Paul Krugman: Obama's Trust Problem (nytimes.com)
There's a growing sense among progressives that they have been duped by President Obama. And that's why the mixed signals on the public option created such an uproar.
Joseph Epstein: Blood, Sweat, and Words (incharacter.org)
Grit, the overcoming of serious obstacles through determined effort, is most impressively on public display on the battlefield, in athletics, in every sort of comeback in the larger game of life, with its all-too-frequent peripeteias. To watch someone showing grit, winning through against impressive odds, is always a grand, exhilarating experience.
Meghan Daum: Nadya Suleman, the queen of bad-parent porn (latimes.com)
By the time you read this, the world will have peered inside the undoubtedly depressing and quite possibly child-endangering world of the nation's reigning social pariah. I'm referring to Wednesday night's two-hour special on Fox, "Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage."
Ted Rall: VIOLENCE WORKS. INCREMENTALISM DOESN'T
"What worries me: time and time again," writes Brendan Skwire in the Philadelphia Weekly about the circuses which are currently passing for Democrats' town hall meetings on healthcare, "[is that] the needs of the stupid and disingenuous are not only treated as valid concerns, but as the greatest concerns."
Zac Bissonnette: Easy ways to make money fast: Sperm donation? (walletpop.com)
As college students get ready for a new year of classes, there's a lot more to worry about than Shakespeare and molecular biology. With the recession in full swing, colleges are raising prices at just the time when students and their families are least able to afford it. Worse, a tight job market has made it difficult for some students to raise cash the old-fashioned way: working. Since I'm headed back to college in the fall too, I came up with five ways that you can raise cash for college.
Barney Miller is a comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village that ran from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC.
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mj was first, but wrong, with:
I know it was the 12th Precinct
Which I think put it in Manhatten.
Alan J answered:
Greenwich Village
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Greenwich Village
Marian the Teacher wrote:
Greenwich Village
Charlie answered:
Greenwich Village
joe b replied:
It was Greenwich Village, and was right up
there with Archie and Maude.
Sally I'm sorry to hear about your critter trouble
just spray and spray, and I hope it works.
Sally said:
Barney Millers' 12th precinct station was set in Greenwich Village, New York City. Hear say though, Barney Miller was actually filmed in sunny Los Angeles... This may account for why the setting and characters on the show always seemed more Bronx to me...
PS: Still HOT and humid here today, now I will be turning from cranky to pure evil if this humidly doesn't cease and soon!! I've put all wildlife around here on notice too...
And, MAM replied:
General Foods was the sole sponsor of 'The Andy Griffith Show'. Products are many and varied!
Barney Miller was set at a fictional police station in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Embedded pictures still aren't showing up in yahoo mail.
I don't know why.
So, if you want to send a picture, try sending it to a couple e-mail addys - maybe that'll do the trick.
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football' (Chargers visit AZ), then pads the left coast with '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Josh Brolin hosting, music by Adele.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Jim', followed by the movie 'War Of The Worlds'.
The CW fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football' (Raiders visit the 49ers), then pads the left coast with local crap (probably old 'Friends').
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Ghost In The Machine'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', still another 'CSI: The 2nd One', and 'Hoarders'.
AMC offers the movie 'Major League', followed by the movie 'Batman Begins'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 8 Michael Sheen, Lionel Richie, Vin Diesel, Sparks
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 6
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 10 Dillons
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[7:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 4
[8:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 4
[9:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 5
[10:15 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Ronnie Corbett, Ricky Gervais
[11:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 4
[12:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 5
[1:15 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Ronnie Corbett, Ricky Gervais
[2:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 4
[3:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 5
[4:15 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 3 Ronnie Corbett, Ricky Gervais
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 17 May
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 18 Springthorpe
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 15 Houghton (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef'< 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and the movie 'Along Came Polly'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'How High', followed by the movie 'Beerfest', then the movie 'Jackass Number Two'.
FX has the movie 'Epic Movie', followed by the movie 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend', then the movie 'White Chicks'.
History has 'Gangland', 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers'< and yet another 'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] D.I.Y.
[6:15 AM] Starstruck
[8:00 AM] Throne of Blood
[9:55 AM] Tyger
[10:05 AM] Mon Oncle
[12:05 PM] The Castle
[1:35 PM] Starstruck
[3:15 PM] IFC News Special
[3:30 PM] Mon Oncle
[5:30 PM] The Castle
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:00 PM] Last Man Standing
[9:45 PM] The Minus Man
[11:45 PM] I, the Jury
[1:45 AM] Last Man Standing
[3:30 AM] The Minus Man
[5:25 AM] The Castle (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie'Joyride 2: Dead Ahead', followed by the movie 'Phantom Racer'.
