BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 5 March, 2005
Saturday
5 March, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Weekly Link
Humor Gazette
Inmate #55170-054 (aka Martha Stewart) busted out of the Big House today and is
now holed up at her $16 million mansion in Beford, N.Y., where she will serve
five months under house arrest.
Stewart's next step is to meet with her probation officer Monday morning to
receive an electronic ankle bracelet; she'll then report to her jeweler to have
the plain black monitoring device festooned with diamonds and white gold.
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A CURVE IN THE ROAD
REVEALS THE MEANING OF LIFE
YOU JUST NEVER KNOW
Zen Man
(on the dirt road of life)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Dr. Mark H. Shapiro : The Myths and Realities of Public Employee Pension Plans (The Irascible Professor)
Much of the drive to switch to defined contribution plans is being funded by corporate interests that would prefer to avoid the scrutiny of the large public pension funds.
Paul Krugman: Deficits and Deceit
(Click on "Columns," then on "Deficits and Deceit.)
Four years ago, Alan Greenspan urged Congress to cut taxes, asserting that the federal government was in imminent danger of paying off too much debt.
Matthew Rothschild: Applause for a Kennedy (The Progressive)
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, that is.
Annalee Newitz: Build your TV! (SF Bay Guardian)
As the FCC and the entertainment biz get ready to end home recording as we know it, a bunch of radical geeks are working on a solution or two.
Annalee Newitz: Larry's Taste (AlterNet)
Harvard President Larry Summers' speech does prove something about the status of women in the sciences.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: Dearth of a Nation (Washington Monthly. Posted on Alternet)
America's economy is losing its high-tech competitive edge and Washington hasn't noticed.
Dennis Hensley He's in and he's out (The Advocate)
Openly gay designer Jay McCarroll and Bravo's Project Runway.
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Reader Comment
Re: NBC 'News'
" NBC News twice issued corrections for an erroneous "Nightly News" report that the chief judge for Saddam Hussein's trial had been assassinated.
NBC led its evening newscast with a report Tuesday that Raid Juhi, the chief administrative judge seen in Hussein's July court appearance, had been killed. Actually, it was another judge involved in the trial, Barbweez Mahmood, who had been killed. "
Marty,
This is the yahoo! coverup version.
As Jon Stewart noted, THEY SHOWED THE CHIEF JUDGE'S PHOTO. (Great pains have been otherwise taken to keep his identity secret).
Was it a mistake, or just another Bushliar OUTING of someone threatening the Bush mafia?
The latter, not the former, is the answer.
Paul
Thanks, Paul!
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Purple Gene Reviews
'In the Light of Reverence'
Purple Genes' review of the Documentary Movie "In the Light of Reverence" (2001) Directed by Christopher McLeod:
When I heard that my old girlfriend Julia Butterfly Hill, the infamous California Tree hugger (she lived for 2 years atop a 1000 year old Redwood - defying loggers and death) was hosting a documentary movie about Native American sacred sites at the Grand Lake Theater (famous for their anti Bush marquees) of course I had to go……but primarily because I have always been interested in inspiring, unique and sacred spots…..this documentary movie focuses on the struggle for control of ancient holy grounds by the Lakota, Hopi and Wintu Nations……..
Narrated by Peter Coyote ("E.T. the Extra Terrestrial" - "The Legend of Billie Jean" - "Return of the Living Dead # 4- Necropolis") and Tantoo Cardinal ("Dances with Wolves" - "Black Robe" - "Smoke Signals") I was ready for another depressing and demoralizing journey on the road of Native People getting "Fucked Over"!!!!! Surprise-surprise!!!!! We have a score of 1 draw - 1 win - 1 continuing battle…let me explain…
Before I get into the movie, let me set up the scene……It's a Thursday night in Oakland and I drive over and pick up my sons' baby's' mama and we drive through the remnants of rush hour in the rain to the beautiful Grand Lake Movie House (When "Fahrenheit 9/11" played here the Marquee said "under 18 welcome without a parent!"). The faithful file in slowly and steadily and take their seats. The director of the movie, Christopher McLeod is checking the mike. A couple of the principles from the movie are communing with family and friends. And Julia Butterfly Hill is preparing to M.C. the whole affair……..Start the movie……
"In the Light of Reverence" begins with Devils Tower (Mato Tipila) in the Lakota lands. We see a battle taking place over multi-use of Public Lands. At the request of the Lakota, the Rangers had been asking rock climbers to stay off the tower during the month of June which is a holy time for the Native People to pray and hold ceremonies at the Tower. Cut to the arrogant, asinine rock climbers who say…"This is my mountain too….I want to climb any time I want" .. lawsuit filed marginalizing the Indian Peoples rights to have respect during June and piton wielding pricks scaling the back of mother mountain…..but less and less climbers in the month of June……let's call it a DRAW…..
