Paul Krugman's Column: Rabbit-Hole Economics (New York Times)
Reading the transcript of Tuesday's Republican debate on the economy is, for anyone who has actually been following economic events these past few years, like falling down a rabbit hole. Suddenly, you find yourself in a fantasy world where nothing looks or behaves the way it does in real life.
Ted Rall: Stop Demanding Demands
"Our demand is that you stop demanding that we come up with demands!" I thought about that line a lot this past week. (It's from a recent cartoon by Matt Bors.)
Froma Harrop: The Street They Should Occupy (Creators Syndicate)
As "Occupy Wall Street" sweeps up attention, a smaller group is running something called Occupy K Street. If the goal is to loosen the financiers' grip over the American economy, the folks protesting on K Street are getting closer to bingo. K Street is Washington's famous boulevard of lobbyist influence, the place where money buys politicians to do money's bidding.
Susan Estrich: Wall Street and Welfare Moms (Creators Syndicate)
Class warfare is a dangerous game. In the short run, it can help energize the disenchanted and disaffected. It has been used, with varying degrees of success, by both parties: by Republicans seeking to pit the middle and upper classes against the poor, and by Democrats seeking to pit the poor and the middle class against the wealthy. Wall Street and welfare moms: Choose your target.
Jim Hightower: A very scary Perry Tale
So, children, beware of yee-hawing Texas politicos spreading tales of free-market miracles. Texans themselves find nothing miraculous about Perrycare, referring to it as the Yo Yo plan: You're On Your Own. Luckily, though, people can write their own happy ending to this scary Perry Tale: just don't vote for him.
Richard Roeper: Hitler analogy gains Hank Williams Jr. most fame in years
… he who plays the Hitler card is the first one knocked out of the game. A giant, corporate-friendly, advertiser-conscious, we-don't-want-any-trouble player such as ESPN simply does not want to see headline after headline containing the words "ESPN" and "Hitler," in any context. They had every right to terminate their relationship with Williams, just as he has every right to fight back in word and song and to turn a profit from this controversy.
Henry Rollins: Henry Reminisces About The Ice Cream Shop Where He Used To Work (LA Weekly)
When I worked there, the place required a lot of cleanup after a big Saturday. I would press friends into service so we could get out of there before the sun came up. (They were paid in ice cream.) We had a small stereo stashed above one of the freezers and would crank the Germs, the U.K. Subs or whatever was at hand. The visual must have been great: all these future D.C. music heroes working away with this crazy noise leaking onto the street.
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"Chicory" is also the common name in the United States for curly endive (Cichorium endivia); these two closely related species are often confused.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
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Alan J responded:
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BttbB wrote:
Chicory...
Well, then, Sports fans. The Tigers won Thursday night. The Dream is still Alive (Thank you, Wilson Phillips). Back to Texas they go down 3-2 with game 6 Saturday night. If... and I say again... If... they can prevail, then a decisive game 7 will be played on Sunday night on Faux preempting 'The X-Factor' (again) which, of course, would irritate (again) the bejabbers outta a certain NJ person-whose-name-can-not-be-spoken. That, alone, would be reason enough for me to root madly for the Tigers... even if I hated them... which I don't... Go Tigers!
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It's called
Rabbit food.
It's only slightly less appetizing than raddichio.
Adam answered:
Frisee.
Sally said:
In the US, curly endive is more commonly called, "Chicory."
Here's some Chicory. I grow lettuce right outside my back door, in a large pot! I prefer the single leaf kind, but switch in the hottest summer weather. In general, lettuce is a cold weather crop, and save the single-digit days, mine does very well! I still have tomatoes coming up here (northern Jersey)! I expect my lettuce to keep coming in till mid November...
PS: Notice to all your Michigan readers: Your baseball game had better no cancel out my, "X-Factor" show come Sunday night!! Please tell me why these games can't be played on early Saturday afternoons - when nobody cares?? I mean, really??
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Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
The Belgians Call Endive "White Gold"
You will call Belgian endive your "golden opportunity" for bigger sales, better profits:
In foodservice, fresh produce purchases grew 33% last year alone, while salads continue to grow in popularity.
Foodservice operators are looking for distinctive foods, "specialty" items and signature combinations to set themselves apart.
