Matthew Yglesias: Friends Don't Let Friends Fly American Airlines (Slate)
You seriously have to stop traveling on American Airlines. Seriously. If you're booking some travel somewhere, book it somewhere else. If your company has some relationship with American that gives them a strong preference for you to fly with American, still book it somewhere else.
Paul Krugman: Flimflam Fever Goes VSP (New York Times)
… you'll forgive me if my eyes popped a bit on seeing VSP Central, aka the Washington Post, publishing an editorial titled, yes, Paul Ryan's budget flimflam, accusing him of faking it and "hiding behind a flimsy scaffolding of pseudo-wonkiness."
Philadelphia Police Officer Appears To Punch, Arrest Woman After Puerto Rican Day Parade 2012 (Huffington Post)
At the beginning of the clip, a woman in a black T-shirt to the left of the frame can be seen throwing what appears to be water or possibly silly string in the direction of a group of officers. Moments later, an officer comes after the woman and appears to punch her in the face without warning. The force of the blow knocks the woman to the ground, where she is quickly handcuffed by the same officer.
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The Game of Cootie is a children's roll-and-move tabletop game for two to four players. The object is to be the first to build a three dimensional bug-like object called a "cootie" from a variety of plastic body parts. Created by William Schaper in 1948, the game was launched in 1949 and sold millions in its first years.
The object of the original 1949 game is to be the first player to build a "cootie" piece by piece from various plastic body parts[1][2] that include a beehive-like body, a head, antennae, eyes, a coiled proboscis, and six legs. Body parts are acquired following the player's roll of a die, with each number on the die corresponding to one of the body parts. The body corresponds to one, the head to two, three to the antennas (feelers), four to the eye, five to the proboscis (mouth), and six to the leg The first part to be acquired must be the body, and then the head. All other body parts may then be acquired in any order. When a player acquires a part, an additional throw of the die is allowed in an attempt to acquire another part. The winner is the first player to completely assemble a cootie.
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Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The Game of Cootie is a children's roll-and-move tabletop game for two to
four players. The object is to be the first to build a three dimensional
bug-like object called a "cootie" from a variety of plastic body parts
Marian answered:
cootie
Sally said:
I well remember this one, it's the game of Cootie!
Now they are just called, "politicians..."
PS: Shout out to JoeS.
I know, I've been depressed too...Hey, did your read the various tweets from 'Debate' night? Here are 2 of the funniest:
Chris Rock's tweet: "Romney says he wants to cut funding for PBS. Oscar the Grouch is like, 'Seriously? I already live in a garbage can.'" Gotta love Chris Rock.
Tweet from Big Bird: "Yo Mitt Romney, Sesame Street is brought to you today by the letters F & U!"
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Cootie: The Game of Cootie is a children's roll-and-move tabletop game for two to four players. The object is to be the first to build a three dimensional bug-like object called a "cootie" from a variety of plastic body parts. Created by William Schaper in 1948, the game was launched in 1949 and sold millions in its first years. When I started school back in '55, it sure wasn't something to get. I remember in about 2nd grade there was a guy that smelled like ass and ate his boogers. His name was Lloyd and grew worse all the way through 8th grade. Here's some Cootie people today!!
MAM wrote:
Cootie
And, Joe S answered:
I'm gonna take a stab at this without looking it up because I used to have a game like that called Cootie. It was great fun when I was 6 or 8. I was right, Cootie. I looked up the pictures and the new cooties don't hack it, too cutsie. Who ever heard of cutsie cooties. Here's what real cooties look like. Ugly suckers.
And now you know the danger of catching them.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Made In Jersey', followed by a RERUN'NCIS', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL', is FRESH, with Daniel Craig hosting, music by Muse.
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 '2½ Men', another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Parking Wars', then another FRESH'Parking Wars', followed by a FRESH'Billy The Exterminator', then another FRESH'Billy The Exterminator'.
