Paul Krugman and Bad Faith (New York Times)
Nobody knows what the Supreme Court will decide with regard to the Affordable Care Act. But, after this week's hearings, it seems quite possible that the court will strike down the "mandate" - the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance - and maybe the whole law. Removing the mandate would make the law much less workable, while striking down the whole thing would mean denying health coverage to 30 million or more Americans.
Ted Rall: Handicapped
By the time they head to the polls this fall, voters' brains will be drowning in months of hundreds of millions of dollars of slick, demographically targeted, pro-Romney attack ads. Republican campaigns are more effective at this sort of thing, and as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum can attest, Romney's consultants pull no punches. Obama's current lead will be a faded memory.
Isaac Asimov weighs in with enduring insights on science, faith, and the future (Video with Bill Moyers)
… a brief but compelling excerpt from an interview with SF-giant Isaac Asimov. Originally aired in 1988, the conversation touches on such topics as the future of creativity in education, the necessity for scientific inquiry, and the vilification of intellectualism. It is absolutely incredible how many of the interview's topics, and Asimov's points, are as relevant today as they were 24 years ago.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
On Palm Sunday, Russian Orthodox, Bavarian and Austrian Roman Catholics, and various other Eastern European peoples carry
branches of _____?_____ in place of palms.
In the summer of 1964, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters took a lengthy road trip across the US in a psychedelic school bus. What was the name of the bus?
The Merry Pranksters were a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and sometimes lived communally at his homes in California and Oregon. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs. Their motto was Never Trust a Prankster.
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus enigmatically and variably labeled "Further" or "Furthur." Their early escapades were chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Further
Charlie wrote:
Further.
The journey is discussed in the Tom Wolfe's famous Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, which I did enjoy reading, though Wolfe is politically execrable.
See also the following excellent book:
Adam answered:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
STEPHEN F responded:
I am going to guess tha name was 'Further".
Marian replied:
Further
Jim from CA, retired to ID took the day off.
Sally said:
In the summer of 1964, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters took a lengthy road trip across the US in a psychedelic school bus.The correct name of both of Ken Kesey's buses is Further.
Those were the days my friend...
PS: The other day, I was telling my grand kids that I remember when the use of 'zip codes' started in the 1960's. They looked at me as if I were from the ice age, just come back too life. The precious g/s says, "That's old, gamma..." He's not so precious anymore... KIDDING! (He will always be the apple of my eye!)
PPS: JoeS, I went grocery shopping yesterday, and am trying your Tamale Pie over the WE. Bought everything, save the hot sauce - and am using stew beef instead of the sirloin. If I don't post on Sunday, you'll know why... (Does sound good though...)
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Furthur was the name of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters bus. I had an older sister that tripped with these guys off and on in 65 & 66. She went to the first Acid Test in October of 1965 at Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco. The Dead at those shows were still the Warlocks. I got flashed at a Grateful Dead and Quicksilver show at the Avalon Ballroom in August of 1966. Acid and Revolution didn't mix well so I went on a Natural Binge after a while. I can't believe that the 1st few times that I imbibed it was legal!!!!
It has been a long, strange and amazing life for me
JAC J responded:
Furthur.
Ted said:
Are you on the bus?
Further, as featured in the book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
MAM wrote:
"Furthur"
Kesey and his Merry Pranksters out on the road in and on "Further"
Ken Kesey circa 1979, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
PS Running late . . . bad thunderstorms up and down our valley. Turned the 'puter off!
Tom replied:
I believe it was: Further
This was not a google search as I absolutely loved that book and indeed inspired me to travel many moonlight miles.
Tom Loud )O( Yer Friendly Neighborhood Folksinger (Entertainment Workers Industrial Union 630) said:
Painted across the front was the name "Further"
And, Joe S answered:
Furthur
Ahh, those were the days my friend.