Pricing on specialty vegetables, salads and vegetable entrees are approaching meat entrees, making endive the perfect profit sell.
The value perception is great, the serving cost is low.
It's an aphrodisiac when served in waffles!
PS I just had to put in item five myself.
MAM wrote:
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Chicory
I hope everyone saw the 20/20 documentary Children of the Plains tonight. I had trouble keeping my eyes dry through the program. I haven't seen Pine Ridge, or South Dakota for that matter, in over 40 years. I hope the program touched a lot of people.
Mom, Daughter of the Plains
Lovely marine layer rolled in and sent the heat wave packing. : )
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Rules Of Engagement', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', and '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Harry's Law', followed by a RERUN'Prime Suspect', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Anna Faris hosting, music by Drake.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NASCAR Sprint Cup', 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 'Futurama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Playoffs', then pads the night on the left coast with local crap and maybe so old 'Cops'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
AMC offers the movie 'Christine', followed by the movie 'Cujo', then the movie 'The Shining'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[7:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 4
[8:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary
[9:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 3
[10:00 AM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 4
[11:00 AM] Luther (2011) (60) - Episode 1
[12:00 PM] Luther (2011) (60) - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] Luther (2011) (60) - Episode 3
[2:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 1 - Cohabitants
[3:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 2 - Driven
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 10 The Defector
[5:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 11 The Hunted
[6:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 12 The High Ground
[7:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 16 - Sacrifice
[8:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 17 - The Captain's Hand
[9:00 PM] Bedlam - Ep 3 - Inmates
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 - Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie
[11:00 PM] Free Agents - Episode 3
[11:30 PM] Free Agents - Episode 4
[12:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 3 - Inmates
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 - Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie
[2:00 AM] Free Agents - Episode 3
[2:30 AM] Free Agents - Episode 4
[3:00 AM] Bedlam - Ep 3 - Inmates
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 4 - Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie
[5:00 AM] Free Agents - Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and another 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Just Friends', 'Ron White: Behavioral Problems', and the FRESH'Craig Ferguson: Does This Need To Be Said?'.
FX has '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Taken', 'How I Met Your Mother', another 'How I Met Your Mother', and still another 'How I Met Your Mother'.
History has the movie 'Jesse James' Hidden Treasure', followed by the movie 'The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Curse of the Golden Flower
[8:30AM] Affliction
[11:00AM] The Three Stooges - Wham-Bam-Slam
[11:25AM] The Three Stooges - Booty and the Beast
[11:50AM] The Three Stooges - Bubble Trouble
[12:15PM] The Three Stooges - Fling in the Ring
[12:40PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:55PM] Occupations
[1:00PM] Cache
[3:30PM] Affliction
[6:00PM] The Skeptic
[8:00PM] Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
[10:30PM] Dance of the Dead
[12:15AM] Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
[2:45AM] Dance of the Dead
[4:30AM] Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone
[12:00AM] Dark Ride
[2:00AM] The Dark Half
[4:30AM] Freaks and Geeks - Pilot
[5:30AM] Undeclared - Pilot (ALL TIMES EST)
(L-R) Annette Bening, Kirk Douglas, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyed and Michael Douglas poses at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival black-tie gala fundraiser at the Biltmore in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Thursday Oct. 13, 2011. Michael Douglas received the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film.
Photo by Phil Klein
Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Jennifer Egan and Michael Cunningham are among more than 100 authors who in an online petition are declaring their support for Occupy Wall Street.
The petition on http://occupywriters.com/ reads: "We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world."
Others supporting the protests include "Lemony Snicket" author Daniel Handler, Barbara Ehrenreich, Ann Patchett and Andre Dubus III.
Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement heckled News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate) during a speech at an education forum Friday, accusing the media mogul of trying to profit from public education.
Activists repeatedly interrupted Murdoch as he gave a keynote speech at a downtown San Francisco hotel about how technology could help transform the nation's public education system.
"Equality in education, not privatization!" one woman shouted as security guards escorted her out of the ballroom of the Palace Hotel, which hosted the National Summit on Education Reform.
Murdoch appeared unfazed.
Murdoch appeared as part of a two-day education forum sponsored by the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a group chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R-'The Smart One'). The organization champions school vouchers, charter schools, performance pay for teachers and digital learning.
