Paul Krugman: The New Voodoo (New York Times)
This was a year of spectacular hypocrisy. From politicians (mainly Republicans), that meant you got your money for nothing and your tax cuts for free.
Froma Harrop: New Soldiers In The Fight Against The Drug War (Creators Syndicate)
Profound thanks are due televangelist Pat Robertson for stating so clearly what many of us have been screaming in the wilderness for years - that the criminalization of marijuana is a plague on young people. May he lend courage to politicians who know better but won't do the right thing for fear of seeming "soft" on drugs.
Jim Hightower: The Rich Versus the Rest of Us
Apparently, you and I owe an apology to the extravagantly-rich in our society. They're reported to be in a deep pout and a political funk because We the People have hurt their feelings.
Remarks of President Barack Obama at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
And the last person I spoke to was a young woman from Dallas, Texas. Her name is Amy Chyao, and she's sixteen years old. Her parents came to the United States from China, and Amy was born here. When she was a freshman in high school, she studied biology and became interested in cancer research. So after teaching herself chemistry over the summer, she designed a device that uses light to kill hard-to-reach cancer cells while leaving the healthy ones untouched. At 16 years old.
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
Well, then, Poll-Fans... Let's do our own '2010 Year in Review' thing, eh?
Be-damn'd to all those other corporate media lists, I'm sayin'... I'm thinkin' we can do it better, Dagnabbit! (Or, at least have us some more fun at it and all...)
Everything and everybody is fair game... People, events, TV shows, Movies, Books, Music, Weather, inanimate objects... you get the idea, right?
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is an American soap opera parody that aired in syndication from January 1976 to May 1977. The series was produced by Norman Lear, directed by Joan Darling and starred Louise Lasser. The series writers were Gail Parent and Ann Marcus.
The show's title was the eponymous character's name stated twice, because Lear and the writers believed that everything that was said on a soap opera was said twice.
The series took place in the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio. Although there is a real Fernwood, Ohio, in the United States (located in Jefferson County, Ohio), the town in the series was not based on it, but was instead named for Fernwood Avenue, which runs behind the KTLA/Sunset Bronson Studios where the show taped.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
Ethnic immigrants and hillbillies, it would have to be Ohio (Fernwood to be exact).
Michael in Port Saint Lucie, FL said:
Marty, Off the top of my head I think it was set in Fernwood, Ohio as this was where the offshoot Fernwood Tonight was set.
Alan J wrote:
Ohio, Ohio
Adam answered:
Hmmm...Ohio, I think.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Set in fictional Fernwood, Ohio
Charlie responded:
Ohio
Sally said:
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the readers here!!
May you have a blessed 2011, and all of your dreams come true!
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was set in Fernwood, Ohio! God, I loved that show!
My son was born on January 24, 1976, and NEVER slept! Mary and I spent many a night (she on the TV, and me walking the screaming child in front of it) together. It was a sorely needed oasis for me, and I shall never forget that show!
Mary and the family.
How 70s, huh?
Don't you just love it though?? :)
TTFNY'sE 2010,
PS: Shout out to JoeS! What an ordeal for you and Carla at the Emergency Room (and with Doogie Howser, MD). I have this great book entitled, "Listening to Your Own Body," that tells you that most people have that 'inner knowledge' about THEIR OWN BODY and know when something is out of whack! I wish every GD doctor in the country would read a copy! Hang tough, Joey and Carla!
George M replied:
As I recall, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" was set in Ohio - to be exact, the ridiculous little town of Fernwood, Ohio.
The series ran under that name for two seasons, then, when star Louise Lasser left the program, it continued for another season as "Forever Fernwood".
MAM wrote:
Ohio is where 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' is set.
A Happy New Year to Marty and all BartCop E fans and readers!
Marian replied:
Ohio
And, Joe S answered:
Ohio. Fernwood, Ohio. I loved that show.
If you're a big fan of the Rose Parade, KTLA 5 offers a live feed, with no commercial interruptions, starting at 6am (pst) and wrapping up around 10-ish.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by '48 Hours', and another '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Law & Order: LA', followed by another RERUN'Law & Order: LA', then a RERUN'Law & Order: SVU'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Jon Hamm hosting, music by Rihanna.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'V', followed by another RERUN'V', then another RERUN'V'.
The CW here regurgitates the '2011 Tournament Of Roses Parade' for the 4th or 5th time today.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has all 'Dog The Tancredo-Loving Racist Bounty Hunter' all night.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide
[7:00 AM] Doctor Who - 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[8:00 AM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[9:00 AM] Doctor Who - 3 - Victory of the Daleks
[10:00 AM] Doctor Who - 4 - The Time of Angels
[11:00 AM] Doctor Who - 5 - Flesh and Stone
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - 6 - Vampires in Venice
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - 7 - Amy's Choice
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - 8 - The Hungry Earth
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - 9 - Cold Blood
[4:00 PM] Doctor Who - 10 - Vincent and The Doctor
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - 11 - The Lodger
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - 12 - The Pandorica Opens
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - 13 - The Big Bang
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
[9:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 1
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - New Year's Eve Show - Louis Walsh, Alan Davies, Eliza Doolittle
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
[12:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 1
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - New Year's Eve Show - Louis Walsh, Alan Davies, Eliza Doolittle
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
[3:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 1
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - New Year's Eve Show - Louis Walsh, Alan Davies, Eliza Doolittle
[5:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 - Martin Sheen and Ed Byrne (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by the movie 'The Green Mile', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Superhero Movie', followed by the movie 'Good Luck Chuck'.