Marine layer kept the sun at bay for most of the day.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS fills the night with LIVE'March Madness: The Final 4 - 2012 NCAA Basketball Tourney', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Numb3rs'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Escape Routes', followed by a FRESH'The Firm', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Katy Perry hosting, music by Robyn.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', 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 'American Dad', followed by another old 'American Dad'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'¡Q' Viva! The Chosen'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars Texas', another 'Storage Wars Texas', 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', 'Parking Wars', and another 'Parking Wars'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED-Ep 4 Bonapartes
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 1 - Mojito's
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 6 Seascape
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 3 Sebastian's
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 2 - Classic American
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 2
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 3
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 4
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 5
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11-Episode 4
[5:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-Ep 19 - Someone to Watch Over Me NEW
[6:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-Ep 20 - Islanded in a Stream of Stars NEW
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION-Ep 9 A Matter of Time
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION-Ep 10 New Ground
[9:00PM] BEING HUMAN-Episode 6 NEW
[10:15PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW-Ep 6 - Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Sarah Millican, James Corden, Lenny Kravitz NEW
[11:00PM] KATY BRAND'S BIG ASS SHOW-Episode 5 NEW
[11:30PM] KATY BRAND'S BIG ASS SHOW-Episode 6 NEW
[12:00AM] BEING HUMAN-Episode 6
[1:15AM] THE X-FILES-Ep 21 Tooms
[2:15AM] THE X-FILES-Ep 22 Born Again
[3:15AM] THE X-FILES-Ep 23 Roland
[4:15AM] THE X-FILES-Ep 24 The Erlenmeyer Flask
[5:15AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW-Ep 6 - Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Sarah Millican, James Corden, Lenny Kravitz (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'T-Rump's Effrontery & Fluffery', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'National Treasure: Book Of Secrets'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Office Space', followed by the movie 'Jackass Number Two', and 'Gabriel Iglesias: Hot & Fluffy'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', followed by the movie 'Iron Man'.
History has 'Only In America With Larry TCG', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', and yes, yet another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Cup
[8:00AM] Jump Tomorrow
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-A-Plumbing We Will Go
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-Back to the Woods
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges-Beer Barrel Polecats
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-Boobs in Arms
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Booby Doops
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-Busy Buddies
[12:30PM] Nosebleed
[12:40PM] FF: Scoring With the American Secrets at SXSW
[12:45PM] The Cup
[2:45PM] The Forbidden Kingdom
[5:00PM] Sling Blade
[8:00PM] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
[10:00PM] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
[12:00AM] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
[2:00AM] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
[4:00AM] FF: Scoring With the American Secrets at SXSW
[4:05AM] George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Ed Burns & Paul Feig
[6:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Alanis Morissette & Blake Mycoskie
[7:00A] Full Grown Men
[8:20A] Shooting Fish
[10:05A] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[12:05P] Full Grown Men
[1:25P] Shooting Fish
[3:15P] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[5:15P] Bitch
[5:20P] Full Grown Men
[6:45P] Dopamine
[8:15P] The Deep End
[12:00A] Autoerotic
[1:15A] Cadaver
[3:15A] The Deep End
[5:00A] Love Lust & The Undead (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Category 7: The End Of The World', followed by the movie 'Seattle Superstorm'.
Actress Traci Lords arrives at "The Advocate 45th" celebrating the magazine's 45 years of publication in Beverly Hills, California March 29, 2012.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Current TV said on Friday it fired star news anchor Keith Olbermann after one year with the progressive public affairs network, accusing him of breaching his contract and trying to sabotage the TV channel.
But Olbermann, in a series of Twitter postings on Friday, fired back at his former bosses saying Current's statements were untrue and vowing to take legal action.
Former U.S. vice president Al Gore and partner Joel Hyatt, who founded Current in 2005 as an alternative to corporate controlled media outlets, announced Olbermann's departure in an open letter.
"Current was ... founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality and loyalty to our viewers. Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it," they said.
Current said "Countdown" would be replaced by a new program hosted by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, starting on Friday called "Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer".
Actress Felicity Kendell and playwright Tom Stoppard arrive for a service at St George's Chapel in Windsor, southern England March 30, 2012. Members of the Britain's royal family attended a service of thanksgiving in memory of the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret.
