Marc Dion: Are You Dying for McDonald's (Creators Syndicate)
I try to bring a lunch to work every day, I really do. A turkey sandwich, yogurt, an apple juice, couple cookies. Sometimes, though, I get disorganized and end up going to a fast-food place. Burger - ketchup only - and fries. Not this week. When I read fast-food workers were going to strike for better wages, I figured the local PuckBurger emporium could do without my skinny nickels for a while.
Rose Bretécher: "Pure OCD: a rude awakening" (Guardian)
You mentally undress your friends, Tony Blair, the lollipop lady. Your thoughts are X-rated. You wonder if you're a paedophile - or just losing your mind. A sufferer describes the nightmare - and dark comedy - of living with pure OCD.
Marilyn Preston: "The Bloomberg Is Off the Rose: This Man Needs a Break!" (Creators Syndicate)
New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg put his foot in it when he recently told the press that the secret to success is working more hours, taking less vacation and eating lunch quickly so you can spend more time at your desk. His pees-de-resistance? (Pardon my French.) Take fewer bathroom breaks. I was disappointed by his awful advice because the mayor, until now, has been a ferocious and effective crusader for health initiatives that I consider admirable, progressive and, inevitably, controversial. They don't call him Nanny Bloomberg for nothing.
What is the term for a rowdy parade with effigies of an individual (or individuals) in a public demonstration of moral disapproval with the general intent of communal humiliation?
At the start of each episode, Laverne and Shirley skip down the street, arm in arm, reciting a Yiddish-American hopscotch chant: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated," which then leads into the series' theme song entitled "Making Our Dreams Come True," sung by Cyndi Grecco. In the sixth and seventh seasons (which were set in Southern California), the intro featured Laverne and Shirley coming out of an apartment building, but still singing their original chant, and then a re-recorded version of the original theme song. During the final season, after Cindy Williams left the show, the show opened with Laverne watching a group of schoolchildren perform the chant before the theme song began.
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Hasenpfeffer is a traditional German stew made from marinated rabbit or hare, cut into stewing-meat sized pieces and braised with onions and a marinade made from wine and vinegar.
Hase is German for 'hare' and Pfeffer is German for '(black) pepper,' although here it refers generically to the spices and seasonings in the dish overall, as with the German ginger cookies Pfeffernüsse. Seasonings typically include (as well as fresh cracked black pepper or whole peppercorns): salt, onions, garlic, lemon, sage, thyme, rosemary, allspice, juniper berries, cloves, and/or bay leaf.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
German stew made with rabbit
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Hasenpfeffer is a traditional German stew made from marinated rabbit or
hare, cut into stewing-meat sized pieces and braised with onions and a
marinade made from wine and vinegar
Marian wrote:
German Stew
mj replied:
Haven't had it but
I've had a French version. Rabbit stew.
Charlie responded:
Rabbit stew
Adam answered:
Rabbit Stew.
Sally said:
I know, I know: Hasenpfeffer is Rabbit stew. Although I spell it "hasenfeffer."
Go ahead: Eat me...
PS: I have a lot of rabbits in my yard, most of them find my garden their personal salad bar. Believe me, when I see a fat one, I am sorely tempted...
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, is avoiding the smoke by visiting Bodega Bay, where the birds can be a nuisance.
BttbBob replied:
A rabbit stew, of sorts... A German dish... I've tried it and wasn't all that crazy about it. Actually, I'm not that crazy about German cuisine. They make great cars and machines... food, not so much.
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MAM wrote:
Hasenpfeffer is a traditional German stew made from marinated rabbit or hare, cut into stewing-meat sized pieces and braised with onions and a marinade made from wine and vinegar.
And, Joe S responded:
It's a German stew-like dish. Pictured below is the main ingredient. (Hint: not the eggs)
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a FRESH'Under The Dome'.
On a RERUNDave (from 8/22/13) are Serena Williams, Sean Donnelly, and MGMT.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Angela Kinsey and David Feherty.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by a FRESH'Siberia'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 8/9/13) are Jason Sudeikis, Jim Stacy, and K.T. Tunstall.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 8/8/13) are Derek Jeter, Emma Roberts, and Jake Owen.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/9/13) are Regis Philbin, Sean Dunne, and Curtis Peoples.
ABC starts the night with RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by a FRESH'Mistresses', then a RERUN'Castle'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/8/13) are Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, and Joan Jett.
