Paul Krugman: The Non-Secret of Our Non-Success (New York Times)
It was obvious both from history and from textbook economics that the turn toward austerity would greatly damage prospects for recovery; this isn't hindsight. But many central bankers and other officials chose to ignore all that and place their faith in the confidence fairy instead. So now that it has all gone wrong, they throw up their hands and say that it's a mystery - how could this happen? No mystery, guys; you messed up.
Lucy Mangan: sex miseducation (Guardian)
'Girls' nascent sexuality, their needs, their rights, have always been subordinated to those of boys. And the internet isn't helping to change that.'
Mark Shields: One Man Who Gave Politics a Good Name (Creators Syndicate)
As [Albert B. "Happy" Chandler] later explained his decision to overturn the owners' vote and allow Jackie Robinson to play for Brooklyn, "I'd have to meet my Maker some day, and if He asked me why I didn't let this boy play, and I said, 'Because he was black,' that might not be a satisfactory answer." Chandler went on: "I just decided it (excluding African-Americans from the sport) wasn't just. It wasn't decent. It wasn't fair, and I was going to end it."
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, April 7, 1951) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for her song "At Seventeen", and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, Society's Child (nearly 40 years later).
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Janis Ian ,,, Did you get your plumbing problem fixed?
Sally said:
Chalk up another NYC girl, born Janis Eddy Fink in New York City, Janis Ian grew up on a chicken farm in Farmingdale,and attended East Orange High School.
Hard to believe that she is only a few years younger than am I.
We were all so innocent back when...
PS: Thank you B2BB for clearing up that Lake issue. You see, I DID read all that lake info - apparently, Marty didn't...
(Love you a lot, Ms Marty, just like to pull your leg now and again...) :)
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, is celebrating the end of tax season.
MAM wrote:
Janis Ian ~ An American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist and science fiction author.
And, Joe S replied:
First thought? Janis Joplin. Okay, wrong, it's Janis Ian. Janis Ian would have been my second guess if I hadn't looked it up first. I like Janis Joplin, I like Janis Ian, I like Apples, I like oranges.
North Africa is in dire straits due to climate change; the Islamists have nowhere to go but South into the greener tropical belts for sustenance. Pressure upon tribal/national areas will lead to inevitable slaughter of possible millions as competition for dwindling food supplies increases.
I wish that were the only challenge for Africa.
China is in a race with the West and India to feed its' millions of newly middle-classed citizens demanding the latest gadgets made with components that require rare earth elements only found in Africa. People always die in the very soil that the greedy covet. Consumerism uber alles.
Let's continue..
Here is a "DUH".
To scrape down to the minerals, one must remove the vegetation above; the very shrubbery that animal life depends upon to survive>farms>families.
Africa is the last great place for humanity to take a stand to save the planet; South America is just about lost with its' priceless indigenous peoples, and the vast lungs of the Earth; the Amazon.
If religion is such a savior, produce it NOW!
Jesus, Buddha, Allah?
Maybe the Hindus have it right; Shiva the destroyer resides in mankind's heart, and the next destruction will be one that we deserve.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a FRESH'Rules Of Engagement', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Lochte, and Steve Earle.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kat Dennings and Philip Kerr.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Revolution'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Diane Keaton, Trevor Moore, and Jake Bugg.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are January Jones, Adam Ferrara, the latest "Celebrity Apprentice" castoff, and Ilan Hall.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/21/13) are Angel Haze, Sirah, Big Black Delta, and Grape St.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Dennis Quaid, Abigail Spencer, Portugal. and The Man.
The CW offers a FRESH'Oh Sit', 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 'Criminal Minds', 'Bates Motel', another 'Bates Motel', followed by a FRESH'Bates Motel'.
AMC offers the movie 'Appaloosa', followed by the movie 'The Transporter', then the movie 'The Sentinel'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 2 - Mountains
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 10 - Seasonal Forests
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 9 - Shallow Seas
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 8 - Jungles
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 7 - Great Plains
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 6 - Ice Worlds
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 5 - Deserts
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 4 - Caves
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 3 - Fresh Water
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME JOURNEY
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME SURVIVAL
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME PREDATORS
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 12-13 - Episode 1
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 12-13 - Episode 2 NEW
[10:00PM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 2 - Episode 2 NEW
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 12-13 - Episode 1
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 12-13-Episode 2
[1:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 2 - Episode 2
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 3
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Ep 4 Botswana Special (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then the FRESH'Bravo's Top 10 Weddings', followed by a FRESH'LA Shrinks'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and still another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Christina Hendricks.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Michael Pollan.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man 2'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] You Kill Me
[8:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-``Weird Al'' Yankovic Wears a Hawaiian Shirt
[8:30AM] Brown Sugar
[10:45AM] Slayground
[12:45PM] You Kill Me
[2:45PM] Network
[5:30PM] Life Is Beautiful
[8:00PM] The Prestige
[10:45PM] Monster's Ball
[1:15AM] The Prestige
[4:00AM] Slayground (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] In the Name of the Father
[8:15AM] Glory
[10:15AM] Lost in La Mancha
[12:00PM] In the Name of the Father
[2:15PM] Glory
[4:15PM] The Natural
[6:30PM] The Shawshank Redemption
[9:00PM] Rectify-Two Hour Premiere
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-Better Call Saul
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-4 Days Out
[1:00AM] Rectify-Two Hour Premiere
[3:00AM] Amores Perros
[5:45AM] The Business Trip (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Defiance', followed by a FRESH'Defiance', then a FRESH'Lost Girl'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 1/10/13) are Ryan Gosling, Kevin Hart, and ZZ Ward.