AMC offers 'Into the West', followed by the movie 'Open Range', then the movie 'Open Range'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Piccolo Teatro
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Lanterna
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Lela's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[10:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Vegas or Bust!
[11:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Bison Battle
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 2
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 4
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 16 - Birthright, Part 1 NEW
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 17 - Birthright, Part 2 NEW
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 18 - Starship Mine NEW
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 19 - Lessons NEW
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 1 - Aslyum of the Daleks
[9:00PM] BEDLAM - Season 2 - Ep 1 - The Long Drop NEW
[10:00PM] HEX - Season 1 - Ep 1 - The Story Begins, Pt. 1
[11:00PM] SIMON AMSTELL: DO NOTHING
[12:00AM] BEDLAM - Season 2 - Ep 1 - The Long Drop
[1:00AM] HEX - Season 1 - Ep 1 - The Story Begins, Pt.
[12:00AM] SIMON AMSTELL: DO NOTHING
[3:00AM] BEDLAM - Season 2 - Ep 1 - The Long Drop
[4:00AM] HEX - Season 1 - Ep 1 - The Story Begins, Pt. 1
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 1 - Aslyum of the Daleks (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Real Housewives Of Miami' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Get Him To The Greek', followed by the movie 'Get Him To The Greek', again, and 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity'.
FX has the movie 'Big Daddy', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups', then the movie 'The Waterboy'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Crazy Eights
[7:45AM] The Children
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Three Dumb Clucks
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Three Little Beers
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Three Little Sew and Sews
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Three Missing Links
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Three Sappy People
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-The Three Troubledoers
[12:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:30PM] Crazy Eights
[2:15PM] The Children
[4:00PM] From Within
[6:00PM] The Eye
[8:00PM] The Exorcist
[10:45PM] The Descent
[12:45AM] The Children
[3:30AM] Superstition
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Blind Date
[7:30A] Mammoth
[9:45A] Land of Plenty
[11:45A] Blind Date
[1:15P] Bitch
[1:30P] Mammoth
[3:45P] Rescue Dawn
[6:00P] GET TO WORK - Hustling Only Gets You So Far (Episode 7, Season 1)
[8:00P] Thumbsucker
[9:45P] Land of the Heads
[10:00P] Thank You For Smoking
[11:30P] Soft
[12:00A] Macho
[1:30A] Johnny Mad Dog
[3:10A] White Material (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Queen Of The Damned', followed by the movie 'Primal'.
Producer George Clooney (R) and actress Stacy Keibler attend the premiere of "Argo" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California October 4, 2012. The movie opens in the U.S. on October 12.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Muhammad Ali owned the night without saying a word.
The boxing great was the guest of honor Thursday night at the 4th annual Norman Mailer Center benefit gala, which benefited the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, named for the late author. An old friend of Mailer, whose classic "The Fight" was an account of Ali's stunning defeat of then-heavyweight champion George Foreman in 1974, Ali was in attendance to watch the first ever presentation of the Muhammad Ali Ethics Award. The $10,000 writing prize for college students is co-sponsored by the Mailer center and the Muhammad Ali center.
Master of ceremonies Alec Baldwin moved from the front of the ballroom at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan to a small, curtained platform on the side as he recited Mailer's very personal list of true geniuses: Charlie Chaplin, Fidel Castro, poet Ezra Pound, and, best of all, Ali.
As Baldwin led the black-tie audience in a chant of "Ali! Ali! Ali!," the curtain was drawn and there sat Ali in a wide armchair, mute and expressionless, but handsomely dressed in a tuxedo and white shirt. Attendees were moved, and unnerved, as Ali looked on impassively like an aging monarch while Baldwin, Oliver Stone and Dick Cavett praised him and shared memories of the clowning, rhyming champ.
A brief clip from Cavett's talk show was screened, showing Ali and rival boxer Joe Frazier jokingly lifting the lightweight Cavett in the air. The ceremony program featured an old picture of Ali, teeth gritted in mock determination, as he arm wrestled with Mailer.