Next we go to Black Mesa in Arizona, where the Hopi People have been trying to reclaim the precious underground water aquifers that they had regretfully signed away to mining interests years ago. Watching over 3 million gallons of ground water everyday go down a 273 mile gravel strip mine slurry line like shit down a sewer, the Hopi led by Vernon Masayesva sued to stop the practice…claiming that the water level of their sacred springs was disappearing along with all their drinking water…..Vernon announced to the audience that on December 23, 2005, Peabody energy will shut down the slurry line…hopefully forever…….let's call that a WIN….
Fast forward to the McCloud River/Shasta Dam in Northern California….where the Winnemem Wintu, led by Caleen Sisk-Franco, have performed an ancient War Dance to stop the state and federal government from raising the level of the existing up to 200 feet higher…..and destroying many of the last sacred sites of the Wintu…..and fuck up the Salmon run, flood the whole area…more, cost the taxpayers billions and all the water ends up going down to Southern California lawns and Jacuzzis!!!!! There was a great scene of two sensitive Park Rangers explaining to some half-naked new age wanna be Wintu drumming hippies that…..the local Native People find their activities disrespectful and would they please consider…….leaving……
The is an ongoing conflict needs public awareness and support. This small band of very poor and proud people, who are not even federally recognized (they are trying to be) are not just trying to salvage an ancestral site to dance and drum….they are performing a great service to the most sacred thing we still have…..Mother Earth…….Fuck skiing and shopping Malls and concrete streets and billboards and all the civilized bullshit….just an ancient bubbling spring that hasn't changed in thousands of years….that's worth preserving……the battle CONTINUES……………..
Purple Gene gives "In the Light of Reverence" 10 bald eagle feathers out of 10 for showing how Native People are fighting the government….. for all of us!!!!!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Partly cloudy, drizzly night.
The kid has been home sick for the last 2 days - another festival of phlegm. Ack.
Stopped by Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace website,
and when I scrolled down a bit, & looked at the 'coming attractions' on the right side - well, it would seem
someone there can't tell the difference between Larry Elder & Bob Dole.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Wickedly Perfect', followed by a RERUN 'NCIS', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'Law & Order', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Queen Latifah hosting.
The Late, Late 'SNL' is from 1975 with Rob Reiner & Penny Marshall hosting, and John Belushi does Joe Cocker for the first time.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Jerry Maguire'.
The WB here fills the night with 'NBA Basketball', with the Nuggets visiting the Clips.
Faux has the usual 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN fills the night with the movie 'Carrie'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', another 'City Confidential', 'Cold Case Files', and a FRESH 'MI-5'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Blues Brothers', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Animal House', then the movie 'Smokey & The Bandit'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 4;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Escape From Victory;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 11;
[3:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 12;
[4pm] 'Faking It' - Sheep Shearer to Hairdresser;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Devon & New Zealand;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Meeta;
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 2;
[7pm] 'At Home With the Braithwaites' - Episode 3;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 17;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 16;
[9pm] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Patrick Stewart;
[9:40pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 3;
[10pm] 'Murphy's Law' - Convent;
[11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - John Waters/ Edie Falco;
[11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Whoopi Goldberg;
[12am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Patrick Stewart;
[12:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 3;
[1am] 'Murphy's Law' - Convent;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 17;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 16;
[3am] 'So Graham Norton' - John Waters/ Edie Falco;
[3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Whoopi Goldberg;
[4am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Patrick Stewart;
[4:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 3;
[5am] 'Murphy's Law' - Convent;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', followed by the movie 'Mrs. Doubtfire', then the movie 'Mrs. Doubtfire', again.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Comedy Central Presents' (D. C. Benny), another 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', 'Crank Yankers', and 'Drawn Together'.