ABC says its revamped version of the 1970s hit "Charlie's Angels" is being shut down after only four airings because of low ratings.
The network said Friday that four more episodes remain to be aired. The action series focused on three female detectives in Miami.
But the reboot has struggled in the ratings since its premiere last month. It's ABC's first cancellation of the new fall season.
The original "Charlie's Angels" aired for six seasons on ABC and launched one of its angels, Farrah Fawcett, as a major star. More recently, two feature films were also produced.
Actress Lily Tomlin arrives at "An Evening Honoring Carl Reiner" presented by The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Cheerleaders at Gilbert High School in Gilbert, Ariz., can't wear the pink t-shirts they bought to raise money for breast cancer research because the school's administrators claim the slogan they bear is inappropriate.
According to a Thursday report in the Arizona Republic, the squad's shirts say "Feel for lumps, save your bumps," and the team planned to wear them during the school's football games during their cheers on the field and while collecting money from the crowd.
Gaylee Skowronek, the cheer booster club president, told the Arizona Republic the administration approved the squad's plan to raise money, but the school's principal, J. Charles Santa Cruz, objected to the slogan on the shirts and banned the cheerleaders from wearing them.
"We thought the shirt was age-appropriate," Skowronek said. "I think it's hypocritical they would approve a fundraiser for breast-cancer research but they won't approve a shirt to bring awareness to breast cancer."
A Florida man charged with hacking into email accounts of celebrities including actress Scarlett Johansson was ordered Friday to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom Nov. 1.
A federal magistrate judge in Jacksonville, Fla., issued the order at a hearing for Christopher Chaney, 35. He faces a 26-count indictment in California that includes charges of identity theft, unauthorized computer access and wiretapping.
At a news conference several hours later, Chaney said he regretted what happened.
Chaney's parents, Cathy and Jerry, agreed to supervise their son while he is free on $10,000 bail. At the direction of his attorney, Chaney didn't say much more at the news conference.
Actor and director Carl Reiner arrives at "An Evening Honoring Carl Reiner" presented by The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Fake concert promoters apparently bilked Indonesian music fans out of an estimated $60,000 in ticket sales for a Motley Crue show that was never scheduled to happen, officials and news reports say.
More than 1,500 people had bought tickets for $40 each by the time the scam was uncovered late last month, according to Tempo Interactive, a news website.
But unwary fans weren't the only ones fooled by the mock promotion. Local media outlets proved equally susceptible.
A Sept. 21 article in the Jakarta Globe, a local English-language paper, announced that the heavy metal group would play its first-ever show in Indonesia on Oct. 8.
Band members quickly responded to the rumor as word spread through social media sites. On Twitter, drummer Tommy Lee called the fake concert the work of a "shady promoter."
Actress Susan Sarandon stands during the opening celebration of the Japan-based clothing store Uniqlo's Fifth Avenue store in New York October 13 , 2011. Uniqlo is launching its U.S. expansion this week with the opening of a flagship store in Manhattan that will anchor a global push to rely less on its home market in Japan.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
Actress Hilary Swank is donating her fees for attending a controversial event in Chechnya to charity after criticism from human rights groups.
A spokeswoman for the two-time Oscar winner said on Friday that Swank would give her personal appearance fees to various charitable organizations.
Swank has said she "deeply regrets" taking part in a birthday celebration in the Chechen capital Grozny last week for regional strong Ramzan Kadyrov, who is accused of orchestrating human rights violations.
Swank said this week she was unaware of Kadyrov's policies, which human rights group say promote fear, abductions and executions of those involved in Chechnya's Islamist insurgency.
Actor Garry Shandling arrives at "An Evening Honoring Carl Reiner" presented by The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Pop star Lady Gaga has won an injunction stopping the makers of an online children's game from promoting an animated character called Lady Goo Goo, the company involved said Friday.
British company Mind Candy is behind the Moshi Monsters site, which allows children to adopt a virtual pet monster.
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ts characters include Lady Goo Goo, a sunglasses-wearing blonde baby who appears in "The Moshi Dance," a video that became an online hit after it was posted on YouTube in June.
The company had planned to release the song as a single, but this week's British High Court ruling bars it from "promoting, advertising, selling, distributing or otherwise making available to the public" any work involving Lady Goo Goo.