Ali was helped to his table after the Ethics prize was given, Baldwin returned to the front and honorary awards from the Mailer center were handed to historian Robert Caro, novelist Joyce Carol Oates and the widow of publisher Barney Rosset, who died earlier this year. Ali stayed until the end. According to Mailer center president Lawrence Schiller, he was a fan of Oates, who has written often about boxing, and wanted to hear her speech.
Singer Tony Bennett and his wife Susan Benedetto arrive for the Sixth Annual Exploring the Arts Fundraising Gala in New York October 4, 2012.
Photo by Carlo Allegri
Music superstar Lady Gaga will share a peace prize in memory of John Lennon to honor her work campaigning for equality for gay, lesbian and transgender people.
The American singer has been chosen along with four others - including Russian punk band Pussy Riot and the late writer Christopher Hitchens - to receive the biennial LennonOno Grant For Peace.
Gaga is expected to accept the award and a donation from Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Oct. 9 - the birthday of John Lennon and his son, Sean.
Ono said in a statement Friday that while Gaga is "one of the biggest living artists of our time" she is also an activist whose album "Born This Way" altered "the mental map of the world."
It'll be springtime for Mel Brooks when theAmerican Film Institute presents him with its highest honor, the Life Achievement Award.
The writer and director of comedy classics including "The Producers," ''Blazing Saddles," ''Young Frankenstein" and "History of the World: Part I" will receive the award at a gala tribute next June, AFI announced Friday.
The 86-year-old Brooks is the 41st recipient of the honor, which has gone to Hollywood legends including Orson Welles, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and Morgan Freeman. He's one of only 14 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
The AFI ceremony will air in late June on TNT and Turner Classic Movies.
Cast member Bryan Cranston waves at the premiere of "Argo" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California October 4, 2012. The movie opens in the U.S. on October 12.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Meryl Streep has donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of both its late founder, Joseph Papp, and her friend, the author Nora Ephron.
The announcement was timed to Thursday's unveiling of the nonprofit's $40 million face-lift to its 158-year-old headquarters in Astor Place.
Streep has performed for the Public for decades, starting in 1975 and including "Henry V" in 1976 and "Mother Courage and Her Children" in 2006. This summer, she played Juliet opposite Kevin Kline as Romeo in a benefit reading of "Romeo and Juliet" in Central Park.
Ephron, who died in June, directed Streep in her portrayal of chef Julia Child in 2009's "Julie & Julia." And Streep played a version of Ephron herself in 1986's "Heartburn."
New shows "The New Normal," "Girls" and comedy "Go On" have helped U.S. television rack up a record number of gay, bisexual and transgender characters, gay rights group GLAAD said on Friday.
In its 8th annual report tracking gender and ethnic diversity on television, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) said on Friday there will be 111 LGBT characters in regular or recurring roles on scripted shows across U.S. television.
Inclusive TV shows now range from crime and medical series like "Grey's Anatomy", to long-running teen dramas like Canada's "Degrassi" on Teennick and British period favorite "Downton Abbey" with its duplicitous gay butler Thomas Barrow.
The 31 regular LGBT characters on scripted shows on the five main networks this season mark the highest percentage (4.4 percent) in the organization's eight years of counting.
GLAAD said regular LGBT characters on cable television are even higher for the 2012-13 TV season, at 35 compared to 29 last year.
Actor Evan Handler attends Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project's Politics, Sex, and Cocktails event on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 in West Hollywood, Calif.
Photo by Matt Sayles
The psychological thriller "Rebecca" was a hit for author Daphne du Maurier and filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Leave it to Broadway to one-up the master of suspense.
A planned New York production of the 1938 novel as a musical collapsed this week amid questions about its financial backing, and a growing suspicion that one of its primary investors - a secretive businessman named Paul Abrams who had supposedly pledged $4.5 million, then suddenly died of malaria - never existed.
