Paul Krugman: Getting to Crazy (New York Times)
There aren't many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief - of the black-humor variety - in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy.
Andrew Tobias: A Good News Video
It is that kind of big goal that we need - energy independence! - and that will require a couple of decades of emphasis on publicly funded private construction (when was the last time a billionaire built or repaired a bridge? other than across his koi pond?) - which means more public spending (via your tax payments) and somewhat less private spending (via your MasterCard).
JOE QUEENAN: Hey Kids, It's Till Debt Do Us Part (Wall Street Journal)
Every time a politician opens his mouth these days, it's to say that we as a people cannot leave our children saddled with a mountain of debt. Sometimes they throw in our grandchildren for good measure. It's even more poignant when they say "our unborn grandchildren," because unborn grandchildren are always pink and cute and cuddly and helpless, whereas our real grandchildren are often nasty little suckers with horrible names like Skyler.
JEREMY CHERFAS: Mediterraneans Abandon Their Famous Diet (NPR)
It's not news that Americans are getting fatter and fatter, and the same is happening in many countries around the world. What may come as a bit of a surprise is that it's even happening in Mediterranean countries, especially among young people.
Roger Ebert: Review of "HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2" (3 ½ stars)
After seven earlier films reaching back a decade, the Harry Potter saga comes to a solid and satisfying conclusion in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2." The finale conjures up enough awe and solemnity to serve as an appropriate finale and a dramatic contrast to the lighthearted (relative) innocence of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" all those magical years ago.
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Patrick Layton "Pat" Paulsen (July 6, 1927 - April 24, 1997) was an American comedian and satirist notable for his roles on several of the Smothers Brothers TV shows, and for his campaigns for President of the United States in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1988, 1992, and 1996, which had primarily comedic rather than political objectives, although his campaigns generated some protest votes for him.
Paulsen's campaign that year, and in succeeding years, was grounded in comedy, while not bereft of serious commentary. He ran the supposed campaigns using obvious lies, double talk, and tongue-in-cheek attacks on the major candidates, and responded to all criticism with his catch phrase "Picky, picky, picky". His campaign slogan was "Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny."
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman."
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Baron Dave ("The truth is about what people want to keep hidden. Everything else is publicity." -- Bill Moyers, The Daily Show 6/1/11) was first, and correct, with:
Shockwave Radio Theater had endorsed a presidential candidate every election since 1980. No one who was actually running, of course, but we had our fun and scored political points.
That changed in 1996, when we endorsed Pat Paulsen for President. I still have the e-mail he sent me, a prized digital file. One of the greatest political speeches ever (poor sound).
Alan J said:
Pat Paulsen
mj wrote:
Actually saw him campaign in '72
That's Pat Paulsen (sp?). His family values pledge included getting Ken to make an honest woman out of Barbie.
I miss the Smother's Brothers.
STEPHEN F responded:
That is Pat Paulsen in the photo
Timothy SB replied:
The person is Pat Paulson on the Smothers Brothers Show.
sandra in bangor answered:
pat paulson
Sally said:
I know this one, Marty,
That would be Pat Paulsen from the, "Smother's Brothers" TV series - which I won the DVD a few years back! (I've watched it many times since, and now my gs is getting into it as well.)
PS: One last note about the family of little Leiby Kletzky. Hasidic Jews traditionally do not have radios and/or television sets in their homes, so the Kletzky's have been spared a lot of the gruesome details of their son's death.
In the past, in that neighborhood, there have been a few altercations between the Lubavitch's and the African American community, and of course we can all imagine the interaction between the communities and some of the Muslim's living in the area. Well, only this morning the TV showed a crowd surrounding the police car carrying the child's confessed killer to court - from the other ethnic communities - screaming "Killer, killer" and about ready to turn over the car because they were so enraged over the killing of this child. Then the media interviewed an Arab neighbor - an older man, who with tears streaming down his face, denounced the killing of, "A baby, who could have been my own son..."
When the Kletzky family was visited by a news reporter, the father told him that his wife is, "Wild with grief," thinking she should have, "insisted Leiby take the camp van home that day." When he was told of the overwhelming response by so many people, outside his community, who are sharing their grief, he said: "This is good, if Leiby's death can bring people together, this is good..." "I am proud of him in his life and now his death," he added.
I am calling little Leiby, our "Prince of peace."
We can only hope...
Charlie wrote:
Pat Paulsen.
I wasn't old enough to vote when he first ran at the instigation of the Smothers Brothers. We'd be better off had he won, especially 1980.