FX has the movie 'Superbad', followed by the movie 'Pineapple Express', '2½ Men', and another '2½ Men'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Hooked: Illegal Drugs And How They Got That Way', 'Marijuana: A Chronic History'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[6:30 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[7:00 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[7:30 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[8:00 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[8:30 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[9:00 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[9:30 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[10:00 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[10:35 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[11:05 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[11:40 AM] The Larry Sanders Show
[12:15 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[12:45 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[1:15 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[1:45 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[2:15 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[2:45 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[3:15 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[3:45 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[4:15 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[4:50 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[5:20 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[5:55 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[6:30 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[7:00 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[7:30 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[8:00 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[8:30 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[9:00 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[9:30 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[10:00 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[10:30 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[11:05 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[11:35 PM] The Larry Sanders Show (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] Instead of Abracadabra
[6:30 AM] Pleasure Of Being Robbed
[7:45 AM] The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
[9:30 AM] A Girl Cut In Two
[11:30 AM] Pleasure Of Being Robbed
[12:45 PM] The Darjeeling Limited
[2:30 PM] A Girl Cut In Two
[4:30 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Hangs With the Cool Kids (Episode 9, Season 1)
[5:00 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 10, Season 1)
[5:30 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 11, Season 1)
[6:00 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Shines Under Stress (Episode 12, Season 1)
[6:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[7:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[7:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[8:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[8:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
[9:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
[9:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Out of the Closet (Episode 7, Season 1)
[10:00 PM] Public Sex
[12:00 AM] Highwaymen
[1:35 AM] Inland Empire
[4:40 AM] Pleasure Of Being Robbed
[5:55 AM] In A Day (ALL TIMES EST)
Facebook surpassed Google for the first time as the most visited website in the United States for most of 2010.
The social network site edged out Google.com with 8.9 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010, while Google.com ranked second with about 7.2 percent of all visits, according to online measurement service Experian Hitwise.
Facebook's move to the top spot shows just how quickly the site has grown in popularity. Within the span of six years, Facebook has become the world's largest Web social network with roughly half a billion users worldwide.
Google.com dominated the top spot as the most visited website in the United States in 2009 and 2008. News Corp's MySpace was the No. 1 visited website in 2007. It is ranked No. 7.
Maestro Franz Welser-Moest conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with a trainman's trowel during the New Year's Eve Concert 2010 in Vienna's"Goldener Musikvereinsaal" ahead of the New Year's concert on January 1, in Vienna December 31, 2010.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
This story might be epic, and could even go viral, but not if Lake Superior State University has anything to do with it. Just sayin.'
The small college in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, released on Friday its annual list of "banished words" -- terms so overused, misused and hackneyed they deserve to be sent to a permanent linguistic trash can in the year ahead.
Runners-up included "epic" and "fail," often twinned to describe a blunder of monumental proportions.
Cliched terms such as "wow factor," "a-ha moment," "back story" and "BFF" (Best Friends Forever) rated highly. The very au courant use of "Facebook" and "Google" as verbs got a thumbs down as well.
In one of his last official acts - or non-acts - before leaving office, New Mexico's governor refused to pardon Old West outlaw Billy the Kid Friday for one of the many murders he committed before he was gunned down in 1881.
Gov. Bill Richardson cited ambiguity surrounding the pledge of a pardon 130 years ago as the reason.
The prospect of a pardon for the notorious frontier figure drew international attention to New Mexico, centering on whether New Mexico territorial governor Lew Wallace promised Billy the Kid a pardon in return for testifying about killings he witnessed.
Richardson concluded Wallace did make a deal, "but it's uncertain why he did not keep his promise," said the former U.N. ambassador and Democratic presidential candidate.
He said he could not pardon Billy the Kid given that ambiguity and the fact he killed two deputies when he escaped in April 1881 from the Lincoln County jail, where he was awaiting hanging for the 1878 killing of Sheriff William Brady.
A shaman looks through a pile of coca leaves to divine the future of Bolivian President Evo Morales and his government in El Alto December 31, 2010. TheBolivian government's decision to slash fuel subsidies -- sending prices soaring by as much as 83 percent after being announced on Sunday -- has sparked outrage in a country rich in natural gas, landing Morales with one of the biggest crises of his five years in power.
Photo by David Mercado
The Discovery television network on Friday said it canceled plans to air a reenactment of the autopsy on Michael Jackson's body, citing an upcoming court hearing and concern by the late pop star's estate.
