Paul Krugman: Crisis Endgame (nytimes.com)
Faced with the financial crisis spinning out of control, much of Washington appears to have decided that government isn't the problem, it's the solution.
TOM DANEHY: Join Tom on a rousing trip through New England (tucsonweekly.com)
I spent four days in New England recently, and I never once ate at Dunkin' Donuts. Anybody who has ever seen me and/or been to New England will realize that's worth mentioning. My daughter, Darlene, was flying to Vermont to get a cup of coffee.
ZP Heller: The Relentless Activism of Tom Morello (huffingtonpost.com)
It's a philosophy Morello has followed since he was fresh out of college and working as the scheduling secretary for the late California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston--a day job while he tried to form a band at night. Morello said he spent 80 percent of his time in Cranston's office trying to raise money. Once, a woman called up crying that Mexicans were moving into her neighborhood at an alarming rate and asked if he could tell the Congressman. When Morello called her a racist and told her to go to hell, he was rebuked for four days straight. "That's when I realized," Morello exclaimed, "if in my job I can't tell a racist to go to hell, I'm not in the right job."
Mike Farley: A Chat with Jason Reeves, singer/songwriter (bullz-eye.com)
"I don't know what they (people back in Iowa) think. They think it's crazy. Everything is blown way out of proportion when people start talking. I'm sure there is some epic thing that I'm doing right now that I don't even know about."
Angus Batey: The hustler (guardian.co.uk)
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons helped Run DMC, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys make it big. But is his greatest talent self-promotion? Angus Batey meets him
Joe Queenan: America's silly kid names (latimes.com)
When I heard that John McCain's running mate had children named Track, Willow, Bristol, Piper and Trig, I was floored. My reaction, like that of many of my acquaintances, was: Forget her views on religion, abortion, immigration or that bridge to nowhere, the American people are not going to let a person with children named Track, Willow, Bristol, Piper and Trig anywhere near that red button. The American people are too sensible for that, too traditional for that, too classy for that.
Paul Theroux: Thoreau on the moose
The great American writer found nothing heroic in hunting the gentle creatures. Rather, he saw their killing as a great tragedy.
The peach (Prunus persica) is a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach. Although its botanical name Prunus persica suggests the peach is native to Persia, it actually originated in China where it has been cultivated since the early days of Chinese culture.
The cherry (Prunus Cerasus) is generally understood to have been brought to Rome from Armenia.
Pawpaw (Asimina) is a genus of eight or nine species of small trees with large leaves and fruit, native to eastern North America.
The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to between five and eight metres tall. The pomegranate is native to the region from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and has been cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region and the Caucasus since ancient times.
The Quince, or Cydonia oblonga, is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region.
Bill W was first, but wrong, with:
I would say D. Pomegranate, which also is the base for the word
"grenade".
DanD wrote:
While initially thinking that the answer once again is "500," Carthage is a far cry from Chinois. And while cherries appear a bit more oriental, they seem to have always been everywhere (insert Palin-daughter joke here). The Pawpaw seems to primarily be "New World." In the meantime, though the Quince also has a formal Chinese version, unlike the Peach, it's botanical name shares no obvious Persian link as does the Prunus Persica.
This time, the answer is "C."
In the meantime Sally, we just have to wait a little while longer for hell to finish freezing over in order to drive our snow mobiles (or perhaps ride our dogsleds) over to that frozen subcontinent. It seems that the Hooked Crook will steal this election yet again, 'cause I really do believe that Hussein Obama is yet morphing into no more than a half-"colored" version of Kracker-Kerry.
You see, I can't help but believe that corporate America really does have some bad shit on this not-quite-rainbow candidate of Democratic "Change," and our nation's politically apathetic dissolution is already a DU cinch. Really, all the war party really has to do is pull some MSM kind of low-rent Edwardesque/Hart accusation on him while BAO defensively vacillates a weak-assed retreat only a few days before November 3. Then, "moral America" will allegedly turn in droves to its more philandering white-bread alternative 'cause -- well, you know -- because racism is supposed to preempt all reasonable self-interest among our population.
Also, in that the vote-counters that we've borrowed from Stalin's urban legend are using an electronic theft infrastructure that nationally canvasses over 50 percent of the vote, well, those media-moguls have already established the paradigm, globalism's die-off crew really doesn't even have to try very hard anymore. It's already a fait accompli. We are all lemmings now.
Either way, since Obama has already earlier secured his promises to AIPAC to continue following Zionland's downward spiral into hell, even if he does make it to the White House, his soul has still already been sold. Quite officially, he's just a taller, darker version of Hillary, just a tad more eloquent speaker who can also play basketball.
Anyway, America's secret service ensconced version of corporate Praetorians will NEVER let this Islamically nomenclatured politician stray too far off the reservation ... and Obama's hostage-managed daughters absolutely insures this covert reality.
