Paul Krugman: The Party That Ruined the Planet(NY Times Column)
… I don't believe that it's just about the money. My sense is that right-wingers believe, probably correctly, that there's a sort of halo effect surrounding any form of public action. Once you accept that we need policies to protect the environment, you're more likely to accept the idea that we should have policies to ensure access to health care, child care, and more. So the government must be prevented from doing anything good, lest it legitimize a broader progressive agenda.
Patricia Cohen: In Washington, 100 Examples of the Epitome of Cool (NY Times, from 2014)
… the curators explain that the modern understanding of cool began with African-American jazzmen and a break-the-rules instinct. … Forced to live as second-class citizens on the margins of society, blacks were compelled to suppress a boiling rage beneath a mask of nonchalance. … Given that this is a museum and that the exhibition is assembled by scholars, the organizers used what they call a "historical rubric" to define the term, laying out the four prerequisites of cool: 1) original artistic vision and signature style; 2) cultural transgression; 3) high-profile recognition; and 4) a cultural legacy.
Ted Gioia: How Lester Young Invented Cool (Daily Beast)
… Lester Young may have had even more influence on non-musical matters. No one back in the '30s would have applied the terms "androgyny" or "metrosexual" to this big band saxophonist, but with the benefit of hindsight, we can see that Young was subverting sex roles at every turn. By referring to his male friends-or even casual acquaintances-as "lady," he was undercutting the macho culture of jazz at the roots.
Mary Beard: Back to the sixteenth century (TLS)
It is truly amazing (Sir John Soane's Museum, a couple of hundred years old, is the nearest parallel I know), a kind of in your face immersion into a world of rediscovered ancient sculpture, perched on every "orifice". But, for me, the most amazing thing, was a statue of the Eagle (ie Jupiter) carrying off (raping) Ganymede. This group was literally suspended over the middle of the room, just as it had been in the original sixteenth-century installation … I mean the eagle did really seem to be soaring to heaven.
Mary Beard: Where to see modern art in Rome … (TLS)
I remember talking about how intimidated gallery visitors can be by the darkened rooms in which this kind of art is so often displayed: you can find it hard to work out what the "rules" of viewing are (is this cinema style, and you should wait till the end? Or are you allowed to dip in and out as in a gallery?). Well, in Rome the video installation was in the main display area, with a few beanbags available for those who wanted to watch for a long time, but otherwise just lined up with everything else. What it may have lost in definition (in the light), it gained in viewer comfort: you felt it was ok to make your own decision about how long you devoted to it, whether to sprawl or not.
Algeria is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in the Arab world and Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes (counties). It has the highest human development index of all the non-island African countries.
Pre-1962 Algeria has known many empires and dynasties, including ancient Numidians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Idrisid, Aghlabid, Rustamid, Fatimids, Zirid, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads, Zayyanids, Spaniards, Ottomans and, finally, the French colonial empire. Berbers are the indigenous inhabitants of Algeria.
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Dave said:
Algeria. The 10th largest country in the world by land area, Algeria only has a population of 41 million. The coastal areas are densely populated but much of the nation is part of the Sahara Desert, which doesn't support a large population.
Alan J answered:
Algeria.
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Algeria
zorch responded:
Algeria is now the largest country in Africa.
Roy, the Libtard, in Looney Louie Gohmertstan, TX wrote:
In terms of square miles (or kilometers, or acres if you must), Algeria is the largest country in Africa following the split-up of Sudan, and the tenth largest country in the world. But the country is made up almost entirely of desert, and only about 10 percent of those square units of measurement are inhabited.
Cal in Vermont said:
Algeria is. The capital city is Algiers, which contains the Casbah. The Casbah is where on any day you could see Sidney Greenstreet, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henried working the shadows and French persons in broad daylight, armed to the teeth and with blood in their eye. Good times!
Deborah responded:
The mighty Wiki tells me the largest country in Africa, by land area, is Algeria. Hmmm.
