'Best of TBH Politoons'
Saturday & Sunday Night
Erin Hart
On 710 KIRO from 9pm - 1 am (pdt)
Wow. The Bushies change the name of the war on terror. It's the struggle
against extremism now and you know what? IT STILL IS A MESS AND A QUAGMIRE.
By any other name just as bad.
Karl Rove case just keeps on giving--let's see how long he and Scooter last.
Martha G (or is it Marty?) from BartCop provides us with links and much needed humor sites to explore in
these dog days of summer on Sunday night around 9pm.
And LIVE and LOCAL progressive talk is all about the viaduct and the gas
tax--we NEED to invest--so how do we convince the rest of the state? Or
should we? Shall we charge them a tax to talk over the mountains the goods
and services provided via the ports and rails, highways and bridges???
A NEW RANT
FROM AVERY ANT
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Van Jones: The Religious Left Fights Back (AlterNet)
The last time U.S. progressives won, people of faith were at the center of the movement -- not stuck in its closet.
Scilla Elworthy: A Better Way to Tackle Terror (openDemocracy.net. Posted on Alternet)
The long, bloody conflicts in Northern Ireland and Palestine show that if terrorism is approached as war, it cannot be defeated.
NEIL A. LEWIS: Military's Opposition to Harsh Interrogation Is Outlined (NY Times)
Senior military lawyers lodged vigorous and detailed dissents in early 2003 as an administration legal task force concluded that President Bush had authority as commander in chief to order harsh interrogations of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, newly disclosed documents show.
BOB HERBERT: Oil and Blood (NY Times)
It is now generally understood that the U.S.-led war in Iraq has become a debacle.
Paul Krugman: French Family Values
(Click on "Columns," then on "French Family Values")
Americans tend to believe that we do everything better than anyone else. That belief makes it hard for us to learn from others.
Evolution in Action: Poaching making China elephants evolve tuskless (Reuters)
Chinese elephants are evolving into an increasingly tuskless breed because poaching is changing the gene pool, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Video: Too Stupid to be President
The Wall Street Poet
Bush And Clinton
George Herbert Walker Bush was followed in the presidency by Bill Clinton who was followed by George W. Bush who will likely be followed by Hillary Clinton who may well be succeeded by Jeb Bush. What's wrong with this picture?
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Reader Comment
Re: Daniel Day Lewis
Hi Marty
Purple Gene's list of whites playing indians included Daniel Day-LewisDaniel Day Lewis asHawkeye.
Hawkeye was a white man not an indian.
Also the pic of an indian in the review is Michael Ansara who is notmentioned.
Paul
Thanks, Paul!
You're right about Daniel Day-Lewis portraying a white guy in
The Last of the Mohicans (1992).
Interestingly, the Mohican, Chingachgook is played by Russell Means, who is
an Oglala/Lakota Sioux, and Uncas is played by
Eric Schweig, an Inuit.
Weirdly, Michael Ansara (the former husband of
Barbara Eden), was born in Syria.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Pleasant summer day.
So, was watching 'Arrested Development' on the local Faux outlet and there was a Disneyland commercial (they've been advertising a lot lately).
It was followed by a tease for the news, which featured an accident at Disneyland.
Way back when I worked in master control there was a standing rule about accidents, commercials & advertisers - the rule was if there was an accident, scrub the ads for that client.
Airlines were a major beneficiary - any time there was a crash, you'd see no commercials for United or USAir for a couple of days.
Anyway, quite a lovely image - a happy, chirping commercial for Disneyland followed by video of ambulances and triage at the 'Happiest Place on Earth'. Yoweee.
Inaugural Traverse City Film Festival
Michael Moore
Bathed in spotlight on a darkened stage, Michael Moore sounded downright conciliatory toward his detractors while welcoming a capacity crowd to a film festival in his adopted hometown.
"This is the America we want to believe in, where we can all have our various beliefs but come together for the greater good of the community," the left-wing documentary filmmaker said to a thunderous ovation.
The Oscar winner, known for humorous but bitingly satirical productions such as "Roger & Me" and "Fahrenheit 9/11," described good movies as a bridge across the political divide for people "tired of the hate, tired of the yelling, tired of ... the screamfests, the talk radio."
