Ted Rall: Why Are Insurers Blocking H1N1 Treatment Prescriptions?
I got swine flu. Five days later, I was at death's door--because my evil insurance company wouldn't honor my doctor's prescription. Memo to future revolutionaries: if you require a firing squad for the executives of the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of New York, I'm handy with a rifle.
Garrison Keillor: That feverish pitch (chicagotribune.com)
The president has declined to talk about racism in connection with the carpet-chewers of the right who are suffering road rage over his existence, and he's wise to turn that one down. The country doesn't need a sermon on race or civility right now. What it needs is to believe that our leaders are trying to do the right thing, no matter how inconvenient, and if they forge ahead and fix health insurance, then the ragemeisters of the right will find other hobbies.
Interview with Ty Pennington (thecelebritycafe.com)
Ty Pennington is the energetic host of ABC's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' He is also a proponent of 'green' energy. Ty spoke with TheCelebrityCafe's Lawanda Johnson about this season's 'Extreme Makeover,' and the importance of going green.
Brandon Voss: Divine Inspiration (advocate.com)
When it came to casting his religion-themed film 'The Big Gay Musical,' Fred M. Caruso handed down two top commandments: "Thou shalt be hot" and "Thou shalt be out."
mj was first, and correct, with:
Hell, I wish I knew what I am now
All in the Family.
Brian replied:
All in the Family
Alan J answered:
All In The family
Charlie wrote:
Not to be confused with the this, "Those Were the Days" was the title of the opening theme of All in the Family
~ Tony In Philly, agreeing with mj, responded:
Easy One: All In The Family
Jim from CA, retired to ID answered:
All in the Family
Marian the Teacher replied:
All in the Family
joe b wrote:
My favorite show, All in the Family
Sally said:
Who could forget Edith (Jean Stapleton) sitting at the piano, with Archie (Carroll O'Connor) beside her singing:
"Those Were The Days"
by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse
Boy, the way Glen Miller played.
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days.
Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.
And you know who you were then,
girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
People seemed to be content.
Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Freaks were in a circus tent.
Those were the days.
AKA The theme from, "All In the Family!"
PS: Still feeling punk, company arriving in a few hours... Sigh.
Adam in NoHo answered:
I'm surprised the 'Mad About You' question tripped up so many people.
When I read the answer, I recognized it immediately, but before that I didn't wuite make the connection.
It's just called 'Star Trek Main Title' (and that applies to at least 4 different pieces of music).
'Those Were The Days' is the opening to 'All In The Family'.
DanD responded:
Boy were boys and girls went wild ...
well, that's how Edith and Archie
would have to sing it in this Modern World ~
AITF
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'The Good Wife', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Law & Order', followed by a RERUN'Mercy', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' has its SEASON PREMIERE, with Megan Fox hosting, music by U2.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football' (from Beaver Stadium in Happy Valley!), then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy'.
The CW fills the night with the tremendously underrated movie 'Lord Love A Duck'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night here with LIVE"MLB Baseball' (Oakland visits the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels).
AMC offers the movie 'Dances With Wolves', followed by the movie 'Wyatt Earp'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
[1:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 17
[1:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
[2:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Ruby Tates
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[7:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 5 Small Worlds
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 2 Cause and Effect
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 3 Lost in Translation
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Matt Lucas, Anna Friel
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 2 Cause and Effect
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 3 Lost in Translation
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Matt Lucas, Anna Friel
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 2 Cause and Effect
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 3 Lost in Translation
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Matt Lucas, Anna Friel
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 2 Rice
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 3 Grey
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'The Green Mile', then the movie 'The Green Mile', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Scary Movie 4', followed by the movie 'Employee Of The Month'.
FX has the movie 'Gridiron Gang', followed by the movie 'S.W.A.T'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Holy Grail In America', and 'The Mysteries Of The Freemasons'.
IFC -
[7:45 AM] Food Party
[8:00 AM] Ronin-Gai
[10:00 AM] House of D
[11:45 AM] Danny Deckchair
[1:30 PM] Bright Young Things
[3:20 PM] Dog Years
[3:30 PM] House of D
[5:15 PM] Danny Deckchair
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[8:00 PM] The Player
[10:05 PM] Made
[11:45 PM] Food Party
[12:00 AM] Wrong Door
[12:30 AM] Modern Toss
[1:00 AM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[1:30 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:00 AM] The Player
[4:05 AM] Made
[5:45 AM] Bright Young Things (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Final Destination 2', followed by the movie 'Children Of The Corn'.
Sundance -
[05:45 AM] Fair Trade
[06:05 AM] Fierce People
[08:05 AM] The Hawk is Dying
[11:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Matchbox Twenty, The Script & Def Leppard
[12:00 PM] A Woman Under the Influence
[02:35 PM] Fierce People
[04:35 PM] The Mozart of Pickpockets
[05:15 PM] Army Of Shadows
[07:45 PM] Old Joy
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Renee Zellweger on Christiane Amanpour
[10:00 PM] Swimmers
[11:30 PM] Harvie Krumpet
[12:00 AM] The Dead
[01:30 AM] The Limbo Room
[03:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 1: Renee Zellweger on Christiane Amanpour
[03:45 AM] One Missed Call
[05:45 AM] Old Joy (ALL TIMES EDT)
Original Munchkins Jerry Maren, Margaret Pellegrini and Karl Slover attend the 'Wizard of Oz' 70th Anniversary Emerald Gala at Tavern on the Green in New York, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Conan O'Brien hit his head during a stunt for the "Tonight Show" on Friday and the production was halted, NBC said.
