Paul Krugman: The Lame-Duck Economy (nytimes.com)
The prospects for the economy look much grimmer now than they did a week or two ago. Yet economic policy, rather than responding to the threat, seems to have gone on vacation.
Tedd Rall: CONSCIOUSNESS OF A CONSERVATIVE
Conservatives think the election results prove that conservatism is in trouble. Actually, conservatism is fine. It's the Republican Party that's in trouble.
Dick Cavett: The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla (nytimes.com)
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing. Three out of these five implements - answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener - all dropped dead on me in the past few days. Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will get only Sarah Palin.
YMBW's Geek of The Month: Steve Wozniak, Part I (youbentmywookie.com)
Steve Wozniak - Woz gave us the great honor of sitting down with him this past week while he was in-between speaking engagements to talk about his life and exactly what made him the perfect person to be our very first GOTM. We talked about his childhood, his pranks, His near death experience, and even a little about Tetris. In fact, the only thing we didn't ask him about was Apple.
Garrison Keillor: The secret of happiness? Grab a shovel (chicagotribune.com)
I don't know why flight attendants put a skinny plastic swizzle stick in your cup of coffee, but there it is, and the other day, I brought the coffee to my lips and stuck the stick way up into my nostril, which gives an odd sensation, pain and also shame, of course.
Tom Danehy: Tom goes to the grocery store, and the hijinks ensue (tucsonweekly.com)
I sat down to write a really intellectual-type column on why Arizona has to save democracy by getting rid of that stupid, selfish, me-me-me open primary (OK, so maybe it wasn't completely intellectual) when I realized that I wasn't ready. There weren't any ham-and-Swiss Lunchables in the fridge, no salt-and-vinegar chips in the pantry, and no bananas in the bowl. (Yes, I eat bananas. They're like fruit, only they taste good.)
Walter Tunis: "Mates of State: Losing an organ, gaining a piano" (McClatchy Newspapers)
Let's address the seemingly biggest shift in Mates of State's music right off the bat. Since the duo's inception more than a decade ago, Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner constructed their luminously bright indie-pop songs almost exclusively on drums and keyboards. And not just any keyboards, but a 1970s organ with a huge, swelling and marvelously organic sound.
RICHARD ROEPER: Teen girls to flock to Robert Pattinson in 'Twilight' (suntimes.com)
This weekend, millions of teenage girls across this great land will flock to movie theaters to swoon over the suddenly famous Robert Pattinson, who stars as a vampire with brooding good looks, a permanently tilted head and well-gelled hair in the much-anticipated "Twilight."
Which state is the leading producer of cranberries?
A Maine
B Massachusetts
C Minnesota
D Washington
E Wisconsin
Source
According to the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin is the leading producer of cranberries, with nearly half of U.S. production. Massachusetts is the second largest U.S. producer, with over one-third of total domestic production.
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Charlie was first, and right, with:
The state producing the most cranberries is, apparently about half the total, is
E Wisconsin
Of course, the world's leading producer of
Cranberries is Ireland, but that's really a different question, I guess.
mj responded:
With lots of swampy, marshy area
I'm going with C, Minnesota. I'll drink a cranberry juice toast to Al, if justice prevails.
Alan J answered:
E Wisconsin
Sandra in Bangor said:
i cheated and googled this one, it's wisconsin! who knew?
Adam in NoHo replied:
a-Maine, with all the bogs.
Jim from CA responded:
Wisconsin...
Marian the Teacher answered:
Wisconsin
~ Tony In Philly replied:
E: Wisconsin
Sally said:
I believe that Wisconsin (E) is the leading state in the production of cranberries.
When the precious g/son was small, we took him on a nifty trip through a cranberry bog on a rickety old railroad train - and did he love that! Actually, it's pretty interesting, and I can personally recommend it to the readers.
Click here: Cape Farm Cranberry Bog Tour, Harwich Cape Cod
PS: After reading Professor Charlies' terse reply to today's trivia question, I think someone needs a, "Happy Meal!"
Okay, guess I'll have to cut out that photo and post it somewhere so that the next time I'm tempted to get me some McDonald's french fry's it can be a deterrent. Darn it anyway...
And, Joe S wrote:
E Wisconsin
I just love cranberry sauce. Not the scrunched up kind with pieces of berry, and not the fancy kind with oranges and stuff like that, (although those are good too) but the jelly-like kind in the can. You open the can, stick a butter knife up the side of the can to let some air in, then shake it out into a bowl. Shoop-plop, that's the sound of Thanksgiving dinner. Serve it intact, on it's side, with the impressions of the can ribs showing you where to slice. Makes everything taste better. You have to be there.
Like this, only sideways
Thanks to Charlie, Sally and Joe S for the pictures.
We spent the evening at Veteran's Stadium watching Long Beach Poly's Jackrabbits smite the loathsome Bishop Amat Lancers 21 - 17.
