Ted Rall: Coverage of the anti-NSA Protest is an Example of a New Way to Disseminate Government BS
On Saturday, October 26th several thousand people gathered near the Capitol Building in Washington to protest National Security Agency spying against Americans. As juicy news, it didn't amount to much: no violence, no surprises. Politically, it marked an unusual coalition between the civil liberties Left and the libertarian Right, as members of the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements stood side by side. But that's not how it was framed.
Henry Rollins: Halloween, 1986 - A Memorable Night (LA Weekly)
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
Henry Rollins: What Lou Reed Meant to Me (LA Weekly)
A couple of Sundays ago I woke up, turned on the computer and read that Lou Reed had passed away. Something caught in my throat. It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
Isaac Simpson: Eazy-E's Grave Is Hard to Find -- But I Did It (LA Weekly)
Last year Eazy-E's son told TMZ that his father's grave had been desecrated. The area was littered, the 28-year-old Eric Wright Jr. complained, with "empty beer bottles and "marijuana cigarette butts." It didn't sound exactly like a desecration to me -- maybe more like a tribute. So recently, along with a Swedish friend who was living in L.A. and a Dutch guy he knew, I decided to check it out for myself.
Miss Cellania: This is How Much Twitter Owes You (Neatorama)
Now that Twitter has gone public and is trading for $41 a share today, people are starting to think about how much value each of its users are generating for the company. Twitter as a whole is valued at $24.9 billion! Do you think you may have contributed to that with your witty Tweets?
Ryan Menezes and A.C. Grimes: 5 Shockingly Creative Ways Animals Are Using Our Garbage (Cracked)
Humanity is pretty good at subjugating nature. In just a few short millennia, we inbred one of the most powerful apex predators evolution could muster, the gray wolf, into the Chihuahua, a hairless rat that couldn't win a fight with a strong breeze. And that's just what we did on purpose.
The "Memphis Mafia" was the nickname for a group of friends, associates, employees and "yes-men" whose main function was to be around Elvis Presley from 1954 until he died. Several filled practical roles in the singer's life. For instance, they were employed to work for him as bodyguards or on tour logistics and scheduling. In these cases Elvis paid salaries, but most lived off fringe benefits such as gifts, cars, houses and bonuses. Over the years, the number of members grew and changed, but for the most part there was a core group who spent a lot of time with the singer.
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Lois Of Oregon was first, and correct, with:
That Memphis Mafia was headed by God Father Elvis, seen here
collecting hush money from a rival crime boss, and proudly
displaying the rifle that killed JFK. By the way, President
(I-didn't-vote-for-him-oh-wait-NO-ONE-DID) Ford who just got
a friggin' carrier named after him and was no doubt an Elvis
fan, was on the Warren Commission that determined JFK was
killed by a magic bullet! Coincidence? I think not!
mj said:
The leader of the Blue Suede Pack
Would be Elvis (do I really need a last name) Presley.
Charlie wrote:
Elvis Presley
This brings up a bit of history.
Note especially the irony that Elvis was being cited for his efforts in the War on Drugs, and of course "Elvis's problem," Dr. Nichopoulos has said, "was that he didn't see the wrong in it. He felt that by getting it from a doctor, he wasn't the common everyday junkie getting something off the street. He was a person who thought that as far as medications and drugs went, there was something for everything."
@Lois -- I'll return the compliment. When I was perusing the Walk of Fame entries I also came upon Godzilla, and was trying to think of some way to incorporate that in my answer. You nailed it.
Unfortunately, the notion that one "owns the road" isn't confined to luxury car owners, as witness the number of people driving road tanks these days.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Elvis Presley
Adam answered:
Per Wikipedia:
The "Memphis Mafia" was the nickname for a group of friends, associates, employees and "yes-men" whose main function was to be around Elvis Presley.
Alan J replied:
Elvis Presley
Sally said:
Elvis Presley was associated with the Memphis Mafia.
My first love, Elvis, was perfect! Sigh...
PS: @Lois Of Oregon
Your cats have a different story here...
Marian responded:
Elvis Presley
John I from Hawai'i says,
"Elvis Presley." The King of rock and roll.
Dale of Diamond Springs, took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Elvis Presley
The Memphis Mafia is the nickname given to the group of men who were with Elvis Presley everyday from
1956 until the day he died on August 16, 1977. Over the years, the number of members grew and changed, but for the most part there was a core group who spent a lot of time with the singer.
