Marc Dion: The Arc De Trump (Creators Syndicate)
Everyone on the Republican side of impeachment is getting a little nervous because every one of them is acting, not on behalf of the American people, but on behalf of the man behind the curtain, Trump. If Trump survives impeachment, and declares himself president for life, there will be other trials without testimony or evidence. In those trials, the Republicans who didn't work hard enough for Trump will be sent to the American gulag, which will probably be located in Texas, right next to the child cages.
Ted Rall: If This Is a Democracy, Why Don't We Vote for the Vice President, Too? (Creators Syndicate)
Let's say you owned a house and needed extra cash to make ends meet, so you decided to rent two of your bedrooms. Would you agree to lease those rooms to two people under the condition that you could only run a credit check on and meet one of them? Would you allow an anonymous rando to move into your second room, no questions asked, not even what their name is?
Susan Estrich: Are You Watching? (Creators Syndicate)
The Republicans may defect on witnesses to prove that they have been fair, but no one in that room is going to deviate from partisan lines. And that's what's boring. You pretty much know what everyone is going to say. And you pretty much know how everyone is going to vote. We are not watching a trial. Not one senator sitting there is listening carefully so he or she doesn't miss a single word. So why should the folks at the gym, or friends with trying jobs or families to raise, watch the Senate go through the motions? To me, that is what is so troubling about this process.
Lenore Skenazy: How Grit and Grace Get Revealed (Creators Syndicate)
Are many people extraordinarily something or other - graceful, funny, wise, determined? And if so, do they all discover this, or does it take some enormous challenge to bring the "extraordinariness" out? Maybe you have the answer. I don't. All I know is that each year, I attend the Hunter College commencement ceremonies - even the one that happened just this week for midyear graduates. The event requires hankies and big lungs, because there is so much crying and cheering as we hear the stories of the most extraordinary students.
Dottle is the remaining plug of unburnt tobacco and ashes left in the bottom of a tobacco pipe when it has been smoked.
Some pipes are designed to specifically lessen or prevent the formation of dottle and excessive moisture. The most common are the calabash pipe, the "Dry System" pipes made by Peterson, and aluminum-stemmed pipes from Falcon and Kirsten.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes had a habit of drying out all the dottles from the day's pipes on a corner of his mantelpiece to be smoked the following morning.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
A dottle is the bit of half-smoked tobacco in the bottom of a pipe after smoking.
Randall wrote:
at the bottom of a tobacco pipe
Mac Mac said:
Bottom of a smoked pipe.
Alan J answered:
In a tobacco pipe.
Cal in Vermont replied:
A dottle is a plug of ashes and unburnt tobacco that can be found at the bottom of a pipe bowl. Among smokers of cannabis it is known as an ohwowman, usually found on an otherwise dreary Sunday morning.
Dave responded:
In a tobacco pipe. News to me because I've never smoked tobacco. Dottle is the tobacco left in the pipe that didn't burn, excessive amounts of dootle are do to either a too tightly packed bowl or too much moisture in the tobacco. My advice is to throw the pipe and the tobacco in the trash to avoid making dottle.
Jon L said:
In the bottom of a pipe.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Dottle is the remaining plug of unburnt tobacco and ashes left in the bottom of a tobacco pipe when it has been smoked
zorch replied:
In a pipe. It's a bit of unburned tobacco.
Deborah responded:
A Dottle is a plug of unburned tobacco in the bottom of a pipe bowl. Never heard of such a thing, but then, I don't smoke a pipe and don't know the physics of such.
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• Comic singer Anna Russell once worked in a pantomime at the Ashton Circus in Australia, which is as famous there as the Ringling Brothers Circus is in the United States. Most of the pantomime performers stayed in hotels, but Ms. Russell decided that she wanted to experience the circus life, so she rented a trailer and stayed with the circus performers. At the end of the season, she was presented with a medal that had her name on one side and the Ashton crest on the other. According to the ancient tradition of the circus, she could get a job - even if it is nothing more than washing the elephants - at any circus in the world simply by showing the circus her medal.
• Régine Crespin, a woman of conviction, was supposed to sing the title role in Tosca, but during a rehearsal she sang a phrase faster than the conductor, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, wanted her to sing it. He told her, "Signora, that phrase does not go that way." Very politely, she replied, "Maestro, if you don't mind, we can discuss these details afterward." Mr. Molinari-Pradelli then rudely said, "No, there is nothing to discuss. It will be done as I say, and that's that." This was too rude for Ms. Crespin, so she said, "Tant pis" [roughly, "So much for me working for you"], left, and Mr. Molinari-Pradelli was forced to find another person to sing the role of Tosca.
