Tom Danehy: When it comes to these items in the news, Tom gets confused
Some things I just don't understand ...
A woman in Sierra Vista was convicted of stealing $3,500 from a Buena High School student account. She was sentenced to three years in prison.
NFL player Donté Stallworth (with the lame-ass apostrophe) consumed four giant tequila drinks at a Miami nightclub, became way past legally drunk, got in his SUV, and ran down and killed a 57-year-old man. Stallworth served 24 days in jail.
Please explain that to me.
Garrison Keillor: The art of summer fun
Last week, we got several perfect days in a row in St. Paul -- fresh and sweet in the morning, afternoons balmy, and evenings you could sit outdoors until midnight and talk extravagantly about life as you did when you were 25. St. Paul was perfect, and so of course one felt the urge to get out of town.
"Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream)" by Kevin Starr: A review by Benjamin Schwarz
It was a magnificent run. From the end of the Second World War to the mid-1960s, California consolidated its position as an economic and technological colossus and emerged as the country's dominant political, social, and cultural trendsetter. Thanks to wartime and Cold War defense spending, a flourishing consumer economy, and a seemingly ever-expanding tax base, the state was at the forefront of the single greatest rise in prosperity in American history.
"The Beats: A Graphic History" by Harvey Pekar: A review by Richard Meltzer
Written principally by Harvey Pekar, Mr. Graphic Splendor himself, and edited by some Ivy League academic, it contains more factual errors than any prior Beat book of comparable length. ... Doesn't anyone fact-check anymore? As if such hokum weren't enough, the graphics really pile on the embarrassment. ... What a cheesy, pointless book.
John Letzing: What's to become of Microsoft's answer to the iPod? (MarketWatch)
Microsoft Corp.'s quarterly earnings report last week featured a number of grim statistics, including a relatively overlooked, albeit steep decline related to its Zune portable media player-potentially adding more uncertainty to the embattled product's future.
Omar Kholeif: Gaga for Fame (popmatters.com)
Recently dubbed the new "princess of Pop," 'Rolling Stone' has said that Lady Gaga is on the verge of being the "defining Pop Star of the year," and earlier offered her the cover of the coveted annual Hot List Edition.
Sunday, on Meet the Press, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Iran..."We believe as a matter of policy it is unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons... So we are united in our continuing commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons... First, we're going to do everything we can to prevent you from ever getting a nuclear weapon. But your pursuit is futile, because we will never let Iran--nuclear-armed"...
Do you think Obama would use the military option to prevent a nuclear armed Iran?
Joni Mitchell's manager did not allow her to perform at Woodstock because she was scheduled on a TV show, and he didn't want her to miss it. What was that TV show?
BttbB was first, and correct, with:
2062, which was 100 years from when the show premiered in 1962. George worked for Spacely Sprockets (which I figure was founded by an ancestor that played in the 1990's band Toad the Wet Sprocket). I think they went on to develop the 'Self-sealing Stem Bolt' of Star Trek fame. Or, so I've been told... Well, time to take my medicine.
Live long and prosper!
Charlie answered:
Though it should be obvious by now that things will be nothing then like they were presented in the show, the Jetsons was set in 2062, 100 years from when the series debuted.
Alan J responded:
2062
Sally wrote:
The "Jetsons" (circa 1962) was originally supposed to take place in the year 2062. What happened thereafter, I don't know. but, loved that series, fer sure!
PS: More wild weather set for this afternoon. I can't wait. We have yet to hit 90o this summer - NOT that I am complaining you understand...
Marian the Teacher replied:
2062
MAM answered:
They never said a specific date, but it was supposed to be one hundred
years in the future so based off of when it first aired, 1962, it would have been
2062.
And, Joe S replied:
The Jetsons is a prime-time animated sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The original incarnation of the series aired Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963.
It was Hanna-Barbera’s space age counterpart to The Flintstones. Like the former show, it is a half-hour family sitcom projecting contemporary American culture and lifestyle into another time period. While the Flintstones live in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a futuristic utopia in the year 2062 of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions. ~Wikopedia
Never watched it.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'Numb3rs', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a FRESH'Face The Ace', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Seth Rogen hosting, music by Phoenix.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Red Eye', followed by a FRESH'Dirty Sexy Money'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Los Cabos Show', followed by an old 'Friends', then an old 'Sex In The City', followed by another old 'Sex In The Ctiy'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY has the movie 'Clear & Present Danger', followed by the movie 'Dying Young'.