History has 'Conspiracy?', 'Days That Shook The World', and 'The Little Bighorn: The Untold Story'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'The Vanishing' (1988);
[8AM] 'Zatoichi #15: Blind Swordsman's Cane Sword' (1967);
[9:45AM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[10:15AM] 'Buena Vista Social Club' (1999);
[12PM] 'Trust' (1990);
[1:45PM] 'TBA' (2005);
[3:45PM] 'Buena Vista Social Club' (1999);
[5:30PM] 'In Bad Taste: The John Waters Story' (1998);
[7PM] Short: 'Mocking The Cosmos' (1996);
[7:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #20' (2004);
[8PM] 'IFC In Theaters' (2004);
[8:15PM] 'At The Angelika #94' (2005);
[8:45PM] 'Magnolia' (1999);
[12AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #104' (2005);
[12:30AM] 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' (2002);
[2:30AM] 'Magnolia' (1999);
[5:45AM] Short: 'Blue City' (1996). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Jeepers Creepers', followed by the movie 'Skeleton Man'.
Sundance -
[6:10AM] 'Catching Out' (Documentary);
[7:30AM] 'The Snapper' (Feature);
[9:05AM] 'Anatomy Of A Scene: The Cooler' (Original Production);
[9:30AM] 'Caesar's Park' (Feature);
[10:40AM] 'Don't Tempt Me' (Feature);
[12:30PM] 'Catching Out' (Documentary);
[2PM] 'Shorts Program 112' (Short);
[3PM] 'The Snapper' (Feature);
[4:35PM] 'The Game of Their Lives' Daniel Gordon (Documentary);
[6PM] 'Don't Tempt Me' (Feature);
[8PM] 'Tanner on Tanner: Dinner at Elaine's' (Original Production);
[8:30PM] 'Tanner on Tanner: Boston or Bust' (Original Production);
[9PM] 'Pieces of April' (Feature);
[10:30PM] 'Seeing Other People' (Feature);
[12AM] 'Foxy Brown' (Feature);
[1:35AM] 'Exotica' (Feature);
[3:20AM] 'Fulltime Killer' (World Cinema);
[5AM] 'Shorts Program 112' (Short). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM features five films with Brian Donlevy all night.
[6am] 'Any Number Can Play' (1949);
[8am] 'Key Largo' (1948);
[10am] 'Rachel And The Stranger' (1948);
[11:30am] 'Cartoon Alley #4' (2005);
[12pm] 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964);
[3:15pm] 'The Dirty Dozen' (1967);
[6pm] 'Sinbad The Sailor' (1947);
[8pm] 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek' (1944);
[10pm] 'Stand By for Action' (1943);
[12am] 'Slaughter Trail' (1951);
[1:30am] 'Killer McCoy' (1947);
[3:30am] 'An American Romance' (1944). (ALL TIMES EST)
Sunday - 03/06
TCM:
[6:00 am] 'On An Island With You' (1948);
[8:00 am] 'Flipper' (1963);
[10:00 am] 'Two Weeks With Love' (1950);
[12:00 pm] 'Picnic' (1955);
[2:00 pm] 'Come September' (1961);
[4pm] 'Charade' (1963);
[6pm] 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek' (1944);
[8pm] 'The Tarnished Angels' (1957);
[10pm] 'Intruder In The Dust' (1949);
[12am] 'Lorna Doone' (1922) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'Death Takes a Holiday' (1934);
[3am] 'Vagabond Lady' (1935);
[4:15am] 'Married Before Breakfast' (1937);
[5:30am] 'MGM Parade Show #31' (1956). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Britain's Ian McShane, a cast member of HBO's 'Deadwood', arrives for the second season premiere of the television series at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California March 3, 2005.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
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Gives DJs an Earful
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton was being honored with a career achievement award, but it was her own brutally honest take on radio's role in her career that left the audience laughing at the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame dinner, held March 1 in Nashville.
Parton, who has sold millions of records but gets little airplay anymore, told radio programmers, "I think of country radio like a great lover. You were great to me. You bought me a lot of nice things, and then you dumped my ass for younger women."
