Marc Dion: No Cure for Humor (Creators Syndicate)
Sadly for our punchline president, the virus as hoax statement turned out to be an overstep of his usually successful "reality is what I say it is" defense. The bodies kept piling up in the refrigerated trucks.
Mark Shields: Americans Rally to Their Presidents in Times of Crisis (Creators Syndicate)
Democrats are beside themselves; after President Donald Trump's consistently inconsistent and uneven public pronouncements on the seriousness of the coronavirus, moving in one 24-hour period from "something we have tremendous control over" to our "toughest enemy: the invisible enemy" and limiting all crowds to fewer than 10, his poll numbers have gone up. How, they ask, could this be the case when the president's leadership of this "war" has been start-stop, don't-worry-be-happy? The answer is found in history.
Froma Harrop: How Governor Cuomo Filled the Void (Creators Syndicate)
In a humorous piece - "Trump Catches Melania Watching Cuomo Briefing" - The New Yorker's Andy Borowitz writes, "Caught by surprise, Melania quickly turned off the television and claimed that she was only watching Cuomo 'to see how many big, terrible mistakes he makes.'"
Froma Harrop: Virus Escapees' Dilemma: Borders Without Doctors (Creators Syndicate)
Obviously, Americans who contemplate bolting from a coronavirus hot spot have more calculations to make than did the gentry of plague-ridden Florence. On one hand, Americans could go to lower-populated areas where they are less confined and the virus has not spread as widely. On the other, medical facilities are scarcer there and perhaps not as state-of-the-art as the ones in town. Put simply, are there ventilators, hospital beds and doctors on the other side of the border?
Stone Poneys (also The Stone Poneys and The Stone Poneys With Linda Ronstadt) were a folk rock trio formed in Los Angeles, consisting of Linda Ronstadt on vocals, Bobby Kimmel on rhythm guitar and vocals, and Kenny Edwards on lead guitar. Their recordings include Ronstadt's first hit song, a cover of Mike Nesmith's "Different Drum". Even at this early stage, Ronstadt was already showcasing her performances of an eclectic mix of songs, often from under-appreciated songwriters, requiring a wide array of backing musicians.
The band released three albums: The Stone Poneys; Evergreen, Volume 2; and Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III. All three albums were reissued in CD format in the 1990s in the US.
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"Different Drum" is a song written by Michael Nesmith in 1965 and first recorded by the northern bluegrass band the Greenbriar Boys and included on their 1966 album, Better Late than Never!. Nesmith offered the song to the Monkees, but the producers of the TV show, who had wide control over the group's musical output early on, turned him down.
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Linda Ronstadt. Capitol Records signed Stone Poneys, but executives had little regard for Linda's bandmates. The only hit song credited to Stone Poneys was a cover of Different Drum. The producer thought the song needed work, so a more lavish arrangement was recorded, with only the 21 year old Linda's voice and studio musicians playing- instead of Bobby Kimmel and Kenny Edwards. A later recording session, that Kimmel and Edwards weren't even invited to, caused the dissolution of the band. Linda was in and they were out. Kind of like when Pete Best was fired by the Beatles just before Beatlemania hit Britain.
Photos: Album cover photo with Kimmel and Edwards partially obstructed by shrubbery, showing what Capitol Records thought of them | Ronstadt's sexier image as a solo act.
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She travels to the beat of a different drum
Linda Ronstadt.
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I just watched the documentary "Hear My Voice" by the so, so talented Linda Ronstadt. I still have my Stone Poney's 45 of "Different Drum." Until I watched the show I had only a vague idea of just how many genres of music Linda made her own.
Rain Saturday and Sunday, yesssss!
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so sang Linda Ronstadt…i remember that from my days of listening to AM radio….
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• The premiere of Madama Butterfly at La Scala was a disaster - the opening-night audience hated the opera, which is now regarded as a classic. Following the premiere Giacomo Puccini even took back the score so that the opera couldn't be played there a second night. However, at least a few people loved the opera. Later, Puccini heard of a Lucca shopkeeper who had named his daughter "Butterfly" even though the clerk who had registered the infant's name asked, "Do you want to brand your child with the name of a failure?" Puccini was so touched by the tribute that he asked the father to visit him, and so the father did - he also brought along his baby daughter and 50 or 60 of their relatives.