Odds are this page will be short a few pictures til mid-afternoon.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then '48 Minutes'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Knight Rider', followed by a RERUN'The Office', then a RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Tim McGraw hosting, music by Ludacris & T-Pain.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Boston Legal'.
The CW offers 'Legend Of The Seeker', followed by 'The 5th Quarter'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MADtv' is FRESH.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Great Expectations'.
A&E has the movie 'Overboard', followed by the movie 'My Cousin Vinny', then 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Midway', followed by the movie 'JFK'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 4
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 3 Walnut Tree
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
[3:00 PM] Skins - Ep 15 Tony
[4:00 PM] Gladiators - Episode 4
[5:00 PM] Gladiators - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Top Gear: Best Of 06-07 - Episode 2
[7:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 2
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - Partners in Crime
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - The Fires of Pompeii
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 7
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who - Partners in Crime
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - The Fires of Pompeii
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 7
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Partners in Crime
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - The Fires of Pompeii
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 7
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 8 Tredwen
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 9 Posner
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and the movie 'Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Not Another Teen Movie', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder', then the movie 'Jackass 2.5'.
FX has the movie 'S.W.A.T.', followed by the movie 'The Sentinel', then the movie 'The Transporter'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy', and 'Time Machine'.
IFC -
[6:15 AM] Roadside Prophets
[8:00 AM] The Sword of Doom
[10:05 AM] Henry Rollins Uncut: Northern Ireland
[11:05 AM] I Am David
[12:45 PM] Let Him Have It
[2:45 PM] Missing
[3:00 PM] Henry Rollins Uncut: Northern Ireland
[4:05 PM] I Am David
[5:45 PM] Let Him Have It
[7:45 PM] Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone
[9:00 PM] Bowling for Columbine
[11:00 PM] Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
[12:30 AM] Trauma
[2:15 AM] Bowling for Columbine
[4:20 AM] Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
[5:50 AM] The IFC Media Project (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie '100 Million BC', followed by the movie 'Lost City Raiders'.
Sundance -
[05:35 AM] Opening Night
[08:00 AM] Saving Jazz
[09:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Cameron Diaz + Cameron Sinclair
[10:00 AM] Southern Belles
[11:30 AM] Dimmer
[12:00 PM] Gettin' Square
[02:00 PM] John Safran vs. God: Episode 4
[02:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 2
[03:00 PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 2: Episode 6: Birnam Wood
[04:00 PM] Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
[06:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Ben Harper, Justin Currie & Bryan Adams
[07:00 PM] Plunkett & Macleane
[09:00 PM] The Education of Ms. Groves: Episode 1
[09:30 PM] Office Tigers: (Episode 3)
[10:00 PM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[12:00 AM] Lost in Beijing
[02:00 AM] Save the Green Planet!
[04:00 AM] 100 Mile Rule
[05:45 AM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (ALL TIMES EST)
Musicians Walter Becker, left and Donald Fagen of the band Steely Dan perform at 'Collaborating for a Cure' the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation Benefit Concert on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
ABC has decided against giving full-season orders to "Pushing Daisies," "Dirty Sexy Money" and "Eli Stone," but is not officially saying that the struggling shows are canceled.
The network informed the shows' producers that no additional episodes will be ordered at this time. It left the door open for future orders, though that is considered unlikely.
ABC also ordered four more episodes of "Life on Mars." Starting on December 11, ABC will put the time-travel cop drama on hiatus until January 28, and move "Private Practice" into its Thursday 10 p.m. time period, giving the medical drama a "Grey's Anatomy" lead-in. "Practice" will air in repeats until it returns to originals January 8.
"Scrubs" will have its ABC premiere at 9 p.m. Tuesday, January 6. ABC will air an hour of back-to-back episodes for two weeks, then "Scrubs" will settle in as a single half-hour at 9:30 p.m. The network hasn't announced which half-hour program will serve as a lead-in, though one likely option is the new Mike Judge animated comedy "The Goode Family."
Model Paulina Porizcova and husband Ric Ocasek attend the Mentor Foundation Gala at the Waldorf Astoria in New York on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008.
Photo by Peter Kramer
November 4 was a historic night for the United States, the city of Chicago and, on another level, for C3 Presents.
C3, an Austin, Texas-based promoter/event producer whose principals are Charlie Jones, Charles Attal and Charlie Walker, produces Chicago's Lollapalooza and Austin's Austin City Limits Festival.
It now has another production credit: Barack Obama's election night victory rally in Chicago's Grant Park.
C3's relationship with the Obama campaign began during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, when C3 produced a few outdoor rallies in Texas.
The Federal Communications Commission has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the indecency case over Janet Jackson's breast-baring performance at the 2004 Super Bowl.
The FCC this week appealed a ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, saying that court was wrong to throw out the case and a $550,000 fine against CBS Corp. in July.
The appellate court cited the FCC practice of not considering objectionable images indecent if they are "fleeting."
The FCC said the court incorrectly applied a rule - since changed - regarding expletives that required a profanity be repeated before it is deemed indecent. The FCC contends the rule didn't apply to images.