The CW offers a RERUN'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Pointe'.
Faux has a RERUN'Raising Hope', followed by another RERUN'Raising Hope', then a RERUN'New Girl', followed by a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', 'Bad Ink', another 'Bad Ink', still another 'Bad Ink', yet another 'Bad Ink', still another 'Bad Ink', and yet another 'Bad Ink'.
AMC offers the movie 'Above The Law', followed by the movie 'Hard To Kill', then the movie 'Exit Wounds'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] TIME BANDITS
[10:30AM] ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS
[1:00PM] THIS IS SPINAL TAP
[3:00PM] ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS
[5:30PM] TOP GEAR APOCALYPSE
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 3
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 8
[9:30PM] TOP GEAR: 50 YEARS OF BOND CARS
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS-Volume 1
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS - Volume 2
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 3
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 4
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 8
[4:30AM] TOP GEAR APOCALYPSE (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Tamra's OC Wedding', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'Tosh.0', followed by the FRESH'Comedy Central Roast Of James Franco'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'Just Go With It', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups', then the movie 'Grown Ups', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Dear Frankie
[8:15AM] Daltry Calhoun
[10:15AM] Fallen
[1:00PM] The Last Legion
[3:15PM] Daltry Calhoun
[5:15PM] Bad Boys
[8:00PM] Slumdog Millionaire
[10:45PM] Hanna
[1:00AM] May
[3:00AM] 7 Days
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The September Issue
[7:30AM] The Man With Two Brains
[9:00AM] This Is Spinal Tap
[10:45AM] Waking Life
[12:30PM] The Man With Two Brains
[2:00PM] This Is Spinal Tap
[3:45PM] Waking Life
[5:30PM] The Quiet American
[7:30PM] Casualties of War
[10:00PM] The Writers' Room-American Horror Story
[10:30PM] The Writers' Room-Game of Thrones
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-A No-Rough-Stuff Type Deal
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Seven Thirty-Seven
[1:00AM] The Writers' Room-American Horror Story
[1:30AM] The Writers' Room-Game of Thrones
[2:00AM] Casualties of War
[4:30AM] Made in China (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Ghost Shark', followed by the movie 'Sharknado', then the movie '2-Headed Shark Attack'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 6/27/13) are Kevin Hart, Chris Kluwe, and Eve.
Actor George Takei, known for his role as Sulu on the television series "Star Trek," rides a crowded elevator during the annual Dragon Con sci-fi and fantasy convention on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, in Atlanta.
Photo by Ron Harris
Forgotten and abandoned for over 70 years, casts of the art treasures at the Khmer temple complex at Angkor in Cambodia are coming out of storage to be rediscovered in a Europe that first shunned them.
The statues, reliefs and temple decorations in the style of the original ninth to 15-century monuments at the site in northern Cambodia are to be exhibited in Paris' Musee Guimet in all their splendour.
The casts made between 1870 and the late 1920s were commissioned by Frenchman Louis Delaporte (1842-1925), a member of the expedition team who "rediscovered" Angkor nearly 150 years ago.
Displayed at Paris' Indochina Museum at Trocadero until its closure in 1936, the works were passed from one storage site to another over the next seven decades, some becoming damaged in the process.
A year ago, the Musee Guimet took the pieces to a secure warehouse where they were inventoried and in certain cases restored, ready for the exhibition entitled "Birth of a Myth. Louis Delaporte and Cambodia" that opens October 16.
Interracial couples are increasingly common in America, but many are opting not to get married.
That's according to a new analysis of U.S. Census data published by the Los Angeles Times, which found racially and ethnically mixed couples were more than twice as common in 2012 as they were in 2000.
But there were also more than twice of the amount of unmarried interracial couples living together than married ones. In 2012, nine percent of unmarried couples living together came from different races, compared with about four percent of married couples, according to Census Bureau data.
Some researchers say the reason for interracial couples not marrying is disapproving family members.
"You don't need to get a blessing from either side of the family [to live together]," Zhenchao Qian, a sociology professor at Ohio State University, told the Times. "Moving to the next stage is sometimes more difficult."
The average height of European men grew by a surprising 11 centimeters from the early 1870s to 1980, reflecting significant improvements in health across the region, according to new research published on Monday.
Contrary to expectations, the study also found that average height accelerated in the period spanning the two World Wars and the Great Depression, when poverty, food rationing and hardship of war might have been expected to limit people's growth.