O'Brien was being examined Friday at a hospital. The network declined comment on his condition or whether he had been released.
O'Brien issued a statement through NBC that indicated he was treating the incident lightly.
"Last thing I remember I was enjoying the play with Mrs. Lincoln, and the next thing I knew I was in bed being served cookies and juice" O'Brien said in the statement.
Actor Ken Howard, a proponent of merging two actors unions for better negotiating clout, has been elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, the union said Thursday.
Howard's election - along with that of slate partner Amy Aquino as secretary-treasurer - raises the likelihood that the guild will have tighter coordination with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in new contract talks.
Howard won 47 percent of the 27,295 ballots that were returned by about 99,500 dues-paying guild members.
His main rival, Anne-Marie Johnson, received 33 percent of the votes, while Seymour Cassel won 18 percent and Asmar Muhammad trailed with just over 1 percent.
Tupac Shakur's mother has donated a collection of the rapper's writings to the Atlanta University Center's main library.
Afeni Shakur has handed over more than 150 of her son's items, ranging from rough drafts of lyrics and poems to a photocopy of his contract with Suge (shugh) Knight and Death Row Records.
The rapper's collection will be part of the archives at the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the campus of the Atlanta University Center.
The library also houses The Martin Luther King Jr. Collection at Morehouse College.
Venezuelan authorities plan to impose fines on cable television companies that refuse to stop airing the animated television series "Family Guy."
Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami says the program should be pulled from the airwaves because it promotes the use of marijuana.
El Aissami was outraged by a recent episode in which the show's characters started a campaign to legalize marijuana.
He said Thursday that cable networks that broadcast "Family Guy" would be fined by Venezuela's telecommunications regulator if they refuse to dump the program.
The Bangles celebrate PINKTOBER with Hard Rock International President and CEO Hamish Dodds Thursday Sept. 24, 2009. Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson performed at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando to kick off the month-long breast cancer awareness program.
Photo by Kevin Kolczynski
The Marine commander who built the Guantanamo Bay prison said Thursday the U.S. lost the "moral high ground" with its brutal treatment of prisoners, and the facility should be closed as quickly as possible.
It was the first time Maj. Gen. Michael Lehnert publicly acknowledged his doubts, although he said he did make his concerns known through the appropriate chain of command.
Lehnert, 58, was commander of Joint Task Force 160 when it was assigned to build prison cells in 2001 at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba to hold designated "enemy combatants" from Afghanistan and elsewhere.
He said he was given little guidance from the Pentagon, but he did have his staff read the Geneva Convention, the international agreement governing treatment of prisoners.
However, another task force was put in charge of interrogating detainees, and there were disagreements over their treatment, Lehnert said.
US film director Terry Gilliam gestures during the photo call to promote his film 'The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus' at the 57th Film Festival in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Friday Sept. 25, 2009. The San Sebastian Film Festival is the oldest and most prestigious in the Spanish speaking World with a strong focus on European and U.S. movies.
Photo by Alvaro Barrientos
Randy Quaid was given a ride from a small West Texas jail to get bail money from a bank after the actor and his wife were arrested for allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 California hotel bill, according to the sheriff who drove him.
Quaid and his wife, Evi, each posted $20,000 Thursday night after spending several hours in the jail in Marfa, Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez told The Associated Press.
Dominguez said he drove the actor to a bank to obtain the bail money. Quaid remained in his custody during the trip but was not handcuffed. The sheriff said the actor received no special treatment.
The Quaids were arrested Thursday afternoon after a deputy spotted the couple driving in Marfa, where they had been staying at a hotel, Dominguez said.
A self-proclaimed preacher who was on the reality TV show "America's Sexiest Bachelor" will be arraigned next week for allegedly torturing and murdering an ex-porn actress in suburban Los Angeles.
Brian Lee Randone was charged last week with beating and suffocating Felicia Lee at their Monrovia home. He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
The 45-year-old Randone remained jailed Friday on $2 million bail. Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison did not know whether he had an attorney.
Lee had bits parts in several movies, including "Rush Hour 2" and made several adult movies under the name Felicia Tang.
Actress Pamela Anderson attends a photo call during New Zealand Fashion Week in Auckland September 24, 2009. Anderson was promoting the runway debut of her A*Muse fashion line with designer Richie Rich.
Photo by John Selkirk
Poland on Friday approved a law making chemical castration mandatory for pedophiles in some cases, sparking criticism from human rights groups.
Under the law, sponsored by Poland's center-right government, pedophiles convicted of raping children under the age of 15 years or a close relative would have to undergo chemical therapy on their release from prison.
"The purpose of this action is to improve the mental health of the convict, to lower his libido and thereby to reduce the risk of another crime being committed by the same person," the government said in a statement.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late last year he wanted obligatory castration for pedophiles, whom he branded 'degenerates'. Tusk said he did not believe "one can use the term 'human' for such individuals, such creatures."
Millions of Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico for the winter and scientists have long speculated on how the insects find their way. Turns out, their antennas are the key.
How do we know? Well, researchers painted butterfly antennas black, and the insects got lost.
Like most animals, Monarchs have a so-called circadian clock in their brain that helps them know what time it is. Knowing the time and the position of the sun allows them to orient to the south.
But Monarch butterflies have a second clock based in their antennas, which also sense light, according to the new study led by Dr. Steven M. Reppert, chairman of neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
A butterfly (aglais urticae), seen on a blossom in a garden near Boetzingen, southern Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.
Photo by Winfried Rothermel
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