Ever since the human species expanded well beyond that one billion mark, there has never existed any real chance that globalism's new world order could be avoided.
Perhaps another ten years, no more than fifty.
It's all just theater.
Alan J responded:
C: Peach
Charlie replied:
Botanical name Prunus persica applies to the
C: Peach
but they came to Persia from China.
Adaam in NoHo said:
I'm going to say D- Pomegranate because, I, at least, tend to associate
it with the Middle East, but it's a total guess.
Sally said:
In the early 1970s, I lived (for the longest year of my life) in Northern Italy, on the border to what is now Croatia, but then Yugoslavia. Many a night I listened to the stories about the maraschino cherry, which apparently originated in that region of the world. (Not much on TV back then in northern Italy...) Upon some investigation, I learned that the sour cherry came from northern Iran and Turkmenistan, but the sweet cherry originated in the area between the Black and Caspian seas of Asia Minor. (And this was in the days PRIOR to the laptop computer mind you...) But, I think that Marty is looking for the Prunus Persia (Peach - C) for her reply.
I believe that the Paw Paw (Papaya) is from South America and Brazil, the pomegranate originated from Persia, and the Quinces originated in Turkestan and Persia - which is all Greek to me :)
PS: Ah, Professor Charlie, on my desk, right in front of me, is three-volume autobiography by Bertrand Russell! Russell was appointed professor at my alma mater (then) CCNY circa 1940. Although he had the appointment withdrawn soon thereafter (because of his controversial views), he had an almost cult following by the new left, by the time I attended there in the late 1950s - which I quickly joined, unashamedly! There are not enough pages to write of my admiration of Professor Russell's work and philosophy, nor to list his credentials. His legendary teachings on pacifism and analytic philosophy are at the very base of my own beliefs. Russell was a vigorous proponent of nuclear disarmament, an antagonist of conventional thinking, and an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. And I am proud to say that I not only saw him speak many times, but the last being shortly after he became the inaugural recipient of the Jerusalem Prize in 1963 (an award for writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society). (Russell won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 as well.) He shall always hold a special place in my heart - no matter what the mainstream thinkers may say.
socdan answered:
I read this somewhere this week in some article about word origins. Unfortunately I can't recall where for attribution. I recall that the word "peach" comes from the word Persia (modern day Iran). Also, I think that the moniker for peach is Prunus persica, the specific epitaph being the latin for persian (this is only a fuzzy memory from some agricultural botany class of 30 years ago... ahem). It all comes together to point to Persia as the origin of the peach, which is of course not true, as the peach comes from China. Saffron, tulips, and my friend Cyrus (as important as peaches in my world) do come from Persia.
JohnW1141 responded:
Pomegranate
Marian the Teacher said:
peach
And, Joe S wrote:
I have no idea, and I'm too tired to look it up. Am I too late for this quiz?
I guess it's E: Quince, for no particular reason.
Well, an entomologist really needs to get involved here... But, I started with the resemblance to a walkingstick in the family Phasmidae. It turns out to my surprise that there are two species of this typically tropical insect family endemic to North America. Both are mostly in the south, northeast and midwest.
I don't know where Marsha lives, so I don't know if we are out of range (and therefor out of luck). Anyway, the adults of the Northern and Giant Walkingsticks are brown and rather matte-looking, but the juveniles are smooth and green like the picture.
We went to the Poly football game where the Jackrabbits hopped all over the Newport Sailors. Rabbits won, 26 - 2.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'The Unit', followed by a RERUN'NCIS', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chuck', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then another RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with James Franco hosting, music by Kings Of Leon.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then an old 'Sex & The City', followed by another old 'Sex & The City'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MADtv is FRESH.
MY fills the night with the movie 'In The Army Now'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', still another 'CSI: The 2nd One', and 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Hunt For Red October', followed by the movie 'Clear And Present Danger'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 La Gondola
[3:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 5
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 10
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 9
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Eps 4 & 5
[8:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 6
[9:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 7
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Susan Sarandon and The Feeling
[11:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 6
[12:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 7
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Susan Sarandon and The Feeling
[2:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 6
[3:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 7
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Susan Sarandon and The Feeling
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 9
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 1 Ogden White
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', and the movie 'Bad Boys II'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Napoleon Dynamite', followed by the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle', and 'Katt Williams: American Hustle'.
