Josh Marshall: The Bomb Bursts. It Will Keep Happening (TPM)
When I say I'm not surprised, I don't say this pretending to any great insight. Lots of people aren't surprised. Millions of people aren't surprised. The best analogy I can think of is if you build the bomb and attach the fuse and light the fuse, the bomb will go off. The concussion is still loud and jarring. But the bomb was going to go off. That was inevitable when the bomb was built and the fuse lit.
Kieran Yates: 'Most stations wouldn't play half our playlist': 15 years of 1Xtra (The Guardian)
Back in 2002, the cover line of black-music magazine RWD announced to a new generation of radio listeners: "1Xtra: Femme Fatale fronts for the UK's first national black-music radio station from the BBC". On the cover was the UK garage DJ in a branded boob tube - it was the early 00s - and inside was jubilation about the conceit: a load of pirate DJs, some with zero radio experience but great music taste, thrown in with broadcast experts.
Tim Jonze: The gothic horror of Donald Trump's election (The Guardian)
Right before the 2016 US election, Cornelia Parker made a series of videos of ghoulish Halloween revellers in New York. Are the leering partygoers of American Gothic aware of the real horror lurking just around the corner?
Born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin, this American actor, producer, and director has won two Golden Globes, an Emmy, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. By what name is he better known?
James Brolin (born July 18, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director, best known for his roles in film and television, including sitcoms and soap operas. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin and husband of singer/actress Barbra Streisand.
Among other awards, Brolin has won two Golden Globes and an Emmy. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27, 1998.
Brolin was born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. The eldest of two brothers and two sisters, he was the son of Helen Sue, a housewife, and Henry Hurst Bruderlin, a building contractor.
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Mark. was first and correct with:
Craig Kenneth Bruderlin is better known as James Brolin.
Randall wrote:
James Brolin
Adam answered:
Barbra Streisand's squeeze, James Brolin
Deborah replied:
The great Wikipedia tells me that's James Brolin. Does anyone else remember him from "Marcus Welby, M.D."? Just knowing that I watched that show makes me feel old.
Warming up some, but still quite pleasant.
Alan J responded:
James Brolin.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
James Brolin
Billy in Cypress said:
James Brolin
Daniel in The City answered:
James Brolin
zorch responded:
James Brolin
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali replied:
James Brolin…Bannon gone…Gore is right…he needs to resign…fucking wishful thinking?
Joe S said:
Hmmm. James Brolin, I guessed it was Bryan Cranston. Don't know why, just sounded right, but whadda I know? By the way, Bryan Cranston's real name is Bryan Cranston. It's true, I looked it up. No relation to Lamont Cranston. (Or is he?)
From the comments in an article--On a side note, what kind of egomaniacal monster brags about his winery when asked if he's going to Charlottesville in the wake of this tragedy?
Linda asks WHY does Predator have a winery? He famously says he doesn't drink. And even if he sees it as a money-making opportunity, who drinks wine from the vineyard of an asshole who doesn't drink wine?!
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Patriot Act NSA Spying Unconstitutional Section 215 National Security Letters Must End
My name is Marc Perkel and I have decided to announce that I will not comply with the so called "Patriot Act" laws requiring me to disclose information about my customers. If I receive a national security letter I will immediately photograph it, post it online everywhere I can, and then make a video of me burning it. I will then await my arrest. If you want to put me in jail then come get me mother fucker.
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN with Jimmy Fallon hosting, music by Harry Styles.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'The $100,000 Pyramid', then '20/20: In An Instant'.
The CW fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football'.
Faux has a RERUN'Lucifer', followed by a RERUN'Love Connection'.
MY recycles an old 'Rizzoli & Isles', followed by another old 'Rizzoli & Isles'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Independence Day', followed by a FRESH'Halt & Catch Fire'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-Living With Predators - Conservation
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Hardest Challenge
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-In The Grip of Seasons - Arctic
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Hide And Seek - Jungles
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Nowhere To Hide - Plains
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Race Against Time - Coasts
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Islands
[2:20PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-Mountains
[3:40PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-Jungles
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-Deserts
[6:20PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-Grasslands
[7:40PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-Cities
[9:00PM] WILD WEST - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Desert Heartlands
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Islands
[11:20PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-Mountains
[12:40AM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-Jungles
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-Deserts
[3:20AM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-Grasslands
[4:40AM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-Cities (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'The Social Network', followed by the movie 'The Social Network', again.
