Paul Krugman: A note on the Bush fiscal legacy (blogs.nytimes.com)
... And I had a thought that I haven't seen anyone else explore (apologies if someone has already done this.) Namely, what would things look like if we hadn't had 8 years of gross fiscal irresponsibility from the Bush adminstration?
Paul Krugman: Till Debt Does Its Part (nytimes.com)
The budget projections showing a deficit of $9 trillion over the next decade are worrying, but the real concern is how the nation's politicians deal with the debt.
roger ebert's journal: My Name is Roger, and I'm an alcoholic
In August 1979, I took my last drink. It was about four o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, the hot sun streaming through the windows of my little carriage house on Dickens. I put a glass of scotch and soda down on the living room table, went to bed, and pulled the blankets over my head. I couldn't take it any more.
Roger Ebert: YOU, THE LIVING (NO MPAA RATING; 4 stars)
In a sad world and a sad city, sad people lead sad lives and complain that they hate their jobs and nobody understands them. The result is in some ways a comedy with a twist of the knife, and in other ways, a film like nobody else has ever made - except for its director, Roy Andersson of Sweden.
ROGER EBERT: Anything Else (3 stars; An Overlooked DVD)
The dialogue in Woody Allen's "Anything Else" is an exercise of neurotic bravery, a defense against fear and insecurity. His characters are doubtful about their prospects in life. Careers aren't going well, and romance works only through self-deception. To hold despair at bay they talk and talk, and because Allen is a master of comic dialogue, it is our pleasure to listen.
According to AMC, Western Films or TV programs are the major defining genre of the American film industry... This indigenous American art form focuses on the frontier West that existed in North America (and) often portrays the conquest of the wilderness and the subordination of nature, in the name of civilization, or the confiscation of the territorial rights of the original inhabitants of the frontier. They truly show 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'
events of that part of our history. Love'em or loathe'em, their impact on our culture can not be denied...
If you are a fan what are your top 3 Western Films or TV programs and who are your favorite actors?
If you are not, feel free to rail away. I understand. I have Ojibwe ancestors (Sault Tribe of the Chippewa) and they suffered at the hand of the White man via broken treaties and confiscated land here in Michigan...
zEN mAN (observing the return of Jerry Springer style manufactured confrontations at Town Hall meetings.....wackos and freaks performing for the camera)
On the old TV series, House Party, Art Linkletter interviewed children during the 'Kids Say The Darndest Things' segment. (Approximately) how many children did he interview over the 27 year run of the show?
Art Linkletter's House Party or House Party was an American daytime TV variety/talk show which aired on CBS Radio from January 15, 1945 to October 13, 1967. It had an equally long run on on CBS television from September 1, 1952 to September 5, 1969.
The show's best-remembered segment was "Kids Say the Darndest Things" in which Linkletter interviewed schoolchildren between the ages of five and ten. The popularity of this segment led to a TV series with the same title and a series of Kids Say the Darndest Things books. During the 27-year run, Linkletter interviewed more than 23,000 children.
Source
mj was first, but off a tad, with:
My guestimate
Is 26,000
Alan J answered:
27000
~ Tony In Philly nailed it with:
During the 27-year run, Linkletter interviewed more than 23,000 children.
Charlie replied:
23,000 (I wasn't one of them).
Marian the Teacher responded:
more than 23,000
Sally said:
As I noted yesterday, I am at my daughter's house caring for the little darling (not) gks. They are ages 7 1/2 and 9 1/2 now. Camp is over, the summer was long, and they don't return to school until 3-days after Labor Day (almost two weeks away). Bored and cranky, they are becoming difficult to entertain. Throw in the fact(s) that it's bloody humid, their computer features teeny tiny print, my patience is short, the search options are limited. (B2BB is playing his teeny tiny violin just about now.)
