Hans Rollman: "For All Governments: Gendry-Kim's Graphic Novel, 'Grass'" (PopMatters)
The powerful graphic novel Grass documents the atrocities against WWII "comfort women" through the recollections of a survivor. This is an incredibly powerful and urgent work that, frankly, should be read by the governments of all nations that must face, admit to, and begin real reparations for their country's atrocities.
Groucho glasses, also known as nose glasses or the beaglepuss, are a humorous novelty disguise which function as a caricature of the stage makeup used by the comedian Groucho Marx in his movies and vaudeville performances. They typically consist of black frames (either round or horn-rimmed) with attached features including bushy eyebrows, a large plastic nose, bushy moustache, and sometimes a plastic cigar. Considered one of the most iconic and widely used of all novelty items in the world, Groucho glasses were first marketed in the early 1940s and are instantly recognizable to people throughout the world. Although wearing the disguise is highly unlikely to fool friends, they often inspire laughter, and are today often used as a shorthand for slapstick.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Groucho glasses
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Groucho Marx nose and eyebrow and moustache glasses.
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Groucho glasses, because of the resemblance to Groucho Marx.
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Groucho glasses
DJ Useo wrote:
Groucho novelty glasses. I had a really nice pair, once. So nice, people asked for them all the time. Eventually, this young lady with a crush on me swiped them. Typical...
Deborah said:
Had to look this up: A beaglepuss is what we call Groucho glasses - a partial face mask that strongly resembles Groucho Marx's face. I never knew it had another name.
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• In 1950, the grandparents of Matt L'Italien got married. They were DavidRosenthal, a psychologist, and Marcia Kensinger Rosenthal, a nurse. Mr. L'Italien said, "My grandfather was Jewish and she was not, so it made things pretty difficult for them to get together." Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal were in love, and theywrote two love songs together. They were married for 46 years before Mr. Rosenthal died of Alzheimer's in 1996. Mrs. Rosenthal died of the same disease a few years later. Matt's aunt, Amy Rosenthal, discovered an old love letter between the couple. She also discovered the piano sheet music and lyrics of the two love songs the two had written together: "In and Out of Love" and "I'll Never Regret (Loving You)." Unfortunately, no one in the family had the musical skills needed to play the music, so Matt posted the sheet music and lyrics, as well as a plea for help, at the Reddit online community. Matt said, "Reddit really is a place of benevolence. They actively want to help their fellow man."He wrote online,"My family recently found two songs on sheet music written by my late grandparents. Would anyone like to play them for us, so that we may hear them?" Quickly, he received several responses. Some people posted instrumental versions of the two songs, other people sang the two songs without accompaniment, and other people posted versions of the songs with both vocals and accompaniment.Matt, who never knew his grandfather, said about his grandmother,"I'm really happy that I can look back at this music she produced and really bring back that element of character and wit and brilliance that she had."He added,"My aunt who had the sheet music, it's her birthday, and she said it was the best birthday she could ever imagine."
• Henry Rollins journeyed to Southern Sudan in late 2010. About visiting Africa, he writes, "Time spent there forces me to deal with myself on a level that is so in-your-face as it were, that I am always humbled. Anything I have ever strived for seems to be dwarfed by the efforts of people I encounter there in a seemingly endless succession." One example occurred on a bad road when he saw a woman carrying a large, heavy bag of cotton on her back while pushing a bicycle that had a flat tire as a result of an accident. Henry and the people he was with stopped the truck they were in to try to help her. Two of her toes were injured - badly. Mr. Rollins writes, "One of them looked almost cut off behind the cuticle and downward in a very ugly wound. The other toe had lost a fair chunk of flesh at its tip." They treated her with a first-aid kit and with Neosporin and gave her a pair of socks that she could wear over the bandages. Mr. Rollins also gave her the tube of Neosporin and told her to apply it to her wounds every day. They also took her and her bag of cotton and her bike to her destination, which was a long way away. They also learned that she would make that journey several times that day. Mr. Rollins says, "Just another day and another life in Africa. You see this kind of thing everywhere you look. When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much and there's a lot to be done."
your 2/14/20 post on the dresden bombing (reuters) claims the british carried out the bomb attack. in fact, the brits did drop over 2500 tons of incendiary and explosive bombs. however they were joined in the effort to destroy dresden and its population by the u.s. air force, which dropped over 4000 tons of bombs.