• In 1948, Sir Thomas Beecham was scheduled to present a program of English music at the Royal Albert Hall, but few tickets were sold and he cancelled the concert. Sensing an opportunity, the Bournemouth Corporation immediately called him and asked him to present the same program using their orchestra in Bournemouth - and they guaranteed a full house. Sir Thomas accepted, and conducted in front of a full house, as promised. Playing celesta in the Bournemouth orchestra was Rudolph Schwarz, the regular conductor of the orchestra, who wanted the privilege of playing for Sir Thomas.
• Duke Ellington played in a lot of places as a young jazz musician, including a club near Broadway that was supposed to be run by gangsters and that oddly kept catching on fire. Occasionally, the owner told Mr. Ellington and the other musicians that a certain night was a good night to take their musical instruments home because an "accident" was about to happen. By the way, Mr. Ellington understood the power of word-of-mouth advertising. When he was a young musician, he used to pay people to go around and tell other people how good he and his band were.
• Walking through the Louvre, Paul Valéry and artist Edgar Degas saw a large painting of large oak trees by Henri Rousseau. Mr. Valéry admired the painting, and he marveled at how the artist had painted so many individual leaves. He said, "It is superb, but how tedious, painting all those leaves. What a dreadful bore that must have been." Mr. Degas responded, "Be still. Had it not been tedious, there would have been no enjoyment in it."
• Mexican artist Diego Rivera put his art before everything else. Often, he worked 15 to 18 hours a day, every day of the week. He would snack rather than eat, and his common-law wife, Guadalupe Marín, once complained that he didn't stop working long enough even to take a bath. During 1932-1933, Mr. Rivera worked so hard painting murals that he lost 100 pounds!
• No one ever thinks of ballerinas collecting unemployment insurance, but they do. During the off-season, when all the ballet dancers were laid off, ballerina Alice Patelson used to go downtown to the unemployment insurance office on 90th Street and Broadway, where she would see other dancers with the New York City Ballet.
• Robert M. Brinkerhoff, the cartoonist of the long-ago comic strip Little Mary Mixup, had a yen for travel and a strong work ethic. The two worked well together. Before he traveled to the Orient, he turned in 100 cartoons to the United Feature Syndicate. For two years previously, he had created one extra cartoon each week.
• While choreographing a new production of Swan Lake, Peter Wright told ballerina Galina Samsova, who was to be carried by the dancer playing Rothbart, that she had to be down the alley formed by two rows of swans in a very quick time. Ms. Samsova laughed, then said, "I'm easy - I'm being carried."
• When New York City Ballet ballerina Wendy Whelan was asked what she liked least about her choice of careers, she replied, "The knowledge that it'll be over." (What she likes most are the people she works with.)
Very exciting conclusion to the Sumo tournament - the lowest ranked guy won by winning the most bouts.
Then he took out the highest ranked rikishi in the final match, and no one thought he had a chance.
And, he's old - 33.
Guess Tokushoryu is Japanese for Rocky.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS fills the night with FRESH'The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent: The Champions', followed by a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by another RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', then a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by another RERUN'Shark Tank'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'Outmatched', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by another RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has the movie 'Transporter 3', followed by the movie 'SWAT', then the movie 'Hacksaw Ridge'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ocean Deep
[7:00AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Dinsdale
[7:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - The Spanish Inquisition
[8:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Royal Episode 13
[9:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - The Nude Man
[10:00AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Spam
[10:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Salad Days
[10:30AM] ENDER'S GAME (2013)
[1:00PM] GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)
[3:30PM] GHOSTBUSTERS II (1989)
[6:00PM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Ep 5
[9:11PM] DOCTOR WHO - Ep 5
[10:21PM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
[12:20AM] GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)
[2:50AM] DOCTOR WHO - Ep 5
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Ep 5
[5:10AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - It's the Arts
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Spam (ALL TIMES EST)
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle', followed by a FRESH'The Weekly', and another 'The Weekly'.
History has 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then the FRESH'Auschwitz Untold'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Pee-Wee's Store
[6:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Pee-Wee Catches a Cold
[7:00A] The Poseidon Adventure
[9:30A] K-9: P.I.
[11:30A] K-9
[2:00P] Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
[4:00P] Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
[6:00P] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[8:00P] Vegas Vacation
[10:00P] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[12:00A] Vegas Vacation
[2:00A] Rudy
[4:30A] The Three Stooges - Punch Drunks
[4:45A] The Three Stooges - An Ache in Every Stake
[5:10A] The Three Stooges - A-Plumbing We Will Go
[5:35A] The Three Stooges - Beer Barrel Polecats (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] Law & Order
[7:00am] Law & Order
[8:00am] Law & Order
[9:00am] Law & Order
[10:00am] Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter - Producers
[11:00am] Clear and Present Danger
[2:00pm] The Patriot
[5:30pm] The Professional
[8:00pm] GoodFellas
[10:15pm] GoodFellas
[1:15am] The Devil's Advocate
[4:15am] Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter - Producers
[5:15am] Love Lust - Love Lust & Breakfast
[5:30am] Hogan's Heroes (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Hitman's Bodyguard', followed by the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage', then the movie 'Troy'.
