'Best of TBH Politoons'
Filling For Jay Marvin TODAY
Erin Hart
Erin Hart on
Boulder's Progressive AM 760 today, and July 3 & 4.
Monday we talk to Ken Gude, Associate Director of the International Rights
and Responsibilities Program at the Center for American Progress about the
Supreme Court ruling that military tribunals for terror suspects at
Guantanamo Bay in Cuba do not comply with the Geneva Conventions regarding
treatment of prisoners.
Also on Monday, we check in about how the Bush taxes hit most of us with
Colorado's Progressive Coalition. Find out just how regressive these taxes
are. And we follow up on immigration with Keep Colorado Safe. Find out
what they will compromise on and what they will not!
Tuesday, celebrate our country's birth with fireworks supplied by the newest
Americans among us. New citizens are particularly invited to participate.
Joining us will be Minister Jamal Rahman, who recently became a citizen
after living and working in Seattle for several years. Find out what July
4th means to him as a Muslim, as a progressive, as a new citizen.
All that and a celebration of our interstates--Thanks Dwight! And we are
working on Eugene Jarecki, director and producer of the Sundance award
winner, "Why We Fight". And marty
of BartCop Entertainment
will likely pop a
cracker or two.
That and so much more-please check out
erinhartshow.com for further details (or drop
marty a note).
Adventure is everywhere. . .
Contributor Comment
anemic?
Marty
have you not been eating your website liver or taking your internet vitamin B?
your website background has gone "anemic".......what's up.
I am used to the rich light ocher ..and today you were "all white"!
Help
Purple Gene gives your site a 5 out of 10 for being sooo bland!
Thanks, Gene!
I didn't do anything - try a refreshing tap on the F5 key.
Anybody else experiencing it?
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Cassidy Hartmann: "It Keeps Getting Worse" (philadelphiaweekly.com)
By standing up for what he believes, unequivocally, despite the potential political ramifications, Jack Murtha has chosen a rare road for politicians in this country.
Steven Rosenfeld: Elections Are Still Stolen the Old-Fashioned Way (TomPaine.com. Posted on Alternet.org)
Progressives tend to be distracted by electronic voting machines when old-style election thuggery is the bigger problem.
George Monbiot: Not Enough Fish in the Sea (AlterNet.org)
We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. Yet we are rapidly destroying the only source of these oils -- the world's fisheries.
Christina Hoff Sommers: Men or Women: Which is the more generous sex? (incharacter.org)
Every year since 1904, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awards prizes to those who risk or sacrifice their lives in an attempt to save another human being. Ninety percent of the recipients have been men. One 2005 winner, Dale L. Sayler, a forty-five-year-old bank executive from Hebron, North Dakota, happened to be driving by when he saw a van stalled on a railroad crossing with the driver trapped inside. As the train was bearing down on the van, Sayler rushed to the vehicle, forced the door open, pulled the driver out and dragged him to safety. The train crashed into the van seconds later.
Margo Howard: Everyday Thrift (incharacter.org)
Having grown up during the Depression, [my late mother, Ann Landers] compulsively felt the need to salvage these negotiable instruments. Receiving thousands of letters a day positioned her to act upon this impulse. Not to rescue them was, to my mother, wasteful. She experimented with various techniques for separating stamp from envelope so that it could be reused. As Mother wrote to me, she had discovered the secret: Don't soak the stamp in water; use tea.
Going ape (arts.guardian.co.uk)
Women artists are staggeringly under-represented in the world's major galleries. Can these masked activists put things right? Zoe Williams tracks down the Guerrilla Girls.
Guerillagirls: Fighting discrimination with facts, humor, and fake fur (guerrillagirls.com)
"The Schwarzenegger Shield: Don't Let Your Governor Grope You" (guerrillagirls.com)
"The Estrogen Bomb" (guerrillagirls.com)
Bush Fever
Avery Ant
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still hot - still humid.
No new flags.
Most Beautiful In Country Music
Faith Hill
Faith Hill is country music's most beautiful woman, according to a reader poll released Friday in Country Weekly magazine.
Her husband, McGraw, finished No. 4 in the magazine's recent poll on country's sexiest man, with Keith Urban topping the list.
Rounding out the top 5 most beautiful women in order were Sara Evans, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride and Shania Twain.
Faith Hill
Most Networks To Carry Launch Live
Discovery
If the space shuttle Discovery lifts off from its Florida launch pad at 3:49 p.m. EDT Saturday, all but one of the major networks will cover it live.
Only CBS has opted not to cover the launch live, though most of the other networks aren't devoting the same kind of resources and airtime to this launch as they did in July when the shuttle program returned to flight after the February 2003 Columbia disaster.
The longest coverage will be on the cable channels, with Fox, CNN and MSNBC -- and their Web sites -- devoting significant resources. But NBC and ABC have positioned anchors, correspondents and space experts in New York, Cape Canaveral and Houston and will interrupt regular programming. Fox won't because its network isn't on air at that time.
Discovery
Change Rules For Foreign-Language Nominees
Oscars
Oscar organizers on Friday unveiled two changes for the 2006 foreign-language category, broadening the group that selects nominees as well as the films that might be considered for the world's top movie awards.
The first change broadens the group of Academy members who name nominees. Previously, a set of Los Angeles-based voters would pick a short list from which final nominees were chosen, but now that list will be derived from two phases of voting.
The second change allows nominations for films even when they do not use the home country's language. For instance, a movie made in Italy in a Middle Eastern language can now be considered. Previously, a film had to be made in the language of the home country.