BttbBob replied:
I don't know the trivia answer cuz I didn't even look at the question... Why?
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Cuz I just returned to 'civilization' and I'm still acclimating... I just wanted to check in. I'll probably be back tomorrow...
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And, Joe S answered:
That would be Elvis, a Fierce Melungeon. Like me.
See the resemblance?
A speeding car hit the house across the street, providing some early morning excitement.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a FRESH'2 Broke Girls', then a FRESH'Mike & Molly', followed by a FRESH'Mom', then a FRESH'Hostages'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Julianna Margulies, Gen. Ray Odierno, and Moon Taxi.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are LL Cool J and Carrie Keagan.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'The Blacklist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Casey Affleck, Kelly Clarkson, and Lyle Lovett.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Billy Crystal, Evan Rachel Wood, and Cher Lloyd featuring Skee-Lo.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Ilan Hall, Davy Rothbart, and White Denim.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Zooey Deschanel, Chris Elliott, and Frank Turner.
The CW offers a FRESH'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Beauty & The Beast'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Donnie Wahlberg and Lil Rel.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Sleepy Hollow'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has all 'Gangsters: America's Most Evil' all night.
AMC offers the movie 'The Longest Day', followed by the movie 'Apocalypse Now Redux'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Daleks In Manhattan
[9:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Countrycide
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 17 - The Outcast
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 18 - Cause and Effect
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 19 - The First Duty
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Revisited: La Riviera
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 8 - Michon's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 9 - El Greco
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 2
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 3
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 4
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 5 NEW
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 5
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 4
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41 - Episode 5
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 5
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 2
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41 - Episode 5
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', '@midnight', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', 'Brickleberry', and 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Peter Baker.
FX has the movie 'Made Of Honor', followed by the movie '27 Dresses'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'The Bible', followed by the FRESH'Bible Secrets Revealed'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[8:15AM] Crazy Eights
[10:00AM] Hannibal Rising
[12:30PM] Escape From Alcatraz
[3:00PM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[5:15PM] The Fugitive
[8:00PM] Eyes Wide Shut
[11:30PM] Out of the Blue
[11:45PM] Wild Things
[2:00AM] Wild Things 2
[4:00AM] Wild Things 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Driving Miss Daisy
[8:15AM] The Closer You Get
[10:15AM] Jesus Christ Superstar
[12:30PM] Driving Miss Daisy
[2:45PM] Amadeus
[6:45PM] Evermore
[7:00PM] A Few Good Men
[10:00PM] Dream School-The Final Test
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-One Minute
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-I See You
[1:00AM] Dream School-The Final Test
[2:00AM] A Few Good Men
[5:00AM] Dream School-The Final Test (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Ghost Rider', followed by the movie 'Outlander'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jon Cryer, Col. Chris Hadfield, Avril Lavigne.
Woody Harrelson seen at Relativity Media's Gala Premiere of 'Out of the Furnace' at AFI Fest 2013, on Saturday, Nov, 9, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
Utah's governor and other top officials have honoured Robert Redford for his on-camera and off-camera contributions to the state as owner of the Sundance ski resort and founder of the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute.
Some 500 people, including U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, attended the Saturday night event billed as "The Governor's Salute to Robert Redford: A Utah Tribute to an American Icon."
Gov. Gary Herbert praised the 77-year-old Redford for his celebrated movie career. Some of Redford's movies, including "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Jeremiah Johnson," were filmed in Utah.
Redford noted that he and elected officials in the audience, many of them on the opposite end of the political spectrum from him, share common ground.
"Whatever differences may exist, we can all come together and agree on one thing, and that's our love of this state and our country and the people," the environmental activist said.
Singer Miley Cyrus smokes on stage after receiving the Best Video award during the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam November 10, 2013.
Photo by Remko De Waal
Her family gifted her beloved guitar to The Guitar World in Mississauga, asking friend and store owner Jim Toris to let visitors play the instrument whenever they request it.
When Toris' friend and Mississauga native Phil Xenidis heard about Kara and her guitar, he took immediate action.
Legendary Swedish pop group ABBA could reunite next year to mark the 40th anniversary since they won the Eurovision Song Contest and were catapulted to global stardom, singer Agnetha Faltskog revealed on Sunday.
