Paul Krugman: Eric and Irene (New York Times)
"Have you left no sense of decency?" That's the question Joseph Welch famously asked Joseph McCarthy, as the red-baiting demagogue tried to ruin yet another innocent citizen. And these days, it's the question I find myself wanting to ask Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, who has done more than anyone else to make policy blackmail - using innocent Americans as hostages - standard operating procedure for the G.O.P.
Froma Harrop: The Progressives' Freedom Agenda
If marijuana were legal, there would be no associated garbage in our national forests. It would grow freely on American farms. Thousands of drug traffickers would be put out of business, and the taxpayers would save the billions they spend on eradicating a natural plant.
Jim Hightower: "Michele Bachmann: A lying hypocrite for president"
It turns out that her husband's counseling clinic has received thousands of dollars in state and federal grants. Oh, she dodges, those tax dollars didn't come to us. Seriously? Yes, she explains, the money went to train our clinic's employees - as though that's not a subsidy for their business. Then there is the $260,000 in subsidies for her family's farm. Oh, she dissembled, that went to my father-in-law, adding that, "I have never gotten a penny from the farm." Seriously? But wait, she's listed as a partner in the farm, and her financial disclosure forms report that, in fact, she has received $105,000 in income from it.
Joe Queenan: The inconvenient truths about poverty (The Rotarian)
While I was cooling my heels in the green room, waiting to go on the air, one of the show's producers started ripping into the rock star for his mealy-mouthed, bleeding-heart opinions. "Poverty isn't supposed to be enjoyable," he explained to me. "If poverty were enjoyable, nobody would mind being poor."
"'Deep in a Dream': By JAMES GAVIN": Reviewed by Greil Marcus
"The man was a walking corpse," the Rotterdam jazz hanger-on Bob Holland told Gavin. "He was living only for the stuff. Music was the last resort to get it" -- it's as if heroin itself has agency, and seeks out bodies to inhabit, colonize, and use up, not a substance but a parasitic form of life whose mission is to destroy its host, knowing that it can always leap to another.
Barbara Elleman: Profile of Tomie dePaola (The Horn Book)
I first met Tomie dePaola at a conference in Louisville-or maybe it was Atlanta or possibly Cleveland or Phoenix, or…well, let's just say it was somewhere neither of us recalls anymore. Wherever it was, a glass of wine was undoubtedly involved, there were laughs aplenty, and, most important, it marked the beginning of a long conversation that still continues today.
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Fred MacMurray was the first person honored as a Disney Legend, in 1987.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Fred MacMurray
Charlie wrote:
Fred MacMurray
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Fred MacMurray: The First Disney Legend - I am going on a cruise and will
be away for about 10 days....have a great Labor Day everyone.
Adam answered:
Fred MacMurray, and 'The Shaggy DA' was a sequel..
Marian responded:
Fred MacMurray
Sally said:
Fred MacMurray was the first person honored as a Disney Legend, in 1987.
PS: It's the last week-end of the summer, gee that went fast - unless you are in Texas where it has been over 100 degrees forever... Happy Fall, Texas readers!!
MAM wrote:
Fred MacMurray was the first person honored as a Disney Legend, in 1987.
Fred McMurray
The award depicts the arm of Mickey Mouse holding a star-tipped wand.
BttbB replied:
Fred MacMurray... Always liked Ol' Fred. He seemed, like, 'The Dad next door' to me. The Absent-Minded Professor was a part of my youth and I look back on those days fondly. Certainly a whole different world from today (but, not without its own issues, I'm sayin'...) PSA time: Attention Mr. President!
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!... Thank you.
And, Joe S answered:
Fred MacMurray was the first person honored as a Disney Legend, in 1987. Now see, I didn't even know there was such a thing as a Disney Legend. All things considered, I don't think I would enjoy such an "honor." I needn't worry, I'm sure.
Fred at his Disney Legend Inauguration.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with the movie 'Game Time: Tackling The Past', followed by a RERUN'L & O: SVU'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Zach Galifianakis hosting, music by Jessie J.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'American Dad', followed by another old 'American Dad'.