Comedy Central has 3½ hours of old 'South Park', followed by the movie 'Superbad'.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by the movie 'Kingsman: The Secret Service'.
History has a FRESH'The Cars That Made America Great', another 'The Cars That Made America Great', and still another 'The Cars That Made America Great'.
IFC -
6:00AM] HORSEMEN
[8:00AM] THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
[10:30AM] ROBOCOP
[12:45PM] THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
[3:15PM] SUCKER PUNCH
[5:45PM] DRIVE
[8:00PM] THE TRANSPORTER
[10:00PM] UNSTOPPABLE
[12:00AM] DREDD
[2:00AM] UNSTOPPABLE
[4:00AM] DREDD (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Andy Griffith Show-The County Nurse
[6:35AM] The Andy Griffith Show-Andy and Barney in the Big City
[7:10AM] The Andy Griffith Show-Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee
[7:45AM] The Andy Griffith Show-Three's a Crowd
[8:20AM] The Andy Griffith Show-The Bookie Barber
[8:55AM] The Andy Griffith Show-Andy on Trial
[9:30AM] The Andy Griffith Show-Cousin Virgil
[10:00AM] The Andy Griffith Show-Deputy Otis
[10:30AM] Planet of the Apes
[1:00PM] Escape From New York
[3:00PM] M*A*S*H-War Co-Respondent
[3:30PM] M*A*S*H-Back Pay
[4:00PM] M*A*S*H-April Fools
[4:30PM] M*A*S*H-The Best of Enemies
[5:00PM] M*A*S*H-Letters
[5:30PM] M*A*S*H-Cementing Relationships
[6:00PM] M*A*S*H-Father's Day
[6:30PM] M*A*S*H-Death Takes a Holiday
[7:00PM] M*A*S*H-A War for All Seasons
[7:30PM] M*A*S*H-Your Retention, Please
[8:00PM] M*A*S*H-Tell It to the Marines
[8:30PM] M*A*S*H-Taking the Fifth
[9:00PM] M*A*S*H-Operation Friendship
[9:30PM] M*A*S*H-No Sweat
[10:00PM] M*A*S*H-Depressing News
[10:30PM] M*A*S*H-No Laughing Matter
[11:00PM] M*A*S*H-Oh, How We Danced
[11:30PM] M*A*S*H-Bottoms Up
[12:00AM] M*A*S*H-The Red/White Blues
[12:30AM] M*A*S*H-Bless You, Hawkeye
[1:00AM] Escape From New York
[3:00AM] The China Syndrome (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Salt', followed by the movie 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'.
Protesters listen during a "Peace and Sanity" rally Sunday Aug. 13, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, during a rally about white supremacy violence in Charlottesville, Va.,
Photo by Bebeto Matthews
Every member of Donald Trump's (R-Pendejo) Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has resigned in protest at his comments on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions," the letter read. It was posted by actor and former Obama White House administration adviser Kal Penn on Twitter.
The strongly worded letter said Mr Trump's values "are not American".
When taken together, the first letters of each of the paragraphs in the letter also read "RESIST"
"Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values...We must be better than this. We are better than this. If this is not clear to you, then we call on you to resign your office, too," the letter reads.
Members of the Take Em Down Jax organization hold a banner with the list of offending confederate monuments as well as buildings and locations they want renamed during a rally in Jacksonville's Confederate Park in Jacksonville, Fl., Aug 15, 2017. Several organizations wanting the removal of confederate monuments and have the names changed on schools and bridges met at the base of the Woman of the Southland statue in Confederate Park North of downtown Jacksonville. Roughly 30 demonstrators against the monuments and around 10 who wanted them left alone were kept in check with the presence of around a dozen members of the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office.
Photo by Bob Self
A fair number of Americans seem ready for Donald Trump (R-Pussy Grabber) to be pushed out of office.
