Paul Krugman: Natural Born Drillers (New York Times)
Put it this way: Employment in oil and gas extraction has risen more than 50 percent since the middle of the last decade, but that amounts to only 70,000 jobs, around one-twentieth of 1 percent of total U.S. employment. So the idea that drill, baby, drill can cure our jobs deficit is basically a joke.
Greg Sargent: Is there any limit to Mitt Romney's dishonesty? (Washington Post)
The other day, David Bernstein argued that there's been an "important tipping point" where many national media figures have come to understand that "in the Romney campaign, they are dealing with something unlike the normal spin and hyperbole." Bernstein suggested they are realizing Romney has crossed into groundbreaking levels of dishonesty.
MICHAEL ANN DOBBS: Can 'The Hunger Games' really capture all of Katniss Everdeen? (io9)
But if 'The Hunger Games' seems familiar, that's because it raises questions that our culture needs and wants to explore again, about television, state sanctioned violence, teenage girls and audience perception. And at the heart of these questions is Katniss' struggle to be true to herself inside, even as she faces the two challenges of playing to an audience and fighting for her life.
Paul Lukas: Padres outfitting Little Leaguers (ESPN)
As the Little League season got under way in San Diego last weekend, the game on one field featured the Padres playing the Padres. On the next field over, it was another Padres-Padres matchup, and again on the field next to that one. In fact, throughout most of San Diego's Little League diamonds, it was Padres as far as the eye could see.
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Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. (The exclamation point in "Combat!" was a stylized bayonet.) The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II and stars Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
Don't really feel like starting a war over it
But I think that was Combat.
Alan J said:
Combat!
Charlie wrote:
That would be Rick Jason as Hanley and Vic Morrow as Saunders in Combat!
BttbBob responded:
Starring Vic Morrow and Rick Jason... or Rick Jason and Vic Morrow.
Star billing alternated between Morrow and Jason with every episode so each was top-billed in the opening credits exactly 76 times... Strangely, the infantry division that 'King Company' belonged to was never revealed and the soldiers didn't wear shoulder patches that would indicate which one it was...
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Combat
Adam answered:
I thought so...'Combat!'
Marian wrote:
Combat!
Sally said:
According to the Internets, it was the popular '60s TV show, "COMBAT!"
Since I was then, as I am now, totally against war, I never saw the show...
You see, war has not stopped the nasty rodents, now has it??
PS: I am sitting here, seething. the verdict is in tor the despicable kid, Dharun Ravi, who decided to use a webcam to film his roommate, Tyler Clementi with his male encounter, and show everyone - found NOT guilt on all of the important charges!!! (SPLIT VERDICTS!)
(Clementi then jumped off the freaking George Washington Bridge when he found out what Ravi had done.)
Found guilty for one, 'invasion of privacy' type charge, which will be a slap on the hand!!!
They did get him on, "Biased intimidation" which should get him some jail time... His attorney is still calling the kid, 'immature, not mean!'
His attorney is already filing for appeal!!!
They need to throw the book at this asshole, discourage all such 'pranks' if it was that!
This calls for "Zero tolerance" if it is ever needed, and it is here!!
Sam in Seattle replied:
Hanley & Saunders
were the main characters in Combat! many moons ago
STEPHEN F answered:
The TV show was Combat.
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Note that the exclamation point is a blade!
Rick Jason Vic Morrow Guest star Shecky Greene
Very important part of my youth was devoted to seeing Nazis getting the shit kicked out of them! Kind of funny that I ended up as a draft resister just a few years later!
MAM wrote:
Combat! ~ Aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. (The exclamation point in "Combat!" was a stylized bayonet.) Stared Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders, American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II.
And, Joe S responded:
Really, really, hokey show.
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Dale of Diamond Springs' response to yesterday's trivia question has been added to the archived page.
John Wayne & Frank Shuster appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show 67 times. I thought it would have been the god-awful Shecky Greene or Anna Marie Alberghetti or Senor Wences. The lady in the picture happens to be Amy Schuster, former SNL staff writer and ex-wife of Lorne Michaels. Wayne and Schuster did very heady and witty comedy. Typical Canadians!
