• When advertising copywriter Edward S. Jordan was a young boy, he complained to his mother about the boring, moralistic books boys his age were supposed to read — books about families with an alcoholic father, a mother who took in washing to earn a little money, and a son named Joe who gazed longingly through bakery windows at apple tarts. His mother agreed that those books were badly written, adding, “Joe should drop some arsenic into his father’s coffee. It works faster than whiskey.” She also said that she was going to give him a book to read that she had purchased and that lots of other people had purchased because the Brooklyn Public Library had banned it as being immoral. A man who smoked and drank and swore wrote the book, and he was going to be rich — because the library had banned his book, lots of people were buying copies. She then gave him the book — it was Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• When young people’s book author Susan Beth Pfeffer was a senior in high school, she worked on the school newspaper. Another student on the paper wrote an editorial advocating that if a student had a study period as the last class of the school day, the student ought to be allowed to skip the study period and leave school early. The teacher advisor for the paper sent the student writer to talk to the principal, who forbid — in a very obnoxious way — the student writer to publish the editorial. Years later, Ms. Pfeffer used the incident in her novel A Matter of Principle and based the principal in the novel on the principal who was a censor in real life. (It is difficult to censor the future, and if you try to censor during the present time, you may be mocked during a later time.)
• Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a play that is seemingly about the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, which resulted in the hanging of 19 people and the crushing of another person by heavy rocks. Actually the play is about the 1950s Joseph McCarthy witch hunt that destroyed the lives of many suspected Communists. Mr. Miller himself was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), where he was told to name friends and acquaintances who might be Communists. Mr. Miller declined to do this, and he was charged with being in contempt of court. (Fortunately, he did not have to serve time in prison, as the charges were later dropped.)
• In 1954, psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham published an attack on comic books, which he blamed for the ills that affected the society of the time. In the book Seduction of the Innocent, he claimed to have surveyed a number of children in reform school and discovered that most of them read comic books. Stan Lee, the creator of such comic-book heroes as Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four (with an assist from the artists who first drew these superheroes), responded, “If you do another survey, you’ll find that most of the kids who drink milk are comic-book readers. Should we ban milk?”
• Graham Greene was Catholic, but the Holy Office, headed by Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, banned his book The Power and the Glory. Years afterward, Mr. Greene had an audience with Pope Paul VI, who told him that he was reading The Power and the Glory and who was surprised when Mr. Greene informed him that the book had been banned. Pope Paul VI told him, “Some parts of all your books will always offend some Catholics. You should not worry about that.”
• One way to censor a book is to steal it. During the 1979-1980 school year, a student checked out four books from a library in Montello, Wisconsin. Judy Blume, who is frequently the target of censors, wrote three of the books. The books were never returned, and librarians concluded that the parents of the student had stolen the books so that no one else could check them out and read them.
The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a giant cavy rodent native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called capivara (in Brazil), chigüire, chigüiro, or fercho (in Colombia and Venezuela), carpincho (in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and ronsoco (in Peru), it is a member of the genus Hydrochoerus, of which the only other extant member is the lesser capybara (Hydrochoerus isthmius). Its close relatives include guinea pigs and rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the agouti, the chinchilla, and the coypu. The capybara inhabits savannas and dense forests and lives near bodies of water. It is a highly social species and can be found in groups as large as 100 individuals, but usually lives in groups of 10–20 individuals. The capybara is not a threatened species, but it is hunted for its meat and hide and also for grease from its thick fatty skin.
The image of a capybara features on the 2-peso coin of Uruguay.
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Cal in Vermont was first, and correct, with:
The capybara. Big ones weigh 150 pounds and are two feet tall at the withers. Wherever they are.
Randall wrote:
capybara
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
The capybara
Alan J answered:
A Capybara.
Mark.
Capybara.
Mac Mac responded:
capybara
Jacqueline said:
It's a capybara, but I think it's a McConnelypus.
mj wrote:
The victim of a piranha attack
In a 1950s era travelogue type film, the capybara.