Faux has 'Cops', another 'Cops', 'American Dad', and 'The Cleveland Show'.
MY here has LIVE'MLB Baseball', with the Twins visiting the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim California Angels.
AMC offers the movie 'Lonesome Dove', followed by the movie 'Lonesome Dove', again.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 6 - Litmus
[7:00 AM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 7 - Six Degrees of Separation
[8:00 AM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 8 - Flesh and Bone
[9:00 AM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 9 - Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
[10:00 AM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 10 - The Hand of God
[11:00 AM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 11 - Colonial Day
[12:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 12 - Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 1
[1:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 13 - Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 2
[2:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 1 - Scattered
[3:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 2 - Valley of Darkness
[4:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 3 - Fragged
[5:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 4 - Resistance
[6:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 5 - The Farm
[7:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 6 - Home, Part 1
[8:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 7 - Home, Part 2
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 9 - Night Terrors
[10:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[11:00 PM] Outnumbered - Episode 5
[11:30 PM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 9 - Night Terrors
[1:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[2:00 AM] Outnumbered - Episode 5
[2:30 AM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 5
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 9 - Night Terrors
[4:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[5:00 AM] Outnumbered - Episode 5
[5:30 AM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by the movie 'The School Of Rock'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Ghostbusters', followed by the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby'.
FX has the movie 'Role Models', followed by LIVE'College Football'.
History has 'America The Story Of Us', 'Secret Access', and 'Bigfoot: The definitive Guide'.
IFC -
[8:00AM] Meatballs
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges - Blunder Boys
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges - Commotion on the Ocean
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges - Corny Casanovas
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges - Creeps
[11:45AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:00PM] The Nugget
[2:00PM] Diminished Capacity
[4:00PM] Meatballs
[6:00PM] Slums of Beverly Hills
[8:00PM] House Party
[10:15PM] House Party
[12:30AM] Basic Instinct
[3:15AM] Slums of Beverly Hills
[5:15AM] Young Broke and Beautiful - Memphis
[5:45AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Redondo Beach (Episode 6, Season 1)
[7:00 AM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: One More Bite (Episode 7, Season 1)
[8:00 AM] QUIRKY: Huge Gamble, Huge Reward (Episode 1, Season 1)
[10:00 AM] Man in the Chair
[11:50 AM] Turn The River
[1:25 PM] Lemon Tree
[3:15 PM] Man in the Chair
[5:05 PM] Turn The River
[6:40 PM] The History Boys
[8:35 PM] How to Be
[10:00 PM] Gods and Monsters
[11:50 PM] Runaway
[12:00 AM] PLEASURE FOR SALE (Episode 1)
[2:20 AM] I'm Gonna Explode
[4:05 AM] The History Boys
[6:00 AM] Kassim the Dream (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Road Warrior', followed by the movie 'Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome'.
Canadian director David Cronenberg poses for the photo call of the film A Dangerous Method at the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Aug. 2, 2011.
Photo by Joel Ryan
With Labor Day weekend a day away -- or for the more fortunate, in full swing -- it is only fitting that another controversy erupted before the unofficial end of a summer of salacious scandal.
Michael Arrington, founder and editor of the blog TechCrunch, has announced that he is launching a $20 million venture capital fund, backed in part by owner AOL. The "CrunchFund" will invest in start-ups, including many that his own newsroom writes about.
So far as anyone can tell -- the details on this have changed repeatedly -- the fund will operate under AOL, but under AOL Ventures rather than the AOL Huffington Post Media Group. Arrington's position at the company is still somewhat unclear, but the latest reports suggest he remains an AOL employee, just not on the editorial side. However, he remains "founding editor" of Tech Crunch, as well as an "unpaid blogger."
The truth is always murkier when something inappropriate is happening.
Since TechCrunch is one of the tech world's foremost news sources, and Arrington is not only its pioneering founder but its scoop master -- much like Kara Swisher is at AllThingsD -- the phrase conflict of interest doesn't even begin to describe this.
Actress Salma Hayek and her husband Francois Henry Pianault arrive at the Gucci Award for Women in Cinema in Venice, Italy, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011.
