In the name of his G_d, Osama bin Laden kills innocent people for an
evil cause.
Invoking his religion, Saddam Hussein repressed and killed
thousands of his own people.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and others insist that G_d honors those who
teach children to blow up other children and themselves.
Sen. Bill Frist leads a choir claiming that G_d told them to keep
a brain dead woman chained to a machine.
Judge Roy Moore and others claim that the Ten Commandments should
be inscribed in stone in US courthouses, though they seem to have
chiseled in an asterisk to allow for the death penalty and
pre-emptive wars.
The Taliban wanted to have their country ruled by a very narrow
interpretation of their ultra-conservative religious code.
The Republicans want to have the US ruled by a very narrow
interpretation of their ultra-religious code.
I'm pissed off. I'm tired of every two-bit scumbag screaming
"Lord Lord!" and being given a pass on the most stupid, destructive,
unreligious and downright evil things imaginable. I want G_d back on
the side of the good guys. That means us.
I believe in G_d. I'm not an atheist or an agnostic. I believe
that the lesson taught by the story of Adam and Eve is that all
humans are in the same family: People are more alike than they are
different. I despise those who use religion to separate people.
There is never an answer. It pisses me off that many of the
followers of the most liberal religious figure in history have turned
into the most anal-retentive right wing mindless idiots.
(The Bible says there should be no representation of the Lord, so
Jews and Muslims don't depict G_d and sometimes go so far as to not
spell out the three letters. I don't usually do this, especially in
otherwise contentious letters to the editor, but I sometimes do when
writing on religious matters.)
I'm trying to spread a meme: It's time to reclaim G_d on the side
of the good guys. The meme is not original with me. The
Enlightenment of the 18th Century CE had a similar notion: The
celebration of the human capacity. The brain is G_d's most potent
creation, and we must use it. The Enlightenment for the 21st
Century is trying for a new way of thinking that demands we
change the world.
While the sad case of Terri Schiavo brought the issue into sharp
relief, the bad guys have been claiming G_d for a long time now, and
we can't let them get away with it.
I neither speak for G_d nor does G_d speak through me. My beliefs
are informed by the wisdom of previous generations, the world as
revealed by human investigations and my own spirituality.
I'll get off my soapbox now, but as long as I'm still in a ranting
mood here are some
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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Beautiful sunny day.
My tomato plants seem to be snail magnets, and this year there's a bumper crop of snails.
More snails than plates of beer can handle.
So many snails that walking in the garden makes me think of Savion Glover.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a
FRESH 'Still Standing', followed by a
RERUN 'Raymond', then a
FRESH 'Raymond', followed by a
FRESH '2½ Men', then a
FRESH 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Dave are Martin Short and Elisha Cuthbert.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Craig are Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ben Stein, and Kasabian.
NBC begins the night with a
FRESH 'Fear Factor', followed by a
FRESH 'Las Vegas', then a
FRESH 'Medium'.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Leno are Wanda Sykes, Jorge Garcia, and Bright Eyes.
On a
RERUN Conan (from 10/20/04) are Claire Danes, Carson Kressley, and Mavis Staples.
On a
RERUN Carson Daly are Kristin Chenoweth, Kevin Millar, and Lifehouse.
ABC starts the night with a
FRESH 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How'd They Do That?', followed by a
FRESH 'The Bachelor', then a
FRESH 'Supernanny'.
Scheduled on a
FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Jim Belushi, Jennifer Morrison, and the Raveonettes.
The
WB offers a
FRESH '7th Heaven', followed by a
FRESH 'Everwood'.
Faux has a
FRESH 'Nanny 911', followed by a
FRESH '24' (Day 4: 2am - 3am).
UPN has a
FRESH 'One On One', followed by a
FRESH 'Cuts', then a
FRESH 'Girlfriends', followed by a
FRESH 'Half & Half'.
A&E has
'Cold Case Files', followed by a
FRESH 'Airline', then another
FRESH 'Airline', and
'Knievel's Wild Ride'.
AMC offers the movie
'Volcano', followed by the movie
'The Jewel Of The Nile', then the movie
'Smokey & The Bandit II'.
BBC -
[2pm]
'As Time Goes By' - Episode 4;
[2:40pm]
'Are You Being Served?' - Founder's Day;
[3:20pm]
'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[4pm]
'The Avengers' - Whoever Shot Poor George;
[5pm]
'The Avengers' - Return of the Cybernauts;
[6pm]
'BBC World News';
[6:30pm]
'Cash in the Attic' - Banham;
[7pm]
'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 26;
[8pm]
'Murphy's Law' - Go Ask Alice;
[9pm]
'Wire in the Blood' - Episode 4;
[11pm]
'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 26;
[12am]
'Wire in the Blood' - Episode 4;
[2am]
'Murphy's Law' - Go Ask Alice;
[3am]
'Wire in the Blood' - Episode 4;
[5am]
'Murphy's Law' - Go Ask Alice;
[6am]
'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has
'West Wing', followed by
'Million Dollar Recipe' (The Pillsbury Bake-Off), and another
'West Wing'.