Forty percent of Americans think Trump deserves to be impeached, according to the most recent data from the Public Religion Research Institute's (PRRI) August poll. That represented a 10-point rise from the group's February survey.
It might not help the president that he has a long history of making offensive comments about women (like the infamous video that showed him bragging about what seemed like sexual harassment and assault), a practice he hasn't particularly curtailed in office (as when he bullied MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski on Twitter with personal insults).
Still, 53 percent of Americans overall don't believe Trump should be impeached and removed from office, according to the survey. It's a very minor victory for the president that a majority of Americans thought he should not be impeached, and the figure represents a decline of 12 percentage points from February.
Perhaps predictably, there was a stark divide along party lines. Seventy-two percent of Democrats believed Trump deserved to be impeached-a 14-point rise from February-while just 7 percent of Republicans felt the same. But independents appeared to be migrating away from Trump, with nearly 4 in 10 (38 percent) supporting his impeachment, up from 27 percent in February, according to PRRI.
Multiple charities have pulled their fundraising events from Donald Trump's (R-Buffoon) Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in the wake of his response to a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Cleveland Clinic, the American Cancer Society, and the American Friends of Magen David Adom all said on Thursday that they wouldn't hold their 2018 galas at the resort. The organizations have held their annual events at Mar-a-Lago for several years.
On Friday, the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army said they would not host their events at Mar-a-Lago either. The Red Cross said in a statement that "it has increasingly become a source of controversy and pain for many of our volunteers, employees, and supporters."
The organizations join a growing group of organizations and business leaders who have distanced themselves from the president after the events in Charlottesville. On Wednesday, the president said he would disband his two business councils, after a number of members of his manufacturing council started to drop out and his strategy and policy council had plans to dissolve the group.
A man prays at Sulejmanija Mosque in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 20, 2017. Sulejmanija Mosque dates to 1757. "Sulejmanija Mosque in Travnik is famous because it has many different colors inside. You can compare that with different religions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia is beautiful and colourful precisely because of its multiculturalism. That is the true value of this country, which we should preserve and nurture," Effendi Ibranovic Dzemail said.
Photo by Dado Ruvic
Roberto Altamirano has the lake to himself as he casts his glistening net onto the still water in a perfect circle, lets it sink, then slowly pulls it in.
It comes back bearing a large haul of tilapia and carp -- and that is exactly the problem.
At 42, he has watched the number of fishermen here plunge over the years, leading to booming populations of tilapia and carp -- invasive species that are threatening the already strained ecosystem of Xochimilco, a green lung vital to the health of smog-choked Mexico City.
First settled by the Aztecs, who created the original artificial islands, Xochimilco is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site visited by millions of tourists each year, who ply its maze of canals in colorful tour boats.
Chinese carp and African tilapia were first introduced here in the 1970s in what turned out to be a misguided plan to supply a new food source for local residents.
'Donald Trump's (R-Crooked) approval rating has hit a new low and most Americans have an unfavourable view of him, according to a new poll.
Around 55 per cent of those surveyed said they disapproved of the manner in which Mr Trump is leading the country with just 35 expressing positivity about his performance, the poll by analysts Marist found.
Meanwhile around 79 per cent of people who identified as strong Republicans said they had a positive view of the president's performance, down from 91 per cent in June.
More than six in ten Americans, including a notable proportion of Republicans, thought Mr Trump had fallen short on the global stage.
A separate poll, published by Gallup this week, found that Mr Trump's approval rating had sunk to 34 per cent in recent weeks, with 61 per cent of adults expressing disapproval.
A plaque, one of two honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, lies on the ground after workers removed it from the property of St. John's Episcopal Church, Aug. 16, 2017, in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York. The removal comes in the wake of last weekend's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists protested plans to remove a Lee statue from a public park.
Photo by Bebeto Matthews
One of Donald Trump's (R-Pinocchio) most steadfast constituencies has been standing by him amid his defense of a white nationalist rally in Virginia, even as business leaders, artists and Republicans turn away.
