'Best of TBH Politoons'
Sunday Night Only (this week)
Erin Hart Show
710 KIRO - 9pm to 1am (pdt) Weekend Nights
The 27th, the show is preempted by the Seahawks game so standby to fit all
of our talk into Sunday's show from 9 p. to 1 a. PDT
We start the show with Rabbi Ted Falcon, the Rev. Don Mackenzie and Imam
Jamal Rahman to talk about the "Unity Project Seattle," an interfaith group
formed after 9.11.
And Cindy Sheehan is back in Crawford stirring up a hornet's nest of mess in
Texas. Support for Bush continues to plummet as more and more people realize
we were led into Iraq without a plan, without equipment and without
knowledge about the region enough for a peace.
Sigh. And we will review the other week's news with Martha G. (or is it Marty?),
entertainment editor of Bartcop.com.
Friday and Monday Erin will be filling in on AM 760 in Boulder from 5am - 9am PDT (6am - 10am MDT). Scheduled guests include Rabbi Daniel Weiner and Dean
Robert Taylor from the Middle East.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
David Pace: Troops' Gravestones Have Pentagon Slogans (AP)
Nadia and Robert McCaffrey, whose son Patrick was killed in Iraq in June 2004, said "Operation Iraqi Freedom" ended up on his government-supplied headstone in Oceanside, Calif., without family approval.
Cenk Uygur: Big Media Lie -- People Like George Bush (huffingtonpost.com)
News Flash - George Bush's approval ratings are at 36%. Those are pre-coup numbers. That's when a politician in a third world country becomes so unpopular that a couple of generals decide to show him the door. Nixon at the height of Watergate was at 39%, three points HIGHER than Bush is right now. And people despised Nixon.
Paul Krugman: Summer of Our Discontent
Click on "Columns," then on "Summer of Our Discontent"
For the last few months there has been a running debate about the U.S. economy, more or less like this: American families: "We're not doing very well." Washington officials: "You're wrong - you're doing great. Here, look at these statistics!"
Colleges That Get it Right (Washington Monthly)
What does America need from its universities? A new college ranking report attempts to answer this question based on guidelines of social mobility, ethics and service.
Zack Pelta-Heller: Let's Talk About Texts (AlterNet)
The cost of college textbooks has long been spiraling out of control. Now, student groups and legislators are working bring them back down to earth.
Annalee Newitz: Invisible Earth (AlterNet)
What Google Earth really shows us in stark relief is how many parts of the world are still invisible to people in the United States, where Google generates its Earth.
David Bruce: Guns (athensnews.co)
According to comedian Jon Stewart, it's no wonder people don't want gays in the military: "You know what the army's really afraid of? A thousand guys with M-16s going, 'Who you calling a faggot?'"
David Lee Simmons: Inside Joke, The Aristocrats (bestofneworleans.com)
... what makes this film so special is how the joke is told so well by so many different kinds of performers, including some comics who I have almost never found funny -- not the least of which is Bob Saget of Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos fame.
Video: Be a Witness
Video: Daily Show
Video: Cindy
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Nearly 100° down here on the coast - further inland borders on hellish.
Haven't missed a day of 'work' in 367 days.
Guesting On '24'
Sean Astin
Sean Astin, who starred in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is joining the cast of Fox's real-time drama "24," which will again kick off its season with four episodes screening on two consecutive nights.
The fifth season will premiere with two episodes from 8-10 p.m. January 8, followed by two from 8-10 p.m. January 9 (the second episode January 9 will be the show's 100th). On January 16, the fifth hour of "24" will air in the show's regular 9 p.m. Monday slot.
Season 5 will pick up 18 months after the fourth season ended, with Jack presumably dead but actually living a new life with Diane (Connie Britton) and her son Derek (Brady Corbet). Jean Smart ("Frasier") is set to play first lady Martha Logan.
Sean Astin
Pairing Up Again?
Redford & Newman
Robert Redford may soon be reunited on screen with Paul Newman but don't expect a sequel to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" or "The Sting," which paired one of Hollywood's most popular double acts three decades ago.
"All these years went by and nobody came up with any ideas that were anything but corny and kind of low grade so we just decided probably that wasn't going to happen," Redford said.
"But now there's something rolling around that we're talking about it, and the real question is whether he can remember his lines or not," the 68-year-old Redford said in a dig at Newman who turned 80 this year.
Media reports earlier this year suggested the two would pair up in an adaptation of Bill Bryson's travel book "A Walk in the Woods," the story of the author's hike through the American wilderness with a friend.
Redford & Newman
British Syndication
'The Daily Show'
"The Daily Show," comedian Jon Stewart's popular deconstruction of U.S. nightly newscasts, has struck its first full-scale overseas syndication deal with UK broadcaster Channel 4.
Stewart and his team of fake news correspondents will be a cornerstone of Channel 4's new digital channel More4, filing nightly dispatches on U.S. politics, news media foibles and Iraq's "Mess O' Potamia."
A weekly digest of the programme already runs on CNN International -- which like "The Daily Show's" network Comedy Central is owned by global media conglomerate Time Warner -- but Channel 4 will be the first overseas network to air the show in its entirety.
'The Daily Show'
Patriot Act
Library Sues
A controversial Patriot Act clause allowing the U.S. government to demand information about library patrons' borrowing habits is being challenged in federal court for the first time by a library.
The lawsuit was filed against U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut by an unnamed library and the American Civil Liberties Union.
The suit -- filed on August 9 and made public by the ACLU on Thursday -- calls the FBI's order to produce library records "unconstitutional on its face" and said a gag order preventing public discussion of the lawsuit is an unlawful restraint on speech.
Critical details of the lawsuit were blacked out on the ACLU's Web site in compliance with the gag order. The library is thought to be based in Connecticut since the lawsuit was filed there with the participation of the Connecticut branch of the ACLU.