DanD responded:
The perrenial-yet-perpetual (or almost) Pat Paulson, who also did
actually get some votes! It really is sad to realize that his
political platform actually made more overall sense than what is
perpetually being used by all the more modern, occasionally
blossoming, candidates in the current cycle of POTUS devolvement.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
That would be Pat Paulsen.....I loved him on the old Smothers Brothers show.
Adam answered:
Pat Paulson?
Got it in one.
Skeeve wrote:
I believe that was Pat Paulson. I remember seeing his campaign "ads" during Prime Time in the 60's, usually during comedy shows.
John I from Hawaii says:
"Pat Paulsen"
Redlake replied:
Funny you should ask. That's Pat Paulsen, and we'd be a lot better off if he'd been elected. Or at least, things would be different. Picky, picky, picky
Doc Pain said:
why that's the wonderfully funny and serious as a heart attack Presidential wannabe, Pat Paulson.
MAM wrote:
Pat Paulsen!
PS Wowser says to tell Sally that he loves the piccalo trumpet! But it hurts his ears!
George M answered:
Marty, the candidate you displayed was the late Pat Paulsen - he ran in all of those elections you mentioned.
From what I have read of him, he drew a lot of votes back in 1968. He also came in second to the "Big Dog" (Bill Clinton) in the 1996 New Hampshire Democratic primary, from what I've read elsewhere
BttbB responded:
The irrepressible Pat Paulsen (Is it just me, or does he look kinda like Dennis Kucinich in that photo? Wait! Maybe Kucinich actually is Paulsen's long-lost little brother! Yeah! That's it! Call TMZ!)
Steve in Sacramento said:
Pat Paulson
The first person ever to put political campaigns in their proper perspective.
Litebug replied:
The hilarious presidential candidate with the sad face was Pat Paulson, a regular on the old Smothers Brothers show.
And, Joe S answered:
Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know! That's Pat Paulsen! Pat's campaign was based in comedy and he ran it using outright lies, double talk and unfounded attacks on his challengers. Who would have thought this style would be the method of campaigns in the future?
Pat owned the Cherry County Playhouse in Traverse City, Michigan (Cherry Capital of the World) but moved it to Muskegon (not the Cherry Capitol of the World). I don't remember why, that was a long time ago. I think it was some legal thing designed to shut him down or make it too expensive to operate or something. Anyway Pat said "Up Yours, and moved.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Chaos', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Who Do You Think You Are?', followed by a RERUN'L&O: CI', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Justin Timberlake hosting, music by Lady GaGa.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'101 Ways To Leave A Game Show', followed by a RERUN'Expedition Impossible', then a RERUN'Rookie Blue'.
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 has 'Cops', another 'Cops', and 'The Indestructibles'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'Marked For Death', followed by the movie 'The Mummy'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 The Runaway Girl
[7:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 9 The Olde Stone Mill
[8:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 Momma Cherri's
[9:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Riviera
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 10 Dillons
[12:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape - Episode 1
[1:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 1 Pilot
[2:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 2 Deep Throat
[3:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 3 Squeeze
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 5 Disaster
[5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 7 Unification - Part 1
[6:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 8 Unification - Part 2
[7:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 7 - Six Degrees of Separation
[8:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 8 - Flesh and Bone
[9:00 PM] Outcasts - Episode 5
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 9 - Tom Hanks, Nicole Sherzinger, Simon Pegg
[11:00 PM] The Inbetweeners - Episode 5
[11:30 PM] Come Fly With Me - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Outcasts - Episode 5
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 9 - Tom Hanks, Nicole Sherzinger, Simon Pegg
[2:00 AM] The Inbetweeners - Episode 5
[2:30 AM] Come Fly With Me - Episode 5
[3:00 AM] Outcasts - Episode 5
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 9 - Tom Hanks, Nicole Sherzinger, Simon Pegg
[5:00 AM] The Inbetweeners - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by the movie 'Pretty Woman', then the movie 'Pretty Woman', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle', followed by the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin'.
FX has the movie 'Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', and yet another '2½ Men'.
History has 'Swamp People', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'American Pickers', 'American Restoration', and 'Pawn Stars'.
In this photo provided by Disneyland, actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, front right, rides a roller coaster with Justin Mikita, front left, and Mikita's niece Emma and nephew Will at the new Goofy's Sky School attraction, Friday, July 15, 2011, at Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, Calif. Ferguson was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in the TV series "Modern Family."
Photo by Paul Hiffmeyer
Fox News Channel has discussed the British phone hacking scandal involving its parent News Corp. dozens of times over the past few weeks, but far less than the story has been reported on rivals CNN and MSNBC.
Fox faces an awkward question that hounds news organizations in these days of large corporate ownership: How do you deal with stories embarrassing to your bosses while keeping the appearance of journalistic independence?
The liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America said that through Thursday, Fox had talked about the story 37 times. Fox disputed those numbers and said that, through mid-afternoon on Friday, the story had been addressed on the network more than 50 times. Through Thursday, CNN had referenced the story 124 times, said Media Matters, and MSNBC had discussed it 85 times.
The subject didn't emerge last weekend on "Fox News Watch," a weekly show devoted to issues surrounding the media. It has yet to be addressed on Fox's two most popular programs, prime-time shows hosted by Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity; Greta Van Susteren at 10 p.m. EDT has covered the story.
Author George R.R. Martin appears at a book signing for "A Dance with Dragons" at Barnes & Noble in New York, Thursday, July 14, 2011. HBO's "Game of Thrones," based on RR Martin's epic fantasy novels, was nominated for an Emmy for best drama series on Thursday.
Photo by Charles Sykes
A liberal group upset over potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security delivered pledges Friday to President Barack Obama's national campaign headquarters threatening to pull its support.
About a dozen people representing the Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered what they said were 200,000 pledges from people who will refuse to donate or volunteer for Obama's re-election campaign if he cuts the entitlement programs.
"It's not a question of who they're going to support for president, they're going to vote for Barack Obama. It's a question of where their time and money is going to go," spokesman T. Neil Sroka said.
Sroka said the 200,000 people represent more than $17 million in donations to Obama's campaign in 2008 and about 2.6 million volunteer hours.
TNT says it's canceled Ray Romano's award-winning series "Men of a Certain Age" after two seasons.
Calling it a "difficult decision," the cable network said Friday the show failed to attract a big enough audience despite its excellence. "Men of a Certain Age" averaged 2.7 million viewers for the episodes that concluded this month.
The show received a prestigious George Foster Peabody award earlier this year and was lauded for combining humor and poignancy. This week, series co-star Andre Braugher received an Emmy nomination as best supporting actor in a drama series.
Romano, Braugher and Scott Bakula played three longtime friends each facing middle age and various life crises. Romano, the former "Everybody Loves Raymond" star, co-created "Men of a Certain Age."
Passersby look under the dress of a 26-foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe in Chicago, July 15, 2011. The sculpture "Forever Marilyn" by artist Seward Johnson, is based on a scene from the movie "Seven Year Itch" and will be on display until next spring.
Photo by Jim Young
CBS has a message for those who were offended by returning "Big Brother" contestant Jeff Schroeder's homophobic comments: Hey, don't blame us.
The network issued a statement to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation after Schroeder went off on a rant about gay "Harry Potter" character Dumbledore on the show's live feed.
The statement pretty much amounts to a washing of hands, with CBS exonerating itself of any responsibility for Schroeder's anti-gay tirade.
Schroeder has a history of making anti-gay statements; during his initial stint on the reality series, on "Big Brother 11," he routinely hurled anti-gay slurs during arguments with his castmates, calling them "homos," among other epithets.
Thai Buddhists carrying candles march around Marble Temple during a traditional festival "Asalha bucha" in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, July 15, 2011. Asalha bucha is a July festival to commemorate the Buddha's first Sermon to followers after attaining enlightenment.
Photo by sakchai Lalit
Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, was jailed for 16 months on Friday for going on a drug-fueled rampage during a student fees protest in London.
Gilmour, 21, had admitted violent disorder. A court heard he had shouted "We're going to break all the laws" during last December's protest.
He was seen hanging from a Union Jack flag on the Cenotaph war memorial and leaping on to the bonnet of a Jaguar car which was traveling in a convoy carrying Prince Charles and his wife Camilla.
The court had heard the Cambridge University student had turned to drink and drugs after being rejected by his biological father, writer Heathcote Williams, and had taken LSD and valium in the hours leading up to the violence.
A New Jersey man accused of stealing a valuable Picasso from a San Francisco art gallery pleaded not guilty Friday to grand theft and burglary charges.
Mark Lugo entered his plea in Superior Court in connection with the July 5 theft of a 1965 drawing worth more than $200,000 from the Weinstein Gallery in downtown San Francisco.
Lugo also faces charges in connection with stealing artwork and wine in New York and New Jersey.
In San Francisco, Lugo's request to have his bail reduced from $5 million to $2 million was denied. Judge Samuel Feng said the 30-year-old suspect is charged with a "brazen" crime and poses a threat to public safety.
Devotees touch the hair of a Sadhu, or a Hindu holyman, hanging from a tree, to take his blessings on the occasion of Guru Purnima festival in the northern Indian city of Allahabad July 15, 2011. Guru Purnima is observed to pay respects to one's "guru" or teacher who symbolises the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar, believed to be the creators of the universe.