Saw the full moon last night, briefly, before clouds and fog rolled in again. It's like liquid sky outside right now.
Daniel in The City replied:
Algeria
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Algeria
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• Satirist Al Franken regularly made fun of disgraced President Richard Nixon, but when he produced a Saturday Night Live "Presidential Bash" in 1992, he sent a letter to Mr. Nixon, hoping that he would make a personal appearance on the show. Unfortunately, as a reply, he received a letter saying no. No problem. Mr. Franklin happily framed the letter and now proudly displays it in a room that he has devoted to his collection of Nixon memorabilia: a bathroom.
• Satirist Al Franken ran seriously for the United States Senate in 2007 in his native state of Minnesota. How seriously? Seriously enough to win. Even when he was in the 7th and the 8th grades, he was interested in politics, In the 8th grade, he gave weekly reports in his social-studies class about what was going on in politics, and in the 7th grade, he ran for Class President with the slogan, "Never spit in the face of a man unless his mustache is on fire."
• Lewis Black and Ron, his brother, occasionally had arguments about politics. For example, Lewis was shocked when Ron told him that he was going to vote for H. Ross Perot for President. They started shouting at each other, and the argument ended with Lewis shouting, "Okay, you do that. You vote for H. F**king Ross Perot. And you know what I'm going to do? I'M GOING TO TELL MOM!"
• Even back when he was a stand-up comic, Minnesota Senator Al Franken was interested in politics. Henry Kissinger once personally telephoned the offices of Saturday Night Live to request tickets to the show. Mr. Franken answered the phone and told him, "No." When Mr. Kissinger asked why he couldn't get the tickets, Mr. Franken told him, "Because of the bombing of Cambodia."
• At an airport, lesbian comedian Kate Clinton was wearing a "John Kerry: A Stronger America" button during the 2004 Presidential election when a fundamental Christian couple came up to her and said, "A vote for John Kerry will hasten the Second Coming." Ms. Clinton replied, "Does that mean you will be leaving soon?"
• While in high school, satirist Stan Freberg ran for student office and was elected on the strength of two campaign promises: 1) he would improve the principal's office by turning it into an automatic car wash, and 2) he would improve the girls' locker room by installing an 80-foot picture window.
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• Soon after he started working for MAD magazine, writer Dick DeBartolo needed an answer to a financial question, and only MAD publisher William M. Gaines, whom he had never met, could answer that question. His boss, Nick Meglin, called up Mr. Gaines - while Mr. DeBartolo was still on the telephone line - to arrange an appointment. Unfortunately, Mr. DeBartolo could hear every word Mr. Gaines said on the telephone: "DeBartolo's on the phone? Who the h*ll wants to speak to him? Did you tell him I'm in? Oh, Christ, what the h*ll does he want? He's a pain in the *ss!" Fortunately, when Mr. DeBartolo began speaking on the line, Mr. Gaines said, "Dick, I'm pulling your leg. Relax. I do that to all the new guys. I like to scare them. Welcome to MAD."
• Ben Hecht once started a music group called the Ben Hecht Symphonietta. Its members consisted of several of his friends: Charles MacArthur, George Antheil, Charlie Lederer, and Harpo Marx. Groucho Marx was not invited to be a member, and it rankled him. As they were practicing in an upstairs room, Groucho yelled up at them, "Quiet, you lousy amateurs!" A few minutes later, no one could have heard the ensemble due to the vast sounds of music swelling up from the lower floor. Mr. Hecht and the other astonished musicians went downstairs to find the Los Angeles Philharmonic playing - Groucho had hired the entire orchestra to come and disrupt the rehearsal of the Ben Hecht Symphonietta.
CBS begins the night with the chestnut 'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer', followed by 'Frosty The Snowman', then 'Frosty Returns', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC starts the night with 'How To Train Your Dragon', followed by 'Trolls Holiday Special', then 'Dateline', while on the left coast, it's 'Trolls Holiday Special', followed by a LIVE'SNL', then an old 'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Scarlett Johansson hosting, music by Niall Horen.