"Of course it's something we're thinking about," 63-year-old Faltskog told the German weekly Welt am Sonntag in an interview.
"There seem to be plans to do something to mark this anniversary in some way. But I can't say at this point what will come of them," she said.
The group's self-penned hit "Waterloo" won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, in April 1974, and immediately became a global phenomenon.
Director Spike Jonze (2nd L) poses with cast members Rooney Mara (L), Scarlett Johansson (2nd R) and Joaquin Phoenix (R) during a red carpet event for the movie "Her" at the Rome Film Festival, November 10, 2013.
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi
They are the most indebted people in the world, live through long, dark winters and have a shorter life expectancy than several Mediterranean countries.
Yet for the past four decades, the Danes have consistently rated themselves as the happiest people on earth.
Among foreigners in Denmark, theories as to why the host population is so content range from its egalitarian policies to its history to grumblings that some people are simply easier to satisfy than others.
The Danes themselves are more puzzled by their purported happiness, sometimes referring to it facetiously when data paint a less rosy picture -- like when the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said they were the third-largest consumers per capita of antidepressants.
Pakistani education officials said Sunday that they have banned teenage activist Malala Yousafzai's book from private schools across the country, claiming it doesn't show enough respect for Islam and calling her a tool of the West.
Malala attracted global attention last year when the Taliban shot her in the head in northwest Pakistan for criticizing the group's interpretation of Islam, which limits girls' access to education. Her profile has risen steadily since then, and she released a memoir in October, "I Am Malala," that was co-written with British journalist Christina Lamb.
While Malala has become a hero to many across the world for opposing the Taliban and standing up for girls' education, conspiracy theories have flourished in Pakistan that her shooting was staged to create a hero for the West to embrace.
Adeeb Javedani, president of the All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association, said his group banned Malala's book from the libraries of its 40,000 affiliated schools and called on the government to bar it from school curriculums.
Actor and comedian Billy Crystal, right, joins basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman at the opening ceremony for two new DreamCourts, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 in Long Beach, N.Y. The courts were constructed and opened today, one-year post Hurricane Sandy, thanks to the Nancy Lieberman Foundation, WorldVentures Foundation and Billy and Janice Crystal.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
A north Florida school board has voted unanimously to change the name of a local high school honoring a Confederate general who made a fortune as a slave trader and was linked to the Ku Klux Klan.
"It's time to move forward with the renaming of Nathan B. Forrest High ... it's time to really put it to bed," said School Board member Constance Hall, who asked the Board to finally begin the process of changing the name on Friday.
Hall and the board's other African American member were joined in the 7-0 vote by four whites and a Hispanic member in voting to change the name.
Four Jacksonville schools are named after Confederate heroes, including Robert E. Lee High School, as well as the city's downtown square.
Changing the name of Nathan B. Forrest High School has come up several times. In 2008, the vote to keep the name broke along racial lines with two black members voting to change the name and five white board members voting against.
Actors Salma Hayek (L-R), Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher attend the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills, California November 9, 2013.
Photo by Phil McCarten
Microwave popcorn makers could face a long and difficult task ridding their snacks of trans fats, if a U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposal to ban the additives goes into effect. Just ask Orville Redenbacher.
Redenbacher's, a division of ConAgra Foods Inc, spent six years changing its leading line of popcorn, company scientists said on Friday, a day after the FDA made its proposal, which the government said would save 7,000 lives a year.
The Popcorn Board, an industry trade group, said Americans munch 16 billion quarts of popped popcorn a year, and more than two-thirds of that is eaten in the home. $985.7 million worth of unpopped kernels were sold in 2010, down 2.2 percent from five years earlier. Popcorn also is the source of a substantial amount of the trans fats consumed by Americans.
Diamond Foods Inc - owner of Pop Secret - and American Pop Corn Company - owner of Jolly Time - still use the suspect fat in some products. Diamond Foods fell 4.6 percent from its open on the news Thursday, but pared losses before Friday's close. American Pop Corn Company is not publicly traded.
Steven Tyler of U.S. rock band Aerosmith performs at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow November 9, 2013.
Photo by Maxim Shemetov
A dating website for married people who want to cheat on their spouses is being sued by a former employee who says she damaged her wrists typing up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women.