I well remember Art Linkletter's "House Party" and the "Kids Say The Darndest Things" segment, but am unable to look up the answer to your question of the day. Sorry, but I have mucho confidence in the other contestants here! :)
We are now off to have an, "Adventure walk" through Riverdale (the Bronx) for a place where I can leave them (safely) till the morrow. KIDDING (like I would ever leave my babies...) But we are going out, rain or not!
PS: Professor Charlie, I am about rolling on the floor laughing after reading your footnote today: The Pacific Princess was impounded by police in Piraeus, Greece after 25 kg of heroin was found on board, smuggled by two Filipino crew men. Just seemed so...right.
And, Joe S, about settling your bet: You say the Jersey State bird is the mosquito and your sister says it's the middle finger. Who's right?
Answer: Neither. We've sold the State of New Jersey to neighboring New York, and we have become the sixth borough of NYC (thus using the NY State Bird, Mike Bloomberg) and have changed the name of our former state to, "Crooklyn..." 'Nuff said...
MAM wrote:
On the old TV series, House Party, Art Linkletter
interviewed approximately
23,000 children during the 'Kids Say The Darndest Things' segment.
Art Linkletter's 'Kids Say the Darndest Things"
And, Joe S (You can't see me. I'm not here.) said:
24,300. I just made that up, I'm still on staycation and I'm not looking up anything.
PS Sally, I didn't invent staycation. I got it from the Canadian sitcom Corner Gas. By the way I found Liquid Fence on Amazon.com. It's expensive but I'm getting some, I'm getting tired of raising deer salad.
But then they will most likely chicken out when they are given just that opportunity. What do you say you would do if you could but then wouldn't because you would just have to roll over and play chicken? Mix your metaphors? Let's go for some of the usual suspects - and don't forget to have your say too.
So, the kid & I were shopping at the local grocery store.
Back in Alaska, one of my jobs was to load the Muzak machines and make sure they kept running, so I'm prone to paying some attention to the ambient music.
Usually, it's fairly perky pop, but today we heard Jimi Hendrix doing Purple Haze and Led Zeppelin doing Black Dog.
A definite improvement. ; )
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football' (Chargers visit the Falcons), then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Without A Trace'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by 'The 25th Anniversary Of Wrestlemania', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Ben Affleck hosting, music by David Cook.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Flightplan', followed by the RERUN'Jimmy Kimmel's Big Night Of Stars'.
The CW offers the infomercial 'CW Fall Preview Special', followed by an old 'Friends', then an old 'Sex In The City', followed by another old 'Sex In The City'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'The Newton Boys'.
A&E has the movie 'Edward Scissorhands', followed by the movie 'My Cousin Vinny', and 'Gene Simmons'.
AMC offers the movie 'Out For Justice', followed by the movie 'Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines', then the movie 'Constantine'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[1:00 PM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 11 Hugh Jackman, Lady Gaga & Martin Clunes
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[4:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 3
[7:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 4
[8:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 5
[9:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 6
[10:15 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 Zac Efron, David Walliams, Pet Shop Boys
[11:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 6
[1:15 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 Zac Efron, David Walliams, Pet Shop Boys
[2:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 5
[3:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 6
[4:15 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 Zac Efron, David Walliams, Pet Shop Boys
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 19 Lovell
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 20 Burrows
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 1 Lidstone (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has has the movie 'Coming To America', followed by the movie 'Coming To America', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle', followed by the movie 'Idiocracy'.
