Michael Moore: Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
Last week, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise and killed Osama bin Laden. Well he didn't actually do the killing himself. It was carried out by a very brave and excellent team of Navy SEALs. Not only does Mr. Obama have the overwhelming support of the country, I think there are millions who gladly wish it could have been their finger on the gun that took out bin Laden.
Paul Krugman's Column: Seniors, Guns and Money (New York Times)
This has to be one of the funniest political stories of recent weeks: On Tuesday, 42 freshmen Republican members of Congress sent a letter urging President Obama to stop Democrats from engaging in "Mediscare" tactics - that is, to stop saying that the Republican budget plan released early last month, which would end Medicare as we know it, is a plan to end Medicare as we know it.
Video: Patriotic Millionaires (YouTube)
The Patriotic Millionaires are back! They're demanding that President Obama and Congress raise taxes on incomes over a million dollars because there are things we want to do as a country--and they are not free.
The Chart That Should Accompany Every Discussion of Deficits (Atlantic)
Why does this chart matter? Because it makes clear, in that wonderful "worth 1,000 words" way, two realities that are fundamental to sane discussion of public finance, but that most of the public doesn't realize and that the Republican leadership is actively working to obscure.
Jim Hightower: BILLIONAIRES HIDING BEHIND THE HEDGE
If your job paid $50,000 a year and you stayed at it for 47 years, your tally for a lifetime of work would be $2.4 million. Not bad - but hedge fund hustler John Paulson pulled down that much last year.
Froma Harrop: The Naked and the Red (Creators Syndicate)
There's a macho strain in the Republican Party that some politicians use as license to publicly flaunt their sexuality (and for men, exploit the aphrodisiac of power) in service to pleasures of the flesh. Politicians of both parties cheat on their wives, but Republicans seem to advertise - not that they don't have the goods.
John Naughton: Why don't we love our intellectuals? (Guardian)
While France celebrates its intelligentsia, you have to go back to Orwell and Huxley to find British intellectuals at the heart of national public debate. Why did we stop caring about ideas? When did 'braininess' become a laughing matter?
2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Bel Air Crash Test (Consumer Reports)
This crash test between a modern sedan and the classic 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air shows just how far passenger protection has come in the last fifty years. The Institute for Highway Safety staged the test to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
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Berle was famed in Hollywood for the alleged size of an "unmentionable" portion of his anatomy. An often recounted (and possibly apocryphal) story was that when he was once challenged to a "face-off" with another man to prove who had the larger one, a friend said, "We're in a hurry, Milton, just take out enough to win.".
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mj was first, and correct, with:
Speaking of black and white TV
Uncle Milty (Milton Berle) was a big part of it.
Baron Dave ( "The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive." -- John Sladek) said:
Ah, Milton Berle. One of the comics who was nearly ubiquitous on tv when I was growing up. After his heyday ruling Tuesday nights, but while variety shows let a wide range of talent perform. Ah, those were the days.
Alan J wrote:
Milton Berle
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Milton Berle
Marian replied:
Uncle Miltie, Milton Berle
Adam answered:
Milton Berle; Uncle Miltie; the man who made drag safe for television.
Charlie replied:
Milton Berle
Sally said:
Mendal Berlinger's stage name was Milton Berle.
Growing up in the early days of TV (before VCR's and TIVO's AWA summer reruns), Uncle Miltie, AKA Milton Berle, the manic host of NBC's "Texaco Star Theater," (1948-55), reigned in my community. Everyone in my JEWISH family LOVED him! Many a Shabbat dinner was filled with a review of the previous Berle show as table talk, and many of my happiest memories are of this period of time.
But, alas, I went to a Catholic boarding school, and my classmates and myself were a captive audience for the Bishop Sheen show, "Life Is Worth Living," directly opposite of Berle on Tuesday nights!
This was the set up: Nuns in the chairs, suck-ups on the floor in front of the TV set (the nuns didn't care if they were subject to radiation, since being such good Catholic girls, they would go straight to Heaven upon their death), and the rest of us on the floor, leaning up against the wall for support (we, of course, were doomed for such moral laxation, so our viewing place didn't count).
The wall was in back of the nuns, and therefore they couldn't see us glazing over and making faces when the Bishop wrote on his blackboard, staring into the camera, making his anti-communist observations. (FOX TV News would have loved this guy, and given him a permanent gig nowadays...)
God forbid that the nuns heard any giggling coming from the wall during the show - because Hell would look good to you if they did...
But I digress.
Fast forward to the year 2000, when a friend and I visited LA, and took a, "Tour of the Star Homes." As we approached the home of Milton, he and (I guess) his wife were actually backing their car out of the driveway!
