Paul Krugman: We Are the 99.9% and here (New York Times) http://twitter.com/#!/nytimeskrugman
"We are the 99 percent" is a great slogan. It correctly defines the issue as being the middle class versus the elite (as opposed to the middle class versus the poor). And it also gets past the common but wrong establishment notion that rising inequality is mainly about the well educated doing better than the less educated; the big winners in this new Gilded Age have been a handful of very wealthy people, not college graduates in general.
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Paul Krugman: We Are the 99.9% and here (New York Times)
"We are the 99 percent" is a great slogan. It correctly defines the issue as being the middle class versus the elite (as opposed to the middle class versus the poor). And it also gets past the common but wrong establishment notion that rising inequality is mainly about the well educated doing better than the less educated; the big winners in this new Gilded Age have been a handful of very wealthy people, not college graduates in general.
Dave Zirin: " NBA Players: Welcome to the 99 Percent" (The Nation)
If I were an NBA player, I'd be mighty confused right now. I wouldn't be confused about why the entire 2011-12 season is now in jeopardy. I wouldn't be confused about rejecting the ultimatums and "last, final offers" of NBA Commissioner David Stern. Instead, I'd be confused as hell by the media's reaction to my union's collective and unanimous stand.
Melvyn Bragg: John Steinbeck's bitter fruit
Seventy years after 'The Grapes of Wrath' was published, its themes - corporate greed, joblessness - are back with a vengeance. Melvyn Bragg on John Steinbeck's remarkable legacy.
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The interrobang, interabang, ‽ (often represented by ?! or !?), is a nonstandard punctuation mark used in various written languages and intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the "interrogative point") and the exclamation mark or exclamation point (known in printers' jargon as the "bang").
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Interrobang
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
'WTF'
Charlie responded:
Unicode hexadecimal 203D, decimal 8253, it's called the interrobang.
‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The interrobang, interabang ‽ (often represented by ?! or !?), is a
nonstandard punctuation mark used in various written languages and
intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the
"interrogative point") and the exclamation mark or exclamation point
(known in printers' jargon as the "bang").
Adam answered:
Using the power of Google Image Search, I found this from Wikipedia: The interrobang is intended to combine the functions of the question mark and the exclamation point.
I prefer the more expressive ?!? or !?!
Google's first answer was the question mark, the interrobang was the 2nd result.
Sally said:
How about that "interrobang?"
TTFFATAKABF
(Tata for Friday after Thanksgiving, AKA Black Friday)
PS: I did an sociological study/project at (the then) Sears advertising department in NYC, in the early 60's. I set up my project (graphs and charts) right next to some typographers, and the interrobang was all the rage at that time! It had just come into play, and mainly used for writing ad copy. Type was still set by hand back then, and the staff was wrestling with the way to set the question mark and exclamation mark together... I had forgotten all about that until this came up. They were such nice people to work with as I recall. Good memories...
John I from Hawaii, Barrak Obama's birthplace, says:
"Interrobang!?"
Marian replied:
interrobang
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
This one I didn't even need to look up. Back in the university days this came up in a Speech Analysis class. An interrobang asks a question in an excited manner, disbelieving or rhetorical way.
Like: What the fuck are you doing now, Dale‽ From Dad when I was ten.
Like: Why the fuck are you out demonstrating for a stupid piece of dirt, you dumb shit‽ From Dad again as he bailed me out after People's Park police riot (5/26/69).
Like: If I stayed married to you, would you probably kill me in my sleep‽ Me to ex-wife 25 years ago before sobering up and divorcing her‽
MAM wrote:
Interrobang ~ Martin K. Speckter is credited with inventing the interrobang in 1962. He was an advertising executive, and needed a better way to express rhetorical questions in his copy. He designed the punctuation, and then solicited suggestions for what to name it. He chose interrobang, which combines the Latin for question (interro-) with a proofreading term for exclamation (bang).
And, Joe S answered:
The interrobang, interabang ‽ (often represented by ?! or !?), is a nonstandard punctuation mark used in various written languages and intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the "interrogative point") and the exclamation mark or exclamation point (known in printers' jargon as the "bang"). The glyph is a superimposition of these two marks. The Unicode code point is U+203D.
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', then a RERUN'Unforgettable', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with the RERUN'The 85th Anniversary Of The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade', followed by the movie 'Bee Movie'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Melissa McCarthy hosting, music by Lady Antebellum.