ABC opens the night with the RERUN'The Little Mermaid Live!', followed by '20/20'.
The CW offers a lotta '2½ Men'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Masked Singer'.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Elf', followed by the movie 'Elf', again.
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[6:00AM] CHIMP SANCTUARY - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Chimp Sanctuary
[7:00AM] GREAT BEAR STAKEOUT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1
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[9:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Great Melt
[10:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-The Great Salmon Run
[11:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-The Great Migration
[12:00PM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-The Great Tide
[1:00PM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-The Great Flood
[2:00PM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-The Great Feast
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Nowhere To Hide - Plains
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-Race Against Time - Coasts
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Hardest Challenge
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[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Hide And Seek - Jungles
[9:00PM] MADAGASCAR - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Lost Worlds
[10:12PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Hunger At Sea - Oceans
[11:12PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Nowhere To Hide - Plains
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[2:24AM] ATTENBOROUGH AND THE GIANT ELEPHANT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Attenborough and the Giant Elephant
[3:40AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-The Great Salmon Run
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Bravo has the movie 'Bride Wars', followed by the movie 'Couples Retreat', then the movie 'Couples Retreat', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'CHiPs', followed by the movie 'Wedding Crashers'.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by the FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified'.
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[6:00A] Batman - Hi Diddle Riddle
[6:33A] Batman - Smack in the Middle
[7:06A] Batman - Fine Feathered Finks
[7:39A] Batman - The Penguin's a Jinx
[8:12A] Batman - The Joker Is Wild
[8:45A] The Three Stooges - If a Body Meets a Body
[8:50A] The Three Stooges - Out West
[9:15A] All I Want for Christmas
[11:15A] A Dennis the Menace Christmas
[1:15P] Big Momma's House
[3:30P] A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
[5:30P] Stand by Me
[7:30P] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[9:30P] Vegas Vacation
[11:30P] National Lampoon's European Vacation
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[3:30A] A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Heat Wave (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] The Rifleman
[6:30am] The Rifleman
[7:00am] The Rifleman
[7:30am] The Rifleman
[8:00am] The Rifleman
[8:30am] The Rifleman
[9:00am] The Rifleman
[9:30am] The Rifleman
[10:00am] The Rifleman
[10:30am] The Rifleman
[11:00am] M*A*S*H
[11:30am] M*A*S*H
[12:00pm] M*A*S*H
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[7:00pm] M*A*S*H
[7:30pm] M*A*S*H
[8:00pm] El Dorado
[10:13pm] McLintock!
[1:13am] El Dorado
[4:13am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:49am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:25am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Mad Max: Fury Road', followed by the movie 'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island'.
Taylor Swift used her speech at Billboard's 2019 Women in Music event on Thursday to speak out about her ongoing dispute with Scooter Braun.
The singer and songwriter, who turned 30 on Friday, received the Woman of the Decade award at the event, held in L.A on Thursday. Swift used the platform to call out Braun, whose company, Ithaca Holdings, purchased her former record label, Big Machine Label Group, including the masters to her first six albums (meaning the rights to her early music). She went on to criticize other investors who she said were part of the deal, including George Soros, 23 Capital and the Carlyle Group.
Swift told the audience that as the "resident loud person," she wanted to talk about the "new shift that has affected me personally" and "is a potentially harmful force in our industry." She said it's the "the unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying up our music as if it's real estate. As if it's an app or a shoe line."
She continued, "This just happened to me without my approval, consultation or consent. After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I'm told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital and the Carlyle Group. Yet, to this day, none of these investors have ever bothered to contact me or my team directly- to perform their due diligence on their investment. On their investment in me. To ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art, the music I wrote, the videos I created, photos of me, my handwriting, my album designs." (Big Machine Label Group has said Swift was given an opportunity to buy her music back, however, she has said it wasn't a straight-forward deal.)