CBS fills the night with LIVE'2012 NCAA Basketball Tourney', then fills the left coast with local crap and maybe an old '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Harry's Law', followed by a FRESH'The Firm', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Sir Charles Barkley hosting, music by Kelly Clarkson.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'My Extreme Affliction', then another FRESH'My Extreme Affliction'.
The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'Futurama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'¡Q' Viva! The Chosen'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
AMC offers the movie 'Die Hard With A Vengeance', followed by the movie 'Die Hard'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 5 Sandgate
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 6 Hannah & Mason's
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 1 - Spanish Pavillion
[9:00AM] RUDE AWAKENING: OBESITY
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 2
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR-Episode 5
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 5
[1:00PM] SIX NATIONS RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP (2012)-England v IrelandNEW
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 3
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 4
[5:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-Ep 15 - The OathNEW
[6:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-Ep 16 - Blood on the ScalesNEW
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION-Ep 4 Silicon Avatar
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION-Ep 5 Disaster
[9:00PM] BEING HUMAN-Episode 4NEW
[10:15PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW-Ep 19 - Hugh Grant, David Guetta, Ronnie CorbettNEW
[11:00PM] WOULD YOU RATHER? WITH GRAHAM NORTON-Ep 3 - Alan Cumming, Faith Salie, Scott Adsit, Dave Hill
[11:30PM] KATY BRAND'S BIG ASS SHOW-Episode 3
[12:00AM] BEING HUMAN-Episode 4
[1:15AM] THE EXORCIST
[3:45AM] BEING HUMAN-Episode 4
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE WATERS OF MARS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'T-Rump's Effrontery & Fluffery', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'The Game Plan'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', followed by 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Charlie Sheen'.
FX has the movie 'Hancock', followed by the movie 'Step Brothers', then the movie 'Role Models'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Changeling
[8:15AM] The Uninvited
[10:30AM] The Three Stooges -Loose Loot
[10:55AM] The Three Stooges -Musty Musketeers
[11:20AM] The Three Stooges -Pals and Gals
[11:45AM] The Three Stooges -Pardon My Backfire
[12:10PM] The Three Stooges -Rip, Sew and Stitch
[12:35PM] The Three Stooges -Scotched in Scotland
[1:00PM] FF: A Look at the American Secrets
[1:05PM] Nosebleed
[1:15PM] The Minus Man
[3:45PM] The Changeling
[6:00PM] Don't Answer the Phone
[8:00PM] Se7en
[10:45PM] Se7en
[1:30AM] FF: A Look at the American Secrets
[1:35AM] Love and a .45
[3:50AM] Love and a .45 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Cheryl Hines & Margaret Cho
[6:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - NYPD's Rick Schroder (Episode 7, Season 1)
[7:00A] Sorry, Thanks
[8:35A] Sea Point Days
[10:15A] Freezing
[11:45A] Trolls
[12:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Pilot (Episode 1, Season 1)
[1:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Dancing in the Dark (Episode 2, Season 1)
[2:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Guns and Gossip (Episode 3, Season 1)
[3:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Father Figures (Episode 4, Season 1)
[4:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - The Zit (Episode 5, Season 1)
[5:05P] The Closer You Get
[6:45P] Happy Ever Afters
[8:30P] A Film With Me in It
[10:00P] Alarm
[11:45P] The Wednesdays
[12:00A] The Last Mistress
[2:00A] Bloody Reunion
[3:35A] A Film With Me in It
[5:05A] Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death ...& Insects (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Leprechaun 3', followed by the movie 'Leprechaun's Revenge'.
Actor George Clooney, center, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va, back, and Clooney's father, Nick Clooney, right, are arrested during a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, Friday, March 16, 2012. The demonstrators are protesting the escalating humanitarian emergency in Sudan that threatens the lives of 500,000 people.
Photo by Cliff Owen
The public radio program "This American Life" on Friday retracted a story about what a monologist said he found while investigating Apple operations in China, citing "numerous fabrications."