Former President of the United States Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton accept the Advocate for Change Award onstage at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the JW Marriott on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
NBC's sitcom "The New Normal," FX's thriller "American Horror Story: Asylum" and NBC's daytime drama "Days of Our Lives" took home top TV honors at the 24th annual GLAAD Media Awards held Saturday night in Los Angeles.
The GLAAD awards pay tribute to "inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives."
The event, hosted by actress-producer-director Drew Barrymore, boasted such Hollywood heavyweights as presenters Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, Betty White and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Other winners included "Perks of Being a Wallflower," which was named outstanding film: wide release, and former President Bill Clinton was given the first advocate for change award.
Actors Alex Pettyfer (L) and Betty White kiss during the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California, April 20, 2013.
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
Actor Wes Studi is set to become the second Native American inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers in Oklahoma City.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the "Dances with Wolves" and "The Last of the Mohicans" star will be inducted Saturday with the late-film noir actor, Robert Mitchum.
The Arroyo Hondo resident is also known for his roles as the Apache leader in "Geronimo: An American Legend" and Navajo detective Joe Leaphorn in the made-for-TV movies based on mysteries by the late New Mexican writer Tony Hillerman.
The only other American Indian in the Hall of Great Western Performers is Jay Silverheels, a Canadian Mohawk First Nations actor known for playing Tonto in the 1950s television series "The Lone Ranger."
People watching live coverage of Friday's manhunt in Boston on Dallas-Fort Worth's Fox affiliate with the sound off may have been startled when the network's closed-captioning identified actress Zooey Deschanel as the marathon bombing suspect.
"He is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel," a caption shown on the local network read as police and FBI agents searched homes in Watertown, Mass., for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The "New Girl" star was alerted to the mixup through Twitter by fellow actor Joel McHale.
Canadian musician KD Lang poses with members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the red carpet during the Juno Awards in Regina, Saskatchewan, April 21, 2013.
Photo by Todd Korol
China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death, the country's top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper.
Wang Zuoan, head of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, said there had been an explosion of religious belief in China along with the nation's economic boom, which he attributed to a desire for reassurance in an increasingly complex world.
While religion could be a force for good in officially atheist China, it was important to ensure people were not mislead, he told the Study Times, a newspaper published by the Central Party School which trains rising officials.
"For a ruling party which follows Marxism, we need to help people establish a correct world view and to scientifically deal with birth, ageing, sickness and death, as well as fortune and misfortune, via popularizing scientific knowledge," he said, in rare public comments on the government's religious policy.
Police in Southern California say that NBC Sports announcer Al Michaels has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
Santa Monica police Sgt. Thomas McLaughlin says Michaels was taken into custody Friday night. McLaughlin could provide no additional details.
Greg Hughes, a spokesman for NBC Sports, says the company "is aware of the situation" and has been in contact with Michaels. Hughes had no further comment.
An Emmy Award winner and broadcaster on "Sunday Night Football," the 68-year-old Michaels spent nearly three decades at ABC Sports before moving to NBC in the 2007.
Will Kopelman and Drew Barrymore attend the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the JW Marriott on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
The bassist for rock band 3 Doors Down has been charged with vehicular homicide by intoxication after he was involved in a crash that killed another driver, Nashville police said on Saturday.
The musician, Todd Harrell, 41, of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, was driving his Cadillac CTS west on Interstate 40 at high speed late on Friday when he clipped a pickup truck, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement.
The truck went out of control, traveled down an embankment and overturned, police said.
3 Doors Down gained fame in 2000 with the song "Kryptonite." The band's other hit songs include "When I'm Gone" and "It's Not My Time."
Ted Danson, left, and Mary Steenburgen arrive at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the JW Marriott on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Jordan Strauss
Oscar-winning Actress Reese Witherspoon was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after a state trooper said she wouldn't stay in the car while her husband was given a field sobriety test in Atlanta.
Witherspoon was released from jail after the Friday morning arrest and was in New York Sunday night for the premiere of her new film "Mud." She posed for cameras on the red carpet but did not stop to talk to reporters.