• The baritone Lawrence Tibbett once stopped at a record shop to buy a recording of his Prologue to Pagliacci. He asked for the record, but the sales clerk said, "There is no such recording." Mr. Tibbett explained that he knew the record to exist, as he had made it, but the clerk insisted, "We have no such name on our list." Mr. Tibbett then spelled his name, and at last the clerk knew it. She explained, "We call that Teebay. Do you really pronounce it Tibbett?" "Why not?" Mr. Tibbett replied. "I am an American, not a Frenchman."
• Josef Haydn was once asked by a Viennese butcher to compose a minuet that could be played at the butcher's daughter's wedding. A kind man, Haydn agreed, and he presented the butcher with a minuet the following day. Later, Haydn heard his minuet being played in the street outside his window. Looking out, he saw the butcher with an ox - the butcher liked the minuet so much that he had decided to present Haydn with the ox. Haydn's minuet became known as the "Minuet of the Ox."
• Jazz genius Miles Davis paid little attention to audiences, preferring instead to turn his back on them and play while facing his musicians. For this reason, and because of his brooding personality, people sometimes called him "The Prince of Darkness."
• When Nat Cole was a young entertainer, he needed work. To get one job, he was forced to wear a gold paper crown and call himself "King" Cole. As soon as he could, he got rid of the crown, but forever after, he was known as Nat King Cole.
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• For New Year's Day of 1919, Enrico Caruso and his wife, Dorothy, invited 1,000 people to an afternoon reception at their home, but 3,000 people showed up. Neither host said anything, as Enrico thought the 2,000 extra people were Dorothy's friends, and Dorothy thought the 2,000 extra people were Enrico's friends. Neither host was able to eat because they were too busy greeting people, until finally they stole away to their private rooms to eat sandwiches. Although the invitations said the reception would last from 4 to 7 p.m., the last guests finished dancing at 3 a.m.
• After a Led Zeppelin party in which 30 televisions were thrown out of hotel windows, the band's lawyer, Danny Goldberg, counted out $9,000 in cash and handed it to the hotel manager, who said, "No hard feelings. I'd kind of like to throw a TV out of the window, myself." Mr. Goldberg counted out another $300, handed it to the hotel manager, and said, "Be our guest."
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Neighborhood', followed by a FRESH'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a FRESH'All Rise', followed by a FRESH'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is TBA.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 2/19/20) are Justin Bieber, James Marsden, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Jack Peñate.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Manifest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, and Billie Joe Armstrong.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers is Tracy Morgan.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Adam Rippon and Anna Camp.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Celebrity Family Feud', followed by another RERUN'Celebrity Family Feud', then the FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Secrets & Surprises'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kaley Cuoco and the Marsh Family.
The CW offers a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Roswell, New Mexico'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by the RERUN'Rupert Presents The iHeart Living Room Concert For America'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Jeff Dunham: Talking Heads', 'Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On' (part 1), and 'Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On' (part 2).
AMC offers the movie 'Caddyshack', followed by a FRESH'Better Call Saul', then a FRESH'Dispatches From Elsewhere'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Life Support
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Heart of Stone
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Destiny
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Prophet Motive
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Visionary
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Distant Voices
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Improbable Cause
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Through the Looking Glass
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Die Is Cast
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Explorers
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Family Business
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Adversary
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Way of the Warrior
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Way of the Warrior
[8:00PM] A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
[11:00PM] A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Improbable Cause
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Through the Looking Glass
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Die Is Cast
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Explorers (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', another 'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Sailing Yacht'.