The swift advance may have been due to people deciding to have fewer children in this period, the researchers said, and smaller family size has previously been found to be linked to increasing average height.
Timothy Hatton, a professor economics at Britain's University of Essex who led the study, said the evidence - which shows the average height of a European male growing from 167 cm to 178 cm in a little over a 100 years - suggests an environment of improving health and decreasing disease "is the single most important factor driving the increase in height".
British actor Daniel Radcliffe poses with director John Krokidas (R) of the movie "Kill Your Darlings" during the 70th Venice Film Festival in Venice September 1, 2013. The movie debuts at the festival.
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi
Beetle Bailey was known to be a lazy Army private, but the creator of the popular comic strip is getting accolades from top military brass and others as he celebrates his 90th birthday.
Mort Walker is receiving good wishes from Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Dolly Parton and even Prince Albert II of Monaco.
He told The Associated Press in 2010 as the comic strip marked its 60th anniversary that he would continue with his creation until he's no longer able.
The comic strip featuring Beetle Bailey, Sarge and his dog, Otto, Gen. Amos Halftrack and Miss Buxley has more than 200 million readers in 52 countries.
The last day of a New York City dance music festival featuring high-profile acts including Avicii, David Guetta and Diplo was canceled Sunday after the deaths of two attendees and the hospitalizations of several others, apparently linked to drugs.
The city said it recommended Electric Zoo festival end early after the deaths and illnesses during the first two days of performances on Friday and Saturday. The festival took place on Randall's Island in the East River.
The city says the deaths appear to have been linked to drugs, specifically MDMA, or ecstasy. A spokeswoman for the city medical examiner said autopsy results were inconclusive and further toxicology and tissue testing is needed.
The festival has been held over Labor Day weekend since 2009. It draws sizable crowds to hear artists performing on multiple stages over the course of several hours.
Fireworks explode above St. Basil's Cathedral during the International Military Music Festival "Spasskaya Tower" at Red Square in Moscow, September 1, 2013. Military bands from different countries participate in the annual event starting from September 1 to 8.
Photo by Sergei Karpukhin
A large portion of the Indiana high school where James Dean was first exposed to acting has caved in, dealing what local officials say could be a final blow to efforts to preserve the building.
Fairmount Police Chief Roger Reneau said the roof of the structure collapsed Thursday. It's the second collapse since July 3, when a smaller section of the building caved in.
The school about 50 miles east of Indianapolis closed in 1986 and is owned by the Madison Grant Youth Basketball League. Dean fans and local officials have tried over the years to save the three-story red brick-and-limestone building, but David Loehr, curator of the James Dean Gallery a few blocks from the school, said proposals never panned out.
"There was a lot of interest, but the money didn't come with it," he told The Associated Press in July.
Dean graduated from Fairmount High in 1949 before leaving to pursue his acting career. He had iconic roles in "Rebel Without a Cause," ''Giant" and "East of Eden" before dying in a California car crash in 1955. He was 24.
Nihangs or Sikh warriors perform Gatkha, a traditional form of martial arts, during the celebrations of the 409th anniversary of the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib, the religious book of Sikhs, in the northern Indian city of Amritsar September 1, 2013.
Photo by Munish Sharma
Scientists have found tiny plastic particles in all of the Great Lakes.
They had previously discovered them in Lakes Superior, Huron and Erie last year and new summer research uncovered small concentrations also in Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario.
Mary Balcer, director of the Lake Superior Research Institute at UW-Superior, who has studied more traditional Great Lakes threats such as zebra mussels, said plastics are a new culprit on the list of Great Lakes ecological troubles.
Fresh off the research boat, Lorena Rios-Mendoza, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, presented her preliminary findings to reporters Thursday.
So far, Rios-Mendoza's hypothesis is that the plastic in the Great Lakes starts small, possibly as scrubbing beads in household or beauty products, facial scrubs and even some toothpaste.
Activists perform in the "March of the Whores" to protest against discrimination and violence against women in Monterrey, August 31, 2013. The march is part of the SlutWalk protest movement, which started after a police officer advised female students in Canada to "avoid dressing like sluts".
Photo by Daniel Becerril
Residents of Eagle, Alaska, are getting worried about possibly toxic gases wafting into town from a mysterious underground fire on a nearby mountain that's been burning for almost a year.