Sundance -
[05:40 AM] Be Quiet
[06:00 AM] At Night
[06:40 AM] The Talent Given Us
[08:25 AM] Everything's Gone Green
[11:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Rascal Flatts, Kate Nash & Herbie Hancock
[12:00 PM] On the Road with Judas
[01:35 PM] loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
[04:00 PM] Our City Dreams
[05:30 PM] Great Genius & Profound Stupidity
[06:00 PM] Everything's Gone Green
[07:35 PM] Quiet City
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Venus Williams + Wyclef Jean
[10:00 PM] Congorama
[11:50 PM] Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
[12:00 AM] Talk To Her
[02:00 AM] Jar City
[03:35 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Venus Williams + Wyclef Jean
[04:35 AM] At Night
[05:15 AM] Our City Dreams (ALL TIMES EDT)
Guitarist Justin Hayward, left, and bassist John Lodge of The Moody Blues perform at Radio City Music Hall Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 in New York.
Photo by Jason DeCrow
Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean Sunday - in Maine. The water temperature was 72 degrees - more like Ocean City, Md., this time of year. And Ocean City's water temp hit 88 degrees this week, toasty even by Miami Beach standards.
Kramer, 26, who lives in the seaside town of Scarborough, said it was the first time he's ever swam so long in Maine's coastal waters. "Usually, you're in five minutes and you're out," he said.
It's not just the ocean off the Northeast coast that is super-warm this summer. July was the hottest the world's oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping.
The average water temperature worldwide was 62.6 degrees, according to the National Climatic Data Center, the branch of the U.S. government that keeps world weather records. That was 1.1 degree higher than the 20th century average, and beat the previous high set in 1998 by a couple hundredths of a degree. The coolest recorded ocean temperature was 59.3 degrees in December 1909.
Actor Taye Diggs and his wife actress Idina Menzel pose at the 8th annual INSTYLE Summer Soiree party in West Hollywood, California August 20, 2009.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
An Angolan advertising agency has given Homer Simpson and his family an African makeover, raising eyebrows among fans of one of America's most cherished sitcoms.
The Simpsons, broadcast in more than 90 countries, have always been portrayed as yellow but the advertising agency, Executive Center in Luanda, decided to turn them brown in a promotional video aired by Africa's digital satellite TV service DSTV in Angola.
Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart are portrayed as Africans sitting on their over-used family couch. The family is shown wearing African-inspired clothing and their living room has little more than two huge loud speakers.
Even Homer's cherished beer has been replaced by Cuca, the Budweiser of Angola.
Scientists trying to unwrap the mysteries of a more than 2,500-year-old mummy believed to be an ancient Egyptian priest conducted computer scans Thursday to help determine how the man died, what was buried with him and what he looked like.
In a basement lab at Stanford University Medical School, Iret-net Hor-irw's mummy lay tightly wrapped in tattered linen as a handful of scientists looked on. Starting with his feet, the scanner rotated around the mummy, snapping X-ray type images that appeared on nearby computer screens.
The pictures, showing well-preserved bone structure, were then mathematically manipulated to generate 3-D images that give a fuller picture of the skeleton.
The highly sophisticated scanning technology allows scientists to learn about the 5-foot-4 inch mummy in remarkable detail without doing invasive or damaging procedures.
A dancer of the "Diablada" group performs during a protest against Miss Peru in front of congress building in La Paz, August 20, 2009. Bolivia is protesting against Miss Peru 2009 Karen Schwarz using a costume from Andean dance Diablada as the outfit in the national costume section of the Miss Universe 2009 pageant.
Photo by David Mercado
A wheat farm, large plastic letters and his dad's small plane? Jason Kahle thought it had a ring to it. He took his 23-year-old girlfriend, Aleasha Decker, up in the air Aug. 9 under the guise of photographing some relatives' houses in Kalida, about 60 miles southwest of Toledo in northwestern Ohio.
As Kahle's dad steered the plane, Decker looked out the window. She saw the question "Aleasha, marry me?" in 20-foot sheet plastic letters on top of a harvested field. She turned to find Kahle holding out a ring.
A judge on Friday ruled that an advocacy group for child actors can seek to have a guardian appointed to oversee the financial interests for the octuplets of Nadya Suleman, dubbed "Octo-Mom," in connection with a television show about the family.