Michael Moore
Next Season's Guests
'The Simpsons'
Next season's guests on "The Simpsons" will include some old faces, some new ones and a Worm. Returning for roles on the Fox cartoon will be Alec Baldwin, who appeared on the show in 2002, and Kelsey Grammer, who will reprise his role as Sideshow Bob, the network announced Thursday.
Former NBA star Dennis "The Worm" Rodman and NFL quarterback-turned-broadcaster Terry Bradshaw will make cameos as themselves for the annual "ghoultide" Halloween episode.
Ricky Gervais, William H. Macy, Lily Tomlin, Frances McDormand, Rob Reiner and Richard Dean Anderson are all also slated to appear in episodes.
'The Simpsons'
No Copyright Violation
'Fixin' to Die Rag'
A U.S. appeals court has rejected a lawsuit charging 1960s psychedelic rocker Country Joe McDonald with copyright infringement for his 1965 protest song "Fixin' to Die Rag," which became a rallying cry for opposition to the Vietnam War.
In a decision made public on Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal from Babette Ory, who said McDonald's song infringed on jazz standard "Muskrat Ramble," credited to her father, Kid Ory.
The appellate judges upheld a lower-court decision saying there was too long a delay in bringing the copyright lawsuit and awarded McDonald his attorney fees. Ory obtained copyright to "Muskrat Ramble" in 2001.
McDonald wrote "Fixing To Die Rag" in 1965 to protest the nation's escalating military involvement in Vietnam and the song's refrain: "And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?" quickly turned into a rallying cry against the war and figured prominently at the Woodstock music festival in 1969.
'Fixin' to Die Rag'
Fox Renews
'The Simple Life'
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are stuck together for another season of "The Simple Life" - even if they're not speaking to each other.
Fox announced Thursday that the network has picked up the options on the contracts for both of the feuding friends for the fourth season of the reality show. Aside from the public rift between Hilton and Richie, Fox sees other fodder for on-screen sparks.
An air date for "The Simple Life 4" has not yet been set.
'The Simple Life'
Broadway Bound
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts, movie star, is heading to Broadway next spring. The 37-year-old actress will make her Broadway debut in a revival of Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain."
The production will begin a limited 12-week engagement next March at a theater to be named, producer David Stone confirmed Friday in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. He said the play, which Stone will co-produce with Marc Platt, will be directed by Joe Mantello.
"Three Days of Rain" was first done in New York in 1997 at off-Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club. The play, a mysterious family drama, starred Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and Bradley Whitford.
Julia Roberts
OK's Video Game Contract
Screen Actors Guild
Members of the Screen Actors Guild overwhelmingly approved a new contract covering their work in video games, the union's Web site said on Friday.
The vote was approved by a margin of 81.2 percent to 18.8 percent late on Thursday and sent a strong message to SAG's national executive committee, which in June narrowly voted to nullify a previous SAG member vote approving the agreement.
The agreement won higher wages and better benefits for union members, but failed to secure residual payments for a union actor whose voice or likeness appears in a video game.
Screen Actors Guild
Sends Birthday Banner
Peter Jennings
ABC News colleagues on Friday sent a plane with birthday greetings over the home of Peter Jennings, who hasn't been seen on the air since announcing on April 5 that he had lung cancer.
It was the job of Jennings' wife to steer the veteran anchor to where he'd see the banner saying, "Happy Birthday, Peter - love from all at `World News Tonight'" flying above his home outside of New York City.
His co-workers also taped birthday greetings sent via e-mail and viewers also participated in a "virtual birthday party" over the Web, the network said.
Jennings turned 67 on Friday.
Peter Jennings
Settles Lawsuit
Cirque du Soleil
A lawsuit filed against Cirque du Soleil by an electrician severely injured when hit by a falling alligator-head stage prop was settled Friday, moments before a jury was set to announce its verdict.
The confidential settlement will give Mark Brown, 52, of Las Vegas, financial security and avoid a lengthy appeals process, said his lawyer Jim Crockett. "It will cover his medical bills. It will provide (Brown and his wife) with the security they didn't have before," Crockett said.