Swift went on to say Braun - a music manager who reps megastars including Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato - "never contacted me or my team to discuss it prior to the sale or even when it was announced. I'm fairly certain he knew exactly how I would feel about it though - and let me just say that the definition of toxic male privilege in our industry is people saying, 'But he's always been nice to me,' when I'm raising valid concerns about artists and their right to own their music. And of course he's nice to you - if you're in this room, you have something he needs."
Lachlan Murdoch just bought himself a heapin' helpin' of a Bel-Air mansion and estate: The Wall St. Journal reports that the co-chairman of News Corp has paid about $150 million for the estate called Chartwell - better known as home to the Clampetts on The Beverly Hillbillies.
The purchase sets a new high-water mark for residential sales price in the Los Angeles area, and is the second most expensive sale ever in the country, according to data from appraiser Jonathan Miller quoted in the WSJ article.
The mansion, built in 1930, will be instantly recognizable as the home shown during the credits of CBS' immensely popular 1962-71 sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. The comedy, with its familiar Flatt & Scruggs theme song, chronicled the adventures of the Clampetts, a poor Ozarks family who moved to Beverly Hills after patriarch Jed discovered Texas Tea - oil, that is - on the family's mountain property.
Murdoch, the 48-year-old son of mogul Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate), paid roughly $200 million less than the French Neoclassical-style mansion's 2017 list price of $350 million.
Sitting on 10 acres that also accommodates a five-bedroom guest house, a 75-foot pool, tennis court and 40-vehicle "car gallery," the mansion was most recently owned by the estate of the late A. Jerrold Perenchio, the chairman and chief executive of Univision who died in 2017.
Even after Lou Pearlman's con was uncovered - and as he sat in a prison cell serving a 25-year sentence - the notorious manager of *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys wasn't ready to give up his moneymaking ways. He started a choir behind bars and then tried launching a reality television show.
For decades, the businessman impressed investors with limo rides, flights on private jets, and paraded them by the studio where the huge stars he'd groomed were rehearsing.
All that flash, and the promise of a significant annual return, presented an image too enticing for investors to resist. But, no one knew that the performers raking in millions were barely making a living wage - and his investors did not realize the millions they gave him would be gone forever.
Pearlman got his start in the blimp business in the early 1980s. Later, he started chartering airplane flights, which he says led him to meet New Kids on the Block.
A Minnesota woman is suing a former local pharmacist and CVS for allegedly refusing to fill her prescription for a morning-after pill.
Andrea Anderson filed the suit on Monday in Aitkin County District Court claiming she was denied the drug ella because of a pharmacist's beliefs and was then lied to and misled when she tried to get the medication at another location.
On Jan. 21, 2019, Anderson, a mother of five, called her doctor and had a prescription for an emergency contraceptive sent to the Thrifty White Pharmacy in McGregor.
But she was told by the pharmacist "that he would be unable to fill her prescription," the complaint states. The pharmacist, George Badeaux, said he could not give her the medication due to "personal reasons" and his "beliefs," and he also tried to discourage her from trying to obtain the drug at another store.
Knowing that such medications work best the sooner they are taken, Anderson called a CVS in Aitkin to try and have the prescription filled and was told that the store did not stock the drug. The CVS pharmacist also told Anderson that she had called a nearby Walgreens but that it also did not have it in stock.
In a television commercial that's become part of the lore surrounding Donald Trump (R-Fake Teeth)'s affinity for McDonald's Corp., he embraced a purple, lumpy denizen of the fast-food chain's "McDonaldland" and said, "Together, Grimace, we could own this town."
He was talking about New York, not Washington. Yet on Thursday, some 17 years after he appeared in that spot for the "Big 'N' Tasty" sandwich, President Trump's appointees delivered a high-stakes political victory for McDonald's in one of the most important labor disputes in decades.