Our driver stopped the van, and took out his microphone, directing us to see this for ourselves. We begged him to get out of the van, to get photo's of Berle - which he did. Camera's up, we were just in time to see, "Uncle Miltie," shoot us all the finger!! Apparently, he HATED tourists, even if they were his fans!
Milton Berle died only a few years later, but I so love this story and my memories of him...
The one I detest
Why I could never have been a nun...
PS: Loved the Royal cartoons, today!
PPS: Shout out to JoeS, I hope you can hear this, since apparently you can't see it, hahaha! (I do miss you, Joey...)
George M answered:
From what I recall, Marty, Mendal Berlinger is better known as Milton Berle, alias "Uncle Miltie", or "Mr. Television". I can recall watching him on an episode of "Saturday Night Live" back in the spring of 1979.
He's still quite a fellow, even now in this day and age.
Tom B responded:
Gotta be Uncle Milty, aka Milton Berle, aka The Guy With The Enormous Schw*nz.
MAM wrote:
Milton Berle
And, Joe S answered:
Milton Berle, Uncle Milty. I loved Uncle Milty, I thought he was funnier than a rubber crutch. My dad hated him and I never could figure out why. Maybe it was he wore a dress at times. He was funny.
My vision is improving.
LONG BEACH - The curtains will rise on the big stage this weekend for five Poly High School students who won a playwriting contest sponsored by the Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood.
From themes of mental illness and Christian fundamentalism to vampire lore, the professionally produced plays are widely different but all come from the minds of teenagers.
Now in its ninth year, the Young Writers Project at the Theater of NOTE selects a handful of Southland schools to participate in playwriting workshops and the winning students get to see their plays professionally produced. The project is funded in part by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
This year, for the first time, all five winners came from Poly.
The five short productions will take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Theatre of NOTE, 1517 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles. Admission is free but donations are appreciated.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Chase', followed by a FRESH'L&O: LA', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Ed Helms hosting, music by Paul Simon.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End'.
The CW has an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'American Dad', followed by another old 'American Dad'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Parking Wars', another 'Parking Wars', still another 'Parking Wars', yet another 'Parking Wars', 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Parking Wars', and another 'Parking Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Open Range', followed by the movie 'Flight Of The Phoenix', then the movie 'Hidalgo'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Handlebar
[7:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place
[8:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[9:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Sebastian's
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 - Hot Potato Cafe
[11:00 AM] Doctor Who - 4 - The Time of Angels
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - 5 - Flesh and Stone
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - 6 - Vampires in Venice
[2:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 8 One Breath
[3:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 9 Firewalker
[4:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 10 Red Museum
[5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 15 First Contact
[6:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 16 Galaxy's Child
[7:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 17 Night Terrors
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episode 4
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 4
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who - 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - Episode 4
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 4
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - Episode 4
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 4
[5:00 AM] Doctor Who - Episode 4 (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay', 'Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious', and 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly'.
FX has the movie 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', and yet another '2½ Men'.
History has 'American Restoration', another 'American Restoration', 'True Caribbean Pirates', followed by the ovie 'Megaquake 10.0'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The Florentine
[8:15 AM] Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
[10:15 AM] The Three Stooges
[10:40 AM] The Three Stooges
[11:05 AM] The Three Stooges
[11:30 AM] The Three Stooges
[11:55 AM] The Three Stooges
[12:20 PM] The Three Stooges
[12:45 PM] The Three Stooges
[1:10 PM] Swimming With Sharks
[3:10 PM] Aquarium
[3:30 PM] The Florentine
[5:45 PM] Braddock: Missing in Action III
[8:00 PM] Reservoir Dogs
[10:00 PM] Requiem for a Dream
[12:15 AM] Never Die Alone
[2:00 AM] Reservoir Dogs
[4:00 AM] Swimming With Sharks (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[7:30 AM] My Year Without SexTVMA Sarah Watt
[9:10 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Stands Out on the Red Carpet (Episode 11, Season 1)
[9:40 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Shines Under Stress (Episode 12, Season 1)
[10:10 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Jedda Kahn (Episode 6, Season 1)
[11:10 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Leila Shams (Episode 7, Season 1)
[12:10 PM] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Guns and Gossip (Episode 3, Season 1)
[1:10 PM] Girl on the Run: 10 Years
[2:45 PM] Romance & Cigarettes
[4:35 PM] My Year Without Sex
[6:15 PM] Daddy Longlegs
[8:00 PM] 24 Hour Party People
[10:00 PM] Monster
[12:00 AM] PLEASURE FOR SALE (Episode 4)
[12:30 AM] Kissing on the Mouth
[1:55 AM] Bitch
[2:00 AM] 24 Hour Party People
[4:00 AM] Daddy Longlegs
[5:45 AM] Let It Rain (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Roadkill', followed by the movie 'The Messengers'.