Doriana Silva is seeking $20 million from Ashley Madison for what she calls the company's "unjust enrichment" at her expense, plus another $1 million in punitive and general damages.
In her statement of claim, Silva - a Brazilian immigrant living in Toronto - says she was hired to help launch a Portuguese-language version of the site and promised a starting salary of $34,000 plus benefits.
She was soon asked to create 1,000 "fake female profiles" meant to lure men to the new Brazilian Ashley Madison site - and given only three weeks to complete the work, the document alleges.
"The purpose of these profiles is to entice paying heterosexual male members to join and spend money on the website," it reads.
Sigourney Weaver arrives at the 2013 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Matt Sayles
In its heyday, the Pastoruri glacier in central Peru, drew daily throngs of tourists packed into dozens of double-decker buses 16,000-feet (5,0000-meters) high into the Andes to ski, build snowmen and scale its dizzying peaks.
It was so bright with ice and snow that sunglasses were mandatory.
But in less than 20 years, including at least 10 of the hottest on record, Pastoruri has shrunk in half, and now spans just a third of a square mile (0.9 square km).
Melting ice has given way to slabs of black rock, two small lakes gathering the glacial runoff have swollen together, and officials have banned climbing on the unstable formation.
Instead of marketing Pastoruri as the pristine Andean winter wonderland it once was - visible in outdated pictures that still hang in hotels and restaurants in nearby towns - the peak is being rebranded as a place to see climate change in action.
Actor Will Ferrell, dressed as the character Ron Burgundy, poses for photographers upon arrival at the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Natural History Museum at the College of Charleston
Fossils
Charleston is known for its colorful history from colonial days to the Revolutionary War siege by the British to the first shots of the Civil War. But now visitors can glimpse much further back - billions of years back.
Amid the skeletons of a cave bear, a ground sloth and a giant armadillo at the Natural History Museum at the College of Charleston is a fossil dating to 3.4 billion years ago. All were prized possessions of Mace Brown, a Mount Pleasant businessman who has collected fossils most of his life and donated his entire collection of 3,000 items, appraised at about $1.6 million, to the college.
Early next year, the college will dedicate and name the museum after Brown, who started with a rock collection in middle school and later started collecting fossils.
"It became an obsession and then a passion and now a museum," Brown, retired after a career in investing and financial planning, said Friday. He used to display his fossils at his home and his downtown Charleston office building.
Police approach artist Pyotr Pavlensky sitting on the pavestones of Red Square during a protest in front of the Kremlin wall in central Moscow, November 10, 2013. Pavlensky nailed himself to the pavestones by his genitals as part of an art performance in protest of what he sees as apathy in contemporary Russian society and the possibility such indifference can lead eventually to a police state. The performance coincided with the day when the Interior Ministry honoured its service members.
Photo by Maxim Zmeyev
Disney's "Thor: The Dark World," earning $86.1 million, dominated the weekend box office as it opened domestically at No. 1, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Chris Hemsworth, the Marvel superhero sequel earned $109.4 million when it opened internationally last weekend and brought in $180.1 million globally. Overall, it has grossed $327 million worldwide.
Paramount hidden-camera comedy "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" held the second-place slot at the box office for the second weekend in a row, earning $11.3 million during its third weekend, with a domestic total reaching more than $78 million.
Relativity Media's 3-D animated kiddie flick "Free Birds," soared into third place with $11.2 million in its second weekend.
CBS Films' "Last Vegas," featuring an all-star cast including Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, took fourth place in its second weekend.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Thor: The Dark World," $86.1 million ($94 million international).
2. "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa," $11.3 million ($3.4 million international).
3. "Free Birds," $11.2 million ($1 million international).
4. "Last Vegas," $11.1 million.
5. "Ender's Game," $10.2 million ($4 million international).
6. "Gravity," $8.4 million ($26.3 million international).
7. "12 Years a Slave," $6.6 million.
8. "Captain Phillips," $5.8 million ($7.7 million international).
9. "About Time," $5.1 million ($3.1 million international).
10. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2," $2.8 million ($7.7 million international).
A golden eagle flies during a hunting competition near Kyrgyz village of Bokomdfevo some 270 km (about 168 miles) east of Bishkek, Kyrgyz capital, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013.
Photo by Vladimir Voronin
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