When RCA Label Group chairman Joe Galante jumped onstage to present Parton with a plaque in recognition of the more than 24 million albums she sold while signed to RCA, Parton said, "Joe Galante and these DJs (being honored) did more for country music than Bob Dole did for Viagra."
Dolly Parton
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U.S. pop star and actress Gwen Stefani accepts a bouquet of flowers from Italian TV host Paolo Bonolis during the Festival di Sanremo Italian Songs contest, in San Remo, Italy, Friday, March 4, 2005. Gwen Stefani is one of the international guest stars featured in the show.
Photo by Luca Bruno
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Papers Drop 'Boondocks'
'N' Word
The Miami Herald will be among the newspapers dropping "The Boondocks" Friday and Saturday because of the comic's implied use of the "n" word.
"It's our view that the strips and the language in the strips would be offensive to at least a portion of our readership and perhaps a significant portion of our readership," Tom Fiedler, the Herald's executive editor, told E&P today. One factor that entered into the decision, he added, is that some readers may not know that "The Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder is black. So, Fiedler said, some readers may think a white cartoonist is using the racially insensitive word.
The Herald will run substitute installments of "The Boondocks." Universal Press Syndicate said subs were also requested by The Boston Globe for both days and by the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman for Friday.
'N' Word
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GOP Adviser Dies at Carrie Fisher's Home
R. Gregory Stevens
Republican media adviser R. Gregory Stevens, recently co-chairman of the Bush/Cheney Entertainment Task Force, died in a guest room at the home of longtime friend and actress Carrie Fisher. He was 42.
Stevens, an associate with the Washington lobbying group Barbour Griffith & Rogers, specialized in foreign campaign consulting and has advised candidates in 24 international elections, according to his biography on the Barber Griffith & Rogers Web site.
During last year's Bush for President campaign, Stevens served as co-chairman of the Bush/Cheney Entertainment Task Force and managed the campaign's relationships with key entertainment industry leaders and film, television and music celebrities.
He served as director of Entertainment Outreach for the 2001 Presidential Inaugural Committee, where he recruited and directed celebrity involvement on behalf of resident Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
R. Gregory Stevens
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$2M Settlement
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was seriously injured in a 2002 car crash, has settled her lawsuit against the driver for $2 million, her attorney said Friday.
Gabor, 88, suffered broken bones in the November crash and received stitches to close wounds to her head, hands, arms and legs. The film and television actress was a passenger in the front seat of a car that struck a light pole on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. The car was driven by her hairdresser, Jaren Millard, who suffered minor injuries.
Gabor is now partially paralyzed and uses a wheelchair, her attorney said. She spent months recovering from her injuries before returning to her Bel-Air home last year.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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A display at Wolf Creek Gallery celebrates Martha Stewart's release from the Alderson Federal Prison Camp Friday, March 4, 2005 in Alderson, W. Va. Martha Stewart was released from the prison early Friday.
Photo by Kiichiro Sato
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Flashes MTV Audience in Sydney
Anna Nicole
Anna Nicole Smith has pulled a Janet Jackson - but this time Justin Timberlake was nowhere to be seen.
At the inaugural Australian MTV Music Awards in Sydney on Thursday, the former Playboy model spoofed Jackson's Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction." While presenting an award on stage, Smith pulled down her dress to reveal both breasts, each covered with the MTV logo.
Anna Nicole
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Not His Brother's Keeper
Mel Gibson
A homeless man, who wrote letters to Mel Gibson claiming God had sent him to pray with the director of "The Passion of the Christ," was found guilty on Friday of stalking Gibson.
A seven-man, five-woman jury deliberated less than three hours before finding Sinclair guilty of other charges that he violated a restraining order barring him from contacting Gibson.
Sinclair wrote Gibson a series of 12 letters, in which he said he had spent time in mental health facilities and been in prison for more than two years for stalking a woman.
Mel Gibson
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Some of the 149 new commemorative bricks with the names of the fallen soldiers were laid today in anticipation of the 60th anniversary of Iwo Jima, at the Pacific War Memorial on Marine Corp Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. March 4, 2005. About 40 of the 149 bricks bear the names of Marines and sailors who have been killed in Iraq while serving with the Kaneohe-based 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.