AMC offers the movie 'Batman Returns', followed by the movie 'Get Shorty', then the movie 'Be Cool'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
[1:00 PM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Episode 24
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[7:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 1
[8:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 1
[9:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 2
[10:15 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Mickey Rourke, Jessica Biel
[11:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 1
[12:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 2
[1:15 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Mickey Rourke, Jessica Biel
[2:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 1
[3:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 2
[4:15 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Mickey Rourke, Jessica Biel
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 11 Inglis
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Kitching
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 5 Osman (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Coming To America', then the movie 'Coming To America', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Idiocracy', followed by the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle'.
FX has the movie 'Superman Returns', followed by the movie 'The Punisher'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Art Of War', and 'Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler'.
IFC -
[6:45 AM] The Fighting Cholitas
[7:15 AM] Running With the Bulls
[8:00 AM] Sanshiro Sugata
[9:25 AM] Tyger
[9:30 AM] Roadside Prophets
[11:15 AM] Last Days
[1:00 PM] Running With the Bulls
[1:45 PM] No Such Thing
[3:30 PM] Roadside Prophets
[5:15 PM] Last Days
[7:00 PM] Z Rock
[7:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:00 PM] The Notorious Bettie Page
[9:35 PM] Edmond
[11:00 PM] Flannel Pajamas
[1:05 AM] The Notorious Bettie Page
[2:45 AM] Edmond
[4:10 AM] Flannel Pajamas (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Mummy', followed by the movie 'Dragonquest'.
Traditional Chinese Opera actor Wu Hsing-kuo, right, and actress Wei Hai-min from the Contemporary Legend Theatre perform a classic work 'Farewell My Concubine' during a press event at the National Theater Concert Hall Friday, July 31, 2009, in Taipei, Taiwan. 'Farewell My Concubine' is one of the famous Chinese Opera, starting Oct. 22
Photo by Chiang Ying-ying
A scientific journal has retracted a controversial paper claiming to have created the first human sperm from embryonic stem cells.
The journal's editor told the science publication Nature that the study by scientists at Britain's Newcastle University was retracted because two paragraphs in its introduction had been plagiarized.
Newcastle University blamed the plagiarism on a research associate who has left the institution, and said the science behind the research, and its conclusions, were not in question.
Graham Parker, editor of Stem Cells and Development, said on the journal's Web site that the sperm study "is being retracted," without explaining why. But the scientific journal Nature quoted him as saying that half of the introduction paragraphs were plagiarized from a 2007 review in the journal Biology of Reproduction.
A reveller poses during the annual heavy metal music open-air festival in the northern German village of Wacken, near Hamburg July 30, 2009. The festival was established in 1990 and attracts more than 75,000 participants.
Photo by Morris Mac Matzen
The huge musical puzzle that is Mozart is about to be expanded by two potentially important pieces.
More than two centuries after his death, two additional works have recently been identified as being composed by the Austrian master. While the pieces might have been played before, Sunday will be the first time they will be performed as compositions of the popular prodigy.
The venue is Salzburg, Amadeus' birthplace and the city that nurtured his early musical career. The International Mozarteum Foundation will officially present the piano pieces at a hotly awaited event that will feature a live performance by Austrian pianist Florian Birsak.
Officials, protecting the works like state secrets after officially announcing their discovery last week, have said only that they were created by a young Mozart and are contained in a manuscript owned by the Mozarteum for more than 100 years.
The mid-movie dash to the restroom can turn us into calculating Hussein Bolt wannabes: Ah, this looks like a lull - time to dash.
When we return to our seats, we pray the answer to "What did I miss?" isn't "Darth Vader is really Luke's father" or "the girlfriend is really a guy."
The Web site RunPee.com can help with such anxious guess work.
The site provides recommended opportunities to race to the restroom. It tells you when the action or romance wanes, and gives you a cue ("Baby O.J. is taken from Bruno") for your exit.
The site tells you how long you've got and even summarizes what you missed. Since early July, RunPee.com is available as an iPhone app, too.
A historic enthusiast performs a re-enactment of Prague's First Defenestration, an act of throwing out someone from a window, in Prague July 31, 2009. The historical event of Defenestration began on 30th July 1419 when a crowd of demonstrators demanded the release of some prisoners but were refused by the councillors. The outraged crowd then burst into the building and threw officials out of the windows, according to local media.
Queen Elizabeth II has switched bearskin hats for turbans outside Buckingham Palace, where Sikh soldiers have begun guarding the monarch and her treasures, Britain's defense ministry said Friday.
Signaler Simranjit Singh and Lance Cpl. Sarvjit Singh are the first Sikhs to take part in patrols outside the queen's residence and to stand watch over the Crown jewels at the Tower of London across town.
Guard duties are usually carried out by the Guards of Household Division, famed for their bearskin hats and crimson coats that attract picture-taking tourists in their thousands. The ministry said the Sikh soldiers instead wore turbans and blue uniforms.