FX has the movie 'Invincible', followed by the movie 'Invincible', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', followed by the movie 'Open Range'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] Heavy Load
[8:00 AM] Ronin-Gai
[10:00 AM] Elephant
[11:30 AM] The Prince of Pennsylvania
[1:05 PM] Heavy Load
[2:40 PM] Garage Days
[4:30 PM] The Prince of Pennsylvania
[6:05 PM] Elephant
[7:35 PM] Sugar
[9:00 PM] Body of Evidence
[9:00 PM] Body of Evidence
[10:45 PM] Little Fish
[12:45 AM] All Over the Guy
[2:30 AM] Body of Evidence
[2:30 AM] Body of Evidence
[4:15 AM] IFC in Theaters
[4:25 AM] Sugar
[5:50 AM] IFC News Election Special (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Boogeyman 2', followed by the movie 'Dark Corners'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez
[07:30 AM] Rat
[09:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Mario Batali on Michael Stipe
[10:00 AM] Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
[11:30 AM] Iota
[12:00 PM] Sleeping Dogs Lie
[01:35 PM] Through My Thick Glasses
[02:00 PM] John Safran vs. God: Episode 3
[02:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 5
[03:00 PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 1: Episode 3: Madness in Great Ones
[03:50 PM] Mary, Queen of Scots
[06:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Rascal Flatts, Kate Nash & Herbie Hancock
[07:00 PM] The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
[09:00 PM] The Staircase: Chapter 8. The verdict
[10:00 PM] Dead Man's Shoes
[11:30 PM] A Room for Romeo Brass
[01:00 AM] Twentyfourseven
[02:40 AM] Talk Radio
[04:30 AM] Sleeping Dogs Lie (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Sarah Silverman arrives at the honoring of nominees for outstanding writing for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences along with the Writer's Peer Group Executive Committee, Thursday, September 18, 2008, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
US filmmaker Woody Allen, best known for such comedy classics as "Annie Hall," says it will be no laughing matter if Barack Obama fails to win the race for the White House.
"It would be a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win," he told Spanish journalists at the ongoing 56th San Sebastian film festival, where his latest film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" is being screened.
Democratic hopeful Obama, Allen said, is "so much better" than Republican rival John McCain, and "represents a huge step upward from (the) incompetence and misjudgement" of the Bush administration.
"It would be a terrible thing if the American public was not moved to vote for him, that they actually preferred more of the same."
On Thursday, Spanish-born Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas, who is also in San Sebastian, said he is backing Obama for the sake of his daughter -- acknowledging, however, that he cannot vote as he is not a US citizen.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been honoured by the city where she created her world-famous wizard books.
The writer was presented with the Edinburgh Award, which last year went to fellow writer Ian Rankin, creator of the popular Rebus series set in the Scottish capital.
A panel of judges from the fields of arts, business and science unanimously voted JK Rowling the 2008 winner. Lord Provost George Grubb gave the award to her at a ceremony in Edinburgh.
Rowling said: "It is an absolute honour to receive this award, as Edinburgh is very much home for me and is the place where Harry evolved over seven books and many, many hours of writing in its cafes.
In this image released by Starpix, actress Bebe Neuwirth poses by the counter of The Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 in New York. The center, created by The Broadway League, offers ticket service for Broadway and off-Broadway shows as well as restaurant and hotel information.
Photo by Dave Allocca
Canadian musicians Feist and Martha Wainwright will be among artists and scientists on board a ship headed to Greenland this month in an expedition that will study the effects of climate change.
The Cape Farewell expedition, from Sept. 25 to Oct. 6, aims to inspire the artists to respond to what they witness.
Other musicians on the ship will include K.T. Tunstall, Vanessa Carlton, Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker and Robyn Hitchcock. There will also be visual artists, architects and playwrights, among others, on board.
They will journey aboard the research vessel Grigory Mikheev along the west coast of Greenland to Disko Bay, then voyage across the front of the Jakobshavn Glacier. The shrinking glacier is losing 20 million tonnes of ice each day, says a news release.
An upstart group of actors said Thursday it won a majority of Hollywood seats up for re-election on the national board of the Screen Actors Guild, a shake-up that could dislodge the logjam in contract talks with the movie studios.
The Unite for Strength group, including Amy Brenneman and Kate Walsh of "Private Practice," claimed six of 11 Hollywood seats up for grabs, breaking the incumbent Membership First majority on the 71-member board.
Membership First, which had a slim voting majority, won just five of the 11 Hollywood seats it once commanded. Its total number of seats slipped to 29, said spokeswoman Anne Marie Johnson.
The results did not signal a clear change in direction for stalled talks between the guild and major Hollywood studios over a contract on film and prime-time TV show production that expired June 30. The outcome was complicated by the fact that the 13-member negotiating committee controlled by Membership First will not change, nor will guild President Alan Rosenberg or Doug Allen, the lead negotiator and executive director.
The ninth-best-selling comedy album of 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan, is a 5-year-old release by a man who has been dead for three years.
Now, Mitch Hedberg is back on the charts with "Do You Believe in Gosh?" (Comedy Central), which debuts this week at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 album chart after opening-week sales of 27,000 copies.