Comedy Central has
'Reno 911!', another
'Reno 911!', still another
'Reno 911!', yet another
'Reno 911!', yes, one more
'Reno 911!',
'South Park',
'Blue Collar TV', and
'Comedy Central Presents' (Steve McGrew).
Scheduled on a
FRESH Jon Stewart is Sen. Zell Miller.
History has
'Modern Marvels',
'Hitler's War', another
'Hitler's War', and a
FRESH 'Deep Sea Detectives'.
IFC -
[6AM]
'Regeneration' (1997);
[7:45AM]
'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[8AM]
'Year Of The Horse' (1997);
[10AM]
'The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain' (1995);
[11:45AM]
'Besieged' (1998);
[1:30PM]
'Year Of The Horse' (1997);
[3:30PM]
'Caro Diario' (1994);
[5:15PM]
'IFC Short Film Showcase' (2005);
[6:15PM]
'Besieged' (1998);
[8PM]
'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[8:30PM]
'Film School #5' (2004);
[9PM]
'Tadpole' (2002);
[11PM]
'Salaam Bombay!' (1988);
[1AM]
'Tadpole' (2002);
[3AM]
'Salaam Bombay!' (1988);
[5AM]
'IFC Short Film Showcase' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has is all
'Stargate SG-1' all night.
Sundance -
[7AM]
'The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam' (Documentary);
[8:30AM]
'32 Short Films About Glenn Gould' (Feature);
[10:05AM]
'The Dream Catcher' (Feature);
[11:45AM]
'Traveler' (Short);
[12PM]
'Frescoes' (Documentary);
[1:35PM]
'Koyaanisqatsi' (Feature);
[3:05PM]
'Anatomy of a Scene: The Secret Lives of Dentists' (Original Production);
[3:35PM]
'Roswell' (short) (Short);
[3:55PM]
'Darren Vigil Gray: Counterclockwise' (Documentary);
[4:30PM]
'Gender Trouble' (Short);
[5PM]
'The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam' (Documentary);
[6:30PM]
'No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon' (Documentary);
[7:30PM]
'How to Draw a Bunny' (Feature);
[9PM]
'Jane Birkin - Mother of All Babes' (Documentary);
[10PM]
'The Same River Twice' (Documentary);
[11:20PM]
'1 Giant Leap' (Documentary);
[12:35AM]
'Whole' (Documentary);
[1:30AM]
'Liebestraum' (Feature);
[3:20AM]
'The Sea' (World Cinema)
[5:10AM]
'Eat This New York' (Documentary). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM celebrates what would have been the 102nd birthday of
Bing Crosby all day, and then
pays tribute to
Rory Calhoun all night.
[6am] 'Going Hollywood' (1933);
[7:30am] 'Road to Singapore' (1940);
[9:15am] 'My Favorite Blonde' (1942) [View Trailer];
[10:45am] 'Road to Morocco' (1942) [View Trailer];
[12:15pm] 'Going My Way' (1944) [View Trailer];
[2:30pm] 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court' (1949);
[4:30pm] 'Road to Bali' (1953);
[6:15pm] 'Man On Fire' (1957);
[8pm] 'The Yellow Tomahawk' (1954);
[9:30pm] 'Dawn At Socorro' (1954);
[11pm] 'The Hired Gun' (1957);
[12:15am] 'The Secret Of Monte Cristo' (1961);
[2am] 'The Colossus of Rhodes' (1961) [AKA: 'Il Colosso di Rodi'];
[4:15am] 'The Young and the Brave' (1963). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Tuesday - 05/03
TCM:
[6am]
'Festival of Shorts #41' (2002);
[6:30am]
'Good News' (1947) [View Trailer];
[8:30am]
'The Barkleys Of Broadway' (1949) [View Trailer];
[10:30am]
'Singin' In The Rain' (1952) [View Trailer];
[12:30pm]
'The Band Wagon' (1953) [View Trailer];
[2:30pm]
'It's Always Fair Weather' (1955) [View Trailer];
[4:15pm]
'Bells Are Ringing' (1960) [View Trailer];
[6:30pm]
'Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM' (1996);
[8pm]
'The Ipcress File' (1965) [View Trailer];
[10pm]
'Hannah and Her Sisters' (1986) [View Trailer];
[12am]
'Gambit' (1966) [View Trailer];
[2am]
'The Wilby Conspiracy' (1975) [View Trailer];
[4am]
'Something Of Value' (1957). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Comedian Margaret Cho performs the opening monologue at the 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 30, 2005.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
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AIDS Charity Concert In Norway
Nelson Mandela
South Africa's first black president and hero of the anti-apartheid struggle Nelson Mandela will travel to Norway in June to lead the star lineup at an AIDS charity concert, his foundation said.