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Thanks, TL!
I had never heard of the Dresden firebombing until reading Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 in high school.
Today, the kid pointed me to a couple of links - The Destruction of Dresden, which Vonnegut used as a reference work.
The other link, was about the book's author, David Irving.
Some interesting reading, to say the least.
Still asking why is the media ignoring Lt. Col. Vindman's brother?
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'God Friended Me', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'NHL Hockey', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Eddie Murphy hosting, music by Lizzo.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'The Rookie', followed by another RERUN'The Rookie', then 'Nightline In Prime'.
The CW offers some local crap and some '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'XFL Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ghostbusters II', followed by a FRESH'Seven Worlds, One Planet' (Europe), then the movie 'The Karate Kid'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE MAKING OF PLANET EARTH
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Seasonal Forests
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ocean Deep
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH - From Pole To Pole
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Mountains
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Fresh Water
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Caves
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Deserts
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - The Deep
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coral Reefs
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Big Blue
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Green Seas
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coasts
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - One Ocean
[9:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Europe
[10:29PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coral Reefs
[11:30PM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Big Blue
[12:30AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Europe
[1:59AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - One Ocean
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Green Seas
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Coasts
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - The Deep (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Fifty Shades Of Grey', followed by the movie 'Fifty Shades Darker', then the movie 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Rush Hour 3', followed by the movie 'Rush Hour', then the movie 'Rush Hour 3'.
FX has the movie 'The Proposal', followed by the movie 'The Martian'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Secret Files', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[6:15A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Stranded in Space
[8:30A] The Three Stooges - I'll Never Heil Again
[8:35A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Ant: An Introduction
[9:15A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
[10:00A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Naked Ant
[10:15A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Dinsdale!
[10:30A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Spanish Inquisition
[10:45A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Deja Vu
[11:30A] Underworld: Evolution
[2:00P] Underworld
[4:30P] Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
[6:30P] Predators
[9:00P] Seven Worlds, One Planet - Europe
[10:29P] Predators
[12:59A] Underworld
[3:29A] Underworld: Evolution (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[12:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[12:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[3:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[3:30pm] Mission: Impossible
[6:00pm] Mission: Impossible II
[9:00pm] Seven Worlds, One Planet
[10:29pm] Mission: Impossible II
[1:29am] Mission: Impossible
[4:00am] Law & Order
[5:00am] Law & Order (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Blade II', followed by the movie 'Blade: Trinity'.
In new court filings, Universal Music Group has confirmed that recording masters belonging to 19 different artists, among them Nirvana, Elton John and Sonic Youth, were damaged or destroyed in the 2008 fire at the center of a $100 million lawsuit.
The admission is the first time Universal has publicly confirmed the loss or damage of master recordings. The court papers, filed Thursday, also acknowledge damaged or destroyed masters recorded by Michael McDonald, Beck, R.E.M., Bryan Adams, You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Y&T, David Baerwald, Sheryl Crow, Jimmy Eat World, Les Paul, Soundgarden, Peter Frampton, Slayer, Suzanne Vega, Surfaris, and White Zombie.
Universal said however that at least for Adams, Nirvana, Y&T and Beck, safety copies exist for all the affected recordings.
In June, five plaintiffs - Soundgarden, Steve Earle, the estates of Tom Petty and Tupac and the band Hole - filed the lawsuit against UMG, accusing the label of not adequately protecting the master recordings and misrepresenting the extent of the damage from the fire to affected artists. The lawsuit asserted that affected artists are entitled to 50% of the money UMG received from successful litigation and insurance claims filed after the fire. The suit said the company did not disclose them.