Oscars
Hospital News
David Hasselhoff
Former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff had surgery after severing a tendon in his right arm in an accident in a London gym bathroom, his spokeswoman said Friday.
The 53-year-old actor, who played lifeguard Mitch Buchannon on the TV beach drama for 11 years, was shaving at a gym in the Sanderson Hotel on Thursday when he hit his head on a chandelier, showering his arm with broken glass, his publicist, Judy Katz, said.
Doctors operated to repair the injury and Hasselhoff spent one night at St. Thomas' Hospital in central London, Katz said.
David Hasselhoff
Colombia's New Coffee Ambassador
Juan Valdez
After a two-year search among more than 300,000 candidates nationwide, Colombia on Thursday unveiled the new Juan Valdez, the country's iconic coffee ambassador to the world.
His real name is Carlos Castaneda. Like his two predecessors, the 39-year-old sports the leather bag, bushy mustache and straw hat typical of rural Colombia where the world-famous arabica coffee is grown.
But unlike those other Valdezes - who were played by a Cuban-born actor and a silk-screen artisan - Castaneda knows a thing or two about growing coffee. The oldest of 10 children born on a coffee farm, he picked his first bean at the age of 6.
Juan Valdez
VIP Tour
Graceland
It didn't take much coaxing from resident Bush to get Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to croon some Elvis tunes Friday at the king of rock 'n' roll's Graceland mansion.
"We need a karaoke machine," joked Priscilla Presley, mother of Presley's only child, Lisa Marie. Koizumi donned a pair of sunglasses that Elvis wore in the 1972 concert film, "Elvis on Tour," and hugged Lisa Marie. "Hold me close. Hold me tight," he sang to her.
Bush's top political adviser propagandist, Karl Rove, snapped photos of the Japanese delegation in front of Elvis' 1955 pink Cadillac with whitewall tires. "I loved the (lamp) shade they had covered with faux fur," Rove said.
Graceland
Filming Accident
'The Final Season'
A helicopter being used to film scenes for a movie crashed in eastern Iowa on Friday, killing one person and critically injuring two others, authorities said.
The Gazette reported on its Web site that the helicopter was filming a parade for the movie "The Final Season" about a high school baseball team.
Witnesses said the helicopter was carrying the pilot, a producer and a photographer when it hit power lines and crashed into a field about 10 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids, the newspaper reported.
'The Final Season'
Invalid & Worthless
Honorary Doctorate
Honorary doctorates awarded by a private Austrian university to California Governor Arnold $chwarzenegger and former European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg are worthless, an Austrian court has ruled.
According to the Administrative Court, Austrian law authorises private universities to award degrees only to students who have completed studies in their institution.
Honorary degrees, like those awarded to $chwarzenegger, Duisenberg and former Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky by the Vienna private university IMADEC, are therefore void.
Honorary Doctorate
No Wings In Buffalo
KFC
A pair of pot smokers picked the wrong day to use the drive-thru window at a KFC restaurant in Buffalo. Two men in their 20s pulled up to the restaurant's window and asked for the Wednesday special.
Meanwhile, a couple of narcotics detectives were inside ordering their food. That's when a cloud of marijuana smoke wafted into the restaurant. The detectives then spotted the two men smoking what one of the cops called "the biggest marijuana cigar your ever saw."
The detectives went outside and arrested 23-year-old Charles Morris and 26-year-old Gregory Quick, both of Buffalo. The two men were charged with possession of marijuana and smoking it in public.
KFC
In Memory
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards, theater director and educator who mentored the career of August Wilson and directed the legendary Broadway production of "A Raisin in the Sun," has died of heart failure.
Richards died Thursday - his birthday - at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, said Victoria Nolan, deputy director of the Yale School of Drama, on Friday. Always circumspect about his age, he was believed to be in his mid-80s.
Besides Wilson, Richards helped shape the career of many playwrights, working with writers primarily at three major theatrical institutions - the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, Conn., (which he ran for more than 30 years - from 1966 to 1999); as dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre from 1979 to 1991.
It was with Wilson, who died last October, that Richards forged his most prominent partnership. He directed six of Wilson's plays on Broadway, starting with "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" in 1984, and their relationship continued through "Fences" (1987), "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (1988), "The Piano Lesson" (1990), "Two Trains Running" (1992), and "Seven Guitars" (1996). Richards won a Tony Award for his direction of "Fences."
Richards made his Broadway directorial debut in 1959 with "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry's landmark play about a black family moving into a white neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. The drama, which starred Claudia McNeil, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands, ran for more than a year in New York. It made Poitier a star and propelled Richards into a career teaching drama, first at Hunter College and then New York University.
Seven years later, he became head of the Playwrights Conference in Connecticut and in 1979 took over both the Yale School of Drama and the Yale Rep, which is where Wilson incubated many of his plays before they went on to New York.
Lloyd Richards
In Memory
Ric Weiland
Ric Weiland, one of the first five Microsoft Corp. employees and a major local philanthropist, died June 24. He was 53.
Weiland went to high school with Microsoft co-founder and good friend Paul Allen. Allen and Bill Gates hired him in 1975, the same year they founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, N.M.
Weiland moved with Microsoft to the Seattle area in 1979. After a stint at Harvard Business School, he rejoined Microsoft in 1982 and worked as the project leader for Microsoft Works, the company's second-tier word processing and spreadsheet software.
After leaving Microsoft in 1988, Weiland dedicated most of his time to philanthropy. He donated tens of millions of dollars to a number of local charities, including the Pride Foundation and the Lifelong AIDS Alliance.
Ric Weiland
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