Library Sues
Pays Tribute to Nashville Country
Neil Young
Neil Young stood on stage at the mother church of country music and wondered aloud what Hank Williams might think if he were to walk outside and see the gleaming new sports arena across the street.
Such thoughts about change and the passage of time are central to Young's latest project, a rootsy, country-tinged record called "Prairie Wind" and a related concert film shot here this month over two nights at the storied Ryman Auditorium.
The performances were the 59-year-old singer-songwriter's first full-length shows since undergoing surgery for a brain aneurysm last spring and the first since the June death of his father, Canadian sportswriter and author Scott Young.
Footage from the concerts will anchor the film, which is directed by Young's friend Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs," "Philadelphia") and scheduled for release in February. The album is due out Sept. 27.
For a lot more, Neil Young
Playwright Has Liver Cancer
August Wilson
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson has been diagnosed with liver cancer and told a newspaper in his native Pittsburgh that he is dying.
Wilson, 60, who lives in Seattle, was diagnosed with the ailment in June.
Wilson has recently been completing his 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America - one play for each decade.
Two plays in the cycle, "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson," earned Pulitzer Prizes. The 10th play, "Radio Golf," is now running at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
August Wilson
Returns To Charts
Elvin Bishop
Blues guitarist Elvin Bishop, best known for having a No. 3 hit on the Hot 100 singles chart in 1976 with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love," returns to the Billboard charts with his first entry in 28 years.
"Gettin' My Groove Back" (Blind Pig) debuts at No. 9 on the Top Blues Albums tally in the week ended August 21, giving the one-time lead guitarist with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band his first entry on this chart.
Elvin Bishop
Sued Over Tour Bus Accident
Eminem
A lawsuit was filed Thursday against Eminem, his bus driver and tour bus company seeking unspecified damages for a July accident involving seven vehicles in western Missouri.
The lawsuit was filed in St. Louis by Michigan truck driver Breck Wyngarden and his wife, Ascension "Tina" Wyngarden. Along with Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, the suit names bus driver Charlie Dilligard and the tour bus company, Entertainment Coaches of America.
The accident happened July 13 about 25 miles east of Kansas City. Eminem was not on the bus, but seven people on the Anger Management Tour were among 11 sent to the hospital. Also hospitalized were Tina Wyngarden, two motorcycle drivers and a motorcycle passenger.
Eminem
'Furious' at Snubbing Allegations
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey said she is "furious" at allegations that her absence at the recent funeral for Ebony and Jet magazines founder John H. Johnson was a snub of the pioneering black publisher.
Chicago Defender Executive Editor Roland Martin wrote that many black media figures have been lamenting Winfrey's "apparent snub of the man who single-handedly made it possible for people like Oprah to launch their own magazines and media companies."
Winfrey said she was in Hawaii when Johnson died and was unable to make it back for the services, according to Martin's column. Johnson died of heart failure Aug. 8 at the age of 87.
She said she sent notes to both Johnson's widow, Eunice, and his daughter, Linda Johnson Rice - even offering to provide Martin copies of the notes and a receipt of the flowers she sent to Johnson's downtown publishing company, according to the newspaper.
Oprah Winfrey
Sues Former Color Me Badd Singer
Bryan Abrams
Bryan Abrams, a former singer with the 1990s boy band Color Me Badd, is being sued for $16,000 that his ex-wife alleges he owes in back child support.
Shon Gables, a news anchor for WCBS in New York City, filed the lawsuit and appeared in Oklahoma County District Court earlier this week with the singer's other ex-wife, Ashly Abrams.
The 35-year-old Abrams was one of the founding members of the Oklahoma-based quartet, whose debut album, "C.B.M.," sold more than 8 million copies. Their hits included "I Wanna Sex You Up" and "I Adore Mi Amor."
Gables estimates she has spent $10,000 trying to recover support owed by Abrams, who now works in an Oklahoma City tire store.
Bryan Abrams
Sued by Former Bandmates
Axl Rose
Two former members of the rock band Guns N' Roses have sued frontman Axl Rose for allegedly naming himself sole administrator of the group's copyrights.
The suit was filed Aug. 17 in federal court by Slash and Duff, otherwise known as Saul Hudson and Michael McKagan. It accuses Rose of profiting from their revenue shares to the tune of about $500,000 a year.
The suit claims Rose directed the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers to send all publishing royalties to his publishing company, bypassing the band's other partners.
Axl Rose
Exclusive Deal With Wal-Mart
Disney
In a move that reflects the growing clout of big retailers, the Walt Disney Co. is giving Wal-Mart exclusive sales rights through the end of the year to the animated holiday feature film "The 3 Wise Men," which debuts on DVD November 1.
The disc will feature both English- and Spanish-language versions. Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez and Eddy Martin provide voices for the English-language version. The voice cast also includes Christian recording artists Jaci Velasquez and Marcos Witt.
"Wise Men" appeals to three of Wal-Mart's core demographic groups -- family, Latino and Christian, said Lori MacPherson, senior vp brand marketing and product management at Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
Disney
Enjoying Kauai Vacation
Clinton Family
Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton spent a family vacation on Kauai with their daughter Chelsea doing what most tourists do on Hawaii's Garden Isle, as well as what most won't ever get to do - golfing with a movie star.
The Clintons have been spotted hiking the Kalalau Trail on the Na Pali Coast and golfing at Princeville with "James Bond" actor and Hanalei resident Pierce Brosnan. The Clintons also shopped and dined in local restaurants.
Hanalei Gourmet owner Tim Kerlin said the former president picked up a deli sandwich, while Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y., and their daughter enjoyed a restaurant appetizer specialty: deep-fried crispy artichoke hearts.
Clinton Family
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