James Corden has finally answered the question that was - apparently - on the minds of so many "Carpool Karaoke" fans.
On Thursday evening, the "Late Late Show" host addressed a viral video that "exposed" a crucial part of the popular celebrity singalong series. The clip, originally posted by Twitter user zolihonig, allegedly showed Corden filming an episode of "Carpool Karaoke" while another vehicle towed his black Range Rover through the streets of Los Angeles.
"Saw James Corden and Justin Bieber filming carpool karaoke and this is why I have trust issues - he isn't even driving!" zolihonig captioned the video.
The footage, which has now been viewed nearly 13 million times, drew a wave of reactions from fans - some of whom were bewildered to discover the "truth" behind the segment, during which Corden visibly pretends as if he's driving the car himself.
Now, it seems Corden has squashed the controversy once and for all. A tweet from the "Late Late Show's" official Twitter account seemed to address the video directly on Thursday, sarcastically sharing a photo of Corden and Samuel L. Jackson pretending to drive in front of a green screen.
Estranged drummer Joey Kramer did not perform with Aerosmith when they were honored as 2020's MusiCares Person of the Year, but he did join Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, and Brad Whitford at their table and onstage at MusiCares' Grammy gala, which took place Friday at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This awkward mini-reunion followed a whirlwind of drama that had recently culminated in Kramer taking his bandmates of 50 years to court.
Last year, Kramer suffered an injury that forced him to take a leave of absence and sit out Aerosmith's Las Vegas residency while his drum tech filled in. When Kramer attempted to rejoin the group, he was told that his playing wasn't up to snuff after so much time off, so he would not be allowed to play with Aerosmith at either the MusiCares event or at the 62nd Annual Grammys Awards on Jan. 26.
"Joey Kramer is our brother; his wellbeing is of paramount importance to us. However, he has not been emotionally and physically able to perform with the band, by his own admission, for the last six months. We have missed him and have encouraged him to rejoin us to play many times, but apparently he has not felt ready to do so," Aerosmith said in a statement. "Given his decisions, he is unfortunately unable to perform, but of course we have invited him to be with us for both the Grammys and our MusiCares honor."
Kramer then filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit in an attempt to be reinstated in the lineup (in the court documents, he claimed he had been asked audition for his old job to prove he could play at "an appropriate level"). But just two days before the MusiCares gala, a Massachusetts judge ruled against Kramer. This week, TMZ posted footage of the drummer showing up at Aerosmith's L.A. rehearsal space and being turned away by security guards.
Still, he did show up to the gala Friday, and while his time onstage with his bandmates was brief and a bit uncomfortable, there was still clear affection between the band members. ("They are brothers; they refer to each other as brothers, and they even fight like brothers," Tyler's entertainment lawyer, Dina LaPolt, explained earlier in the night.) Kramer was actually the only band member besides frontman Tyler who delivered a speech at all.
Saturday Night Live cast member Bowen Yang is opening up about a heartbreaking experience.
The comedian, 29, spoke about gay conversion therapy during a profile in The New York Times published on Saturday. Yang told the outlet that his parents found out he was gay when they discovered "lewd conversations" on his AOL Instant Messenger when he was 17 years old.
"They just sat me down and yelled at me and said, 'We don't understand this. Where we come from, this doesn't happen,' " he recalled.
"I'd only seen my father cry when my grandpa died and now he's sobbing in front of me every day at dinner," Yang shared. "And I'm thinking, 'How do I make this right?' This is the worst thing you can do as a child of immigrants. It's just like you don't want your parents to suffer this much over you."
Soon after, Yang's father told him he had set up eight sessions with a specialist who worked in gay conversion therapy.
A 10-year-old boy from Pennsylvania may have a role in NASA's next mission to Mars.
He was chosen as one of the nine finalists -- from 28,000 essays -- to name the next Mars rover.
Eamon Reilly, 10, says he doesn't have a favorite subject in school. "I like them all, if I had to choose one it would be science or math," Reilly said.
"I came up with 'Tenacity,' and also because scientists need to have tenacity to make a Mars rover, and also on Mars they need tenacity to drive the rover around."
"Tenacity" made NASA's final cut for its online "Name the Rover" contest.