Judge Gerald Johnston ruled that California law allows former child actor Paul Petersen, president of the group A Minor Consideration, to make the financial guardianship petition, even if he has no direct relation to the children.
An attorney for Suleman had asked for Petersen's petition to be dismissed, but the Superior Court judge from Orange County, an area near Los Angeles, denied the request.
Johnston said social workers will need to investigate and make a recommendation on Petersen's petition by October 29. Petersen is represented by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred.
People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers perform during a rehearsal of a musical drama entitled "The Road of Revival" at a gymnasium in Beijing August 19, 2009. The musical drama is part of celebrations for October's 60th anniversary of the founding of Communist China, with the highlight being a massive parade by the PLA through the centre of Beijing.
Photo by Kevin Zhao
An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction" has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for a crash that killed a passenger in his Mercedes.
Roger Avary of Ojai, Calif., entered the pleas Tuesday in a Ventura court. He'll be sentenced next month and remains free on bail.
Authorities say the 43-year-old was intoxicated when his car hit a telephone pole in Ojai on Jan. 13, 2008. The crash injured his wife and killed 34-year-old Andreas Zini, who was visiting from Italy.
Bishop Avis Hill can't help feeling a little like a pioneer these days.
All across the country, he has seen people organizing, rallying and demonstrating: brandishing tea bags in the April rain to protest taxes, gathering to condemn a Congressional energy bill and shouting down politicians at raucous public meetings on health care.
For Hill and others planning a reunion in South Charleston on Saturday, today's clamor is the fruit from seeds they planted 35 years ago during what's become known as the Kanawha County Textbook War.
Hill, who recently retired as pastor of a nondenominational church in Florida, was one of the leaders of a protest movement that sprouted in the summer of 1974 over a seemingly routine bit of business: new textbooks being adopted by the Kanawha County Board of Education.
Before it was over, schools had been bombed, coal mines had been idled by strikes and American politics got an early look at a strain of conservative populism that continues today.
Shoppers pause at the giant boot outside the L.L. Bean flagship store, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, in Freeport, Maine. The outdoors store has hired designer Alex Carleton, who founded the Rogues Gallery line of men's clothing and worked for Abercrombie and Fitch and Ralph Lauren, to create a new signature line of clothing. Hunters and fishermen need not panic, however, because the retailer is not abandoning Leon Leonwood Bean's outdoors roots. The new style is meant to be slimmer, hipper and more urban but not so radical as to be indistinguishable from L.L. Bean's traditional tartan plaid shirts, thick sweaters and rubber-soled hunting boots.
Photo by Robert F. Bukaty
Angola is best known for oil and diamonds, but dinosaur hunters say the country holds a "museum in the ground" of rare fossils -- some actually jutting from the earth -- waiting to be discovered.
"Angola is the final frontier for palaeontology," explained Louis Jacobs, of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, part of the PaleoAngola project which is hunting for dinosaur fossils.
"Due to the war, there's been little research carried out so far, but now we're getting in finally and there's so much to find.
The first reports of dinosaur remains in Angola were made in the 1960s, but a bloody liberation struggle against the Portuguese followed by three decades of civil war covered the country in landmines and made it a no-go zone for researchers.
The latest act in a nine-year battle between Tom Hanks, his wife Rita Wilson and a high-end contractor played out before the Idaho Supreme Court on Friday.
The case revolves around the couple's sprawling Sun Valley-area home, built by Storey Construction starting in 2000. Hanks and Wilson say the company's shoddy workmanship left them out more than $2 million. The company, meanwhile, contends the couple is just out for revenge because they lost an earlier arbitration over the work.
Hanks, whose character in the 1986 movie "The Money Pit" dealt with a decaying house, didn't attend the hearing, but Wilson, also a film producer and actress, was in the courtroom.
The case began in 2000, when Hanks and Wilson - through their Sun Valley Trust - hired Storey Construction to build a high-end villa in the remote but tony central Idaho resort town. But there was a dispute over payment, and in 2002 Storey Construction filed a demand for arbitration. Hanks and Wilson, meanwhile, filed a counterclaim, contending the company did substandard and defective work on the complex, which includes the main residence and three guest cottages.
In this August 2009 handout photograph provided by The Denver Zoo, one of the emperor tamarin monkey twins is shown in the zoo's nursery. The twins were orphaned on July 30 when their mother died of cancer, three weeks after giving birth. As a result, zookeepers are hand feeding the monkeys.
Photo by Dave Parsons
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