Photo by Luigi Costantini
Comedians who think Jerry Lewis was unceremoniously dumped from his post as chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and face of its annual telethon are holding a Web-athon of their own.
Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada says his club will hold a fundraiser on Monday featuring comedians such as Norm Crosby and Dave Chappelle. Fans can watch the performances online and make donations.
Proceeds of the event will be presented to scientists working toward a cure for muscular dystrophy as the Jerry Lewis Award. Masada says the event will be held annually until a cure is found.
The MDA announced last month that it was parting ways with Lewis after 45 years but offered no explanation for the split. The MDA's annual telethon will be held Sunday.
After three seasons, TNT has canceled the medical drama "HawthoRNe," the network said Friday.
The series, which starred Jada Pinkett Smith as hospital executive Christina Hawthorne and Michael Vartan as her husband, surgeon Tom Wakefield, aired its last episode on August 16.
The series had generated headlines recently, with rumors that Smith and her castmate Marc Anthony, recently split from his wife Jennifer Lopez, had engaged in an affair. Smith and her husband, Will Smith, issued a statement denying the rumor.
U.S actor Bill Murray arrives for the opening of the 37th American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France, Friday Sept. 2, 2011. The 37-year-old festival, a European showcase for mainly American movies opens Friday night and runs through Sept 11.
Photo by Michel Spingler
Singer Mel B, who rose to fame with British girl band Spice Girls, has given birth to a baby girl.
The 36-year-old, whose full name is Melanie Brown, is married to film producer Stephen Belafonte. She took to Twitter to announce the arrival, posting an update in the early hours of Friday morning.
The singer, also known as 'Scary Spice' to her fans, has two daughters, Phoenix Chi and Angel Iris, from a previous marriage to dancer Jimmy Gulzar and a relationship with actor Eddie Murphy.
Along with her career as a singer, Brown also appeared on the fifth season of television contest "Dancing With the Stars," which boosted her celebrity in the United States.
News Corp awarded Rupert Murdoch and his son James big compensation increases, though James declined his bonus, citing controversy over a phone hacking scandal at the UK newspaper unit that he oversees.
The annual bonus, announced Friday, would have bumped James Murdoch's compensation by 73 percent. His father got a 47 percent increase, bringing his compensation to $33.3 million. The awards came on the same day that two longtime directors said they could quit the media company's board.
James Murdoch was set to get a payout of $17.9 million, boosted by a $6 million bonus and $8.3 million in stock awards. He will now receive $11.9 million. His father's pay was boosted by a $12.5 million bonus and $8.5 million in stock awards.
As head of international operations, James Murdoch has been under media and government scrutiny since the hacking scandal erupted at the London tabloid News of the World on July 4.
There has been speculation that he would have to step down, especially after former News Corp executives challenged the accuracy of his testimony to a UK Parliamentary committee on the phone hacking case.
U.S director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola arrives for the screening of "The Help" at the opening of the 37th American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France, Friday Sept. 2, 2011. The 37-year-old festival, a European showcase for mainly American movies opens Friday night and runs through Sept 11.
Photo by Michel Spingler
London police said Friday they had arrested a 34-year-old man as part of their probe into a phone-hacking scandal centered on the News of the World, one of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers.
The unidentified man was held on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Police said he had not been previously arrested as part of their intensive investigation, making him the 15th person to be held since they re-opened their inquiry into phone-hacking at the News of the World at the start of the year.
A number of senior figures, including former editorial staff on the now defunct paper, have been arrested over allegations journalists had illegally hacked into the voicemails of mobile phones of celebrities, politicians, and victims of crime and their families.
The courtroom standoff between Dick Clark Productions and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association isn't ready for its close-up yet.
A bench trial to decide who controls the television rights to the Golden Globe Awards has been postponed 30 days, TheWrap has learned.
DCP has produced the broadcast for nearly thirty years, while the HFPA is the non-profit organization that oversees the entertainment awards.
The two sides were supposed to square off starting next Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, but Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank was unable to hear the case, Martin Katz, an attorney for DCP, told TheWrap.
