Paul Krugman: Bernanke, Blower of Bubbles? (New York Times)
Bubbles can be bad for your financial health - and bad for the health of the economy, too. The dot-com bubble of the late 1990s left behind many vacant buildings and many more failed dreams. When the housing bubble of the next decade burst, the result was the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s - a crisis from which we have yet to emerge.
Paul Krugman: South Carolina Voters Get It (New York Times)
So they just convincingly voted for Mark Sanford, a man who cheated on his wife, tried to cover his actions with an absurd story about hiking the Appalachian Trail, and trespassed on his ex-wife's property, over an exemplary Democratic candidate. And you know what? Given their preferences, this was the right thing to do.
Froma Harrop: Three Girls Lost in Cleveland (Creators Syndicate)
The story of three girls grabbed from the streets of Cleveland and caged in their neighborhood for some 10 years demands scrutiny beyond expressions of shock. We can't let this gruesome tale of Ariel Castro allegedly imprisoning, impregnating and tormenting young women simply pass into the annals of true crime - not just yet. But how are we to process it? The man was clearly a sicko, but what kind of sicko was he?
Tom Danehy: "Tom is a bit frustrated with the Arizona Legislature (and people who are bad at math)" (Tucson Weekly)
Finally (this has nothing to do with the Legislature), my heart goes out to those kids on CDO's academic decathlon team who were originally told that they had won a national championship, only to be informed later-by email-that there had been a math error and they actually finished second. Jokes about math errors at an academic decathlon pretty much write themselves. This just sucks.
Lenore Skenazy: How to Crush Kids (Creators Syndicate)
Meantime, a high-school girl mixes some chemicals that go boom. That's not to be tolerated, because, my goodness, she's engaging in scientific exploration! Everyone knows where that could lead: more experiments! Maybe even - I hate to even say it - an understanding of basic chemistry. Who needs that when we can tamp down the girls' natural curiosity by dragging her off to court?
Lucy Mangan: "Dimsie Goes to School by Dorita Fairlie Bruce" (Guardian)
"The world of girls", as its tongue-in-cheek reviewer Arthur Marshall called it, is now an intriguing glimpse of a bygone scholastic and social era - when a sunny day meant teachers could spontaneously decide on a nature ramble without consulting the national curriculum, something called the honour of the school could be at stake and adolescence could be free of sex and full of sorority. Read up, young thing! Read up!
"Peace Train" is the title of a 1971 hit song by Cat Stevens, taken from his album Teaser and the Firecat. The song climbed to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the week of October 9, 1971, becoming Stevens' first US Top 10 hit.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Peace Train
Charlie wrote:
"Peace Train"
Made #7 in 1971, "Wild World had made #11 earlier that year, and his previous single "Moonshadow" made #10 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
(Picture taken from BCE Archives again, though question wording is different.)
Jim from CA, retired to ID, took the day off.
Adam answered:
Hmmm, Wild World? No, Peace Train.
Sally said:
"Peace Train" by Cat Stevens was his first US Top-10 hit (circa 1971). It was not released as a single as I recall.
Liked him then, and like him now...
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, replied:
"Tea for the Tillerman" was the first album; featuring the single "Wide World." Good songwriter.
As Cat As Yusuf
Patti D'arbanville - Subject of "Wide World"
Marian is enjoying some footloose and internets-free days.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', and '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Smash', followed by a RERUN'The Voice', then an hourlong RERUN of last week's 'SNL' (hosted by Zach Galifianakis).
'SNL' is FRESH, hosted by Kristen Wiig, music by Vampire Weekend.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'2013 NBA Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'NASCAR Spring Cup', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', 'American Hoggers', and another 'American Hoggers'.
AMC offers the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', followed by the movie 'The Scorpion King', then the movie 'The Scorpion King 2: Rise Of A Warrior'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Moore Place
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Capri
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Rococo
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Ruby Tates
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 11 - Cafe 36
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Runaway Girl
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 05-06 - Episode
[11:00PM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 2 - Episode 4
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 05-06 - Episode 2
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 05-06 - Episode 3
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 13 - The Masterpiece Society
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 14 - Conundrum
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Power Play
[7:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 11 - The Crimson Horror
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 12 - Nightmare in Silver NEW
[9:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner NEW
[10:00PM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 7 NEW
[11:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 12 - Nightmare in Silver
[12:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner
[1:00AM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 7
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 12 - Nightmare in Silver
[3:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner
[4:00AM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 7
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 12 - Nightmare in Silver (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Married To Medicine', followed by the movie 'The Family Man', then the movie 'The Family Man', again.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'Tosh.0', and 'Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts'.
