Jim Hightower: TWO TEA PARTY GOOBERS IN CONGRESS
Goober Number One is Arizona's Ben Quayle, the son of Dan - and truly a flake off the old block. Ben has proven to be a stand up guy - not for the folks, but for Big Oil. While voting to slash government programs to help the elderly and the poor, he has voted not once but twice to keep giving $2 billion in annual tax subsidies to the five richest oil corporations.
Marc Dion: Computer Ape Sex with Sarah Palin (Creators Syndicate)
Like many men who belong in a small room with barred windows, I would like to see Sarah Palin naked but cannot stand to hear her speak. Lots of guys feel that way about Britney Spears, too, if you substitute "sing" for "speak." Likewise Lindsay Lohan and, at times, our own wives (insert tongue click noise here).
Charlyn Fargo: Grab Your Plate (Creators Syndicate)
Eating healthier just got a little easier, thanks to the government. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled a new food icon, MyPlate, which is designed to encourage consumers to build healthy eating habits by seeking more information about the food and portions they pile on their plates.
JOHN JURGENSEN: Well-Respected Man (Wall Street Journal)
The biting satire of Ray Davies helped make the Kinks one of the most unmistakably English bands of the British Invasion. He talks about life and multiple new projects.
Henry Rollins: Diggin' Dax (Los Angeles Weekly)
For me, Dax is re-defining Blues music. Even though he plays his songs through the guitar-bass-drums model for the most part, he is the self-contained unit. He is, as they say, the whole package and the real deal. Musicians like Dax come along very seldom. When I listen to Dax's work, it makes me think of another great stand-alone, the late great Jeffrey Lee Pierce of the Gun Club, who so clearly demarcated his territory.
George Varga: One Outfit is Enough For Grace Potter (Creators Syndicate)
Grace Potter doesn't shy away from looking her best when she's on stage with her band, The Nocturnals, or in her new music video with country-pop star Kenny Chesney, "You and Tequila." But this Vermont-bred organist, guitarist and hard-rocking vocal dynamo is determined to make an impact with her formidable musical gifts, not her wardrobe.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
Palmistry can trace its roots back to Greece from Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) discovered a treatise on the subject of palmistry, which he then presented to Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), who took great interest in examining the character of his officers by analyzing the lines on their hands. Aristotle stated that "Lines are not written into the human hand without reason. They emanate from heavenly influences and man's own individuality". Accordingly, Aristotle, Hippocrates and Alexander the Great popularized the laws and practice of palmistry. Hippocrates sought to use palmistry to aid his clinical procedures.
From Greece, the knowledge of palmistry slowly spread to India, Tibet, China, Persia, Egypt and to some countries in Europe.
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NOTE: In hindsight, for accuracy's sake this question should have been prefaced with "According to Wikipedia..."
Marian was first, and correct, with:
Greece
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Palmistry can trace its roots back to Indian (Hindu) Astrology
Alan J replied:
Greece
Adam answered:
According to the Intertubes, it could be Greece, China or India and the Roma (gypsies ori0ginally came from India before nomadically migrating then 'settling' in Eastern Europe).
I put my money on India and the Roma.
Charlie replied:
Greece
Sally said:
I'm going to go with India for palmistry here.
This is the planetary method...
PS: Okay, Marty, you blew my humor for yesterday's reply! I had answered with the Greek word for Marathon, written in Greek script from the Greek alphabet. Either you thought it a vulgarity, or your computer program didn't read the Greek, IOWs, it said, "'Whoa, that's Greek to me' hahaha...'" :) (Love you, Miss Marty...)
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MAM wrote:
Palmistry can trace its roots back to India in (Hindu) Astrology (known in sanskrit as Jyotish), Chinese Yijing (I Ching), and Roma (gypsy) fortune tellers.
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And, Joe S responded:
Greece. The interwebs are all over the place on this, China, India, Greece, whatever. The answer is Greece. My daughter-in-law, Athanasia, told me everything can trace it's roots back to Greece. So there you are and here are some of the cutest, sweetest, smartest, most adorable little Greeks you're ever bound to come across. My granddaughters.
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Yep, my poor little plian-text html editor doesn't recognize the Greek alphabet and that's why the series of ???'s showed up.
Sorta on a tight schedule these days, and didn't have the time yesterday to google the extra special secret code known as Greek.