Indeed, the court filings Thursday concern discovery in the case. At dispute is a document UMG filed in 2008 when seeking an insurance settlement for the 2008 fire - the company claimed at least 17,000 recordings were affected. Universal said in the papers that the document listed assets that were "potentially" affected, and the list was not intended to be definitive.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted to revive a decades-old effort to enshrine equal rights for women in the U.S. Constitution, setting up an election-year confrontation that faces long odds of success.
By a vote of 232 to 183, the Democratic-controlled House voted to remove a long-past deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which was first proposed in 1923. The vote fell largely along party lines.
The Republican-controlled Senate also would need to vote to extend the deadline, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said last week that he was "personally not a supporter."
The Trump administration also opposes the measure.
The amendment states in part: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex."
The Grace and Frankie star, 82, opened up about the pressures of keeping up appearances in Hollywood in an interview with Elle Canada published Tuesday, vowing to never get plastic surgery again after admittedly spending years worrying about her looks.
"I can't pretend that I'm not vain, but there isn't going to be any more plastic surgery - I'm not going to cut myself up anymore," she revealed. "I have to work every day to be self-accepting; it doesn't come easy to me."
In her interview with Elle Canada, the Oscar winner explained why she chose to come clean about her plastic surgery regrets.
"I knew that if I really told the truth, it would be universal," she said. "All these issues are universal among women: 'I'm not good enough; I have to please, starting with Daddy; I'm not pretty enough; I'm not thin enough; I'm not smart enough.'"
Britain's Big Ben tower at the Houses of Parliament was more badly damaged by German bombs during World War Two than originally thought, experts said on Thursday, as the bill for its restoration rose by 18.6 million pounds ($24 million).
The 177-year-old tower has been swathed in scaffolding for the past three years as craftsmen refurbish its stonework and famous 12-tonne clock.
Being able to get close to the 315-foot (96m) tower has allowed them to spot other problems like damage caused by pollution and asbestos.
Among other problems, bomb damage inflicted on the tower during the war had been found to be more extensive than first thought.
Although the tower survived Nazi bombing, its roof and dials were damaged in a May 1941 air raid which destroyed the main House of Commons chamber.
Children across the US are using Donald Trump (R-Barbarian)'s rhetoric to bully their classmates, a report has found.
The Washington Post reviewed articles throughout Mr Trump's presidency that reference elementary, middle, or high school bullying and found students using the president's inflammatory statements, which are often described as racist or xenophobic, to bully.
The newspaper analysed 28,000 articles starting from the beginning of 2016 for its research relating to bullying in the classroom. It found Mr Trump's words, chants at his campaign rallies, and even his last name were used by students and staff members to harass other people in more than 300 reported incidents.
Of those incidents, 75 per cent showed inflammatory language relating to Mr Trump directed at students who are Hispanic, Muslim or black.
Claims Mr Trump could be influencing bullying behaviour and racist or xenophobic rhetoric between classmates comes as First Lady Melania Trump has made anti-bullying one of her initiatives while at the White House. The first lady launched her "Be Best" campaign in May 2018. The platform has a broad scope, but included is anti-bullying and cyberbullying objectives. Mrs Trump has never commented on her husband's alleged bullying behaviour.
A 23-year-old man who posted on Facebook, "I don't know why I don't go on a killing spree." A West Palm Beach couple who shot up their home while high on cocaine. A 31-year-old Gulf Coast man who pointed a semiautomatic rifle at a motorcyclist.
All four Florida residents had their guns taken away by judges under a "red flag" law the state passed three weeks after authorities say a mentally disturbed man killed 17 people in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland two years ago Friday.
The law, supported by legislators of both parties , has been applied more than 3,500 times since, with the pace accelerating during the last half of 2019. Even so, an Associated Press analysis of the law showed its use is inconsistent, with some counties and cities using it rarely and others not at all.
Advocates of Florida's red flag measure say before it existed, it was often difficult to remove firearms from those making threats or suffering severe mental breakdowns. Investigators did not act on reports that the Parkland shooter was threatening to carry out a school massacre. But even if they had, it is likely he would have been allowed to keep his guns because he had no felony convictions or involuntary, long-term mental commitments, they say.