This handout photo dated Thursday May 12, 2011 released by LD Communications shows Britain's Pink Floyd musicians Roger Waters, left, and David Gilmour who teamed up for a rare appearance together to restage their classic album The Wall at the O2 Arena, London.
Photo by Sean Evans
Katie Couric will make her exit from the "CBS Evening News" next Thursday.
The network on Friday announced her exit date. She'll be leaving short of five years as CBS' top anchor, and shy of the June 4 expiration date of her contract. Scott Pelley will take over as the new "CBS Evening News" anchor on June 6.
Couric hasn't announced her next move, but has been looking at a daytime talk show and discussing her future with ABC News.
Couric's executive producer at the evening news for the past four years, Rick Kaplan, this week took a new job overseeing political coverage at ABC News and producing Christiane Amanpour's Sunday morning political show.
Singers Brian Wilson, left, and Barry Manilow pose together at the National Association of Recording Merchandisers Convention Awards Dinner, Thursday,May 12, 2011, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Bill O'Reilly (R-Loofah Specialist) wants to rap with Jon Stewart.
The host of Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" has invited the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" as a guest Monday. Fox News said Friday that O'Reilly and Stewart will debate the invitation for Grammy Award-winning rapper Common to perform at a White House poetry night this week.
O'Reilly has criticized Common's presence at Wednesday's event. He says some of Common's lyrics celebrate violence.
Stewart let loose with an anti-Fox News Channel rap on his show.
The O'Reilly-Stewart faceoff airs Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Stephen Colbert pumps his fist after filing with Federal Election Commission, Friday, May 13, 2011 in Washington. Comedian Stephen Colbert wants to grab'a megaphone made of cash' so he can shout out the demands of his supporters in next year's elections.
Photo by Alex Brandon
TV star William Shatner says he plans to get the last laugh as he's feted in Ottawa with a lifetime achievement award from the Governor General.
The 80-year-old former "Star Trek" captain says he keeps getting awards because people figure he's about to "kick off" - but by Shatner's reckoning he's good for another 20 years.
He anchors the sitcom "$#*! My Dad Says" (Bleep My Dad Says) that's been a hit this year with Canadian viewers, while also hosting a reality series and two interview shows.
He's editing a documentary he wrote and produced on the beginnings of the Star Trek series called The Captains and he has just recorded an album called Seeking Major Tom.
The Montreal-born actor, who says he's always considered himself a Canadian despite a lifetime working in the United States, says he's trying to erase his sentimentality but can't stop waxing about Canada being the "best country in the world."
Bob Dylan doesn't understand all the fuss about his tour last month in China.
In a brief letter posted Friday on his website, bobdylan.com, the singer-songwriter disputed reports that he had originally been denied permission to perform in the country or that government officials had censored his playlist.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd had written that Dylan "sang his censored set, took his pile of Communist cash and left."
Dylan responded: "If there were any songs, verses or lines censored," Dylan responded, "nobody ever told me about it."
Singer Annie Lennox is interviewed before the National Association of Recording Merchandisers Convention Awards Dinner, Thursday, May 12, 2011, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Singer Etta James has been hospitalized with blood poisoning, her son said on Friday.
The 73 year-old blues legend was admitted to hospital in Riverside, California, earlier this week with a urinary tract infection and the blood infection sepsis, said her son Sametto James.
"It was a really bad infection," Sametto James said before adding, "Right now she's doing a lot better."
James, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, has struggled with obesity in the past. In 2003, she underwent gastric bypass surgery.
The directors of media conglomerate News Corp., the owner of Fox News Channel, have quietly put in place a policy to disclose corporate political donations on the company's website.
The decision was made April 12, according to a notice posted without fanfare by the company. A News Corp. spokeswoman declined telephone and email requests by The Associated Press to discuss the new policy.
The policy calls for the company - which also owns 20th Century Fox movie studio and The Wall Street Journal - to disclose political contributions made between January and June on July 15. Annual postings would follow each January.
Australian-born media magnate Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate), who controls the company, drew attention for two $1 million contributions he made during last year's elections: one to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the other to the Republican Governors Association. Murdoch told the Washington-based Politico website that the RGA donation was prompted by his friendship with then-Ohio governor candidate John Kasich.