The show's Friday broadcast will detail inconsistencies in the highly popular Jan. 6 episode that was an excerpt from writer Mike Daisey's critically acclaimed one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," which currently is at the Public Theater in New York.
"We're retracting the story because we can't vouch for its truth," Ira Glass, host of "This American Life," said in a letter posted on the show's website. Spokeswoman Emily Condon said Glass wouldn't take calls for comment until after Friday's episode airs.
"This American Life" said in its statement that staffers asked Daisey for his interpreter's contact information while fact-checking the story and he said the cellphone number he had for her didn't work anymore and he had no way to reach her.
"At that point, we should've killed the story," Glass said in the statement. "But other things Daisey told us about Apple's operations in China checked out, and we saw no reason to doubt him."
Actress Kristen Bell (L) and actor Don Cheadle perform onstage during the UNICEF Playlist with the A-List karaoke benefit event at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, California March 15, 2012.
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
Oprah Winfrey's OWN network is pulling the curtain on "The Rosie Show" after five months on the air.
The show premiered in October to about 500,000 viewers but lost about half that audience within days of its debut.
Recently, it changed the format from taping before a studio audience to a one-on-one interview setting with celebrities such as Kathy Griffin, Chelsea Handler and former Illinois first lady Patti Blagojevich.
A collection of never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe - and their accompanying copyrights - are going up for auction.
Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien says more than 100 images of Monroe will be sold the highest bidders later this month.
The photos come from the estate of Allan "Whitey" Snyder, Monroe's personal makeup artist for 15 years. One image shows Snyder applying makeup to a lingerie-wearing Monroe on the set of "Let's Make Love" in 1960.
Letters, telegrams and a money clip from Monroe to Snyder are also among the lots set to be sold during Julien's Auctions' Hollywood Legends sale on March 31 and April 1. The auction also includes memorabilia from Frank Sinatra, James Dean, Charlie Chaplin and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Actress Molly Sims arrives at the UNICEF Playlist with the A-List karaoke benefit event at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, California March 15, 2012.
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
The comedian Gallagher is expected to be out of a medically induced coma by Saturday after suffering a heart attack in a suburban Dallas bar.
Gallagher's promotional manager, Christine Scherrer, said Friday that the 65-year-old is being slowly taken out of sedation. She says he had two stents replaced after collapsing Wednesday night at Coach Joe's Hat Tricks in Lewisville.
Marc Cummins, the bar manager, says the comedian collapsed in his office about 20 minutes before he was due to go on stage at 9 p.m.
The Supreme Court rejected requests from news organizations Friday for live, televised coverage of this month's historic arguments on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, but agreed to release audio recordings of the proceedings on the same day.
The court will post audio files and transcripts on its website ( www.supremecourt.gov ) within two hours of the end of the proceedings on each of the three days set aside for argument, March 26-28.
The C-SPAN cable network said it would play back the arguments on a broadcast channel and on radio as soon as they are available.
The justices have never allowed cameras inside the courtroom and decided not to make an exception for the health care case, despite what the court called "extraordinary public interest."
British actor Malcolm McDowell and musician Rob Zombie pose by his star after it was unveiled on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California March 16, 2012.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Germany's top federal appeals court ruled Friday that a Berlin museum must return to a Jewish man from the U.S. thousands of rare posters that were seized from his father by the Gestapo, saying that for the institution to keep them would be perpetuating the crimes of the Nazis.
The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe said Peter Sachs, 74, was the rightful owner of the posters, now believed to be worth between euro4.5 million and euro16 million ($6 million and $21 million), and can demand their return from the German Historical Museum.
The ruling appears to bring to an end some seven years of legal battles to have the vast collection of posters dating back to the late 19th century returned.
The case ended up with Karlsruhe court because of the posters' unique and tumultuous journey through more than 70 years of German history, in which they were stolen from Sachs by the Nazis' Gestapo, moved on to the possession of communist East Germany, then to the Berlin museum after reunification.