New York magazine confirmed Thursday that Gael Greene - known for her flamboyant hats and influential opinions - is no longer working for the publication.
Magazine spokeswoman Lauren Starke says that in a "tightening economy, our company is simply no longer able to support four separate restaurant critics." Three other critics remain.
Greene was the magazine's chief restaurant critic from 1968 to 2002. After that, she wrote a weekly column called "Insatiable Critic."
Starke says this is Greene's last week at the magazine, and her last review will appear in Monday's issue.
Director Oliver Stone, right, and director Roman Polanski share a word as they arrive for the screening of Stone's film 'W.' a biography of twice-elected U.S. resident George W. Bush, at the XXVI Turin Film Festival, Friday Nov. 21, 2008.
Photo by Massimo Pinca
Authorities have charged a man with assault for allegedly striking "Stargate Atlantis" actor Jason Momoa in the face with a beer glass, causing wounds that required 140 stitches.
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday announced a felony assault with a deadly weapon charge had been filed against 21-year-old Dominic Bando. He's accused of attacking Momoa at a Hollywood restaurant Nov. 15.
Jail records show Bando was arrested and released that day by Los Angeles police. Records do not indicate whether he had an attorney.
Momoa plays Ronon Dex on "Stargate Atlantis" and has a daughter with girlfriend Lisa Bonet.
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz are the proud parents of a baby boy, and they're celebrating with some Bronx cheer - this one is a good one.
Their representative says the pop and rock star couple have named their son Bronx Mowgli. The baby, born Thursday night, weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces.
Bronx is the first child for Simpson-Wentz, best known for the hit "Pieces of Me," and Wentz, bassist for the platinum rock band Fall Out Boy. They were married earlier this year.
Germany is dropping its pursuit of a ban on Scientology after finding insufficient evidence of illegal activity, security officials said Friday.
Domestic intelligence services will continue to monitor the group, officials said.
The German branch of the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology has been under observation by domestic intelligence services for more than a decade. Top security officials asked state governments in December to begin gathering information on whether they had sufficient grounds to seek a ban.
Germany has said it considers Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the nation's constitution, calling it less a church than a business that uses coercion to take advantage of vulnerable people.
This undated photo released by Cartier North America, shows a rendering provided by Filmaker David Lynch of the Cartier Dome. This year's Art Basel Miami Beach, runs from Dec. 4-7. Cartier, one of Art Basel's sponsors, will set up a dome in the botanical gardens. Entry is by invite only, but it may be worth it to walk around the 4,000 square foot custom dome.
Photo by David Lynch
Myanmar's courts continued a crackdown on activists Friday, handing out a 45-year prison sentence to a comedian who went to the delta to help cyclone victims and criticized the junta's slow relief response.
Comedian and activist Zarganar, whose birth name is Maung Thura, was among at least 100 people to receive sentences of two to 65 years since early November. Many of the trials were held in closed sessions, sometimes without defense lawyers or family present.
The military government's wave of harsh sentences has been condemned worldwide by Western governments and human rights groups. They contend that the sentences make a mockery of the ruling junta's professed plan to restore democracy with a 2010 election.
Myanmar's military, which has held power since 1962, brooks no dissent. It frequently arrests artists and entertainers regarded as opposing their regime, even those making seemingly innocuous wisecracks.
Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with little more than a "sorry, no refunds."
A federal judge heard arguments Friday in Enomoto's lawsuit against Virginia-based Space Adventures, a firm that made its name brokering deals with the Russian space agency to put half a dozen "space tourists" in orbit for fees of $20 million or more.
Space Adventures wants the lawsuit thrown out, saying that Enomoto was disqualified because of a chronic kidney-stone condition. They say his money is nonrefundable.
Enomoto claims the kidney stones were an excuse and that he was not allowed to launch in part because he refused Space Adventures' demands for more money.
Archaeologists work around a 1,800-year-old bronze chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb near the village of Karanovo, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Along with the chariot, which was decorated with scenes from mythology, the team unearthed well-preserved wooden and leather objects, some of which the archaeologists believe were horse harnesses.
Michael Jackson's former personal assistant told a British court Friday that a Bahraini sheik who is now suing the singer was a generous friend, eager to give Jackson money and other gifts.
Grace Rwaramba said Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa referred to Jackson as his brother and frequently offered the singer gifts and money.
"He would say, 'What can I do for my brother?' 'What can I give the children?'" Rwaramba said. "Mr. Jackson had a back pain and he told me to get Tiger Balm for him."
Rwaramba, who also was nanny to Jackson's three children, said she considered the sheik's behavior "sweet."
It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms.
According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons.
The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent?
The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons.
Joints containing different types of cannabis are seen in their jars at a coffee shop in the southern Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom November 18, 2008. Dutch cities will on November 21, 2008 exchange experiences and information at a "weed summit" in Almere and discuss the soft drugs policy and its consequences. Bergen op Zoom may be the first Dutch city to shut coffee shops serving marijuana in February 2009.
Photo by Jerry Lampen
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