Photo by Jitendra Prakash
Publicist Ronni Chasen was murdered with a gun stolen from a police officer, TheWrap has learned.
Beverly Hills police have completed their investigation into and closed the case of the murder of the Hollywood publicist, killed on Sunset Boulevard November 16 of last year while driving home from a premiere party for the movie "Burlesque."
A law enforcement official told TheWrap that police determined the murder weapon was a revolver stolen from a police officer during a burglary in the San Fernando Valley. It is unclear what department that officer works for and when the weapon was stolen.
Ex-con Harold Smith, the suspect who shot himself to death on December 1, had seven bullets and three gloves in his pocket when he died. Police are convinced Smith killed Chasen.
Jimmy Tebeau figured a shuttered youth camp deep in the Missouri Ozarks would be the perfect venue for his Grateful Dead tribute band - and to host other touring musicians and thousands of free-spirited fans.
Since 2004, his 350-acre campground - named Camp Zoe - has featured performances from his own band, the Schwag, as well as top acts such as the Roots and Los Lobos.
But the music recently stopped at Zoe, and now the dreadlocked dad - once considered a savvy impresario among concert promoters and festival organizers in the lucrative improvisational music world- is accused of being a purveyor of an illicit drug scene.
The Zoe, located about 150 miles southwest of St. Louis, staged its last concert on Halloween of last year. The federal government sued Tebeau in November 2010, hoping to seize the campground and nearly $200,000 in profits from his Schwagstock concert series, when his own band performs.
A four-year investigation by the state Highway Patrol, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service found "open sales" of cocaine, marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, hallucinogenic mushrooms, opium and marijuana-laced food at Camp Zoe in a Middle East bazaar-like atmosphere where drug vendors shouted sales pitches to passers-by along campground roads and walking trails, according to court documents. Undercover agents made more than 100 drug purchases.
But a Nov. 1 raid of the campground by an estimated 80 federal agents and local law enforcement - one day after the "Spookstock" Halloween festival - yielded no drugs, McAuliffe said: "Not a single (marijuana) roach."
A man looks at a section of a sand sculpture titled "Andy Warhol" by sculptors Inese Valtere-Ulande and Pedro Mira at the Festival of Sand Sculptures 2011 under the topic "Masterpieces of World Culture" at a beach near the Peter and Pawel Fortress in St. Petersburg July 14, 2011. More than 30 teams from different countries took part in the annual festival, according to the organizers.
Photo by Alexander Demianchuk
Vampires, the devil's deceit and mental illness are among the hot topics for some 300 exorcists who flocked to Poland this week from as far away as Africa and India for a week-long congress.
Held at Poland's Roman Catholic Jasna Gora monastery, home to the venerated Black Madonna icon, this year's congress "examines the current fashion for vampirism in Europe and the world-over, schizophrenia and other mental disorders as well as the devil's deceit during exorcism," according to the monastery's radio station.
Also attending are "priests and lay people who work with exorcists or who are themselves practitioners in cases which do not involve possession but rather other forms of harassment by evil spirits," Polish exorcist, Father Andrzej Grefkowicz was quoted as saying.
Hailing from India, world-renowned exorcist Father Rufus Pereira as well as chief exorcist of the Archdiocese of Vienna Larry Hogan are among the participants, the radio reported. The unusual meeting is held once every two years.
An expectant silence hangs over the Pukaha bird sanctuary as hundreds of spectators await a glimpse of a rare white kiwi, a bird held sacred by New Zealand's indigenous Maori people.
A collective sigh follows his unveiling to the crowd, although this appears to be prompted more by the chick's cute appearance than any mystical qualities.
Resembling a fluffy white tennis ball with an elongated beak and stout, three-toed feet, the white kiwi has become a symbol of New Zealand's efforts to prevent its emblematic national bird from becoming extinct.
The male chick, named Manukura -- meaning "of chiefly status" in Maori -- hatched on May 1 at the sanctuary north of Wellington, becoming the first white kiwi ever born in captivity.
Pukaha's field centre manager Kathy Houkamau said the chick had sparked unprecedented interest in the programme to save the flightless bird species, which is threatened by introduced predators such as stoats, rats and ferrets.
A marijuana plants stands amid a plantation discovered near San Quintin in Baja California state, Mexico, Friday, July 15, 2011. Soldiers have found the largest marijuana plantation ever detected in Mexico, a huge field covering almost 300 acres (120 hectares), covered by shaded netting, the Defense Department said Thursday. The plantation is four times larger than the previous record discovery by authorities at a ranch in northern Chihuahua state in 1984.
Photo by Alexandre Meneghini
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