The national board that referees union-organizing drives effectively absolved the company of liability for alleged labor-law violations in some of its franchisees' restaurants, easing a major threat to the fast-food giant's business structure. Trump's appointees overrode an agency judge and rebuffed ethical concerns raised by labor advocates to approve a group of settlements in the matter on a 2-1 decision. The deal resolves allegations of wrongdoing without holding the corporation legally liable as "joint employer" with its franchisees.The victory, which eluded McDonald's during Obama's presidency, could help the fast-food giant close a bruising chapter in its history that imperiled its valuable brand as well as the franchise structure it's built on.
In the board's ruling Thursday, two Trump appointees approved proposed settlements that provide back pay to McDonald's workers but do not hold McDonald's Corp. liable as a "joint employer." In their decision, the members wrote that the deal would "remedy every violation alleged" in the government's complaints against McDonald's."Moreover, we conclude that further litigation would impose a substantial burden on the parties, without a significant probability of prevailing on the complaint's joint-employer allegation," board members Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel said in the ruling.
The Carolina parakeet, which was the only native neotropical parrot in the US, met the demise of its species because of human interference, researchers have found.
A group of scientists sequenced the parrot's genome from a preserved specimen held in a private collection and cross-referenced it with the genome of its still-living relative, the South American sun parakeet.
They first looked for signs of inbreeding, which is an indicator of a species going through a slow decline.
Instead, researchers found the Carolina parakeet genome to be more genetically diverse in comparison to many bird species alive today.
Carles Lalueza-Fox, from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Pompeu Fabra University and co-author of the study, told National Geographic this indicates the birds experienced an "abrupt extinction process that left no marks in the parakeet genome".
Thousands of "penis fish" have washed up on the shores of Drakes Beach, California.
Urechis caupo, better known by its more phallic name for fairly obvious reasons, is a species of marine spoonworm that spends most of its life burrowed in the soft sediment of the sea bed. Also known as the "fat innkeeper worm" (these guys keep getting dragged by scientists) these worms can live under the sand for up to 25 years, minding their own business and feeding on plankton, bacteria, and other small particles that fall into their mucus traps.
However, these 10-inchers (they can even grow to around 30 centimeters in length) appear to have been disturbed, picked up from their quiet life, and strewn across a beach for as far as the eye can see (and never unsee).
Urechis has four species of penis fish. U. caupo is the only species that is found in North America; the other three are found in Asia, where they are eaten as a delicacy.
The animals get the name "innkeeper worm" because other creatures will often move in to the tunnels they have lovingly crafted. They get the name "penis fish" because they really, really look like a donger.
A new map of the mountains, valleys and canyons hidden under Antarctica's ice has revealed the deepest land on Earth, and will help forecast future ice loss.
The frozen southern continent can look pretty flat and featureless from above. But beneath the ice pack that's accumulated over the eons, there's an ancient continent, as textured as any other. And that texture turns out to be very important for predicting how and when ice will flow and which regions of ice are most vulnerable in a warming world. The new NASA map, called BedMachine Antarctica, mixes ice movement measurements, seismic measurements, radar and other data points to create the most detailed picture yet of Antarctica's hidden features.
"Using BedMachine to zoom into particular sectors of Antarctica, you find essential details, such as bumps and hollows beneath the ice that may accelerate, slow down or even stop the retreat of glaciers," Mathieu Morlighem, an Earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine and the lead author of a new paper about the map, said in a statement.
The previously unknown features have "major implications for glacier response to climate change," the authors wrote. "For example, glaciers flowing across the Transantarctic Mountains are protected by broad, stabilizing ridges."
Included in the data is evidence for the deepest canyon on planet Earth. By studying how much ice flows through a particular, narrow region known as the Denman trough each year, the researchers realized it must dive at least 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) below sea level to accommodate all the frozen water volume. That's far deeper than the Dead Sea, the lowest exposed region of land, which sits 432 meters (1,419 feet) below sea level, according to the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research center.
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