'Best of TBH Politoons'
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Brent Budowsky: Lets Landslide: Memo to Democratic Senate and House Candidates and Staff (pt. 1) (huffingtonpost.com)
2. This is the big sleeper issue: Bush is bringing back the draft through involuntary military service, the most recent example being the involuntary recall of Marines. He is doing this because he has mismanaged the war, the reserves and our force structure.
Barbara Ehrenreich: Wal-Mart Licks Its Wounds (AlterNet.org)
Who's really to blame for Wal-Mart's sagging sales -- Democrats, Korean fruit vendors or unions?
Larisa Alexandrovna: The Most Trusted Names in News (Really!) (AlterNet.org)
There are still some hero-journalists out there standing in front of the schoolyard bullies and fighting the good fight.
Matthew Rothschild: Stephanie Miller (progressive.org)
I've got a weakness for Stephanie Miller. I happen to think she's the best thing going in progressive talk radio. For three hours every weekday morning, The Stephanie Miller Show provides breezy, often hilarious radio. But it's got a sharp point. It takes the air out of the pompous windbags of the right.
Charlie Brooker: Supposing . . . It's time to smother romance in its sleep (guardian.co.uk)
Hands up anyone who's had a great experience with romance. Now put your hands back down and stop lying. Romance never works. Romance never does what it says on the tin. Romance, ultimately, is bullshit.
Return of the axe (guardian.co.uk)
It's the most popular instrument in schools and sales are at an all-time high. What is it about the guitar? Bernard Butler, the musical genius behind Suede, celebrates the glory of six strings.
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Girls and Sports Comics
Dog-Eared Comics
The Wall St. Poet
Not everyone who works at Wal-Mart feels it's a great career option. Why is that?
Purple Gene Reviews
HANNITY'S WHORE
PURPLE GENE ON ANN THE MAN COULTER GETTING WIGGED OUT ON FOX
WATCH THIS VIDEO CLIP
I SAW IT WHEN IT HAPPENED LIVE .....A HANNITY HARANGUE AGAINST MICHAEL BROWN WITH ANN COULTER STUCK SMUGLY IN BETWEEN..AND I FINALLY FOUND WHO THE WOMAN WAS THAT HAD REPLACED COLMES AS THE GENERIC DEM ON THE SHOW...HER NAME IS KIRSTEN POWERS AND SHE LITERALLY MADE ANN COULTER GO KOO KOO AND I LOVE ANN CALLING OUT FOR HELP FROM HANNITY...AND THEN DISAPPEARING...I BET THE GUY IN THE CONTROL BOOTH GETS FIRED BY SEAN HANNITY !!!
HANNITY'S WHORE HAS A HISSY AFTER BEING UPSTAGED BY AN INTELLIGENT DEM. BLONDE...HA HA HA
SAVE IT FOR THE ARCHIVES
PURPLE GENE GIVES 2 HUGE LEFT WING LIBERAL THUMBS UP TO KIRSTEN POWERS FOR KNOCKING ANN OFF THE SCREEN AND 2 HUGE DUMB AND CROOKED THUMBS DOWN FOR ANN COULTER AND HER HORSE ASS AND (HER HORSES FACE) I STILL THINK SHE IS A GIFT (HORSE) FROM HEAVEN WITH HER FOOT ALWAYS IN HER MOUTH!!!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
No new flags.
Character-Naming Rights Offer
First Amendment Project
Buoyed by last year's success, the First Amendment Project will again auction off character-naming rights in new books by prominent authors including Carl Hiaasen, Lorrie Moore and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones.
The 2005 online auction raised $150,000 US for the non-profit organization devoted to protecting freedom of information, expression and petition, and thrilled nearly two dozen fans who paid to see their names in print, according to David Greene, executive director.
This year, novelist and columnist Carl Hiaasen, Moore (Birds of America) and Jones (The Known World) are among the 14 authors who will promise to include a name selected by winning bidders in a forthcoming work.
First Amendment Project
Road Trip To Ohio
`Daily Show'
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" will travel to Ohio this fall on a pre-election road trip that hopes to answer the question: What's a buckeye?
"Battlefield Ohio: The Daily Show's Midwest Midterm Midtacular" will air nightly from Oct. 30 through Nov. 2, a week before the Nov. 7 national election. The shows will be taped at Ohio State University's Roy Bowen Theatre.
In addition to in-studio interviews and appearances by politicians and newsmakers, "Midwest Midterm Midtacular" will feature political commentary from "Daily Show" correspondents Dan Bakkedahl, Samantha Bee, Jason Jones and John Oliver from various locations in and around Ohio.
`Daily Show'
Hospital News
Linda Ronstadt
Singer Linda Ronstadt has canceled tour dates for the rest of the year to recover from surgery she had this week, her agent said Thursday.
Ronstadt's agent, Shelly Schultz, would not provide details on the surgery the longtime performer underwent Tuesday in Tucson, Ariz., but said it wasn't cancer.
Ronstadt will recuperate at her home in Tucson for an "undetermined" amount of time, Schultz said. Then she'll travel back to her other home in San Francisco to spend time with her adopted children Carlos, 9, and Mary, 13, said Schultz.
Linda Ronstadt
Zanzibar Muslims Seek To Block Birthday Bash
Freddie Mercury
Outraged Zanzibari Muslims sought to ban a 60th birthday party for the late Zanzibar-born rock star Freddie Mercury, complaining the flamboyant singer's lifestyle offended Islam.
The complaint follows the appearance throughout Zanzibar in recent weeks of posters advertising a huge beach party in the islands' capital to mark what would have been Mercury's 60th birthday.