Dave responded:
Capybara. Adults commonly weigh over 100 pounds. Those large animals are docile and eat grass and leaves. Like many rodents, the capybara breeds rapidly but their numbers are controlled by animal and human predators. Still waiting for the presidential race to be called.
Roy, the Antifa Sergeant Major in Tyler, TX replied:
The capybara is the sole member of the family Hydrochoeridae. It resembles the cavy and guinea pig of the family Caviidae. I've been told the darn thing is pretty tame, and some people actually keep 'em as pets! I had guinea pigs as a teenager, but I don't think this fella would be a house pet. I'd have to have a pretty big yard to keep one of these!
zorch said:
Capybara. So large it chases cats.
Jon L wrote:
That would be the Capybara.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
Capybara
John I from Hawai`i says,
Capybara
Daniel in The City replied:
Capybara
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
That’s the capybara. It’s my son-in-law’s favorite animal, for reasons I don’t know.
After a week + of mild sunny weather, we have cold, wind and clouds — perhaps rain? Fingers are crossed.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
Oh, that's the capybara, I learned this from Sheldon. Who knows everything. Everything,
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Manhunt: Deadly Games', followed by another RERUN'Manhunt: Deadly Games', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night on the East Coast with LIVE'College Football', followed by 'Dateline'.
NBC opens the night on the left coast early with a LIVE'College Football', followed by a LIVE'SNL', then 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Dave Chappelle hosting, music by Foo Fighers.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers a RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU', followed by another RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'PBC Fight Night', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
AMC offers the movie 'Gladiator', followed by the movie 'Taken 2', then a FRESH'Eli Roth's History Of Horror'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - URBAN WILD
[7:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - ISLANDS
[8:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - FOREST LIFE
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH - FROM POLE TO POLE
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH - MOUNTAINS
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH - FRESHWATER
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH - CAVES
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH - DESERTS
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH - ICE WORLDS
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH - GREAT PLAINS
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH - JUNGLES
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SHALLOW SEAS
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH - SEASONAL FORESTS
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - OCEAN DEEP
[8:00PM] EARTH'S GREAT SEASONS - SPRING (EXTENDED)
[9:20PM] PLANET EARTH - FROM POLE TO POLE
[10:30PM] PLANET EARTH - MOUNTAINS
[11:30PM] PLANET EARTH - FRESHWATER
[12:30AM] PLANET EARTH - CAVES
[1:30AM] EARTH'S GREAT SEASONS
[2:50AM] PLANET EARTH - DESERTS
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH - ICE WORLDS
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH - GREAT PLAINS (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Sweet Home Alabama', followed by the movie 'Sweet Home Alabama', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Rush Hour', followed by the movie 'Rush Hour 2', then the movie 'Rush Hour 3'.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', 'America's Book Of Secrets: Special Edition', and another 'America's Book Of Secrets: Special Edition'.
IFC -
[6:30am - 1:30pm] Saved By The Bell: The College Years
[1:30pm] The Dark Knight Rises
[5:30pm] Inglourious Basterds
[9:00pm] My Cousin Vinny
[11:30pm] My Cousin Vinny
[2:00am] The Patriot
[5:30am] Saved By The Bell (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:30am - 11:00am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am - 6:30pm] hogan's heroes
[7:00pm] dragon: the bruce lee story
[9:30pm] the outsiders
[11:30pm] fight club
[2:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Billionaire Mugger
[3:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Other Woman
[4:30am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Marathon Man
[5:30am] monk - Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Escape Plan', followed by the movie 'John Wick: Chapter 2'.
The Keaton family is back. Family Ties original cast members Meredith Baxter (Elyse Keaton), Michael Gross (Steven Keaton), Michael J. Fox (Alex P. Keaton), Tina Yothers (Jennifer Keaton), Marc Price (Irwin “Skippy” Handelman) and Scott Valentine (Nick Moore) will reunite Tuesday on Stars in the House benefit series for The Actors Fund. Hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, the Nov. 10 episode, airing at 8 PM ET, will feature the cast reminiscing about their time on the beloved sitcom.