The June 11 concert in Tromsoe dubbed "46664 Arctic" is to highlight Mandela's message that "AIDS is a global issue," said the foundation in a statement.
Mandela's '46664 ambassadors' Bill Clinton, Bono and Will Smith are to be on hand to issue calls for more to be done to address infant mortality and the impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
Nelson Mandela
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U.S. singer and entertainer Cher performs her last show of her three year long farewell tour to a sold out crowd at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California April 30, 2005.
Photo by Gene Blevins
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Argues Right To Abortion
L.G.
"Why can't I make my own decision?" That was the blunt question to a judge from a pregnant 13-year-old girl ensnared in a Palm Beach County court fight over whether she can have an abortion.
"I don't know," Circuit Judge Ronald Alvarez replied, according to a recording of the closed hearing obtained Friday.
"You don't know?" replied the girl, who is a ward of the state. "Aren't you the judge?"
L.G., who told Alvarez she had run away at least five times from her youth shelter, maintained, "It would make no sense to have the baby."
"I don't think I should have the baby because I'm 13, I'm in a shelter and I can't get a job," the girl said as Alvarez and her guardian ad litem, assigned to shepherd her in the legal system, questioned her.
"DCF would take the baby anyway," she said, but later added: "If I do have it, I'm not going to let them take it."
"Since you guys are supposedly here for the best interest of me, then wouldn't you all look at that fact that it'd be more dangerous for me to have the baby than to have an abortion?" she asked. Alvarez called that "a good point."
L.G.
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Bill U.S. for Treating Iraqi Girl
Belgian Doctors
Belgian doctors sent an Iraqi girl home Thursday after treating her for leg wounds caused by a bomb during the U.S. invasion -- and sent the 51,570 euro ($66,650) bill to the U.S. embassy.
"We haven't heard from them yet," said Bert De Belder, coordinator of the humanitarian agency Medical Aid for Third World which brought the girl to Belgium.
Doctors brought 15-year-old Hiba Kassim to Belgium last year to try to save her left ankle, seriously injured by a cluster bomb that also killed her brother in Baghdad in 2003.
De Belder said he sent the bill to the U.S. embassy because international law dictated that an occupying force was responsible for the well-being of the country's people. U.S. embassy officials were not immediately available for comment.
Belgian Doctors
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Auctioned for More Than $150K
Titanic Items
Dozens of Titanic relics auctioned for more than $150,000 Sunday, including a gold pocket watch owned by an Irish immigrant that stopped ticking the day of the sinking when she was rescued in a lifeboat.
The watch, once owned by Nora Keane of County Limerick, Ireland, was sold for $24,675, more than three times its estimated value, said Jon Baddeley, Bonhams & Butterfields auction house's marine collectibles expert.
Keane, who had emigrated to Harrisburg, Pa., was returning to the United States on the luxury liner's maiden voyage after a four-month visit to see her mother. It was damaged by water as she was rescued in lifeboat No. 10.
The top sale price at the auction was $44,650 for the only known example of a 3rd class menu postcard, dated April 14, 1912. The card has a picture of the Titanic at the top, with the entire day's menu printed on it.
Titanic Items
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Liza Minnelli gestures to the crowd after accepting the Vanguard Award at the 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 30, 2005. Minnelli was given the award for her public support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes and her work raising money for AIDS.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
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Iowa Tenor Wins Tucker Award
Eric Cutler
Never mind hitting a high C: A 29-year-old tenor from Iowa delivered multiple high Ds to win the Richard Tucker Award. Eric Cutler's vocal fireworks - which some have compared to the young Luciano Pavarotti's high notes - won him the premier prize that also paved the way to fame for other American singers like Renee Fleming, Deborah Voigt, Dolora Zajick and David Daniels.
The $30,000 award, named after the late Brooklyn-raised tenor who proved that Americans can sing a great European repertoire as well as any foreigner, is given each year to an American singer on the edge of an important international career.
The 6-foot-3 native of Adel, Iowa, who Opera News says possesses "a distinctive, red-blooded voice," has been heard at the Metropolitan Opera in Wagner's "Meistersinger" and is returning next season in Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" and Mozart's "The Magic Flute," which he also will perform at England's Glyndebourne Festival this summer.