So, 'marathon' in Greek codes like this (according to Wikipedia):
μ α ρ α θ ο - well, except I couldn't find the Greek 'a' with an accute, so imagine a little apostrophe like appendage, pointing right, on the top of the first 'a'..
CNN Republican Debate Monday 13 June New Hampshire
For those who like such things, the second Republican debate is scheduled to take place June 13th on the campus of Saint Anselm College, Monday night in New Hampshire on CNN. The event will be moderated by CNN's John King
For the year since a general election on 13 June 2010, Belgium has had no official government. As coalition negotiations have dragged on, the country has had to make do with a caretaker prime minister and cabinet. How long can it continue?...
'Paris Syndrome' strikes Japanese
A dozen or so Japanese tourists a year have to be repatriated from the French capital, after falling prey to what's become known as "Paris syndrome". (Cue sinister organ music) That is what some polite Japanese tourists suffer when they discover that Parisians can be rude or the city does not meet their expectations. The experience can apparently be too stressful for some and they suffer a psychiatric breakdown... This year alone, the Japanese embassy in Paris has had to repatriate four people with a doctor or nurse on board the plane to help them get over the shock...
What? Rude French waiters? Who knew? LOL, obviously certain naive Japanese tourists. The Horror of it!
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', then a RERUN'2½l; Men', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Adm. Michael Mullen, a Top Ten List presented by Betty White, and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears.
On a RERUNCraig (from 4/14/11) are Kristen Bell, and Jason Aldean.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Stanley Cup Finals', then pads the left coast with local crap
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Jason Sudeikis, Adam Levine, and Ziggy Marley.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Video Game Week kicks off with a demonstration of Modern Warfare 3, Jada Pinkett Smith, Simon Pegg, Givers, and Ledisi.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/28/11) are Mark Burnett, Craig Wedren, and Screaming Females.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/7/11) are Paris Hilton, "Bachelorette" Ashley Hebert, National Spelling Bee Champion Sukanya Roy, and Sara Bareilles.
The CW offers a RERUN'90210', followed by a RERUN'Gossip Girl'.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef', followed by a RERUN'House'.
MY here has LIVE'MLB Baseball', with the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels visiting in Seattle.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and still another 'Criminal Minds'.
AMC offers the movie 'Die Hard', followed by the movie 'A Few Good Men'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 Toni Collette, Billie Piper, Scouting for Girls
[9:00 AM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 13 Honor Bound
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Black Pearl
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Riviera
[12:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 9 Space
[1:00 PM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 13 Honor Bound
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 10 Dillons
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Dovecote
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 2 Darmok
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - 11 - The Lodger
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[10:20 PM] James May's Road Trip - Episode 6
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6 min)
[1:20 AM] James May's Road Trip - Episode 6
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Platinum Hit'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', still another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', and yet another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Alex Prud'Homme.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is unindicted war criminal Henry Kissinger (R-Vile).
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie '27 Dresses'.
History has 'American Restoration', another 'American Restoration', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by another FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Water
[8:30 AM] My Life as a Dog
[10:45 AM] Away From Her
[1:15 PM] Water
[3:45 PM] My Life as a Dog
[6:00 PM] Freaks and Geeks
[7:00 PM] Undeclared
[7:30 PM] Mr. Show With Bob and David
[8:05 PM] Carrie
[10:20 PM] Advantage
[10:30 PM] Cursed
[12:30 AM] Carrie
[2:45 AM] Anamorph
[5:00 AM] Freaks and Geeks (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[8:20 AM] Somebody Told Me about Carla Bruni
[9:50 AM] Faintheart
[12:50 PM] Somebody Told Me about Carla Bruni
[2:20 PM] Faintheart
[6:20 PM] It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks
[8:15 PM] Thumbsucker
[10:00 PM] ALL ON THE LINE - Kara Janx: That Dress is Great if You're Going to the Prom With Justin Bieber (Episode 2, Season 1)
[12:00 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Radenroro: Bad is Better than Boring (Episode 1, Season 1)
[1:00 AM] Voice
[2:50 AM] Thumbsucker
[4:30 AM] It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Devil's Advocate', followed by a FRESH'Sanctuary'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Noah Wyle, Riley Griffiths, and Anthony Jeselnik.
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Adam Carolla, Mary Murphy, Marc Broussard, and Hart Main.