Nobody seems to know exactly what's burning. Experts suspect it's either a volcano forming or natural gas burning in underground shale deposits. Whatever it is, the fire has been burning on a remote mountaintop, about 40 kilometres north of the community since last October at least.
When the wind is right, residents can smell noxious smoke all over town.
Pat Sanders, a ranger who works in the in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, said measurements have been taken showing there's extreme heat coming out of fissures in the ground.
"[It's] 545 degrees fahrenheit and that one wasn't even smoking," Sanders said. "There's a lot of heat involved and it's still very, very active and we don't know [what] it's going to do or how far it extends but we've taken a progression of pictures throughout since October of last year and the changes in the landscape are just dramatic."
Ukrainian team performs during the group 10 clubs competition final at the 32nd Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Kiev September 1, 2013.
Photo by Gleb Garanich
At Three Crosses Church, Pastor Ken Walters urges his parishioners to join him in song and scripture. The charismatic 58-year-old extends his arms skyward and belts out melodies praising God.
While the small Assemblies of God congregation goes through all the traditional trappings of a Pentecostal service, there is one notable absence: speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the faith.
The 40-member church is among many nationwide that are reducing or cutting out speaking in tongues as they become more popular and move to the mainstream. It's a shift that has unsettled some more traditional Pentecostals who say the practice is at the heart of a movement that evolved out of an interracial revival and remains a spontaneous way for the poor and dispossessed to have a direct line to God.
"It's different now," Walters said. "People don't like to stand out if they don't have to."
As the religion becomes more widely accepted, Walters said, there has been a tendency for large Pentecostal churches to downplay the differences between Pentecostalism and other well-known Christian denominations.
David Frost had sparred with Richard Nixon for hours, recording a series of interviews with the former president three years after he stepped down in disgrace over Watergate. But as the sessions drew to a close, Frost realized he still lacked something: an acknowledgement by Nixon that he had been wrong.
Nixon had admitted making mistakes, but Frost put down his clipboard and pressed his subject on whether that was enough. Americans, he said, wanted to hear him own up to his misdeeds and acknowledge abusing the power of the White House.
"Unless you say it, you're going to be haunted for the rest of your life," the British broadcaster told Nixon.
What came next were some of the most extraordinary comments ever made by a politician on television. For Frost, who died Saturday, it was the signature moment of an illustrious television career that spanned half a century and included interviews with a long list of the world's most powerful and famous, including virtually every British prime minister and U.S. president of his time.
A natural at TV hosting, he seemed to effortlessly inhabit the worlds of entertainment and politics. As a satirist, a game show host and a journalist, he disarmed others with unfailing affability and personal charm.
Frost, 74, died of a heart attack Saturday night aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship, where he was due to give a speech, his family said in a statement sent to the BBC. The cruise company Cunard said its vessel left the English port of Southampton on Saturday for a 10-day cruise in the Mediterranean.
Frost was born on April 7, 1939, in Kent, England, the son of a Methodist preacher.
The young Frost began television hosting while still a student at Cambridge University, and soon after graduation he was approached by a BBC producer to front "That Was The Week That Was."
He went on to host a sketch show called "The Frost Report" and became a regular figure on U.S. television. Behind the camera, Frost also co-founded two television companies, London Weekend Television and TV-am, churning out a prolific schedule of programs.
Over the years, his interviewees included a wide-ranging roster of politicians, from Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev to Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, as well as leading entertainment figures such as Orson Welles and the Beatles.
He was the only person to have interviewed the last eight British prime ministers and the seven U.S. presidents in office from 1969 to 2008. Besides the Nixon interviews, one of the more memorable moments included a tense interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the sinking of the Argentine warship during the war in the Falklands.
In later years, Frost kept up his probing questioning of political leaders, although some came to criticize him for being "too nice" to his subjects. Somewhat incongruously, he also hosted a game show called "Through the Keyhole" that spied on the homes of celebrities from 1987 to 2008.
Frost, who wrote about a dozen books, won numerous awards and was knighted in 1993. Most recently he was hosting programs for Al-Jazeera English, where he had worked since its launch several years ago.
He is survived by his wife, Carina, and their three sons.
The Man burns during the Burning Man 2013 arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, August 31, 2013. The federal government issued a permit for 68,000 people from all over the world to gather at the sold out festival, which is celebrating its 27th year, to spend a week in the remote desert cut off from much of the outside world to experience art, music and the unique community that develops.
Photo by Jim Urquhart
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