Restaurateur Simai Mohamed Saidi, who is organizing the event amd runs a Freddie Mercury theme restaurant and club named "Mercury's" on the waterfront, said he would go ahead with the party on September 2 despite the complaint.
Few on Zanzibar seem even remotely aware of Queen or Freddie Mercury, who was born Farrokh Bulsara on the main island of Unguja to Persian parents employed by British colonial authorities, on September 5, 1946.
Freddie Mercury
Parody Flap
Barney
An online activist group said it was suing the operators of children's television character Barney the dinosaur for trying to use copyright laws to halt an Internet parody.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said its federal court suit was aimed at protecting the free speech rights of a website publisher "who has suffered years of baseless legal threats over his parody of the Barney and Friends television show."
The suit against the Lyons Partnership claims that the operator of the children's program "has repeatedly sent meritless cease-and-desist letters" to Stuart Frankel, whose website depicts the purple Tyrannosaurus rex as a satanic figure who must be destroyed by a global "jihad."
The lawsuit seeks a court affirmation that the parody does not infringe Barney's copyright or trademark rights, EFF said.
Barney
Wins Australia Award
Tom Cruise
Actor Tom Cruise has a new award from Australia to add to his collection -- for being the most sexist celebrity.
About 400 of Australia's most powerful women gathered in the New South Wales state parliament late Thursday to decide on the winners of the 14th annual "Ernie Awards" which are handed out for the worst derogatory public statements.
The awards were named after a trade union leader called Ernie whose union members included sheep shearers. He once famously said: "Women aren't welcome in the shearing sheds. They're only after the sex."
The "Ernies" have an international flavor -- and Cruise was awarded the 2006 Celebrity Ernie.
Tom Cruise
Guesting On CSI
Danny Bonaduce
John Mayer will promote his new album, "Continuum," with cameo performances on the season premiere of CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
The Grammy-winning singer will perform his current single, "Waiting on the World to Change," and "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room" in a scene set in a Las Vegas nightclub, the network announced Thursday.
CBS said the two-part season opener will air Sept. 21 and Sept. 28. Danny Bonaduce guest stars as an ex-rocker who is murdered.
Danny Bonaduce
Mason Sues Jews For Jesus
Jackie Mason
Saying he's "as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami," Jackie Mason filed a lawsuit against Jews for Jesus for using his name and likeness in a pamphlet.
The $2 million lawsuit seeks the immediate destruction of the pamphlet, which members of the missionary group have been handing out at various points around New York City.
The pamphlets feature an image of Mason next to the words "Jackie Mason ... A Jew for Jesus!?" with information inside that outlines the similarities between Jews and Christians.
"The pamphlet uses my name, my likeness, my `shtick' (if you will), and my very act, which is derived from my personality, to attract attention and converts," Mason said in an affidavit.
Jackie Mason
Disney Donation Arrives In Uganda to
Rhinos
Two white rhinos donated by US entertainment behemoth Disney have arrived in Uganda as part of efforts to re-stock the highly-endangered and all but extinct population here, officials said.
The flesh-and-blood breeding pair, a far cry from the cartoon rhinos for which Disney may be better known, were released into a controlled habitat in northwest Uganda to reproduce and eventually be returned to the wild, they said.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) said the young male and female, Nande and Hasani, arrived Wednesday by chartered aircraft from Disney's Animal Kingdom in the southern US state of Florida without incident.
Rhinos
Watercolours & Sketches
Adolf Hitler
Twenty-one watercolours and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler are to be sold by a British auction house Sept. 26, officials said Friday.
Ian Morris, auctioneer at Jefferys Auctioneers at Lostwithiel in Cornwall, southwest England, said the pictures were made when Hitler was a soldier serving in Flanders during the First World War.
The pictures, mostly pallid landscapes, are not regarded as adept, but the auctioneers say some could sell for up to US$8,000 apiece.
Adolf Hitler
Noted Liar
Jean Schmidt
Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt is fast, capable of running a marathon in 3 hours, 19 minutes, 6 seconds.
At least that's what a photo on the Ohio congresswoman's Web site shows.
No way, says a rival who contends that the picture from the 1993 Columbus Marathon is doctored and complained to state election officials. A four-member commission panel ruled Thursday that there was enough evidence to look into the complaint.
The photo shows Schmidt near the finish line at the marathon with a time clock showing 3:19:06, which would have made her one of the top finishers. But a newspaper list of the top runners does not include Schmidt, said Nathan Noy, who is seeking to run as a write-in candidate against Schmidt.
Jean Schmidt
In Memory
Ed Thrasher
Ed Thrasher, an art director who worked on hundreds of albums with such artists as Frank Sinatra and received 12 Grammy Award nominations, has died. He was 74.
He joined Warner Bros. Records in 1964 where he did the photography for many albums as well as print ads and posters. Albums that bore his stamp included the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Are You Experienced?," Joni Mitchell's "Song to a Seagull," the Grateful Dead's "Anthem of the Sun" and Sinatra's "My Way."
When Sinatra came out of retirement in 1973, it was Thrasher who suggested the title of the singer's comeback album, "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back."
Thrasher received a dozen Grammy nominations as an art director from 1962 to 1974, the year he and fellow art director Christopher Whorf won Grammys for best album package for Mason Proffit's "Come & Gone."
After leaving Warner Bros. in 1979, Thrasher formed an advertising company that created art for films, including Prince's "Purple Rain" and Mel Gibson's "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome."
Ed Thrasher
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