The Border Patrol, reacting to a breach it discovered in a steel-pole border wall believed to be used by smugglers, gave activists no warning this month when it bulldozed the U.S. side of a cross-border garden on an iconic bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
On Saturday, after a public apology for "the unintentional destruction," the agency allowed the activists in a highly restricted area to plant sticky monkey-flowers, seaside daisies and other native species in Friendship Park, which was inaugurated by first lady Pat Nixon in 1971 as a symbol of bilateral bonds. The half-acre plaza separating San Diego and Tijuana has hosted cross-border yoga classes, festivals and religious services.
The garden's rebirth is the latest twist in a sometimes-adversarial, sometimes-conciliatory relationship between security-minded border agents and activists who consider the park a special place to exercise rights to free expression.
"It's hard to reconcile because we have two different agendas, but we're both in the same place, so we're trying our best," said Daniel Watman, a Spanish teacher who spearheads the garden for the volunteer group, Friends of Friendship Park.
Friends of Friendship Park, which advocates for "unrestricted access to this historic meeting place," said the garden was created in 2007, shortly before a second barrier created a buffer enforcement zone that the Border Patrol opens to the public on weekends only. People can barely touch fingertips through a steel mesh screen during those weekend encounters.
A member of the Rothschild family is suing the city of Vienna, accusing it of "perpetuating" Nazi laws by plundering the Jewish banking family's foundation, media reports said Saturday.
The Financial Times reported that the dispute -- over the long-forgotten charitable trust set up to provide psychiatric help -- is one of the largest-ever restitution claims by Nazi regime victims' descendants.
Austria's Kurier daily and Profil magazine carried similar reports on the case, for which a Vienna district court hearing has been set on February 20.
Vienna "has acted as if the Nazi confiscation decrees were still in place", according to the reported court filings by the lawyer of Geoffrey Hoguet, a descendant of the younger brother of Nathaniel Freiherr vonRothschild.
Rothschild -- a member of the Austria branch of the wealthy family originally from Frankfurt -- left the equivalent of about 100 million euros ($110 million) when he died in 1905 to provide psychiatric help for the needy.
Hoisting a large leather Bible above her head, Bolivia's new interim president delivered an emphatic message hours after Evo Morales fled under pressure, the end of a nearly 14-year presidency that celebrated the country's indigenous religious beliefs like never before.
"The Bible has returned to the palace," bellowed Jeanine Añez as she walked amid a horde of allies and news media cameras into the presidential palace where Morales had jettisoned the Bible from official government ceremonies and replaced it with acts honoring the Andean earth deity called the Pachamama. The conservative evangelical senator, from a region where people often scoff at Pachamama beliefs, thrust the Bible above her head and flashed a beaming smile.
While Bolivians are deeply divided on Morales' legacy, his replacement, a lawyer and opposition leader who wants to make the Bible front and center in public life, is reigniting deep-rooted class and racial divisions at a time of great uncertainty in the Andean nation, where 6 in 10 identify as descendants of native peoples.
"It's the same as 500 years ago when the Spanish came and the first thing they showed the indigenous people was the Bible," said Jose Saravia, a civil engineer and married father of three children from La Paz. "It seems to me like the same thing is happening again."
Like many in Bolivia, Saravia is a practicing Catholic who weaves in Pachamama beliefs passed down from this parents and grandparents. About 8 in 10 in Bolivia are Catholic, according to the most recent estimates.
Kansas cropland that turned into a crime scene of serial slayings in the 1870s is up for auction.
The 162-acre tract where the Bender family killed at least 11 people will be sold off to the highest bidder by an Indiana-based auction company next month, The Wichita Eagle reported.
Accounts say the family of four who came to be known as the "Bloody Benders" would lure travelers into their home inviting them for a hot meal and a place to rest.
Once seated at the dinner table, instead of hospitality, these travelers would get their throats slit or heads bashed in - their bodies tossed into the cellar until they were able to be hauled out and buried at night.
When people became suspicious over the missing travelers, the Benders fled. They were never captured.
According to legend, the devil once took a walk down the side of a volcano in southern Italy, each step preserved forever in solid rock.
The tracks are known as the "Ciampate del Diavolo"' or "Devil's Trail" - but new details reveal a less diabolical yet far more interesting story on how they came to be.
The mysterious footprints are well known to those living near Roccamonfina, an extinct volcano in southern Italy that hasn't erupted in tens of thousands of years.
Thanks to the latest contributions by a team of scientists from institutes across Italy, we now have details on a further 14 prints - these ones even larger than the others - some of which head up the mountain rather than down.
Radiometric and geological dating of the various rock strata have already established the imprints were cast in the soft blanket of ash left in the wake of an eruption that took place around 350,000 years ago, making them some of the oldest preserved human footprints on record.
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