Sixteen other states plus the District of Columbia have similar laws, 11 of which were enacted after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting at Stoneman Douglas. President Donald Trump has at times supported a federal proposal, but has not strongly advocated it before Congress.
From Earth's perspective, one of the brightest stars in the sky is the red supergiant Betelgeuse. Found in the constellation of Orion, it's large enough and close enough that when it's destroyed in an inevitable supernova, it will put on a spectacular light show for anyone who happens to be on Earth to see it. So when the star started dimming late last year, speculation rose that the show was about to start.
Because Betelgeuse is so large and so close, it's actually possible to resolve some details of its surface rather than simply seeing it as a point source of light. Some astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory to do just that, and they've found something extremely weird: Betelgeuse's dimming isn't even.
What in the world could be going on here? Betelgeuse has always been a variable star (though far less variable than at present), and there are a couple of potential causes. Both are related to the star's enormous size, which means that its surface layers are only distantly and indirectly related to the fusion reactions that are taking place in its core.
That means the star has only a tenuous gravitational grip on some of its outer layers, which have a lot of heavier elements in them due to Betelgeuse's advanced age. The net result of this is the production of dust-lots of dust. Eventually, that dust will go into seeding heavier elements into newborn exosolar systems, helping produce rocky planets like Earth. But in the meantime, it's still in the area of Betelgeuse, which the European Southern Observatory has helpfully imaged as well. It's possible that the dimming is simply caused by a dense cloud of dust residing between us and the star.
The other possibility is a rough equivalent to sun spots, but on a much, much grander scale. Sun spots are simply cooler portions on the Sun's surface where less of the hot, internal material makes it to the upper levels of the Sun. They're caused by differences in magnetic activity. Obviously, the Sun has never had a sun spot cover so much of its surface, but the Sun operates on a very different scale from Betelgeuse. It's possible that, due to the distance from the core and the area where the star's magnetic field is generated, much larger areas of the surface of Betelgeuse can cool simultaneously.
A species of jellyfish hunts its prey by hurling venom grenades to create "stinging water", researchers said Thursday, solving a long-standing mystery as to how they gather food without tentacles.
The upside down jellyfish (Cassiopea xamachana), found in shallow waters around Florida, the Caribbean and Micronesia, is a frequent nuisance to snorkelers and surfers who appear to get stung without touching the creatures.
It was thought that the stings came from detached tentacles or younger specimens.
But a team from the US Naval Research Laboratory realised that Cassiopea had in fact evolved a novel way of hunting without tentacles.
The creatures lay on their backs and lob globules of venom-enriched mucus into the water overhead.
Huge bacteria-killing viruses lurk in ecosystems around the world from hot springs to freshwater lakes and rivers. Now, a group of researchers has discovered some of these so-called bacteriophages that are so large and so complex that they blur the line between living and nonliving, according to new findings.
Bacteriophages, or "phages" for short, are viruses that specifically infect bacteria. Phages and other viruses are not considered living organisms because they can't carry out biological processes without the help and cellular machinery of another organism.
That doesn't mean they are innocuous: Phages are major drivers of ecosystem change because they prey on populations of bacteria, alter their metabolism, spread antibiotic resistance and carry compounds that cause disease in animals and humans, according to the researchers in a new study, published Feb. 12 in the journal Nature.
To learn more about these sneaky invaders, the researchers searched through a DNA database that they created from samples they and their colleagues collected from nearly 30 different environments around the world, ranging from the guts of people and Alaskan moose to a South African bioreactor and a Tibetan hot spring, according to a statement.
From that DNA, they discovered 351 huge phages that had genomes four or more times larger than the average genome of phages. Among those was the largest phage found to date with a genome of 735,000 base pairs - the pairs of nucleotides that make up the rungs of the DNA molecule's "ladder" structure - or nearly 15 times larger than the average phage. (The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs.)
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