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 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'Futurama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux has 'Cops', another 'Cops', and a RERUN'Terra Nova'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
[7:45AM] State and Main
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-Hold That Lion
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-Horses' Collars
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges-Idiots Deluxe
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-If a Body Meets a Body
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Loco Boy Makes Good
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-Men in Black
[12:30PM] The Three Stooges-Movie Maniacs
[12:55PM] The Three Stooges-Nutty But Nice
[1:20PM] The Three Stooges-Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
[1:45PM] Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
[3:30PM] A Good Woman
[5:30PM] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
[8:00PM] Saw
[10:15PM] Saw
[12:30AM] Seventh Moon
[2:15AM] Slaughter
[4:15AM] The Squid and the Whale (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Wendy & Lucy
[7:25A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Angelo Lambrou: Your Dream Turned Into My Nightmare (Episode 1, Season 2)
[8:25A] Fermat's Room
[10:00A] Love Lust & The Social Network
[11:00A] Love Lust & The Undead
[12:00P] Love Lust & Secret Societies
[1:00P] Love Lust & The Paranormal
[2:00P] Love Lust & Comfort Food
[3:00P] Love Lust & Holiday Feasts
[4:00P] On The Line
[4:30P] Manon On The Asphalt
[4:45P] Wendy & Lucy
[6:10P] Shooting Fish
[7:55P] Quills
[10:00P] Moulin Rouge!
[12:15A] Heartbeats
[2:00A] Triad Election
[3:35A] Trolls
[3:45A] Moulin Rouge! (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Stonehenge Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Storm War'.
From left, U.S. actor Emile Hirsch, Spanish actres Penelope Cruz and Italian Director Sergio Castellitto pose during the opening of 29° Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011.
Photo by Massimo Pinca
British World War Two forces' sweetheart Vera Lynn has appealed for help in tracing a lost brooch that had been given her by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery more than 35 years ago.
The brooch was lost during a Remembrance Day service at the Royal Albert Hall in London earlier this month.
The 94-year-old singer, whose wartime classics include "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover," said the brooch was of great sentimental value, the BBC reported.
The brooch is the Africa Star ribbon bar in enamel with the clasp of Montgomery's 8th Army. It was presented to Lynn at the Royal Albert Hall as a gesture of thanks for her support during the war.
The big mystery may be why it hasn't happened before, but Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" -- the longest-running show in the world -- will finally tour Britain in 2012 to mark its 60th birthday.
The play's diamond jubilee falls on November 25, 2012, and on Friday as it enters its 60th year, organizers announced a series of events to celebrate the landmark.
Friday's performance will be the 24,587th, yet for all its popularity, the show's producer said he wanted more.
The murder mystery began life as a radio play broadcast in 1947 which was then turned by its author into a short story and later into a full play.
Country singer Keith Urban underwent successful throat surgery to remove a polyp from his vocal cord earlier this week and is doing fine, the singer's spokesman said on Friday.
Urban had the procedure on Tuesday, and he will not be able to speak for three weeks, spokesman Paul Freundlich told Reuters. The singer is recovering at an undisclosed location.
One day ahead of the procedure, Urban posted a video on his website thanking fans for their support.
The polyp developed during his recent "Get Closer World Tour 2011," and in Monday's video Urban took note of the fans who had turned out to see him perform during what he called his "crazy great phenomenal year.
Vintage bottles of wine, from L-2ndR, a 1933 Chateau Lafitte-Rothschild, a 1972 Chateau Petrus, a magnum 1964 Chateau Petrus, and a 1970 double magnum Chateau Haut-Brion, part of some 1,000 bottles from the wine cellar of French actor Alain Delon, are displayed in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, on the eve of an auction.
Photo by Charles Platiau
British singer George Michael has been forced to postpone the rest of his European tour due to ongoing treatment for "severe" pneumonia, his spokeswoman said on Friday.
But she denied reports that the former Wham! frontman was suffering from serious heart problems and was "slowly improving" in hospital in Vienna.
His doctors advised that the chart-topping artist behind such solo hits as "Careless Whisper" and "Faith" should postpone the rest of his Symphonica tour.
All British dates of his Symphonica European tour have been called off, including three this month and 11 in December.