Photo by Chris Jackson
The son of Norman Mailer joined a protest Thursday against the Village Voice, the New York City weekly his late father co-founded that's now accused of running ads peddling underage prostitutes.
John Buffalo Mailer, 33, an actor and writer, marched with about 100 protesters from a park to the Voice's East Village offices on Cooper Square. They want the weekly's parent company to shut down its Backpage.com adult classified section, which they say includes ads linked to child sex-trafficking.
The coalition of protesters - religious leaders, activists and politicians - delivered a petition signed by almost a quarter of a million people demanding that Village Voice Media stop running the ads.
Opposition to them started last year. In August, a group of attorneys general from across the country wrote a letter to Backpage.com saying its efforts to curtail the ads had failed.
They said that over three years, they had tracked more than 50 instances, in 22 states, of charges filed against those trafficking or attempting to traffic minors on the site.
The nation's two actors unions have merged, nearly a decade after their last attempt, bringing an end to years of conflict that had given Hollywood studios the advantage in labor negotiations.
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the smaller of the two, had tried to merge with the Screen Actors Guild in 1998 and 2003.
Among AFTRA members, 86 percent approved the merger, while 82 percent of SAG members voted in favor.
The combined union now has more than 150,000 members. SAG had about 125,000, while AFTRA had about 70,000. About 45,000 actors belonged to both unions and paid dues to both.
Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson arrives at "The Advocate 45th" celebrating the magazine's 45 years of publication in Beverly Hills, California March 29, 2012.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin's ex-wife.
The Adams County circuit clerk's office said the marriage license shows Lewis was married March 9 to Judith Ann Coghlan Brown in Natchez, Miss. The 76-year-old Lewis, also known as "The Killer," is famous for top hits like "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."
The bride, who is in her early 60s, was previously married to one of Lewis' cousins and was close to his daughter, Phoebe Lewis, said the bride's sister, Carolyn Coghlan Gremillion of Madison. She said Brown started working for Lewis several years ago as his caretaker.
Judith Brown was previously married to Lewis' cousin Rusty. They divorced in 2010.
Rusty's older sister, Myra Gale Brown, married Lewis in 1957 when she was 13 and was his third wife. That marriage caused shockwaves for Lewis' career.
Rupert Murdoch on Thursday declared war against "enemies" who have accused his pay-TV operation of sabotaging its rivals, denouncing them as "toffs and right wingers" stuck in the last century.
Reports by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Financial Review newspaper this week said that News Corp's pay-TV smartcard security unit, NDS, had promoted piracy attacks on rivals, including in the United States.
NDS and News Corp had already denied the claims, but on Thursday the media empire mounted a fight back as a corruption scandal that has plagued its British newspapers began to encroach on its far more lucrative pay-TV business.
"Seems every competitor and enemy piling on with lies and libels. So bad, easy to hit back hard, which preparing," News Corp Chief Executive Murdoch, 81, tweeted.
Author Betty DeGeneres arrives at "The Advocate 45th" celebrating the magazine's 45 years of publication in Beverly Hills, California March 29, 2012.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
The Huffington Post doesn't have to pay bloggers for providing content for its website in part because they knew from the start they wouldn't be paid and could have taken their work elsewhere, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge John Koeltl dismissed a lawsuit that bloggers filed last year. The lawsuit against the Huffington Post and its parent company, AOL Inc., argued they were unjustly denied compensation for their work.
The bloggers were seeking class-action status. The lawsuit was prompted by AOL's $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post last year. The bloggers claimed that the website unjustly profited from their work, promising only exposure. They were seeking at least $105 million in damages.
AOL had argued that the bloggers gained exposure and a place to attract a big audience in exchange for the content.
Louis C.K., an actor in the FX Networks' show "Louie", poses for members of the media at an FX Networks party at Lucky Strike Lanes in New York, March 29, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Burton
A Democratic campaign treasurer accused of draining up to $20 million from the coffers of her clients, including U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud-related charges in a deal with prosecutors.
Kinde Durkee, 59, who was charged with five counts of mail fraud, entered her plea to all counts in federal court in Sacramento. She faces up to 14 years in prison.