Photo by Lucy Pemoni
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Suing Music Publisher
Cher
Singer and actress Cher is suing Warner/Chappell Music Inc. for breach of contract on claims that it failed to pay royalties estimated at more than $250,000 US.
The other plaintiffs include Chastity Bono, the daughter of Cher and her late husband Sonny Bono, and Christy Bono, Bono's daughter from his first marriage.
Other plaintiffs include Mary Bono-Baxley, Sonny's widow, who has since remarried, and her children Chianna and Cesare Bono.
Cher
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Right to Name New Species Sells for $650G
Monkey
The right to name a new species of monkey sold Thursday for $650,000 in an online auction, with the funds going to protect the Bolivian habitat where the species lives, the Web site that handled the sale said.
The winning bidder, who outbid Ellen DeGeneres, chose to remain anonymous for now, said Kelly Fiore, director of business development for the New York-based auction venue, Charity Folks.
The species of titi monkey - which is about a foot tall and has a brown body, a golden crown, orange cheeks and a white-tipped tail - was discovered by a Wildlife Conservation Society scientist in Madidi National Park in Bolivia last year, the conservation society said. The term "titi monkey" describes about 30 species of monkeys found in South America.
Monkey
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In this photo released by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is shown an 18-sided die from the Han Dynasty (206-220 B.C.), used for a board game for two called liubo, wildly popular in China between B.C. 200 and 220 A.D. The die is made of bronze and inlaid with gold, silver, turquoise, agate, and rock crystal. This game and dozens of others are illustrated in a show called 'Asian Games: The Art of Contest,' which opened Feb. 27, 2005, at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington.
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Rare Find In Basement
Sports Cards
Couple
A search for a water leak resulted in a rare find for a Michigan couple. Hidden in the basement ceiling of their home, Barbara and Harley Earl found tobacco cards from 1910-11 that could fetch thousands at an auction this weekend.
Barbara Earl, 55, thought she heard water dripping two summers ago, so she told her husband to take a look. When he inspected the basement with a flashlight, he discovered a box in the rafters, unnoticed for the 20 years they had lived in the home.
When the Earls opened the box, they found more than 300 Sweet Caporal cigarette cards. About 200 of the cards featured baseball players from 1910, including multiple copies of Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson.
Sports Cards
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Festival Honors Frozen Dead Guy
"Grandpa" Bredo Morstoel
Over the last three years, the cryogenically frozen body of a Norwegian man has become the centerpoint of a quirky winter festival in a small Colorado mining town.
"Grandpa" Bredo Morstoel, who died in 1989, was frozen by his grandson and stored in a shed in Nederland, a town 35 miles northwest of Denver that began celebrating "Frozen Dead Guy Days" in 2002 to increase tourism.
Now the man's daughter, 75-year-old Aud Morstoel, is hoping Norway's King Harald V and Queen Sonja will help her secure a visa to attend the festival. The royal couple also have been invited by Nederland's Chamber of Commerce to visit and "partake in the fun and parody of the weekend."
"Grandpa" Bredo Morstoel
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Devotees of the Grim Reaper participate in a protest in Mexico City, Friday, March 4, 2005. Praying to the statue of the Grim Reaper and collecting faithful across the country, a small religious sect that worships death is now fighting the Mexican government for recognition
Photo by Marco Ugarte
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America By The Numbers
No. 1?
No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American." We're an "empire," ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:
The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).
The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).
"U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower" (The European Dream, p.81).
Been to Mexico lately? Does it look "developed" to you? Yet it's the only "developed" country to score lower in childhood poverty.
For a lot more, No. 1?
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Cat Survives 10-Mile Trip
Cuddle Bug
Torri Hutchinson's cat might just have one less life to live. Hutchison was driving along Interstate 15 one day recently when a motorist kept trying to get her attention and pointing to the roof of her car.
She had driven about 10 miles with the cat on top of the car, and didn't even notice the feline when she stopped for gas.
Hutchinson said Cuddle Bug, or C.B. for short, had climbed into the back of her car as she was getting ready to leave. She put him out, but he must have jumped on the roof while she wasn't looking, she said.
Cuddle Bug
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Meercats stand under a heating lamp to warm-up during a cold winter morning in Cologne's Zoo March 4, 2005.
Photo by Ina Fassbender
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