The FBI has launched an investigation. Private investigators are on the case. The full truth may take some time to come out, but the lead producer of "Rebecca," Ben Sprecher, says he now believes he was taken in by an elaborate fraud.
But two months after the "death," Sprecher's lawyer, Ronald Russo, said he has concluded that Abrams and the three other investors in the musical were indeed works of stagecraft, propped up by forged documents and bogus correspondence.
"Rebecca's" troubles began last winter, when the producers postponed a planned spring opening because of problems lining up financing for the $12 million show.
Actor Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria Thomas arrives for the Sixth Annual Exploring the Arts Fundraising Gala in New York October 4, 2012.
Photo by Carlo Allegri
A Boston man has won an online competition to become the first male model in "The Price Is Right" history.
The long-running CBS game show said Friday that viewers had chosen Rob Wilson from among a trio of finalists who also included Clint Brink and Nick Denbeigh.
Wilson begins his weeklong stint alongside the ladies on Oct. 15.
The contest was announced in August. Hundreds of he-man hopefuls showed up at the open call in Los Angeles, where they had a chance to strut their stuff for the show's producers and the female models the show is well known for.
Cast member John Goodman poses at the premiere of "Argo" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California October 4, 2012. The movie opens in the U.S. on October 12.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
A federal appeals court in New York ruled on Thursday that William Koch, the founder of Oxbow Group energy company, had waited too long to file a lawsuit against Christie's auction house.
Koch, a brother of businessmen and conservative political activists Charles and David Koch, had accused Christie's of rubber stamping as authentic a cache of wine said to have been owned by the third U.S. president, while knowing it was worthless plonk.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Koch failed to conduct timely due diligence when doubts were first raised about the wine's authenticity.
Koch bought four bottles of red wine in 1987 and 1988 that was said to be from 1787 and with the letters "Th.J." etched in the glass. Jefferson was a wine aficionado and served as an envoy to France in the late 18th century. The wines at issue were purported to have been discovered in Paris.
But starting in 2000, reports surfaced that cast doubt on the origin of the bottles, clues that "would suggest to a reasonably intelligent person that the wine was not authentic," the appeals court wrote.
French apiarist Andre Frieh holds a colored honeycomb in a wood frame from one of his beehives at his home in Ribeauville near Colmar Eastern France, October 5, 2012. Bees at a cluster of bee hives in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M's candy processed at a nearby biogas plant is the cause. Since August, beekeepers around the town of Ribeauville in the region of Alsace have seen bees returning to their hives carrying unidentified colourful substances that have turned their honey unnatural shades.
Photo by Vincent Kessler
Archaeologists say they've discovered what could be the tomb of one of the greatest Mayan rulers, the seventh-century warrior queen Lady K'abel.
The tomb was revealed during digging at the ancient Maya city of El Perú-Waka' in the rain forest of northern Guatemala. Alongside the body, excavators found a white jar shaped like a conch shell with the head and arm of a woman carved at the opening. The artifact had four hieroglyphs that suggest it belonged to K'abel.
"Nothing is ever proven in archaeology because we're working with circumstantial evidence. But in our case we have a carved stone alabaster jar that is named K'abel's possession," David Freidel, an archaeologist working on the site, explained in a video. Freidel, of Washington University in St. Louis, said the find is "as close to a smoking gun" as you get in archaeology.
The plazas, palaces, temple pyramids and residences of El Perú-Waka' belong to the Classic Maya civilization (A.D. 200-900). K'abel was part of a royal family and carried the title "Kaloomte'," which translates to "Supreme Warrior," meaning she had even higher in authority than her king husband, K'inich Bahlam, according to Freidel and his excavation team. K'abel is believed to have reigned with him from about A.D. 672-692.
Ema Elsa, a nine-year-old Black Rhino, lies next to her newborn calf in their enclosure at Chester Zoo in Chester, northern England October 5, 2012. The female calf which is less than 48 hours old will join an international breeding programme for the critically endangered species.
Photo by Phil Noble
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