Other army regiments often help carry out guard duties at Britain's Buckingham Palace when the Household Division is on operations. The ministry said the two soldiers are the first of the 90 Sikhs in Britain's army to be handed the task.
Sikhs routinely guarded Queen Victoria - a colonial ruler of India. At the time of World War I, Sikhs formed about 20 percent of the British army, but numbers dwindled following India's independence.
A high school student is suing Amazon.com Inc. for deleting an e-book he purchased for the Kindle reader, saying his electronic notes were bollixed, too.
Amazon CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for remotely removing copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" from their e-reader devices. The company did so after learning the electronic editions were pirated, and it gave buyers automatic refunds. But Amazon did it without prior notice.
The lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle on behalf of Justin D. Gawronski, 17, a student at Eisenhower High School in Shelby Township, Mich., as well as Antoine J. Bruguier, an adult reader in Milpitas, Calif.
The lawsuit said Amazon never disclosed to customers that it "possessed the technological ability or right to remotely delete digital content purchased through the Kindle Store."
The people who staged Michael Jackson's memorial service have donated $90,000 to build a tribute to fallen Los Angeles police officers.
Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns Staples Center in Los Angeles, donated money received from the sale of 18 luxury suites to guests at the July 7 Jackson memorial.
The company says the decision to donate the money was made before a dispute developed over city funds spent to provide security and other services during the memorial.
Karen Wagener, president of the Los Angeles Police Foundation, says it will be used to help fund a $620,000 memorial - a brass wall expected to be unveiled in September at the site of a new downtown police headquarters.
Surprised tourists found their little piece of Cancun beach paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors on Thursday.
Environmental enforcement officers backed by Mexican navy personnel closed off hundreds of feet (dozens of meters) of powder-white coastline in front of a hotel accused of illegally accumulating sand on its beach.
Mexico spent $19 million to replace Cancun beaches washed away by Hurricane Wilma in 2005. But much of the sand pumped from the sea floor has since washed away, leading some property owners to build breakwaters in a bid to retain sand. The practice often merely shifts sand loss to beaches below the breakwaters.
"Today we made the decision to close this stretch of ill-gotten, illegally accumulated sand," said Patricio Patron, Mexico's attorney general for environmental protection. "This hotel was telling its tourists: 'Come here, I have sand ... the other hotels don't, because I stole it.'"
A Boston University student has been ordered to pay $675,000 to four record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music.
Joel Tenenbaum, of Providence, R.I., admitted he downloaded and distributed 30 songs. The only issue for the jury to decide was how much in damages to award the record labels.
Under federal law, the recording companies were entitled to $750 to $30,000 per infringement. But the law allows as much as $150,000 per track if the jury finds the infringements were wilful. The maximum jurors could have awarded in Tenenbaum's case was $4.5 million.
Last month, a federal jury in Minneapolis ruled a Minnesota woman must pay nearly $2 million for copyright infringement.
Two Ohio police chiefs accused of snooping on the surrogate mother for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were charged with several felonies on Friday.
Special prosecutor T. Shawn Hervey said the men conspired to take items from the woman's eastern Ohio home to sell to celebrity photographers.
At an arraignment Friday, Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter was charged with two counts of burglary, one count of receiving stolen property, one count of theft in office, one count of unauthorized use of property or services and one count of tampering with evidence.
Bridgeport Police Chief Chad Dojack, 30, was charged with two counts of complicity to burglary and one count of complicity to receiving stolen property.
Harvey Frand, an Emmy-winning producer who was the "man behind the curtain" on the Syfy hit "Battlestar Galactica," died July 23 in Los Angeles after a brief hospitalization for respiratory problems. He was 68.
Frand's series-producing career began in 1982 with "The Devlin Connection," Rock Hudson's final series. Other credits include 34 episodes of the 1985-89 version of "The Twilight Zone," "The Lazarus Man," "The Pretender" and "Strange World." He produced more than 20 pilots and movies of the week.
A native of Philadelphia, Frand began in television at NBC News. Later, as an executive at Warner Bros., he oversaw production on "Harry O," the 1973 series starring David Janssen. Frand went to San Diego to check in with the company and, because there was no on-site producer, stayed to work with the cast and crew. After that, he was hooked on the role of producer.
Frand also produced the 1974-75 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" starring Christopher Walken and Irene Worth, who won a best actress Tony for her performance.
Frand is survived by Bill Bowersock, his domestic partner of 32 years. In lieu of flowers, donations in his name can be made to the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles' Alive Music Project.
An albino wallaby is seen in its enclosure at a private zoo in the district of Paphos July 30, 2009. The two-month-old wallaby, which was born in captivity, only emerged from its mother's pouch this week and its sex has yet to be determined.
Photo by Pavlos Vrionides
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