Violent confrontations between police and protesters at two University of California campuses have drawn a new cadre of students into the Occupy Wall Street movement and unleashed what some historians call the biggest surge in campus activism since the 1960s.
While Occupy Wall Street protesters have a broad set of grievances that include income inequality and perceived corporate greed, many students have more specific concerns: soaring tuition, campus budget cuts, and fear of heavy student loan debt and lack of job opportunities upon graduation.
Student protests related to these issues have broken out sporadically on U.S. college campuses over the past few years, but the Occupy protests - and the police response to them - have swelled the ranks of campus activists in recent weeks.
The uptick in student activism has coincided with the efforts by authorities in many cities to shut down Occupy encampments. College campuses are increasingly a focal point of the movement in California and elsewhere.
In part because of the tuition hikes, a growing number of students now face large student loan debts, with two-thirds of 2010 graduating seniors nationally in debt an average of $25,250, according to the Institute for College Access and Success. That is up 5 percent from the year before.
Masked Occupy Seattle protestor 'Pip' (last name not given) holds up a sign that says "Sorry for the inconvenience; We are trying to change the world" while he and dozens demonstrate during the 'Black Friday' holiday shopping rush at the Wal-mart retail store in Renton, Washington on November 25, 2011.
Photo by Anthony Bolante
As a result of the poor box-office performance of "Happy Feet Two," 600 of the 700 employees at the digital production studio behind the animated movie reportedly have received their walking papers.
Employees at Dr. D Studios, which is based in Sydney, Australia, have been told they will be laid off in the coming weeks, according to IF.com.au. TheWrap was unable to reach Dr. D for comment.
The film, a sequel to 2006's Academy Award-winning "Happy Feet" -- which grossed $384.3 million off a budget of $100 million -- had amassed only an estimated $30.3 million worldwide as of Thursday.
There may be a silver lining for some of the employees, who reportedly have been offered a job at a new company that Kennedy-Miller Mitchell Films -- which launched Dr. D as a joint partnership with Omnilab Media -- plans to get off the ground in early 2012. KMM was founded in 1973 by "Happy Feet" director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy.
In addition to the layoffs, KMM and Omnilab are reportedly at odds, and there is the possibility that the partnership between the two companies may be dissolved.
Jehane Noujaim -- director of "Control Room," a 2004 documentary about Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera -- was arrested and later released after participating in a protest in Egypt, according to multiple reports on Twitter.
Noujaim was interviewing a military officer when the arrest took place and was accused of being a spy for Israel and a traitor, according to U.K. newspaper the Guardian.
Noujaim and others were reportedly charged with congregation and destruction of public property. She was freed after the Committee to Protect Journalists, an international advocacy group, appealed to Egyptian authorities to let her go.
Born in Washington, D.C., Noujaim was raised in Cairo and Kuwait. Her previous works include "Mokattam," an Arabic film about garbage-collecting in the Egyptian capital; and "Startup.com," a documentary that followed the rise and fall of a start-up company during the dot-com boom.
Occupy Oakland protester Josh, last name not given, reads a book while camping in a tree at City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011.
Photo by Jeff Chiu
Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks.
Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
The "Comalcalco Brick," as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums. Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.
A new online video series about a stereotypical Pittsburgh father is attracting tens of thousands of viewers.
"Pittsburgh Dad" celebrates and makes fun of the unique speech of the working-class city, where yinz means you all, nebby means nosy and redd up means clean up.
The series is available on YouTube. It's so successful that creator and director Chris Preksta plans more than a dozen new episodes, starring his actor friend Curt Wootton as the dad.
Preksta is known for the SyFy channel series "The Mercury Men." He's filming "Pittsburgh Dad" on an iPhone.
One of the founders of a leading Jamaican reggae and rocksteady trio from the 1960s has died.
A bandmate says Barry Llewellyn of the Heptones died Wednesday at age 64. Lead singer Leroy Sibbles said Friday that Llewellyn died of unknown causes at Kingston Public Hospital.
Llewellyn founded the Heptones with Earl Morgan in the late 1950s. The group was considered highly influential during the island's rocksteady era in the 1960s.
The Heptones reunited in the 1990s after a nearly 20-year absence during a worldwide ska and rocksteady revival.
Llewellyn is survived by his wife, Monica, and several children.
In this photo provided by the San Diego Zoo, a Galapagos tortoise at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego eats a pumpkin on Friday, Nov. 25, 2011.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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