Brown was paralyzed from the waist down and lost about 25 per cent of his skull in the Jan. 30, 2002, accident backstage at the Bellagio hotel-casino. He was installing circuitry and wiring in the "O" theatre between shows when the 450-kilogram prop fell about 15 metres onto him.
Cirque du Soleil
Post Office To Be Re-Named
Ray Charles
US resident George W. Bush will give late soul legend Ray Charles a unique gift for what would have been his 75th birthday: a post office named in the musician's honor, his publicist said.
Officials will unveil the renamed "Ray Charles Post Office Building" near Charles's Los Angeles recording studios on August 24 after Bush earlier this month signed into law a bill authorizing the homage.
The post office lies a stone's throw from the studios where the blind musician, who died in June last year at the age of 73, for decades recorded his albums.
Ray Charles
'Zorba the Greek' Composer
Mikis Theodorakis
The port city of Chania on the Greek island of Crete launched a three-day festival to mark the 80th birthday of one of its favourite sons, 'Zorba the Greek' composer Mikis Theodorakis.
With speeches from friends and colleagues, a Cretan feast and free concert, the festival was to celebrate all aspects of Theodorakis' turbulent life -- his art, his political career and role as a resistance symbol under the fascist junta that held power in Greece in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
While the composer was born on the eastern Aegean island of Chios on July 29, 1925, his family comes from the village of Galatas, just four kilometres (2.5 miles) outside Chania.
It is here that the man most Greeks simply call 'Mikis' began a long career of political struggle, enlisting as a 17 year-old in the resistance against the German occupation of Crete.
Mikis Theodorakis
Resigns From News Corp
Lachlan Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan resigned unexpectedly as a senior executive at News Corp. Friday, ending his father's hopes that he would someday command the sprawling media empire that owns Twentieth Century Fox and Fox News Channel.
The sudden departure put the spotlight back on the issue of who would eventually succeed Murdoch, who is 74 years old. The next most likely candidate in the Murdoch family is Lachlan's 32-year-old brother James, but given his youth he would not likely be a candidate for many years.
Lachlan said in a statement that he would move back home to Australia with his wife and son, but he did not elaborate on his reasons for leaving, and a company spokesman declined to comment. He will remain on the company's board of directors.
Lachlan Murdoch
Opera Resuscitated
'Zoroastre'
After centuries of virtual hibernation, French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau's enigmatic opera "Zoroastre" will be brought back to life next week at a royal theater near Stockholm that has remained unchanged since the 1700s.
Although frequently performed in Rameau's lifetime, the piece, which dates from 1756, has hardly been performed since his death in 1764.
Zoroastre alludes to the founder of the Persian religion Zoroastrianism in the sixth century BC, and the opera describes the age-old struggle between light and darkness and contains elements of freemasonry and plenty of stormy emotions.
'Zoroastre'
Methods And Bias
The Media
When most people watch a TV show, like Buffy or CSI or Survivor, they are well aware of the fact that everything they see is preplanned, scripted, and fully controlled. Days of planning, hard work, and post production have gone into that show to turn it from a jumble of video recordings into a coherent show. What many of these same people are not aware of (and how could they be?) is that when they sit down to watch the nightly news, or their favorite artificial news-flavored product, they are in fact watching a show that has been just as managed, planned, and scripted as any episode of Seinfeld was.
So, lets pull back the curtain and take a good look.
For the rest, The Media
In Memory
Art Collins
Art Collins, who managed Iggy Pop for the last 20 years, died suddenly Wednesday at his home in Pine Bush, N.Y. He was 52. Cause of death was not revealed, pending the outcome of an autopsy.
Collins entered the music business in 1975, working in Atlantic Records' promotion department, and then joined Rolling Stones Records where he eventually became president. In 1982 he turned to management; over the years his roster included Joe Jackson, Marianne Faithfull and Marshall Crenshaw.
In a statement, Iggy Pop commented: "Art was a big sweetheart. He was a marshmallow. This very down-to-earth guy was a kind of tonic for everyone he met, and he really loved rock and roll. He was immensely proud of his tenure with Atlantic Records, his work with the Rolling Stones, and I hope with me as well. He was my best friend."
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on July 30 at the New Prospect Church, 2964 State Route 52, Walker Valley, N.Y.
Art Collins
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