The arrest last year of Durkee, a longtime treasurer for Democratic politicians who lived in the Southern California port city of Long Beach, left the campaign teams of a number of elected officials in disarray.
Prosecutors said in court documents that Durkee used money that belonged to her political campaign clients to pay such expenses as the mortgage on her condominium, visits to Disneyland, charges on her credit cards, medical bills and her own firm's business costs.
Aside from Feinstein, a Democratic senator from California, Durkee was accused of defrauding the campaigns of Representative Loretta Sanchez and her sister Representative Linda Sanchez as well as a number of other office holders, candidates and political groups.
Sumner Redstone, Executive Chairman of Viacom and CBS Corporation, poses with Philippe Dauman (L), President and CEO of Viacom, after Redstone's star was unveiled on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California March 30, 2012.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Ray Charles had Georgia on his mind. His kids, however, seem to have royalties on their minds.
Seven of the "Baby What'd I Say?" singer's children are being sued by the Ray Charles Foundation for allegedly trying to improperly obtain the copyright on dozens of Charles' songs.
According to the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Central California on Wednesday, Charles struck an agreement with his kids in 2002 that they would each receive $500,000 from him in exchange for not seeking any further inheritance or money from his estate.
However, the foundation which is the sole beneficiary of Charles' estate and provides funding for a number of causes, including youth programs and research into hearing impairment, claims that the late singer's kids are attempting to get around the agreement by seizing the copyrights to about 50 of his compositions.
Masks are displayed during a mask fair in Barva de Heredia, 32 km (20 miles) from San Jose March 29, 2012. During the fair, 25 artists from around Costa Rica participated in creating parade masks around traditional themes or personalities from the political and sports scene.
Photo by Juan Carlos Ulate
Children wearing hoods as penitents take part in a procession at a school during the eve of Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain March 30, 2012. Hundreds of processions take place around the clock in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors.
Photo by Marcelo del Pozo
Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a San Fernando Valley man with stealing more than 3,000 movie posters worth more than $450,000, including posters for "The Hunger Games."
The Los Angeles Times says Christian Eric Stevens snagged the posters from bus shelters to sell them online. He pleaded not guilty Thursday to one count each of grand theft and receiving stolen property.
Los Angeles police say they purchased a poster online from the 36-year-old Stevens before discovering a trove of posters stamped "not for resale" at his home. The thefts allegedly occurred in the San Fernando Valley from June 2011 until this week.
Stevens is due to appear in court on April 9. He faces a maximum of five years in prison if convicted.
A souvenir teddy bear and snow globe with themes by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt are displayed Museum for Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna March 20, 2012. Vienna is gearing up for a whole year of celebrations to mark Klimt's 150th birthday on July 14. The boom in interest in the Vienna-born artist since the start of the so-called 'Klimt Year' is evident not only in the advertisings for exhibitions, for every important art museum in Austria but in the wide variety of souvenirs ranging from neck ties to toilet seats covered with his paintings.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taken a lot of flack over the years regarding the practice of baptizing deceased individuals who were never Mormon. A fascinating new article from Max Perry Mueller in Slate breaks down some of the misconceptions about this practice, while also confirming some of its more controversial details.
But the most interesting bit of news to emerge here is that not only was American Founding Father and third president of the United States President Thomas Jefferson given a posthumous Mormon baptism, but he was also sealed to former house servant and lover Sally Hemmings. The Mormon ritual of sealing is meant to connect spouses and their families in the afterlife.
Mormons did not perform the baptism of the dead on Hemmings until April 1991-13 years after the church lifted its membership ban on African-Americans.
A number of famous individuals, and millions of ordinary people, have been given posthumous Mormon baptisms without the permission of their surviving relatives. Some of the more famous recipients include Elvis Presley, Adolf Hitler, Anne Frank and Pope John Paul II. Shortly after Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, his own deceased mother, Ann Dunham, received a Mormon baptism, according to Business Insider. However, the church did denounce Dunham's baptism, as it was performed by an individual not directly connected to her family line. The church as stipulated that only direct descendants may perform the baptism.
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