FX has the movie 'The Fast & The Furious', followed by the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Woodstock: Now & Then', and 'Sex In 69: Sexual Revolution In America'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] Girl With a Pearl Earring
[8:00 AM] Yojimbo
[10:00 AM] The Quiet American
[11:45 AM] Proof
[1:25 PM] United We Stand
[1:35 PM] Girl With a Pearl Earring
[3:20 PM] Touch Base
[3:40 PM] The Quiet American
[5:30 PM] Proof
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:00 PM] Seven
[10:15 PM] Dahmer
[12:00 AM] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[2:05 AM] Seven
[4:15 AM Dahmer (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Malibu Shark Attack', followed by the movie 'Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] The Tiger and the Snow
[08:00 AM] Zebraman
[11:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Panic at the Disco, David Gray & Suzanne Vega
[12:00 PM] The Tiger and the Snow
[02:00 PM] It's a Free World
[03:35 PM] Be Quiet
[04:00 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Escape From Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
[05:15 PM] Helmer & Son
[05:30 PM] The Tiger and the Snow
[07:30 PM] Bittersweet Place
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Cameron Diaz + Cameron Sinclair
[10:00 PM] The Talent Given Us
[11:45 PM] Helmer & Son
[12:00 AM] The Man Who Fell To Earth
[02:20 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Cameron Diaz + Cameron Sinclair
[03:20 AM] A Christmas Tale (ALL TIMES EDT)
Singer Aaron Neville sings the national anthem prior to the Boston Red Sox baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park in Boston, Friday, Aug. 28, 2009.
Photo by Winslow Townson
A U.S. court struck down a rule limiting a cable company to no more than 30 percent of the pay television market, a victory for companies like Comcast Corp that could spark a wave of industry mergers.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled on Friday that the Federal Communications Commission's rule, adopted in late 2007, was "arbitrary and capricious" and vacated it. The regulation was first set in 1993, but has been repeatedly challenged.
The court sharply criticized the FCC, saying the agency's "dereliction in this case is particularly egregious" because it failed to heed the court's past order to take other providers into consideration when setting a new cap.
The ruling, which could spark a round of mergers among companies that provide pay TV services, presents a major challenge for new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, a Democrat, who will now have to decide whether to appeal to the Supreme Court, draft a new rule, or abandon the regulation altogether.
Hector Fernandez and Eliana de Batrolis, representing Argentina, dance tango during the semi finals of the 7th Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires, Friday Aug. 28, 2009.
Photo by Natacha Pisarenko
The Jimi Hendrix catalog is moving over and letting another major take over.
Experience Hendrix, the family company that controls Hendrix's catalog and copyrights, has struck an eight-year, worldwide licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment for the master recordings of the legendary guitarist.
Sony plans to launch an ambitious reissue campaign in 2010 that will include deluxe editions of the three original albums by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, posthumous releases, the official Dagger Records bootleg line and previously unreleased archival recordings and filmed concerts.
The deal also includes licensing rights outside the United States for the 1970 live set "Band of Gypsys," which EMI Music will continue to distribute stateside. Universal Music Group had held the master licenses for the rest of the Hendrix catalog since 1997. Sony's licensing deal will take effect January 1.
Thumbing through his local Swedish newspaper, Göteborg resident Mattias Akerberg found himself troubled by a full-page advertisement for Ikea. It wasn't that the Grevbäck bookcases looked any less sturdy, or that the Bibbi Snur duvet covers were any less colorful, or even that the names given to each of the company's 9,500 products were any less whimsical. No, what bothered Akerberg was the typeface. "I thought that something had gone terribly wrong, but when I Twittered about it, people at their ad agency told me that this was actually the new Ikea font," he recalls. "I could hardly believe it was true."
Over its 60 years, Ikea has built a reputation as a purveyor of inexpensive but stylish home furnishings, selling everything from leather sofas to chrome toilet-bowl cleaners. Branding has been a large part of the Swedish chain's success - what urban dweller today, whether in Atlanta or Kuala Lumpur, doesn't recognize that bright blue warehouse, glowing like a beacon of fine living, at the side of the highway? And its signature typeface, a customized version of Futura, has long been an integral part of that brand. But with its 2010 catalogue now arriving in mailboxes, the supplier of headboards and coffee tables to the world's thrifty and trendy has switched to what it sees as a more functional typeface: Verdana. In the process, it has provoked an instantaneous global backlash, the kind that can only happen on the Internet.