FX has the movie 'Ghostbusters', followed by the movie 'Pitch Perfect 3', then a FRESH'Breeders', and 'Better Things'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', and another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:15A] Sinister
[8:45A] The Mist
[11:30A] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[2:00P] That '70s Show
[2:30P] That '70s Show
[3:00P] That '70s Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show
[4:00P] That '70s Show
[4:30P] That '70s Show
[5:00P] That '70s Show
[5:30P] That '70s Show
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] That '70s Show
[1:30A] That '70s Show
[2:00A] That '70s Show
[2:30A] That '70s Show
[3:00A] That '70s Show
[3:30A] That '70s Show
[4:00A] That '70s Show
[4:30A] That '70s Show
[5:00A] That '70s Show
[5:30A] That '70s Show (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[6:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[7:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[7:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[8:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[8:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[9:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[9:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[10:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[10:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[12:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[12:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:00pm] An Officer and a Gentleman
[4:00pm] Saving Private Ryan
[8:00pm] A Few Good Men
[11:00pm] The Outsiders
[1:00am] A Few Good Men
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Mad Max: Fury Road', followed by the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'.
Elton John is stepping up once again in the battle against coronavirus.
The Rocket Man singer announced Saturday that his Elton John Aids Foundation has launched a $1 million COVID-19 emergency fund to protect individuals with HIV.
"For almost 30 years my foundation has prioritized the most vulnerable people to HIV, to end the AIDS epidemic and we're committed to this during the COVID-19 crisis too," John said in a video posted on Twitter.
"Our new COVID-19 emergency fund will help frontline partners to prepare for and respond to the pandemic and its effects on HIV prevention and care for the most marginalized communities," he explained. "We're with you, we're thinking of you, we will not leave anyone behind." Additional details on the fund can be found here.
Cedric the Entertainer is teaming up with some of his famous friends and Def Comedy Jam for a coronavirus fundraiser called "Healing Through Laughter."
The Neighborhood star will be joined by fellow comics Chris Tucker, Adele Givens, Spice Adams, Corey Holcomb, D.L. Hughley and Luenell for the livestream on Sunday, April 5, Cedric's team said in a press release.
Also participating are JB Smoove, Ashima Franklin, Michael Blackson, TK Kirkland, Bill Bellamy, Mike Epps, Chris Spencer, Gary Owen, Jess Hilarious, Tony Baker, David Arnold, Earthquake, Donnell Rawlings and Affion Crockett.
Organizers say 100% of the proceeds will go toward basic protective equipment for essential workers and individuals in inner-city communities in New York City - the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. The fundraiser will stream live at 10pm ET/7pm PT on Facebook and Twitch.
The government has called upon social media companies to take "much swifter action" in tackling "crackpot" conspiracy theories linking 5G networks to the coronavirus pandemic, after a number of mobile masts were set on fire over the past week.
Authorities have received several reports of criminal damage to phone masts and abuse of telecoms engineers inspired by baseless online theories, with culture secretary Oliver Dowden set to discuss the issue with several tech firms in the coming week.
Masts in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside have all been targeted in recent days, while Vodafone told the BBC it had recorded four incidents over the past 24 hours at both its own sites and those shared with O2.
Media personality Dr. Drew Pinsky apologized Saturday for his past comments comparing coronavirus to influenza, or the flu, saying he "got it wrong."
"My early comments about equating coronavirus with influenza were wrong. They were incorrect. I was part of a chorus that was saying that. And we were wrong. And I want to apologize for that," Dr. Drew said in a Periscope video shared to his Twitter Saturday. "I wish I had gotten it right, but I got it wrong."
Pinsky was criticized for a video dating back to early February that is circulating the web in which he downplays the coronavirus, saying it was a "press induced panic" and that it was far less dangerous than the flu. He also says in the video that your chances of dying from coronavirus are lower than being "hit by an asteroid."
Remember the impeachment? President Donald Trump (R-Dolt) does. Even in the middle of a pandemic, he made clear on Saturday that he remained fixated on purging the government of those he believes betrayed him during the inquiry that led to his Senate trial.
The president's under-cover-of-darkness decision late the night before to fire Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community's inspector general who insisted last year on forwarding a whistleblower complaint to Congress, swept away one more official deemed insufficiently loyal as part of a larger purge that has already rid the administration of many key figures in the impeachment drama.
Trump made no effort at a news briefing Saturday to pretend that the dismissal was anything other than retribution for Atkinson's action under a law requiring such complaints be disclosed to lawmakers. "I thought he did a terrible job, absolutely terrible," Trump said. "He took a fake report and he brought it to Congress." Capping a long, angry denunciation of the impeachment, he added, "The man is a disgrace to IGs. He's a total disgrace."
