Paul Krugman: On the Non-equivalence of Greenhouse Gases and Entitlement Spending (New York Times)
It seems probable if not certain that we will eventually either have to cut [Social Security] benefits (relative to current law) or raise additional revenue. So the threat, if you like, is that future benefits will fall short of what people now expect. To avert this threat, the usual suspects insist that we must gradually reduce the program's generosity. That is, in order to guard against cuts in future benefits we must … cut future benefits. Huh?
Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On (LA Weekly)
A few nights ago, I'm sitting in a coffee place when a small group of tough-looking men comes in. They have the classic California-lifer hardness about them. Weathered faces, hats that look like they had been worn for years, biker clothes, old tattoos.
Froma Harrop: Aaron Swartz Was Accused of Real Crimes (Creators Syndicate)
The charges, made under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, could have brought Swartz up to 35 years in prison - and, yes, that seemed extreme. However, the feds had indicated that a guilty plea might prompt them to eventually bargain down his sentence to as little as six months …
Andrew Tobias: Minority Rule
Some of our electoral weirdness was baked into the compromise of 1789, which led - preposterously - to Wyoming's half million residents today having as much clout in the Senate as California's 37 million. Seventy times as many people; same number of senators.
Rachel Maddow: Minority Rule
"If a little thing the Republicans are now cooking up for 2016 had been in place a few weeks ago, the President's nearly 5 million vote majority would have resulted not in his winning the Electoral College by 126 votes, as he did, but, rather, in his losing it. Rachel shows how."-Andrew Tobias
Charlie Jane Anders: 10 Decent Movies That Were Doomed by Unfair Memes (io9)
Sometimes a movie sparks everybody's imagination months before it comes out. When a film gets talked about, that's usually a good thing - and it's an even better thing when it becomes the subject of memes and ideas. Unless those memes totally misrepresent what the movie's about, and wind up killing all interest in seeing it. Sometimes, memes can kill.
Letter to the Editor: "They stopped to help a stranger" (Bismarck (North Dakota) Tribune)
I was hit by a drunken driver on Jan. 2. It was dark and the person was going the wrong way on Interstate 94 without headlights on. One lady stopped and called 911, giving me a reassuring hug even though she had to reach through broken glass to do so. Another young lady stated she was a nurse and stayed with me out in the cold.
Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel, respectively. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. The play and novel were inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. Barrie continued to revise the play for years after its debut; the novel reflects one version of the story.
Peter Pan is one of the protagonists of the play and the novel. He is described in the novel as a young boy who still has all his first teeth; he wears clothes made of leaves (autumn leaves in the play, skeleton leaves in the novel). He is the only boy able to fly without the help of fairy dust, and he can play the flute. Peter is afraid of nothing except mothers.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Mothers
Alan J wrote:
Mothers
Adam answered:
Um...Growing Up.
Sally said:
Ques: Peter Pan was afraid of only one thing. What was it?
Ans: Getting caught...
(Couldn't resist...)
Not being a big fan of the Peter, I really don't know. I'd say it's probably of growing up, but who knows...
No, seriously,
Guess it was okay back in the day, on Broadway, when Mary Martin flew in...
PS: It was 28o outside this morning when I went out to get my newspaper. No jacket, just takin' in the fresh air! God, I love it in the cold! I'm just saying...
This is entitled, "Winter Down South!"
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
When Peter thought he was going to die on Marooners' Rock, he felt scared.
DDDDDale of Still Shimmering Springs, CA took the day off.
BttbBob is on a medical LOA TFN.
Uckshmay said:
Peter Pan didn't wanna grow up!
Wayne, near the edge of the civilized world, but not in it: Georgia responded:
Growing up, maybe? True story: Near the middle of the last century I was counselling a troubled young person in his early teens. As part of a psychological evaluation I asked him a routine question, "What is your greatest fear?" I was expecting the answer to be something along the lines of death, disease, loneliness, etc. He was an urban youth. He thought for a moment, then replied, "Snakes." A pause, then he added, "Fish."