“We’re so thankful that our audiences continue to generously donate to StarsInTheHouse.com, which goes directly to The Actors Fund, helping anyone in the artistic community with essential needs like financial support to buy groceries, pay rent and pay doctor’s bills. We’re overwhelmed with gratitude that we raised over $15,000 during Tuesday’s all-day ‘Vote-a-thon’ broadcast,” said Rudetsky and Wesley.
“During this time of what seems like unending national stress, we find that our audiences are drawn to reunions of what we call ‘comfort tv,’ those tv shows from yesteryear that brought us all so much joy,” they added. “Some of our most popular episodes featured TV shows like Taxi, Frasier, and Melrose Place, and we have no doubt the Family Ties reunion is going to be one of our most viewed!”
The livestream Stars in the House series raises money for The Actors Fund’s COVID-19 efforts.
The reunion episode will stream exclusively on People social platforms Facebook and Twitter, as well as on PeopleTV’s Facebook and Twitter, and on Stars In The House YouTube channel and StarsInTheHouse.com.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said Friday she was quarantining after being in contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus.
Maddow said on social media that she’s tested negative so far for COVID-19 but plans to remain at home until it’s “safe for me to be back at work without putting anyone at risk.”
Maddow, host of MSNBC’s most-watched show, has been a key part of the cable channel’s election coverage. She was off the air Friday night.
“Wishing everyone patience and calm; may these remarkable times bring out the best in all of us,” she wrote in her online message.
Johnny Depp will no longer appear in the Fantastic Beasts franchise after losing his libel suit against a tabloid that called him a “wife beater.” The actor confirmed he was asked to step down following a judge’s ruling that it’s “substantially true” he abused ex-wife Amber Heard. In a statement, Depp maintained his innocence and said he plans to appeal.
“Firstly, I’d like to thank everybody who has gifted me with their support and loyalty. I have been humbled and moved by your many messages of love and concern, particularly over the last few days,” Depp wrote Friday on Instagram. “Secondly, I wish to let you know that I have been asked to resign by Warner Bros. from my role as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and I have respected and agreed to that request.”
Depp portrayed dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the first two installments. The third film is in production.
Warner Bros. confirmed Depp’s role will be recast.
Lawyers for former White House strategist Steve Bannon (R-Unclean) are reportedly calling it quits after their client called for the beheading of Dr Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher “as a warning”.
In a one-page letter, Mr Bannon’s lawyers asked a federal judge on Friday to postpone a hearing scheduled for Monday because they intend to withdraw from his case and so that Mr Bannon can retain new counsel.
“On behalf of Defendant Stephen Bannon, we write respectfully to request an adjournment of the status conference currently scheduled for Monday, November 9 at 1:00 pm”, the letter reads. “Mr. Bannon is in the process of retaining new counsel, and Quinn Emanuel intends to move to withdraw”.
The letter goes on to say that Mr Bannon “respectfully requests that the status conference in this matter be adjourned for three weeks so that he may formally remain new counsel".
One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged was just spotted swimming south of Miami, Florida, according to NBC Miami.
Unama'ki "pinged" at 5:46 a.m. ET off of Key Largo, south of Miami on Thursday (Nov. 5) , which means that its dorsal fin broke the surface of the water, sending a signal to a satellite, alerting researchers of its whereabouts, according to a previous article from Florida Today.
Unama'ki was first tagged in Nova Scotia in September; in the indigenous language of the Mi'kmaq people, her name means "land of the fog." With a length of 15 feet and 5 inches (4.7 meters) and a weight of 2,076 pounds (942 kilograms), she is the second largest white shark ever tagged by Ocearch, a nonprofit organization that tags and tracks large marine animals.
But she's not the only impressive beast out there. Great white sharks are the largest predatory fish on the planet and grow to an average of 15 feet (4.6 m), according to National Geographic. Some have been found to weigh up to 5,000 Ibs. (2,268 kg) and to grow to more than 20 feet (6 m).
Over a month ago, researchers with Ocearch also discovered and tagged a 17-foot-long (5 m) heavy female great white shark — weighing 3,541 lbs. (1,606 kg) — off the coast of Nova Scotia that they called the "queen of the ocean," according to a previous Live Science report. She was officially named Nukumi, after a legendary wise grandmother figure from the indigenous Mi'kmaq people.