Producer-songwriter duo Kenneth Gamble, left, and Leon Huff accept the Outstanding Achievement for Musical Collaboration award at the National Associationof Recording Merchandisers Convention Awards Dinner, Thursday, May 12, 2011, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google just got juicier.
In a twist seemingly out of a Hollywood thriller, Facebook hired a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories harshly criticizing Google's privacy practices in leading news outlets. The efforts backfired when the firm approached a blogger who not only declined the assignment, but also went public with the offer.
The latest Silicon Valley drama has also evoked chatter of smear campaigns, secrecy and even Richard Nixon. It took the once-secret blogger known as Fake Steve Jobs to help sort it all out.
One lesson: If you're going to write an incriminating email, don't. Pick up the phone instead.
Rather than getting news outlets to circulate stories about privacy problems facing Google, Facebook found itself having to answer questions about why it wanted to maintain secrecy.
Director Nanni Moretti (R) and cast member Michel Piccoli pose as they arrive on the red carpet for the screening of the film "Habemus Papam"(We Have A Pope) in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, May 13, 2011.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
The badly decomposed body found in a dilapidated hillside home overlooking Beverly Hills was former B-movie actress and 1959 Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers and an autopsy showed she died from heart disease, authorities said Friday.
Vickers, 82, was found April 27 by a neighbor in her Benedict Canyon house. While foul play wasn't suspected, her death captured headlines after authorities estimated her remains could have been there from a few months to a year.
County coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter, however, couldn't say Friday when Vickers had actually passed away.
Actor Dustin Hoffman poses for a portrait during the 64th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 11, 2011.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Your May Be killing the
The world's population of honeybees is dwindling, and for years scientists have been trying to discover the cause. Bee researcher Dr. Daniel Favre thinks he may have found the problem, and you, dear reader, might be part of it. The doctor believes that mobile phones may be a major factor in bee colony decline, leading to massive population issues within the species.
His theory is based on several studies he conducted using cell devices placed under beehives. In the course of testing, the researchers observed how the insects reacted when the phone was off, in standby mode, and active. It was found that when the phone was actively transmitting a signal, the bees behaved wildly, letting off alerts that are normally used during swarming. The bees in the study did not actually create a swarm, and within minutes of the phones being deactivated the hive had calmed down. But Favre believes if cell phone signals are in fact causing the bees to act in a hostile manner, it could lead them to abandon their hives.
The evidence, while interesting, doesn't fully explain the growing number of collapsed colonies. For example, many colonies in trouble are located far from any kind of mobile phone activity. There are also other theories on the table as to why the bees are having a hard time, including pesticides and even parasitic mites. But if mobile technology ends up being the culprit, will you be willing to abandon your phone to enjoy some honey?
Members of the band Duran Duran, from left, John Taylor, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor pose for photographs at the 64th international filmfestival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 13, 2011.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases, eradicated three decades ago, is kept alive under tight security today in just two places - the United States and Russia.
Many other countries say the world would be safer if those stockpiles of the virus were destroyed.
Now for the fifth time, at a World Health Organization meeting next week, they will push again for the virus' destruction. And again it seems likely their efforts will be futile.
U.S. and Russian government officials say it is essential they keep some smallpox alive in case a future biological threat demands more tests with the virus. They also say the virus samples are still needed to develop experimental vaccines and drugs.
Lloyd Knibb, an influential Jamaican drummer who played with The Skatalites and helped develop the ska beat, has died, his wife said Friday. He was 80.
Enid Knibb said her husband died from liver cancer late Thursday.
Knibb was an original member of The Skatalites, a Jamaican ska and reggae band created in 1964. His frenetic style was one of the band's hallmarks and is best heard on songs including "Guns of Navarone" and "Freedom Sounds."
The Skatalites broke up in the 1960s, but reunited two decades later in New York. Two of their albums, "Hip Bop Ska" and "Greetings from Skamania," were nominated for Grammy awards in the 1990s.
Their music has influenced bands including 311, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and No Doubt.
Knibb last performed with The Skatalites in April.
He is survived by his wife, five children, seven grandchildren and a great grandchild.
A three-month old white-cheeked gibbon looks from inside a cage after Thai police arrested a citizen of the United Arab Emirates at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok May 13, 2011. Thai police arrested a UAE citizen just after midnight today as he was preparing to fly first class from Bangkok to Dubai with various rare and endangered animals in his suitcases, which included four leopards, one Malayan sun bear, one white-cheeked gibbon, one black-tufted marmoset, an Asiatic black bear and two macaque monkeys.
Photo by Damir Sagolj
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