MAM wrote:
Mothers
And, Joe S answered:
Mothers. Coincidently, that's the only thing that scares me as well.
I locked my keys in the car today. The car was inside the heated garage so the locksmith only charged me $50.00. It was only 35° but the wind was blowing 40 miles per hour. My son had my spare key, he lives 90 miles away. Getting old is soooo much fun. How does one get a hold of Pete Pan?
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Deception', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Jennifer Lawrence hosting, music by Lumineers.
ABC starts the night with '20/20', followed by the movie 'Blades Of Glory'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux has 'Cops', another 'Cops', and a RERUN'Kitchen Nightmares'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', 'Storage Wars New York', and another 'Storage Wars New York'.
AMC offers the movie 'Predator 2', followed by the movie 'Hulk', then the movie 'Predator'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Rococo
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Ruby Tates
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 11 - Cafe 36
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Runaway Girl
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 9 - The Olde Stone Mill
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Zeke's
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR TOP 40-Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 8
[2:30PM] JACK THE RIPPER: PRIME SUSPECT
[3:30PM] HANNIBAL
[6:00PM] CASINO ROYALE (2006)
[9:00PM] RIPPER STREET-Season 1 - Ep 1 - I Need Light NEW
[10:15PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN-Season 1 - Ep 1 - Giant Water Bug NEW
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 11 - Quentin Tarantino, James McAvoy, Alan Davies, Emeli Sande
[12:00AM] RIPPER STREET-Season 1 - Ep 1 - I Need Light
[1:15AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN-Season 1 - Ep 1 - Giant Water Bug
[2:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 11 - Quentin Tarantino, James McAvoy, Alan Davies, Emeli Sande
[3:00AM] RIPPER STREET-Season 1 - Ep 1 - I Need Light
[4:15AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN-Season 1 - Ep 1 - Giant Water Bug
[5:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 11 - Quentin Tarantino, James McAvoy, Alan Davies, Emeli Sande (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by the movie 'Meet The Parents', then the movie 'Meet The Parents', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Get Him To The Greek', followed by the movie 'Wedding Crashers'.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 2', followed by 'UFC On FX'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Equinox
[8:15AM] Idiocracy
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-Fling in the Ring
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-Goof on the Roof
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges-Income-Tax Sappy
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-Knutzy Knights
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Loose Loot
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-Musty Musketeers
[12:30PM] Breaker Morant
[2:45PM] The Thin Red Line
[6:15PM] Five Fingers
[8:00PM] The Prestige
[10:45PM] Edward Scissorhands
[1:00AM] Bachelor Party
[3:15AM] The Prestige (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Betrayal (Episode 17, Season 1)
[7:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Weekend (Episode 18, Season 1)
[8:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Episode 19, Season 1)
[9:00A] Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
[10:45A] Wendy and Lucy
[12:15P] Mommie Dearest
[2:30P] Coffee and Cigarettes
[4:15P] Wendy and Lucy
[5:45P] Mommie Dearest
[8:00P] High Art
[10:00P] The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
[12:00A] High Art
[2:00A] The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
[4:00A] Park Benches (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Ice Road Terror', followed by the movie 'Tasmanian Devils'.
Actor Gael Garcia Bernal is interviewed at the premiere of "Who Is Dayani Cristal?" during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 in Park City, Utah.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
No joke: Comedian Stephen Colbert's sister is running in earnest for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat.
Campaign manager Bill Romjue said Friday that Elizabeth Colbert-Busch plans to file as a Democrat next week and make a formal announcement. She did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press.
Colbert-Busch will file as a Democrat seeking the vacant 1st District seat. Colbert-Busch is a Charleston native like her brother and development director at the Clemson University Restoration Institute in nearby North Charleston.
One other Democrat and at least 10 Republicans are seeking the seat along South Carolina's south coast.
GOP candidates include former Gov. Mark "Appalachian Trail" Sanford (R-Family Values) who is returning to politics four years after an affair with an Argentine woman was exposed.