A subterranean 'conveyor belt' of magma, pushing up to Earth's surface for millions of years, was responsible for the longest stretch of erupting supervolcanoes ever seen on the planet, according to new research.
Shifts in the seabed caused channels to form, through which the magma could flow freely, researchers say. This resulted in an extensive period of eruptions lasting from around 122 million years ago to 90 million years ago; exceptional, considering that typically these types of flows lasted just 1-5 million years.
This all took place on the Kerguelen Plateau, which now sits under the Indian Ocean. It's what's known as a large igneous province or LIP, a widespread accumulation of magma and lava. Scientists can use these LIPs to trace volcanic activity back through time.
"Extremely large accumulations of volcanic rocks – known as large volcanic provinces – are very interesting to scientists due to their links with mass extinctions, rapid climatic disturbances, and ore deposit formation," says geologist Qiang Jiang, from Curtin University in Australia.
Jiang and his colleagues used samples of black basaltic rocks taken from the sea floor, together with an argon isotope dating method to determine the spread and rise of the LIP as it sat on what's known as a mantle plume, created by rising magma.
The first discovery of a small hadrosaurid in Morocco from the very end of the Cretaceous has forced a rethink of how dinosaurs dispersed between continents.
Hadrosaurids, known for the duck-like bills, were plant-eating dinosaurs that dominated the Cretaceous ecology of North America and spread to Europe and Asia, back then joined together as Laurasia. Africa, on the other hand, was isolated from the other continents. So it was quite a surprise to the University of Bath's Dr Nicholas Longrich to find a hadrosaurid in 66 million-year-old rocks not far from Casablanca, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco.
"It was completely out of place, like finding a kangaroo in Scotland. Africa was completely isolated by water – so how did they get there?” Longrich said (presumably not counting wallaby escapees).
The team, led by Longrich, has described the new dinosaur in Cretaceous Research, naming it Ajnabia odysseus to reflect its long journey (Ajnabi is Arabic for foreigner, while Odysseus was famous for his convoluted journey home from Troy). Ajnabia was small by hadrosaurid standards, just 3 meters (10 feet) long when its counterparts on other continents reached 15 meters (50 feet). However, its teeth and jawbones mark it clearly as a member of the Lambeosaurinae subfamily of hadrosaurids, and not a different dinosaur line that evolved a bill through convergent evolution.
Lambeosaurs, distinguished by their hollow crests, spread widely across Laurasia. Judging by some of the rocks in which they were found it seems likely they could take to the water when necessary, crossing rivers powered by their large tails and strong legs. That's altogether different from a land-based creature swimming across an entire ocean, but somehow Ajnabia, or an ancestor, made the crossing.
German researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works for wind turbines.
The "Lady of Bietikow," as she has been named, was found near a village of the same name in northeastern Germany's Uckermark region.
The skeleton had been buried in a settlement in a squatting position, one of the oldest known forms of burial, according to local media.
Investigations have shown that she was between 30 and 45 years old and died more than 5,000 years ago.
That means that she lived during the same period as Oetzi the Iceman, the stunningly preserved corpse found by tourists in the Alps in the 1990s.
Scientists in northern Russia have discovered a huge walrus haulout on the shores of the Kara Sea where their habitat is under threat from shrinking ice and human activity.
The haulout, a place of refuge where walruses congregate, reproduce, and socialise, is located in a remote corner of Russia's Yamal peninsula, and scientists say they counted over 3,000 animals there last month.
Walrus haulouts have traditionally been located on drifting sea ice or on Arctic islands, scientists say. But warmer climate cycles mean sea ice is shrinking and habitats are under threat from oil and gas exploration and more Arctic shipping.
"This haulout is unique because there are both female and male walruses, as well as calves of different age," said Aleksander Sokolov, a senior Arctic researcher at Russia's Academy of Sciences who called the find a "unique open-air laboratory".
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the species as "nearly threatened" in 2016, estimating the total number of adult Atlantic walruses in the world at 12,500.
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