FX has the movie 'Soul Surfer', followed by the movie 'The Waterboy', then the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Bunk
[6:30AM] Bunk
[7:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:15AM] Cherish
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-No Dough Boys
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Out West
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-A Pain in the Pullman
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Pardon My Clutch
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Punch Drunks
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Rhythm & Weep
[12:00PM] The Three Stooges-Sing a Song of Six Pants
[12:25PM] The Three Stooges-Termites of 1938
[12:50PM] The Three Stooges-Three Little Pigskins
[1:15PM] Maron-Internet Troll
[1:45PM] The Freshman
[4:00PM] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
[6:00PM] Blazing Saddles
[8:00PM] City Slickers
[10:30PM] Austin Powers in Goldmember
[12:30AM] City Slickers
[3:00AM] Austin Powers in Goldmember
[5:00AM] Bunk
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Day Before-Sonia Rykiel
[7:00AM] The Day Before-Proenza Schouler
[8:00AM] The Day Before-Fendi
[9:00AM] The Day Before-Jean Paul Gaultier
[10:00AM] Man Shops Globe-Thailand
[10:30AM] Among Giants
[12:15PM] Invincible
[2:30PM] Lions for Lambs
[4:00PM] Three Days of the Condor
[6:00PM] A River Runs Through It
[8:00PM] Little Children
[10:20PM] Raising Arizona
[11:55PM] Bitch
[12:00AM] À l'aventure
[2:00AM] Eloïse's Lover
[3:45AM] I'm Gonna Explode
[5:45AM] A'mare (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Lake Placid 3', followed by the movie 'Rise Of The Dinosaurs'.
Presenter, actor Paul Michael Glaser speaks onstage at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Presents "The 6th Annual Television Honors" at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.
Photo by Frank Micelotta
Wayne State University had no idea that a folk hero was in its midst when the Detroit school awarded Sixto Rodriguez a philosophy degree in 1981.
Then again, Rodriguez had no idea about his fame, either.
The Motor City musician received a Doctor of Humane Letters on Thursday during the university's commencement ceremonies at Ford Field. He has been recognized for his "musical genius and commitment to social justice."
Rodriguez's two albums in the early 1970s received little attention in the United States but he unknowingly developed a cult following in South Africa during the apartheid era. He was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, "Searching for Sugar Man."
After his music career fizzled stateside, Rodriguez worked various jobs around Detroit, ran for public office and obtained his bachelor's degree.
Alicia Alonso, Cuba's prima ballerina assoluta and director of the Cuban National Ballet, attends a news conference in Havana May 10, 2013. Alonso presented the upcoming Festival de la Huella de Espania 2013, a scenic dialogue between Spanish and Cuban culture. Alonso has gained worldwide fame since 1940 when she was part of the corps de ballet of the American Ballet Theatre.
Photo by Enrique De La Osa
Turns out even high-art museum goers appreciate a good cat video. So much so, a full night of such digital shorts, shown in a festival at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center last year, not only returns but is also going on the road.
This Saturday, the Internet Cat Video Festival lands in Oakland, Calif., one of several planned stops that began at Austin's South by Southwest in March and includes a June screening in Vienna, Austria. While thousands of people are expected to show up this weekend in Oakland, Scott Stulen, a curator at the Walker, one of the nation's best-known contemporary art museums, says last year they wouldn't have been surprised if the first night had been a bust.
It all started, Stulen told Yahoo News, when he and his colleagues were exploring ways the museum could use its outdoor space over the summer.
But their estimates were way off. On a Thursday night just before Labor Day weekend, an estimated 10,000 people turned out to see a 70-minute reel of videos of cats acting cute, behaving badly or just simply doing nothing at all-clips that had been seen on YouTube many times before. At least 1,000 more people had been turned away because of lack of space. According to Stulen, so many turned out that exits from a nearby highway were clogged and local police had to divert traffic from the museum.
This Saturday, it will screen on the Great Wall of Oakland, the side of a 10-story building where, since 2006, large-scale projections of video art and film have been shown. Already, organizers are predicting more than 5,000 people will turn out for the festival, where proceeds from the $10 admission cost will benefit a Bay Area animal shelter.
The location of the trees that Joyce Kilmer wrote were more lovely than any poem has long been in dispute, with a handful of towns from Massachusetts to Indiana claiming to have inspired the verse.
But a New Jersey historian said he now has irrefutable proof Kilmer was stirred by the woods of the Ramapo Valley when he penned the well-known words, "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree."
Alex Michelini of the Joyce Kilmer Society in Mahwah said Friday a letter written in 1929 by Kilmer's widow, Aline, to a graduate student shows the poem, "Trees," was written on Feb. 2, 1913 at the couple's former home in Mahwah.