Uma Thurman and Arki Busson attend The National Audubon Society's first gala to jointly award the Audubon Medal and the inaugural Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in New York.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Barbra Streisand will add the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Chaplin Award to her roster of honors, in recognition of her achievement as a director, writer, producer and film star, the group said on Friday.
Streisand, who shot to fame in the 1960s on Broadway and as a major recording star, will receive the honor at the 40th Annual Chaplin Award gala in New York on April 22 which will feature celebrity guests and a host of film and interview clips.
The group cited Streisand as the first American woman artist to receive credit as writer, director, producer and star of a major feature film.
It also noted she is the only artist to receive an Academy Award, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America award, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards, France's Legion d'honneur and the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also the first female film director to receive a Kennedy Center honor.
Prince will be honored with an Icon Award during the 2013 Billboard Music Awards.
This year's show will be broadcast live May 19 on ABC from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Prince also will perform on the Don Mischer-produced show, a rare televised appearance for the 54-year-old genre-bending singer whose hits include "Purple Rain," ''1999" and "Kiss."
Actor Susan Sarandon speaks to the media in activist Craig Steven's home in Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania during an "Artists Against Fracking" bus tour of gas drilling sites in upstate New York and Pennsylvania January 17, 2013. Artists and musicians Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon lead the tour to draw attention to what they say are the environmental dangers posed by fracking - the controversial practice of extracting natural gas from shale.
Photo by Laurence Mathieu-Leger
American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan may play a special concert in Wales to mark the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet after whom he may or may not have named himself.
The member of parliament for West Swansea, Geraint Davies, said he had asked Dylan if he would perform in the city as part of a series of commemorative events next year.
"Bob Dylan named himself after Dylan Thomas. I have asked Bob Dylan whether he would be prepared to give a centenary concert in Swansea, in order that he could blend his music with Dylan Thomas's poetry," Davies said in the British parliament on Thursday.
"Sony Music has come back and said that Mr. Dylan is thinking very positively about the idea."
An acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet has shone the spotlight on the fierce "Black Swan" -like competition for starring roles at the famed Russian dance company.
The attack on Sergei Filin could be in retaliation for his selection of certain dancers over others for the prized roles, his colleagues said Friday. They expressed fears that Filin, a 42-year-old former Bolshoi star, could be left partially blind after a masked assailant threw acid in his face as he returned home in Moscow late Thursday.
Filin suffered third-degree burns on his face and underwent eye surgery Friday evening to try to save his sight, Bolshoi spokeswoman Katerina Novikova said. Doctors said his right eye was badly burned and it would not be clear for days whether the operation was a success.
The Bolshoi Theater is one of Russia's premier cultural institutions, best known for "Swan Lake" and the other grand classical ballets that grace its Moscow stage. But backstage, the ballet company has been troubled by deep intrigue and infighting that have led to the departure of several artistic directors over the last few years.
The Bolshoi's general director, Anatoly Iksanov, said he believes the attack was linked to Filin's work.
Tom Brokaw and Bette Midler at The National Audubon Society's first gala to jointly award the Audubon Medal and the inaugural Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in New York.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
The Weinstein Co. has asked a toy maker to discontinue a line of "Django Unchained" action figures after receiving complaints that they were offensive.
The studio said Friday that such collectibles have been created for all of director Quentin Tarantino's films, including "Inglourious Basterds," and that they were meant for people 17 and older, the audience for the film.
"Django Unchained" is a violent mix of spaghetti Western and blaxploitation genres about a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) who becomes a bounty hunter. Civil rights groups argued that the toys trivialized the horrors of slavery.
"We have tremendous respect for the audience and it was never our intent to offend anyone," The Weinstein Co. said in a statement. Toy maker NECA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Students perform in a street dance competition during the 15th Sikhyana festival in Santa Rosa city, Laguna province, south of Manila January 18, 2013. Locals celebrate the Sikhayan festival, a contraction of Filipino words "Sikhay" meaning diligence and "Kabuhayan" for livelihood, to recognize the spirit of enterprise, ingenuity and craftmanship of their people.