Buffalo Springfield performs during the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., Saturday, June 11, 2011. From left are Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Neil Young.
Photo by Dave Martin
According to the May Nielson ratings, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart beat the entire Fox News network in terms of total viewers. Stewart averaged 2.3 million viewers, while the Fox News prime time and day time line up averaged 1.85 million viewers.
While Stewart is on the rise, Fox News had a really, really bad May. Total viewership was down 10%, and Fox News lost viewers in the 25-54 demo in every prime time show. Bill O'Reilly was down 9%, Sean Hannity was down 6%, and Greta Van Susteren dropped 12%.
Just how big is the disparity between Jon Stewart and Fox News?
Only The O'Reilly Factor (2.8 million) drew more total viewers than The Daily Show (2.3 million). Jon Stewart beat everything else on Fox News. Stewart beat Sean Hannity by 246,000 viewers. He topped Bret Baier by 399,000 viewers. Jon Stewart beat Glenn Beck by almost 500,000 viewers, 1.812 million to 2.3 million. He beat Shep Smith (1.712 million) and Greta Van Susteren (1.702 million) by almost 600,000 viewers each. When Stewart and O'Reilly go head to head at 11 PM, Jon Stewart tops Bill O'Reilly's replay by almost a million viewers (2.3 million to 1.321 million).
Jon Stewart is the biggest threat to Fox News' future out there. He is literally teaching his audience, which is bigger than FNC's, how to see through the partisan propaganda that Rupert Murdoch has based his network on. Stewart is educating an entire generation of viewers on how to watch cable news, or more specifically how not to watch Fox News.
Conan O'Brien, a Harvard alumnus, had some teasing criticism for another Ivy League school Sunday.
Speaking at Dartmouth's graduation, he joked that the school had an inferiority complex. Pointing to the section of tree trunk he was standing behind, he said, "You don't even think you deserve a real podium - it looks like you stole it from the set of `Survivor: Nova Scotia' or that a bear would use at an AA meeting."
The school gave O'Brien an honorary doctorate of arts. He praised the 1,700 graduates for earning their degrees, then boasted that "Dartmouth is giving me the same degree for interviewing the fourth lead in `Twilight.'"
"There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized," said O'Brien, now host of the late-night show "Conan" on TBS. "Whether you fear it or not, true disappointment will come but with disappointment comes clarity, conviction and true originality."
They have been gathering dust in a basement for more than 40 years, but now U.S. photographer Mike Mitchell has decided to auction a group of pictures which capture the moment the Beatles became a worldwide phenomenon.
Mitchell, now in his mid-60s, was given a press pass to the Fab Four's first U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum in 1964, just two days after their breakthrough television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
He was back later that year to cover their concert in Baltimore, by which time their fame had grown considerably.
"I heard the music and I had to be there," said Mitchell, surrounded by a selection of the black-and-white images which had a spontaneity that many later photographs lacked.
He is selling the collection through Christie's auctioneers in New York on July 20, and is exhibiting them in London first to raise awareness among potential bidders.
Actors Robert Morse (L) and Matthew Broderick wave from onstage during the American Theatre Wing's 65th annual Tony Awards ceremony in New York, June12, 2011.
Photo by Gary Hershorn
An expanded edition of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," the biggest-selling soundtrack of the last decade, will be released August 16.
Grammy- and Oscar-winning producer T Bone Burnett oversaw the 17-track bonus disc that features artists who appeared on the original album (John Hartford, Norman Blake, the Fairfield Four, the Cox Family and the Peasall Sisters), plus some who did not (Colin Linden, Alan O'Bryant, Ed Lewis and Van Dyke Parks).
The "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" film was released in 2000. The film's soundtrack, which came out in January 2001, sold 3.46 million copies that year, according to Nielsen Soundscan, on its way to winning the Grammy for album of the year.
Shortly after the ceremony, "O Brother" went to No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200, nearly 15 months after its release. Hailed for exposing bluegrass, early country, blues and gospel to audiences, the soundtrack sold 2.73 million copies in 2002, landing it in the year-end top 10 for a second year. To date is has sold 7.6 million copies.
Shania Twain's stumble during the CMT Music Awards show is being edited out of replays to save her from more embarrassment.
Twain slipped and fell on her way to the stage Wednesday night during a live telecast. The channel left the spill out of a replay following the show and during another replay Thursday.