Not to return the posters "would perpetuate Nazi injustice," the judges wrote. "This cannot be reconciled with the purpose of the Allied restitution provisions, which were to protect the rights of the victims."
A judge has ordered the jury considering whether Nicollette Sheridan was wrongfully fired from TV's "Desperate Housewives" to keep deliberating even though jurors say they are hopelessly deadlocked.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White sent jurors home Friday after they reported the impasse.
The group says it is split eight to four but didn't indicate which side the majority favored. Nine jurors have to agree on a verdict.
The panel says the split hasn't changed since deliberations began Wednesday afternoon.
Rodolphe Burguer of France performs during a drawn concert at the International Festival of Arts (FIA) in San Jose March 15, 2012. Twenty-seven countries are taking part in the international festival which runs until March 25.
Photo by Juan Carlos Ulate
"Valley of the Dolls" might not be coming to the small screen after all.
Tiger LLC -- which represents the estate of "Valley" authoress Jacqueline Susann -- filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment on Thursday, claiming that Fox has no right to turn the landmark lurid novel into at television series.
20th Century Fox Television and Chernin Entertainment are producing the series, which NBC has purchased. "Precious" director Lee Daniels is writing and producing.
"Defendants have been developing, distributing and offering for sale a "Valley of the Dolls" series without Tiger's authorization," the suit reads. "Defendants' unlawful exploitation of Tiger's right, title, and interest in and to 'Valley of the Dolls' constitutes copyright infringement, breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing."
According to the suit, Fox obtained the rights to make the 1967 film adaptation of Susann's novel but waived its rights to make the book into a series.
What was killing all those honeybees in recent years? New research shows a link between an increase in the death of bees and insecticides, specifically the chemicals used to coat corn seeds.
The study, titled "Assessment of the Environmental Exposure of Honeybees to Particulate Matter Containing Neonicotinoid Insecticides Coming from Corn Coated Seeds," was published in the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology journal, and provides insight into colony collapse disorder.
According to the new study, neonicotinoid insecticides "are among the most widely used in the world, popular because they kill insects by paralyzing nerves but have lower toxicity for other animals."
Beekeepers immediately observed an increase in die-offs right around the time of corn planting using this particular kind of insecticide.
Pneumatic drilling machines suck the seeds in and spray them with the insecticide to create a coating before they are planted in the ground. Researchers suspected the mass die-offs could have been caused by the particles of insecticide that were released into the air by the machines when the chemicals are sprayed.
Officials say the Playboy Club at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas will close in June.
No reason was given, and no specific date was set. A statement released Friday by casino and N9NE Group spokesman Larry Fink said the parting was amicable so each could "pursue new brand opportunities in Las Vegas nightlife."
The club at the Palms opened in October 2006, with women dressed in bunnies dealing cards. It represented the first Playboy Club to open since patriarch Hugh Hefner closed the last one in 1988 in Lansing, Mich.
One of the most important religious figures in the world, Pope Benedict XVI, has now joined the ranks of Sting and Madonna in receiving his own personal fragrance from an internationally recognized perfume designer.
The Guardian reports that the religious leader appears to enjoy a second higher calling, that of high fashion. Italian boutique perfume maker Silvana Casoli acknowledges that she has created a custom-made cologne for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church at his request.
Pope Benedict reportedly already has his own tailor-made red shoes and matching panama hats, which the Vatican says are worn out of respect for papal tradition, rather than personal taste.
The custom-blended eau de cologne reportedly mixes the aromas of lime trees, verbena and grass, reflecting Benedict's love of nature. But good luck picking up your own bottle, as Casoli has reportedly entered into a "pact of secrecy" with the religious leader. "I would not ever repeat the same perfume for another customer," Casoli told the Guardian.
Bianca, a female snow leopard, an endangered species, growls in an open air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 15, 2012. Bianca returned to Krasnoyarsk after a three-year-long stay at a zoo in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, to wait for a male snow leopard, which is wanted by employees to help propagate the species, according to zoo representatives.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
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