A notebook Michelini found at Georgetown University's Lauinger Library in Washington contains the first two lines of the poem, written in neat black cursive on a yellow page.
Sheikha Maryam bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, daughter of Dubai's ruler, attends an equestrian festival in the United Arab Emirates May 10, 2013.
Photo by Martin Dokoupil
Adult Swim says it's turning Mike Tyson into a cartoon detective.
The network announced a new animated series Friday called "Mike Tyson Mysteries" that will feature the retired boxing champ.
On the show, a cartoon version of Tyson will solve wacky problems, assisted by a trusty associate: a foul-mouthed pet pigeon. The network said Tyson will voice the animated character, as well as make live-action appearances.
Among other programming planned for its 2013-14 season, Adult Swim announced "Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II." It's a second spinoff of the cable network's long-running stop-motion sketch comedy series.
Betfair Hollywood Park will close by year's end and the 75-year-old racetrack property in Inglewood will be developed by its owner.
The track announced on Thursday what had been anticipated since Churchill Downs sold it to Hollywood Park Land Co. in 2005.
Track President Jack Liebau says the land in the Los Angeles suburb now is worth more, and racing will end when the autumn meet concludes on Dec. 22. The current summer meet runs through July 14. The stable area is expected to close by the end of the year.
The track opened in 1938 under the direction of movie moguls Jack and Harry Warner. Among the star horses that ran at Hollywood Park were Seabiscuit, and Triple Crown winners Citation, Seattle Slew and Affirmed.
NBC pulled the plug Friday on Brian Williams' newsmagazine "Rock Center" after a short, troubled life in which it failed to find a consistent home on the network's prime-time schedule.
The show's final broadcast will be on June 21, NBC Universal News Group Chairwoman Pat Fili-Krushel said in a memo to her staff.
"Rock Center" premiered on Halloween 2011 and news executives preached patience then, saying it would take awhile to get established. Bob Costas' interview with Jerry Sandusky about the Penn State child sexual abuse case was its biggest coup, and it recently aired an hour-long special on the Boston Marathon bombings.
"While we're disappointed with the news, we are very proud of the hard work that the 'Rock Center' team put into the program each week," Fili-Krushel said in her memo. While NBC's news division produces the show, the network's entertainment division is responsible for putting it on the schedule.
A 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton from the Gobi Desert that was smuggled to the United States in pieces and auctioned for more than $1 million was returned on Monday by the U.S. government to Mongolia.
The huge Tyrannosaurus bataar's skull was on display at a repatriation ceremony near the United Nations in New York, where officials of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and the U.S. Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) formally turned over the nearly complete skeleton to Mongolian officials.
Mongolia demanded the return of the 8-foot-tall (2.4 meter), 24-foot-long (7.3 meter), mostly reconstructed cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex last year after commercial paleontologist Eric Prokopi sold it at a Manhattan auction last spring for $1.05 million.
U.S. authorities filed charges against Prokopi in October and seized the skeleton, which is comprised of fossilized bones welded to a metal frame.
Women and children stand behind posters with pictures of women who went missing in Ciudad Juarez May 9, 2013. Women and sisters of murdered or disappeared women hung up posters of the women outside the State Attorney General building during a protest called "There is nothing to celebrate on Mother's Day".
Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez
Filming of the new "Star Wars" movie will take place in England, returning the franchise to its British roots, Disney's Lucasfilm said on Friday.
"We've devoted serious time and attention to revisiting the origins of 'Star Wars' as inspiration for our process on the new movie, and I'm thrilled that returning to the UK for production and utilizing the incredible talent there can be a part of that," Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm president, said in a statement.
The six previous "Star Wars" films were all partly filmed in the UK at famed studios including Pinewood, Elstree and Shepperton.
Disney announced three new "Star Wars" films in October 2012, when it purchased George Lucas' Lucasfilm company for $4.05 billion.
Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970.
But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney, who was busy with another band at the time.
This tantalizing detail about the super group that never was - jazz standout Tony Williams would have been on drums - is contained in an oft-overlooked telegram that Hendrix sent to McCartney at The Beatles' Apple Records in London on Oct. 21, 1969.
"We are recording and LP together this weekend in NewYork," it says, complete with typographical errors. "How about coming in to play bass stop call Alvan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."
The telegram has been part of the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia collection since it was purchased at auction in 1995. Still it has only generated attention in recent months with the successful release of "People, Hell & Angels," expected to be the last CD of Hendrix's studio recordings.
A Lemur catta, also known as ring-tailed lemur, with its seven-week-old cubs clinging to its back sits on a rock at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna May 10, 2013.
Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader
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