John Hamlin, the show's executive producer, says the last thing the channel wants to do is embarrass anyone, particularly someone as gracious as Twain.
While CMT edited out the fall, footage of it aired on cable news channels and was available on the Internet.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld communications regulators' decision to bar cable operators from blocking access to some sports programing.
The Federal Communications Commission closed a loophole last year that allowed cable companies to deny access to channels delivered via terrestrial ground lines and not satellite feeds.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied Cablevision Systems Corp's challenge that the FCC lacked the statutory authority to regulate the withholding of such programing.
"We see nothing in the statute that unambiguously precludes the Commission from extending its program access rules to terrestrially delivered programing," the D.C. Circuit said on Friday.
South African playwright Athol Fugard accepts a Special Tony for Lifetime achievment in the theatre during the American Theatre Wing's 65th annualTony Awards ceremony in New York, June 12, 2011.
Photo by Gary Hershorn
More than seven decades after Superman made his debut in "Action Comics," DC said Friday the long-running title will restart at No. 1 in September with the Man of Steel sporting a full-blue suit sans his long-standing red trunks.
The publisher's announcement, first reported by the Los Angeles Times on its website, also included details on new titles for Supergirl and Superboy, too, as well as a solo Superman series that will be written by George Perez and drawn by Jesus Merino.
The cover to "Superman" No. 1 shows the hero in a blue suit, red boots and cape and large "S" on his chest.
Perez reinvigorated Wonder Woman during a five-year run in the 1980s for DC. He also guided "The New Teen Titans" to success with writer Marv Wolfman. In 1985, he illustrated the company's mammoth "Crisis On Infinite Earths" maxi-series that restricted the DC Universe.
Clinging to the under-belly of a baboon, Gakii, a 3-month-old orphaned bush baby has plumped for an unlikely surrogate-mother.
In the grounds of the Nairobi Animal Orphanage, the duo cavort around in each others' arms, drink milk out of the same bowl and poke mischievously at a Reuters television camera.
"This is not normal. It has not happened here and I guess it has not happened anywhere else," said Edward Kariuki, a warden at the animal home in the Kenyan capital.
Kenya, however, has a history of unlikely cases of fostering among orphaned animals.
In 2004, a giant tortoise adopted and became an inseparable friend to a baby hippo washed out to sea off the coast of Kenya in the aftermath of the southeast Asia Tsunami. The pair became an Internet sensation.
Chinese film producer and wife of media magnate Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate), Wendi "Nips" Deng Murdoch, center, smiles prior to a panel discussion on film finance as partof the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival Sunday, June 12, 2011, in Shanghai, China.
Photo by Eugene Hoshiko
Hollywood's summer box-office streak has cooled a bit with a $37 million opening weekend for J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg's sci-fi tale "Super 8."
It was a healthy but unremarkable launch in a summer season whose newcomers often open with two or three times as much money. Released by Paramount Pictures, "Super 8" largely features a cast of young newcomers, the story centering on teen filmmakers and an alien entity that escapes from a wrecked train.
"Super 8" bumped off the previous weekend's No. 1 movie, 20th Century Fox's comic-book prequel "X-Men: First Class," which slipped to second-place with $25 million. "First Class" raised its domestic total to $98.9 million.
The Warner Bros. comedy "The Hangover Part II" came in at No. 3 with $18.5 million to become the year's top-grossing domestic release at $216.6 million.
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. "Super 8," $37 million ($6.7 million international).
2. "X-Men: First Class," $25 million.
3. "The Hangover Part II," $18.5 million ($38.3 million international).
4. "Kung Fu Panda 2," $16.6 million ($56.5 million international).
5. "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," $10.8 million ($41.1 million international).
6. "Bridesmaids," $10.2 million.
7. "Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer," $6.3 million.
8. "Midnight in Paris," $6.1 million.
9. "Thor," $2.4 million.
10. "Fast Five," $1.7 million ($5.9 million international).
Germany's beloved cross-eyed opossum (didelphis) called Heidi, sits in her new enclosure in the giant tropical hall 'Gondwanaland' in the Leipzig Zoo, Germany, on Thursday, June 9, 2011. Heidi and the two other opossums will be on show to the public in a section for nocturnal animals within the Gondwanaland tropical experience world from July 1, 2011. The animal came from a zoo in Denmark to Leipzig, where they found out that she is cross-eyed.
Photo by Jens Meyer
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