Hedberg first started grabbing the attention of college-age comedy fans with two standup albums in 2003, "Mitch It All Together" and "Strategic Grill Locations," which contained his deadpan non sequiturs on such topics as the buoyancy of citrus and sesame seed buns. The albums have since sold a combined 600,000 copies, quite an achievement for a comedian who isn't a household name.
Designer Manolo Blahnik arrives for the DVD launch event for Sex and the City: The Movie - Extended Cut, in New York City Thursday Sept. 18, 2008.
Photo by David Goldman
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts on Thursday announced a new promotion to admit visitors free on their birthdays next year.
"Every guest gets in free to one of our parks on their birthday in 2009," Jay Rasulo, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, said at a news conference in Manhattan.
Visitors will have to show valid identification and proof of birthdate to qualify. Details are available at disneyparks.com, where birthday visits can be registered in advance.
The birthday promotion is only good at U.S. parks. Visitors with multi-day passes or who are otherwise already ticketed on their birthdays can either get a one-day one-park ticket for use in the next year; a "Fastpass" for four rides for up to six people; or a card with a dollar amount equal to the free ticket, usable toward merchandise and other purchases.
A Las Vegas judge has dismissed a firearms charge against entertainer Jerry Lewis. Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Karen Bennett-Haron dismissed the case Friday after attorneys agreed to let the 82-year-old comedian off without fines.
Lewis was cited in July for attempting to carry an unloaded concealed weapon through McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
He later said the weapon was a gift that he'd placed in a carry-on bag more than a year ago. He said he forgot it was in the bag until he was stopped at an airport security checkpoint.
Lewis' lawyer, Ross Goodman, says Lewis was forced to surrender the engraved gun. Goodman calls the quick resolution "a good result for great guy."
Biggest Burger - Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, Clearfield, Pennsylvania (although this claim often faces rivals). Order ahead for a 123 lb (56 kg) burger. Of course, there's always the 6 lb (3 kg) version if you're just after a snack.
The NBC reporter who became known as the Scud Stud during the first Gulf War has settled a lawsuit against the makers of "Charlie Wilson's War" over footage used in the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts movie.
Arthur Kent, whose live reports on Iraq's Scud missile attacks on Saudia Arabia made him a celebrity, claimed in a lawsuit filed last April that Universal Studios and other violated his intellectual property rights by using without his consent segments of a 1986 news program he made about the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan.
Former Sex Pistols singer John Lydon is now advertising butter - in stark contrast to his punk rock days when he proclaimed: "I am an antichrist, I am an anarchist."
Decked out in an English gentleman-style tweed outfit, Lydon - whose used the stage name Johnny Rotten - features in adverts for Country Life butter which will hit screens in October.
As part of his first television advertising campaign, Lydon gallivants around various British locations as he tries to decide why he thinks Country Life butter is his favourite brand.
The advert concludes, "It's not about Great Britain, it's about great butter", and will first be screened during the ITV Pride of Britain Awards next month.
Models stand in the backstage wearing pieces made of bathroom tissue before the "White Cashmere Collection 2008: A Touch of Pink" fashion show in Toronto, September 19, 2008. Eight Canadian designers revealed their designs as part of "The White Cashmere Collection" and teamed up with "Fashion with Compassion for a Future Without Breast Cancer" group to help advocate awareness for breast cancer.
Photo by Mark Blinch
There are few places left in Europe where you can still enjoy a cigarette and a tipple but the huge beer tents of the 175th annual Oktoberfest starting in Munich Saturday are one of them.
But this is the last time. When the first barrel of beer is ceremoniously cracked open in the Bavarian capital next year, the ashtrays will have gone and nicotine lovers will have to nip outside.
After years of foot-dragging, the last of Germany's 16 states made lighting up in bars and restaurants largely illegal from July 1, spelling the end of the country's status as one of Europe's last havens for smokers.
But the new anti-tobacco laws have met with strong popular resistance and have been challenged by restaurant and pub owners in courts around the country, where nearly one in three adults smoke.
Charlotte Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party's candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday she will prosecute resident Bush for murder if she's elected Nov. 4.
Dennett, an attorney and investigative journalist, says Bush must be held accountable for the deaths of thousands of people in Iraq - U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. She believes the Vermont attorney general would have jurisdiction to do so.
She also said she would appoint a special prosecutor and already knows who that should be: former Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, the author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder," a new book.
"Someone has to step forward," said Dennett, flanked by Bugliosi at a news conference announcing her plan. "Someone has to say we cannot put up with this lack of accountability any more."
A Ctenophore or Comb Jellyfish collected off Wassteri reef, Heron Island in far north Queensland, is seen in this undated photo obtained September 18, 2008. Australian scientists have discovered hundreds of new coral and marine species on the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef which they say will improve monitoring reef biodiversity and the impact of climate change. Three expeditions to the reefs over four years to collect the first inventory of soft corals, found 300 soft corals of which 130 were new species, said a report released on Friday.
Photo by Gary Cranitch
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