The case will now be transferred to another judge.
A surfer jumps a wave Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 at Malibu Beach in Malibu, Calif. Beachgoers this Labor Day weekend will be privy to big waves caused by a southwest swell that originated from a powerful storm near New Zealand. According to the National Weather Service, waves will be in the 5- to 8-foot range through Sunday. A high surf advisory issued earlier in the week was extended for the county through 9 p.m. Sunday.
Photo by Nick Ut
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange late last year told associates his website's entire cache of U.S. diplomatic cables "must somehow" be released, according to a written record of the discussion.
The record -- notes of a meeting -- describes an intense conversation between Assange and other WikiLeaks activists in November at Ellingham Hall, a mansion in eastern England where he has resided since British courts released him on bail pending a decision on a Swedish extradition request for his questioning about sexual misconduct allegations.
According to the notes, examined by Reuters, the substance of the meeting was a "heated conversation about rough plans on releasing cables." The debate's details were first reported on Friday on the website of Britain's Guardian newspaper by James Ball, a former WikiLeaks staffer who attended the meeting and who now works for the Guardian.
Evidence of the discussions surfaced as WikiLeaks announced that it was releasing its entire database of "251,287 US embassy cables in searchable format." People who examined the database said its contents are unredacted.
A notice of claim has been filed against Maricopa County sheriff's detectives by a Phoenix man who claims humiliation, emotional distress and property damage from a high-profile raid on his property.
The Arizona Republic (http://bit.ly/oWgjMW ) reports the raid last March included actor Steven Seagal, his reality-TV camera crew and Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies all there to investigate an alleged cockfighting operation at Jesus Sanchez Llovera's Laveen home.
Llovera's claim seeks $25,000.
Due to the pending litigation, the sheriff's office said Wednesday it is not responding on this case.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and actor Steven Seagal deny accusations by a U.S. man and his lawyer that a family dog was killed during a raid for Seagal's reality TV show.
The sheriff's office said in a news release the allegation is without merit. Seagal added he's outraged.
The action movie actor was participating in the raid as a special deputy sheriff for his show "Steven Seagal Lawman" on the A&E cable channel. His movie credits include "Under Siege," ''Above the Law" and "Fire Down Below."
Seagal and numerous deputies and posse members were present March 9 during a raid at the home of Jesus Llovera. In the claim, Llovera says an 11-month-old puppy was killed along with 100 roosters.
An art installation called the "Hug Deli" offers free hugs to passersby during the Burning Man 2011 "Rites of Passage" arts and music festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, September 1, 2011. More than 50,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival which is celebrating its 25th year.
Photo by Jim Bourg
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Prinz Frederic von Anhalt was hit by a car in Beverly Hills on Friday and taken to a hospital where he was treated for cuts to his hip and hand, his spokesman said.
The 68-year-old von Anhalt was walking to a bank when a car drove out from an underground parking garage and hit him.
Doctors were trying to determine on Friday afternoon if he also had broken his leg, the spokesman said.
The driver was arrested by Beverly Hills police. Von Anhalt said he did not want to press charges. "He just wants to go home and be with his wife," his spokesman said.
Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong says his sagging pants cost him a seat on a Southwest Airlines flight.
The singer-guitarist for the San Francisco Bay area band sent a message to his Twitter followers on Thursday expressing his indignation at being tossed from an Oakland-to-Burbank flight for wearing his trousers too low.
An ABC7 news producer who was on the same flight told the station that a flight attendant approached Armstrong as the plane was getting ready to take off and asked him to hike his pants higher. The producer, Cindy Qiu, says Armstrong initially responded by asking the attendant if there weren't "better things to do than worry about that?"
But the attendant persisted and told Armstrong he could be ejected for his refusal to comply. When Armstrong insisted he was just trying to get to his seat, he and a traveling companion were taken off the plane.
Caracal cat Peggy, left, sits with her kittens, from right, females Aziza and Binti and male Mkuze at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore. Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. The new caracal cat exhibit will debut this Saturday.
Photo by Don Ryan
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