan. 26, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Todd Williamson
Mourners at a Pennsylvania fast-food fan's funeral wanted him to have it his way, so they arranged for his hearse - and the rest of the procession - to make one last drive-thru visit before reaching the cemetery.
David Kime Jr. "lived by his own rules," daughter Linda Phiel said. He considered the lettuce on a burger his version of healthy eating, she said.
To give him a whopper of a send-off Saturday, the funeral procession stopped at a Burger King where each mourner got a sandwich for the road.
Kime got one last burger too, the York Daily Record reported. It was placed atop his flag-draped coffin at the cemetery.
Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi triggered outrage from Italy's political left on Sunday with comments defending fascist wartime leader Benito Mussolini at a ceremony commemorating victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
Speaking at the margins of the event in Milan, Berlusconi said Mussolini had been wrong to follow Nazi Germany's lead in passing anti-Jewish laws but that he had in other respects been a good leader.
"It's difficult now to put yourself in the shoes of people who were making decisions at that time," said Berlusconi, who is campaigning for next month's election at the head of a coalition that includes far-right politicians whose roots go back to Italy's old fascist party.
Berlusconi's comments overshadowed Sunday's commemoration of thousands of Jews and others deported from Italy to the Nazi death camps of eastern Europe. They were condemned as "disgusting" by the center-left Democratic Party (PD), which is leading in the polls ahead of the February 24-25 election.
Actress Kerry Washington poses backstage at the 24th Annual Producers Guild (PGA) Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday Jan. 26, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Jordan Strauss
The "lamestream media," as Sarah Palin (R-Quitter) calls it, may have written her off now that the former vice presidential candidate and tea party favorite has lost her principal media voice as a well-paid commentator on Fox News.
But there's no indication that Ms. Palin will go back to life in Alaska as the former mayor of a small town and then governor for two years, fishing and hunting with her family -- the life she had before Sen. John McCain picked her out of relative political obscurity to be his running mate in 2008.
"I was raised to never retreat and to pick battles wisely, and all in due season," she said in the one substantial interview she's given since Real Clear Politics first reported that Palin and Fox had parted ways. "When it comes to defending our republic, we haven't begun to fight! But we delight in those who underestimate us."
Fox reportedly offered Palin far less than the million-dollar annual contract that had included a broadcast studio at her home in Wasilla, Alaska. She turned it down, and Fox had no inclination to up the ante.
Actress Kaley Cuoco of the TV comedy "The Big Bang Theory" arrives at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 27, 2013.
Photo by Adrees Latif
PepsiCo Inc is removing a controversial chemical from its Gatorade drinks following concerns from consumers and an online petition by a Mississippi teenager.
Gatorade said the change was not a response to the petition, although the 15-year-old girl claimed victory.
The ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (BVO), is a chemical containing bromine, which is found in fire retardants. Small quantities of BVO are used legally in some citrus-flavored drinks in the United States to keep the flavor evenly distributed.
According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food safety watchdog group, BVO is a "poorly tested and possibly dangerous food additive and there's no reason to use it in Gatorade or other drinks."
Actor Bryan Cranston and his wife Robin Dearden arrive at the Producers Guild of America Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 26, 2013.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
U.S. scientists successfully drilled into Lake Whillans, a subglacial expanse of water hidden deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, they reported on Sunday (Jan. 27).
About a month ago, a similar British attempt to reach subglacial Lake Ellsworth had failed. Drilling operations for the WISSARD project (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling), which is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, started on Jan. 21.
Over the next couple of days, equipment will be lowered down the 2,625-foot (800-meter)-deep hole to carry out measurements and to obtain water samples for further study on board container-based scientific laboratories on the surface. As of Sunday (Jan. 27), the WISSARD team said they may have penetrated the lake surface.
"Sensors on the hot water drill show a water pressure change, indicating that the borehole has connected with the lake," they write on the WISSARD blog. "Verification awaits visual images from a down-borehole camera this evening. We are excited about the latest developments at the lake!"
Alec Baldwin accepts the award for outstanding male actor in a comedy series for his role in "30 Rock" at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 27, 2013.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
Climate change has shrunk Andean glaciers between 30 and 50 percent since the 1970s and could melt many of them away altogether in coming years, according to a study published on Tuesday in the journal The Cryosphere.
Andean glaciers, a vital source of fresh water for tens of millions of South Americans, are retreating at their fastest rates in more than 300 years, according to the most comprehensive review of Andean ice loss so far.
The study included data on about half of all Andean glaciers in South America, and blamed the ice loss on an average temperature spike of 0.7 degree Celsius (1.26 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 70 years.
The Chacaltaya glacier in the Bolivian Andes, once a ski resort, has already disappeared completely, according to some scientists.
Like armies everywhere, the German military is filled with macho, chest-thumping rituals. But one battalion has found there's a downside to all that chest-thumping: The male soldiers are growing breasts - and only on their left sides.
The Wachbataillon unit performs precision military drills at official ceremonial functions, the German Herald reports. Many of their drills involve smacking their rifles against the left side of the soldiers' chests. And all that pounding on the same spot has stimulated the production of hormones that cause man boobs to grow.
"There is a very significant link between the activity in the … battalion and the development of the breast on the left side," Dr. Bjorn Krapohl, director of plastic surgery at the military's main hospital in Berlin, told the Herald. "They need to change the way they drill."
In a study of the German soldiers, published in January 2012, Krapohl and colleagues found significant differences between the guards with gynecomastia and a control group of healthy males without signs of gynecomastia. Those in the Guard Battalion in Berlin had lower testosterone levels and higher body mass indexes (BMI), or a measure of body fatness.
Over 70 percent of the German battalion's soldiers have been diagnosed with significant gynecomastia. Military officials have promised to keep an eye on the men's breasts.
Actors Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman and Ben Affleck (L to R) introduce a clip from their film "Argo" at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 27, 2013.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" cooked up $19 million in its opening weekend.
Paramount's R-rated action film update on the classic fairytale starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton topped the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Other films opening over the weekend didn't fare as well. The crime thriller "Parker," starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, debuted in fifth place with $7 million, while Relativity Media's raunchy ensemble comedy "Movie 43" opened in the seventh spot with $5 million.
Hollywood.com box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian noted that it was the first time box-office grosses were down over last year after four up weekends.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
This evening aerial photograph shows colored lights on 15 snow sculptures as hundreds of people flock the outdoor gallery at the Riverwalk Center during the 23 annual International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge, Colo., on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Each sculpture started out of a 12 foot tall, 20-ton block of compacted snow at the outdoor art gallery. The sculptures will remain on display through Feb. 3, 2013, weather permitting. Visit www.gobreck.com for more information.
Photo by Nathan Bilow
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