Eric Cutler
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Focus On Hate In Colorado
Protest
About 500 people braved cold temperatures and light snow Sunday to protest a conservative Christian group's campaign against gay rights and same-sex marriage.
The protesters gathered in front of the Focus on the Family campus, holding rainbow flags, multicolored balloons and signs reading "God Loves Justice" and "Love Thy Neighbor." An American Indian group played drums and some protesters sang "We Shall Overcome."
Focus on the Family, founded and led by James Dobson, has vigorously opposed gay rights and same-sex marriages, urging voters during last year's election to vote for resident Bush and in favor of same-sex marriage bans that passed in 11 states.
Dobson was not at the headquarters Sunday, Minnery said. He is traveling on the East Coast this week and was expected to be in Washington, D.C., for the National Day of Prayer events on Thursday.
Protest
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Actors Will Ferrell, left, and Robert Duvall arrive at the premiere of 'Kicking and Screaming' in Los Angeles, Sunday, May 1, 2005.
Photo by Matt Sayles
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Denies Lobbying India Over Park
Disney
Disney on Sunday declined to say whether it wants to build a theme park in India, but denied a newspaper report in Hong Kong that it lobbied the Indian government on the matter. The South China Morning Post reported Sunday that The Walt Disney Co. has asked Indian authorities for land for a park site.
Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner and Chief Operating Officer Robert Iger, who has been picked to replace Eisner, visited India last week and met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the report said.
Disney's latest theme park in Asia, Hong Kong Disneyland, is due to open Sept. 12. Critics have questioned if the government was too accommodating to Disney. Hong Kong taxpayers are paying for most of the park's $3.5 billion cost. Officials say the park will boost employment and tourism.
Disney
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(L-R) First runner-up Kemika Sookprasongdee, winner Tarnrarin Chansawang and second runner-up Phanchan Ahkrakul wave to the audience at the Jumbo Queen Contest held at an elephant ground in a zoo in Nakhon Pathom province, about 56 km (35 miles) south of Bangkok, May 1,2005.The contest is held to select the contestant who best exhibits the characteristics of an elephant by virtue of her grace, elegance and size, and the winner will lead a jumbo banquet and help promote elephant conservation causes in Thailand.
Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom
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Honored By Bollywood
David Hasselhoff
India's movie industry handed out its version of the Oscars on Saturday at the Bollywood Movie Awards, which saw a veteran director take top honors and a U.S. actor best known for "Baywatch" named international star of the year.
The Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that is. The event was held in the U.S. East Coast gambling resort as part of Bollywood's bid to be a global force in cinema.
An audience composed largely of Americans of Indian origin cheered as veteran Yash Chopra was named best director for his film "Veer-Zaara," which also picked up the award for best film and best actor for its star Shahrukh Khan.
David Hasselhoff
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Demonstrators form a human peace sign in New York's Central Park, Sunday, May 1, 2005. Invoking memories of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki decades ago, anti-nuclear weapon and anti-war activists on Sunday marched past the United Nations, where a conference to reassess the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was scheduled to begin this week through mid town to a rally in Central Park.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
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Shareholders Meet
Warren Buffett
Shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s annual meeting this weekend got an eyeful as they watched the world's second richest person, Warren Buffett, share the screen with the richest, Bill Gates, and one of the strongest, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The forum was the traditional hour-long film produced by Buffett's daughter Susie, featuring a compendium of old and new clips, ads for Berkshire businesses, an appearance by "Margaritaville" singer Jimmy Buffett (he is a shareholder), and lampoons of the images of Buffett and his slower-speaking, sharper-tongued, second-in-command, Charlie Munger.
Schwarzenegger retained Buffett as an economic adviser in his successful 2003 campaign to become California's governor. He joked during that campaign that he told Buffett he would have to do 500 sit-ups if the billionaire ever again questioned a popular proposal to cap property taxes.
Gates and Schwarzenegger also co-starred with Buffett in a cartoon spoof of "The Wizard of Oz" titled "The Wizard of Omaha."
Buffett, clad in overalls, sang "Over the Rainbow," somewhat in tune, before a tornado spun him to a colorful land where Gates played the Scarecrow, Munger the Tin Man, Schwarzenegger the Cowardly Lion, and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan a wizard who couldn't fix Social Security.
Warren Buffett
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Actresses of the Chinese Disabled Persons' Art Performing Troupe perform their best known work the 'Qianshou Kuanyin (Bodhisattva with 1,000 Hands) Dance' in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Saturday, April 30, 2005.
Photo by Ding Xiaochun
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