Actress Sean Young arrives at "An Evening Honoring Carl Reiner" presented by The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Kendra Marr, a reporter for Politico, resigned late Thursday after a New York Times writer alerted Politico editors of potential plagiarism in a piece she wrote.. The complaint led to an examination of her work that produced at least seven more examples plagiarism.
Politico editor-in-chief John Harris and executive editor Jim VandeHei announced Marr's resignation in an editor's note.
The editor's note described Marr, who joined Politico in 2009, as "a friend and colleague who has produced much outstanding work here and elsewhere." FishbowlDC.com said she was "a beloved reporter in the newsroom."
Tunisian police used tear gas Friday to disperse thousands in the capital in the latest protest over the airing of "Persepolis," an animated film that Islamists have called blasphemous.
The demonstrations are ratching up before Tunisia's landmark Oct. 23 election for a constitutional body that will determine the future of this North African nation that overthrew its longtime dictator in January.
Worshippers poured out of al-Fatah mosque in downtown Tunis and began protesting after the imam preached against "Persepolis," calling it a "serious attack on the religious beliefs of Muslims."
Marjane Satrapi's award-winning adaptation of her graphic novels about growing up during Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution contains a scene showing a character representing God. Depictions of God are considered sacrilege in Islam.
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement take part in a protest march through the financial district of New York, October 12, 2011.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
Kansas City's Catholic bishop has become the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic official indicted on a charge of failing to protect children after he and his diocese waited five months to tell police about hundreds of images of child pornography discovered on a priest's computer, officials said Friday.
Bishop Robert Finn, the first U.S. bishop criminally charged with sheltering an abusive clergyman, and the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese have pleaded not guilty on one count each of failing to report suspected child abuse.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Finn and the diocese were required under state law to report the discovery to police because the images gave them reason to believe a child had been abused.
"Now that the grand jury investigation has resulted in this indictment, my office will pursue this case vigorously," Baker said. "I want to ensure there are no future failures to report resulting in other unsuspecting victims."
The indictment, handed down Oct. 6 but sealed because Finn was out of the country, says the bishop failed to report suspicions against the priest from Dec. 16, 2010, when the photos were discovered, to May 11, 2011, when the diocese turned them over to police.
Filipino mothers carry their sons as they join a picket in front of the American Chamber of Commerce in solidarity action for the U.S. protest dubbed "Occupy Wall Street" Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 in Manila's financial district of Makati.
Photo by Pat Roque
"Desperate Housewives" actress Eva Longoria stands by President Barack Obama "no matter what," but the Democratic politician has lost the faith of another invaluable supporter: Hulk Hogan.
During a Thursday appearance on "Fox and Friends," the burly, bandana-wearing blond explained why he no longer supports our commander-in-chief.
"I was a big Obama supporter and kinda, like, believed everything he said he was gonna do," Hogan said. "But now that nothing's happened," Hogan said he has had second thoughts about our nation's leader.
The issue goes beyond Obama's performance as president. The Hulk was also upset that Obama entered this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner to the tough guy's song, "Real American," without first being granted permission.
A man who identified himself as Boar looks on during an Occupy San Diego protest Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in the downtown Civic Plaza in San Diego.
Phoo by Gregory Bull
Actor Val Kilmer has sold the bulk of his 5,300-acre ranch in northwest New Mexico to a Texas oil and gas executive and his wife for $18.5 million.
The Santa Fe New Mexican (http://bit.ly/nEgGYn) reports the deed transfer filed Sept. 30 with the San Miguel County Clerk's Office indicates Kilmer sold all but 141 acres to Benjamin A. Strickling III and his wife, Roxann.
Santa Fe attorney Ralph H. Scheuer handled the agreement for Kilmer and declined to comment on whether the star whose movies include "Tombstone," ''Top Gun" and "The Doors" would keep a home in northern New Mexico.
The ranch originally was put on the market in 2009 for $33 million.
Anima Naturalis activists lie covered in red paint mimicking blood in Cuernavaca October 13, 2011. The activists protested against a bullfight scheduled for next week as part of a culinary festival, according to local media. The sign reads, "Stop, no more bullfights."
Photo by Margarito Perez Retana
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