Photo by Romeo Ranoco
A foundation working to build a permanent memorial at the site of a deadly 2003 nightclub fire caused by a band's pyrotechnics has asked the lead singer to take the foundation's name off a benefit concert.
The fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick was started when pyrotechnics for the heavy metal band Great White ignited flammable foam that lined the club's walls and ceiling. It killed 100 people and injured more than twice that many. The 10th anniversary is Feb. 20.
The band's lead singer at the time, Jack Russell, announced on Tuesday that he would play a Feb. 7 benefit for the Station Fire Memorial Foundation in a club in Hermosa Beach, Calif., near Los Angeles. Members of the foundation learned of the show Wednesday, Victoria Eagan, the foundation's vice president, told The Associated Press on Friday. Members of the group did not wish to be associated with the event and immediately began working to get Russell to drop his use of its name.
"This is due to the resentment and animosity still felt by many of the families and survivors that our very organization represents," the foundation wrote in a statement. "We feel that the upset caused by his involvement would outweigh the amount of funds raised at this event."
Performers dressed in Lama monk costumes blow horns during a ceremony marking the beginning of a winter fishing festival in Kangping county, Liaoning province, January 18, 2013. The ceremony is a mimic of a Chinese ancient ethnic minority, the ethnic Qidan's sacrificing ritual before their winter fishing. This week-long festival will last till January 25, 2013.
Photo by Sheng Li
From the tombstone of Edgar Allan Poe, one can reach the street by taking a narrow dirt path between two tall stone mausoleums and crouching for a few steps underneath a portion of Westminster Hall.
This was a favorite getaway route for the Poe Toaster, the mysterious man in black who for decades left three roses and an unfinished bottle of Martell cognac at Poe's grave on the birthday of the father of macabre fiction.
The tradition ended four years ago, just as mysteriously, when the visitor failed to appear.
Ahead of Poe's 204th birthday on Saturday, the person who has overseen an annual cemetery vigil since the 1970s talked in detail about the story behind it.
Baltimore native Jeff Jerome revealed a few things, but he claims not to know the answer to the biggest question of all: Just who is or was the Poe Toaster? Jerome himself has become such a prime suspect that he repeatedly denied it, without prompting, during an interview. If he were the toaster, for example, why would he have ended the tradition, given all the publicity it brought to the nearby Poe House and Museum? Jerome was the museum's curator before it was closed by the city last fall.
Armenian equilibrist Anait Seyranyan performs during the opening ceremony of the 37th Monte Carlo International Circus Festival in Monaco, January 17, 2013.
Photo by Lionel Cironneau
It appeared Bono and arachnids didn't mix when his "Spider-Man" musical had a rough Broadway run, but that didn't keep a biologist from naming an actual spider species after the U2 singer.
Jason Bond of Alabama's Auburn University has identified 33 new species of trapdoor spider, including three of them in the California desert at Joshua Tree National Park. The park's namesake is featured in the title and cover of U2's 1987 album, "The Joshua Tree."
The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Bond named two of the spiders after Indian tribes and one, A. bonoi, after Bono.
Bond has named other spider species after Angelina Jolie, Cesar Chavez and Stephen Colbert.
His sister, Clarice Chew, said he suffered a heart attack and died at his Baltimore home Thursday.
Robert Chew grew up in Baltimore and studied music at Morgan State University for two years. His sister said he worked as music director for the Arena Players community theater.
The character Prop Joe was a highly intelligent and ruthless yet polite and diplomatic Baltimore drug lord. Another sister, Maureen Brown, said strangers would approach Chew on the street in Baltimore and tell him what a great job he did in that role.
A Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) eats after a medical examination at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna January 16, 2013. The female Red Panda got a medical ultrasonic examination to control if it is pregnant.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
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