The show, "Michael Jackson's Autopsy: What Really Killed Michael Jackson," had been set to air in several countries of western Europe and in the United Kingdom on January 13.
"Given the commencement of legal proceedings beginning next week, and at the request of Michael Jackson's estate, the scheduled broadcast of the medical documentary related to Michael Jackson's official autopsy has been postponed indefinitely," Discovery Networks International said in a statement.
A print advertisement for the program shows a body covered by a sheet, with one hand poking out wearing the singer's well-known sequined glove.
Christina Wilson was getting her 4-year-old son up from a nap and bringing him in to listen to a compact disc his grandparents had given him for Christmas when her husband stopped her - he thought he heard something inappropriate.
Then Wilson listened to the "Kids Favorites" CD out of her son Caiden's earshot and heard the profanity.
The CD cover shows four smiling young children surrounded by balloons looking up at the camera. On the back it reads: "Your kids will love these versions of today's biggest hits, reinterpreted especially for them." The CD contains versions of some well-known songs, including "Pump It," originally recorded by the Black Eyed Peas, "Ugly," originally recorded by Bubba Sparxxx and ""Stickwitu," originally recorded by The Pussycat Dolls.
Wilson said she assumed the children pictured on the CD would be singing, but the voices on the recording belong to adults. At least two of the songs contain profanities and others aren't suitable for children, she said.
A man lights a firecracker called "Judas Belt" to celebrate New Year festivities in Baclaran town, Paranaque city, metro Manila December 31,2010. Philippines' Department of Health said in a report released Tuesday it has launched an all-out war against the sale of fireworks due to injuries. Since December 28, a total of 173 fireworks-related injuries have been reported, of which, 48 percent were caused by Judas Belt.
Photo by Romeo Ranoco
Republican Joe Miller is ending his fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Miller's decision, announced Friday at a news conference in Anchorage, comes one day after the state certified Murkowski as the winner.
He had the option of appealing a federal judge's ruling or lodging a formal contest to the election results. While he said he believes he is right about the law, he said it was "very unlikely" an appeals court would side with him and that he had to accept "practical realities."
Three courts ruled against Miller, who argued the state's handling of the election and vote count for Murkowski was not in line with the law.
Miller has not called Murkowski to congratulate her on the win, said his spokesman, Randy DeSoto. To say that she'd won it fair and square, DeSoto said, "is not in his thinking."
In this humid, lush region where an important part of the world's breakfast is born, the evidence of climate change is - literally - a weak tea.
Growers in tropical Assam state, India's main tea growing region, say rising temperatures have led not only to a drop in production but to subtle, unwelcome changes in the flavor of their brews.
The area in northeastern India is the source of some of the finest black and British-style teas. Assam teas are notable for their heartiness, strength and body, and are often sold as "breakfast" teas.
"Earlier, we used to get a bright, strong cup. Now it's not so," said L.P. Chaliha, a professional tea taster.
Rajib Barooah, a tea planter in Jorhat, Assam's main tea growing district, agreed that the potent taste of Assam tea has weakened.
BBC documentary cameras are no match, it turns out, for the destructive curiosity of your average polar bear. Producers of the BBC show "Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice" thought they could outwit their documentary subjects on the Arctic islands of Svalbard by concealing weather-resistant high-tech cameras inside casings that mimicked the look of ice floes and other snow formations. The idea, apparently, was to capture the unguarded rounds of polar bear life in the species' natural habitat, in the general style of the successful Animal Planet franchise "Meerkat Manor."
But the inquisitive bears weren't taken in by the ruse. The cameras were designed to survive in temperatures as low as -40 degree Celsius, but once they came in the sights--and more important, the grip--of wandering polar bears, they were soon clawed, gnawed and crushed into state of total dysfunction. The heroic cameras in some instances caught the moment of their own demise
Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who's who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America's first permanent English settlement.
The white clay pipes - actually, castoffs likely rejected during manufacturing - were crafted between 1608 and 1610 and bear the names of English politicians, social leaders, explorers, officers of the Virginia Company that financed the settlement and governors of the Virginia colony. Archeologists also found equipment used to make the pipes.
Researchers believe the pipes recovered from a well in James Fort were made to impress investors and the political elite with the financial viability of the settlement. They are likely the rejects that failed to survive the ceramic firing process in a kiln.
The find comprises more than 100 pipes or fragments. More than a dozen are stamped with diamond shapes and inscribed with the names or initials of luminaries including explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, who dispatched the colonists to the territory he named Virginia. He also is credited with popularizing tobacco in England and is said to have smoked a pipe just before being executed for treason in 1618.
Other names include Capt. Samuel Argall, a major Virginia Company investor and governor of Virginia; Sir Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral of England; and Earl of Southampton Henry Wriothesley, a Virginia Company official who was also William Shakespeare's major patron.
A Meishan pig digs in the snow at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The Tierpark presents a Meishan pig as the good luck pig for the new year 2011. In Germany the pig is a traditional symbol for good luck at the beginning of a new year.
Photo by Markus Schreiber
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