Trump's hunt for informers and turncoats proceeds even while most Americans are focused on the coronavirus outbreak that has killed thousands and shut down most of the country. The president's determination to wipe out perceived treachery underscores his intense distrust of the government that he oversees at a time when he is relying on career public health and emergency management officials to help guide him through one of the most dangerous periods in modern American history.
As the number of postive COVID-19 cases in the United States continues to climb, states are struggling to get the assistance they need from the federal government. Jared Kusher (R-Unfit), the failed real-estate developer President Trump (R-Grifter) has entrusted to coordinate much of government's response to the pandemic, isn't helping. During a press briefing on Thursday, the son-in-law-in-chief argued that the Strategic National Stockpile, which contains a cache emergency medical supplies, is not meant for the use of states.
This makes no sense, obviously, and journalists quickly pointed out that the stockpile's own website makes clear that its contents are indeed for state use. The backlash presented an obvious solution for the Trump administration: edit the website to align with Kushner's comments. As journalist Laura Bassett pointed out on Twitter, the official description of the stockpile was amended Friday morning, with before-and-after screenshots indicating that a paragraph about how the stockpile is meant for when "state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts" had been deleted.
Kusher's comments are emblematic of the general confusion surrounding the flow of equipment from the federal government to the states that need it most. Adding to that confusion is the fact that the government is not sending some supplies directly to states, but to commercial entities who then auction them off to the highest bidder.
When Rear Admiral John Polowczyk was asked on Thursday asked about personal protective equipment going to the private sector rather than state governments, his response was typical of the Trump administration.
"That's normally how things work, right?" he said. "I'm not here to disrupt a supply chain."
US Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is "not aware" whether the Pentagon received an intelligence report on the novel coronavirus that was completed last year, months before community spread of the virus was identified in the US and in military ranks.
Secretary Esper told ABC's This Week that he doesn't "recall" if the department had received a November assessment from the National Center for Medical Intelligence, a spying arm of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which reportedly briefed the National Security Council in December to determine the outbreak's impact to military readiness.
Before the World Health Organization declaration two weeks later, the agency predicted a global pandemic of Covid-19 at the end of February in a briefing to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He said: "We have many people who watch this closely. We have the premier infectious disease research institute in America, within the United States Army. So, our people who work these issues directly watch this all the time."
The glaciers of Antarctica are melting at unprecedented rates, and a giant canyon in the continent's rocky underbelly could make matters much worse.
In a study published March 23 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers used more than 20 years of satellite data to monitor the ice in Denman Glacier - a 12-mile wide (20 kilometers) stream of ice in East Antarctica - along with the bedrock beneath it. The researchers found that, not only did Denman's western flank retreat nearly 3 miles (5 km) between 1996 and 2018, but that a deep canyon below the glacier may be causing the glacier to melt faster than it can possibly recover.
Denman Glacier's western flank flows over the deepest known land canyon on Earth, plunging at least 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) below sea level. Right now, that canyon (known as the Denman trough) is mostly cut off from the sea thanks to all the glacial ice piled inside and atop the ravine. However, as the glacier's edge continues to retreat farther and farther down the slope, warm ocean water will pour into the canyon, battering bigger and bigger sections of the glacier and gradually turning the Denman trough into a giant bowl of meltwater with nowhere else to go.
Mexican tequila makers have sought to dispel concerns that their exports to the United States will dry up, after two large brewers in the country suspended production to comply with government rules put in place due to the new coronavirus.
This week, Heineken and Grupo Modelo both said they would halt production in Mexico after the government declared a health emergency and ordered suspension of non-essential economic activity.
Mexican tequila makers, however, interpret the newly imposed rules differently.
Gonzalez said the labor-intensive harvest of the prized agave plant would continue because agricultural production is considered an essential economic activity, even if the production of alcoholic beverages is not.
"We have to finish planting all the agave for the 2020 cycle by next month," Gonzalez added. "If we were to suspend our activities it would cause irreversible damage."
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