All this outrage over a font? For some designers, it's an issue of propriety - Verdana, which was invented by Microsoft, was intended to be used on a screen, not on paper. "It has open, wide letterforms with lots of space between characters to aid legibility at small sizes on screen," explains Simon l'Anson, creative director at Made by Many, a London-based digital-consulting company. "It doesn't exhibit any elegance or visual rhythm when set at large sizes. It's like taking the family sedan off-road. It will sort of work, but ultimately gets bogged down."
The French aerobatic team, Patrouille de France, flies over Quebec City, Canada, Friday Aug. 28, 2009 as they practice for a show marking the 75th anniversary of the French Air Force, on Saturday Aug. 29, 2009 during a stop over. The Patrouille de France is on its way to Brazil.
Photo by David Catta
Songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher announced Friday he had quit Oasis, saying he could no longer work with his brother Liam, the rock band's singer.
"It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight," he wrote in a statement on the Oasis website.
"People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."
The band, from Manchester, was a key member of the so-called Britpop movement in the 1990s with a series of hit singles such as "Wonderwall" and "Roll With It." However, they were in the news as much for their rock-and-roll lifestyle as for winning music awards.
When Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte flies as the latest tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) next month, he promises to bring a comic touch to the mission.
Already his screen saver pictures his mission colleagues -- US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and cosmonaut Maksim Surayev -- in space suits and red clown noses, and he says he will bring six more clown snouts to those now in orbit.
"Fun at work, it's already mission accomplished!," the Canadian billionaire enthused in an interview with AFP, taking a break from a three-hour training session in a model of the cramped Soyuz rocket, on which the crew will blast off from Kazakhstan's Baikonour cosmodrome on September 30.
At the Soviet-era motel that houses cosmonauts in training here at Russia's space base outside Moscow, Quebec-native Laliberte has decorated his room with a poster of cult comic-book character Tintin walking on the moon and snapshots of his family.
The former fire-eater and stilt-walker, who left home at 14, said he sees this next adventure to space as a lesson to his five children -- too used to luxury -- that "to realize your dreams, you have to work hard!"
A great egret feeds at a lake near the village of Karpavichi, some 60 kilometers (38 miles) northwest of Minsk, August 28, 2009.
Photo by Vasily Fedosenko
A tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman.
It's one of the bigger pieces of trash in a sprawling mass of garbage-littered water, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where most of the plastic looks like snowy confetti against the deep blue of the north Pacific Ocean.
During their August fact-finding expedition, a group of University of California scientists found much more debris than they expected. The team announced their observations at a San Diego press conference Thursday.
The sheer quantity of plastic that accumulates in the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex formed by ocean and wind currents and located 1,000 miles off the California coast, has the scientists worried about how it might harm the sea creatures there.
A girls gestures while holding a banner that reads in Spanish: 'Yankees get out of Colombia' during a protest against Colombia's plan to give U.S. troops greater access to its military bases in Buenos Aires, Friday, Aug. 28, 2009.
Photo by Natacha Pisarenko
Visitors to a tourist attraction in Berlin have been making off with an unusual memento -- the 30 cm long tail of a Lego giraffe.
The Lego tail belongs to a six meter tall model that has stood outside the entrance to the Legoland Discovery Center on Potsdamer Platz since 2007.
"It's a popular souvenir," a spokeswoman for the center said Tuesday. "It's been stolen four times now ..."
The tail is made out of 15,000 Lego bricks. It takes model workers about one week to restore it at a cost of 3,000 euros ($4,300), the spokeswoman said.
In this photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo, Jesse, a new male mandrill is photographed at the San Francisco Zoo, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. The zoo recently welcomed the new colorful male, who joined a troop of three females. The mandrill is found in the tropical rainforests of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo. In the wild, the male with the brightest face attracts the most females.
Photo by George Nikitin
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