Only one of Trump's evangelical advisers has quit the role, while presidential boards in other fields saw multiple defections before being dismantled. The Rev. A.R. Bernard, pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn and one of the most influential clergymen in New York, announced his decision Friday night, saying "there was a deepening conflict in values between myself and the administration."
Like other presidents before him, Trump has turned to religious leaders for counsel and support. His faith advisers include pastors who had worked with his campaign, and now pray with him and consult with his staff on issues ranging from religious liberty in the U.S. to the persecution of Christian minority populations in the Middle East.
Jerry Falwell Jr. (R-Charlatan), president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and an early backer of Trump, said the president had made a "bold truthful statement" about the demonstration. Falwell said the president's remarks were a clear repudiation of white supremacists, Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
Johnnie Moore, a public relations executive, faith adviser to the president and a spokesman for several other such evangelicals advisers, said, "The president is certainly guilty of being insensitive," but that the media and critics of the president have ignored his other comments rejecting white supremacy and anti-Semitism.
Republicans have remained supportive of Donald Trump (R-Corrupt), their party leader, throughout his many trials and tribulations during his first seven months in office. Be it his attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare, the immigration ban or tough stance toward North Korea, to name just a few.
And a new CBS poll released Thursday morning showed a large majority of GOP members even back the president's response to and handling of the Charlottesville, Virginia, protest, which resulted in the death of one woman and reignited racial tensions throughout the country.
The poll showed 67 percent of Republicans approved of Trump's response, compared with 82 percent of Democrats disapproving and 55 percent of respondents overall claiming disapproval. Thirty-four percent overall approved, but 53 percent of those who identified as independent disapproved.
Going further, 68 percent of Republicans believed Trump's blame of "many sides" being responsible for the violence that engulfed the college town over the planned teardown of a statue honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Fifty-five percent overall claimed Trump was inaccurate.
And more than half of Republicans polled, 56 percent, thought Trump was having no effect on race relations around the country, while 70 percent of Democrats said Trump's actions were creating more division. Overall, Americans were somewhat split with 44 percent saying Trump was causing division and 39 percent in the no-effect category.
The empty pedestal of the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney sits before dawn Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, after workers took several Confederate monuments down overnight in the city.
Photo by Jerry Jackson
Forests in Canada are ablaze, with 2.2 million acres going up in flames so far this year in British Columbia alone. These fires, and others in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, have been belching smoke into the air, in some cases up to 8 miles high.
Once in the atmosphere, weather patterns are causing the wildfire smoke to converge into a blanket so thick it's blotting out the sun across northern Canada. This smoke is working its way to the high Arctic, where it could speed up the melting of sea and land ice.
Never mind the upcoming total solar eclipse - in some places, the smoke is so thick it could turn day into night, according to Mike Fromm of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
"There's that much aerosol in the air," Fromm said, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. Aerosols are small particles, such as soot or volcanic ash, that reflect incoming sunlight.
According to Colin Seftor, an atmospheric researcher for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, on August 15, the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) on the Suomi NPP satellite recorded aerosol index values as high as 49.7. This was more than 15 points higher than the previous record, which was set in 2006 by fires in Australia.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. U2; $8,295,222; $115.99.
2. Coldplay; $8,070,880; $87.86.
3. Guns N' Roses; $6,229,677; $101.95.
4. Metallica; $4,529,263; $109.00.
5. Celine Dion; $3,799,468; $146.79.
6. Justin Bieber; $2,972,507; $93.08.
7. Depeche Mode; $2,933,439; $74.82.
8. Dead & Company; $1,934,271; $73.49.
9. Roger Waters; $1,706,432; $125.80.
10. Ed Sheeran; $1,595,189; $82.53.
11. Bruno Mars; $1,503,181; $76.69.
12. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; $1,393,492; $88.16.
13. The Weeknd; $1,380,811; $90.42.
14. Enrique Iglesias / Pitbull ; $1,174,827; $90.94.
15. Neil Diamond; $1,167,620; $95.38.
16. Tim McGraw / Faith Hill; $1,158,187; $87.65.
17. Tool; $1,077,322; $77.19.
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers; $1,052,694; $83.57.
19. John Mayer; $1,004,306; $71.91.
20. Eric Church; $1,003,316; $64.71.
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