The trooper noticed the car driven by her husband wasn't staying in its lane early Friday morning, so a traffic stop was initiated. Her husband, James Toth, had droopy eyelids and watery, bloodshot eyes, and his breath smelled strongly of alcohol, according to the report.
Before the field sobriety test began, the 37-year-old Witherspoon got out of the car, was told to get back in and obeyed, the report said. After the "Walk the Line" star got out a second time, the trooper said he warned her that she would be arrested if she left the car again.
As the test continued, "Mrs. Witherspoon (sic) began to hang out the window and say that she did not believe that I was a real police officer. I told Mrs. Witherspoon (sic) to sit on her butt and be quiet," Trooper First Class J. Pyland writes.
Actress Charlize Theron (L) and actor Leonardo DiCaprio speak on stage during the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California, April 20, 2013.
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
The documentary on a massive strike that paralyzed life in Nigeria features newspaper headlines, television news footage and other information widely known about a government gasoline subsidy that saw billions of dollars stolen by greedy companies and the nation's elite.
It also, according to Nigerian authorities, could spark violence and potentially threaten national security.
The 30-minute film called "Fuelling Poverty" has been online for months, but only recently Nigerian officials have refused its director permission to show it publicly in this oil-rich nation of more than 160 million people. While free speech is enshrined in this democratic nation's constitution, an ever-increasing drumbeat of complaints and critical articles about the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has seen authorities increasingly target journalists and others.
The film, sponsored by Soros Foundation's Open Society Justice Initiative for West Africa, focuses on the protests around Jonathan's decision to remove subsidies on gasoline in January 2012. Life in Nigeria ground to a halt before unions backed down. Later, a report by lawmakers demanded businesses and government agencies to return some $6.7 billion over the subsidy program.
Actor/Director/Writer Joseph Gordonn-Levitt participates in the "The Musical Conquests of Don Juan" panel at the 8th Annual ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO, on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in Hollywood, California.
Photo by Brian Dowling
Movie fans slipped into "Oblivion" as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller led Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
That domestic haul comes on top of $33.7 million "Oblivion" added in overseas markets, where the film began rolling out a week earlier. "Oblivion" raised its overseas total to $112 million and its worldwide receipts to $150.2 million.
The previous weekend's top film, the Warner Bros. baseball drama "42," held up well, slipping to second-place with $18 million in its second weekend. The Jackie Robinson biography starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford raised its domestic total to $54.1 million and is on its way to the $100 million mark, said Dan Fellman, Warner's head of distribution.
The low-budget hip-hop drama "Filly Brown" opened solidly with $1.4 million in 188 theaters, for an average of $7,250. The film stars Gina Rodriguez and the late Jenni Rivera in the story of a young talent with a shot at stardom on Los Angeles' hip-hop scene.
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.
1. "Oblivion," $38.2 million ($33.7 million international).
2. "42," $18 million.
3. "The Croods," $9.5 million ($23.4 million international).
4. "Scary Movie 5," $6.3 million.
5. "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," $5.8 million ($40 million international).
6. "The Place Beyond the Pines," $4.7 million.
7. "Olympus Has Fallen," $4.5 million.
8. "Evil Dead," $4.1 million.
9. "Jurassic Park" in 3-D, $4 million ($420,000 international).
10. "Oz the Great and Powerful," $3 million ($1.5 million international).
E.L. Konigsburg, an author who twice won one of the top honors for children's literature, has died. She was 83.
Her son Paul Konigsburg says the longtime Florida resident died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va., where she'd been living for the past few years with another son. She had suffered a stroke a week before she died.
She won the John Newbery Medal in 1997 for her book "The View from Saturday" and in 1968 for "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." The Newbery is one of the top honors for children's literature. Her family says she wrote 16 children's novels and illustrated 3 picture books.
Her first book, "Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth" was also a Newbery honor book in 1968, making her the only author to be a winner and runner-up in the same year.
In 2004, she told The Dallas Morning News that she built her characters and plots by imagining situations what-if situations with her children, grandchildren and students.
"I think most of us are outsiders," she said. "And I think that's good because it makes you question things. I think it makes you see things outside yourself."
Her stories were also adapted for movies and television. Ingrid Bergman starred as Mrs. Frankweiler in a 1973 film adaptation of Konigsburg's book called "The Hideaways."
Konigsburg grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in chemistry. She married David Konigsburg in 1952, and the couple lived in several cities before settling in the Jacksonville, Fla., area.
Konigsburg, who had two sons and a daughter and five grandchildren, started writing and illustrating children's books when her youngest child began kindergarten. Her husband died in 2001.
A hot air balloon flies above Brazil's capital during the National Festival of Ballooning in Brasilia April 20, 2013. The festival is part of Brasilia's 53rd anniversary celebrations.
Photo by Ueslei Marcelino
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