Marc Dion: Senator Bob Corker and His Own People (Creators Syndicate)
Soviet-era chronicler of misery Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pointed out that, to kill tens of millions of people, you have to have ideology. You can shoot another man over a $10 drug deal and have no ideology at all but you can't push six million people into ovens without really believing in something greater than yourself. And that's why Sen. Robert Corker, R-Confederate States of America, fought so hard to keep the United Auto Workers out of a Tennessee Volkswagen plant.
Lucy Mangan: my life's one long guilt trip (Guardian)
My prime motivating force, the engine that powers all else, is guilt. The Catholics have their weekly absolution. Isn't it about time the rest of us had a secular alternative?
Dr. David Lipschitz: Seeking the Fountain of Youth -- Eat Less (Creators Syndicate)
Thank goodness older people don't want to live forever. When I tell my patients I have no wish to prolong their lives but assure them that the lives they have are of the highest possible quality, the answer is almost always the same: "Thank you, doctor. That's exactly what I want." And yet many naive baby boomers are desperately seeking the magic approach that will prolong their lives to age 100 and beyond.
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 - October 19, 1893) was a prominent American orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was known for using her maiden name after marriage, as the custom was for women to take their husband's surname.
Lucy Stone's refusal to take her husband's name, as an assertion of her own rights, was controversial then, and is largely what she is remembered for today. Women who continue to use their birth name after marriage are still occasionally known as "Lucy Stoners" in the United States. In 1921, the Lucy Stone League was founded in New York City by Ruth Hale, described in 1924 by Time as the "'Lucy Stone'-spouse" of Heywood Broun. The League was re-instituted in 1997.
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The Lucy Stone League is a women's rights organization founded in 1921. Its motto is "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost". It was the first group to fight for women to be allowed to keep their own maiden name, or birth name, after marriage-and to use it legally.
The group took its name from Lucy Stone (1818-1893), the first woman in the United States to carry her birth name through life, despite her marriage in 1855. The New York Times called the group the "Maiden Namers". The group held its first meetings, debates and functions at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, including its founding meeting on 17 May 1921.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Lucy Stone (1818-1893), distinguished graduate of Oberlin College, which is about 10 miles from where I am.
Marian answered:
Lucy Stone
Alan J said:
Lucy Stone
Lois Of The Minimum Wage Of Oregon wrote:
The answer is Lucy Stone, a lady with a bad haircut and
lousy fashion sense, who laid the foundation for "women's
lib", which eventually destroyed the possibility of American
women ever having to suffer the ignobility of becoming an
"Edith Bunker" style housewife ever again! Thanks to her
sacrifices, women of today are no longer the property of
fathers and husbands, but can consider themselves wage-slave
human-resources to be exploited, exhausted, and abandoned by
huge multinational corporations. You've come a long way,
baby. Yay!
P.S. @ Sally: If it starts raining frogs, get a bucket of
lamb's blood PRONTO!
P.P.S @ Joe: I always loved John Lennon, but damn, I'll
never forget the day I opened the mail box and saw that
cover of the Rolling Stone...urgh! Not all human bodies
look good naked.
mj replied:
I think that was
Lucy Stone.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Lucy Stone
Adam answered:
Lucy Stone.
Sally said
Lucy Stone was the first woman in the United States to carry her birth name through life, despite her marriage in 1855.
I am familiar with the accomplishments of Lucy Stone, she was a real founding mother. Of course she was from Massachusetts, home of New Thought (religion), suffrage, human right's, and woman's lib. Great State, greater woman here.
PS: @JoeS, sure wish there was a photo of you and Carla doing a, "John and Yoko" naked picture - but alas, there is not, so you say... ;) (Laugh, snort, hiccup, chuckle...)
DJ Useo, responded:
Lucy Stone is the answer. An amazing achievement considering the harsh barriers in her path. And she did it entirely offline!
MAM wrote:
Lucy Stone ~ (1818 - 1893) was a prominent American orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. Her refusal to take her husband's name, as an assertion of her own rights, was controversial then, and is largely what she is remembered for today.
Lucy Stone 1858
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'The Amazing Race', then a RERUN'The Mentalist', followed by a RERUN'The Good Wife'.
NBC fills the night with FRESH'2014 Olympic Winter Games'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by the movie 'The Proposal', then a RERUN'Castle'.
The CW offers a FRESH'SAF3', followed by 2 hours of what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has 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'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 2 - Episode 6
[6:40AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 2 - Episode 7
[7:20AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 2 - Episode 8
[8:00AM] LION: SPY IN THE DEN
[9:00AM] THE GREATEST WILDLIFE SHOW ON EARTH
[10:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 3 - Episode 3
[11:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 3 - Episode 4
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 6
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 1
[2:30PM] ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
[5:30PM] BLADE RUNNER
[8:00PM] THE MATRIX
[11:00PM] THE MATRIX
[2:00AM] BLADE RUNNER
[4:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 8 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Blood, Sweat & Heels', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', still another 'Chappelle's Show', yet another 'Chappelle's Show', 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly', and 'Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain'.
FX has the movie 'The Hangover Part II', followed by the movie 'Bad Teacher', then the movie 'Bad Teacher', again.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Tiki Lounge
[6:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Ida Loses a Leg
[7:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Chad's Sleepover
[7:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-No Motorcycles
[8:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Butterflies
[8:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Ida's Dance
[9:00AM] Portlandia-Feminist Bookstore 10th Anniversary
[9:30AM] Portlandia-No Olympics
[10:00AM] Portlandia-Brunch Village
[10:30AM] Portlandia-Winter in Portlandia
[11:00AM] Portlandia-Take Back MTV
[11:30AM] Beverly Hills Ninja
[1:30PM] The Warriors
[3:30PM] Maximum Overdrive
[5:30PM] Scream 3
[8:00PM] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[10:15PM] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[12:30AM] The Shining
[3:30AM] Scream 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-Parks and Recreation
[6:30AM] A Time to Kill
[9:45AM] Catch a Fire
[12:00PM] The Returned-Camille
[1:15PM] The Returned-Simon
[2:30PM] The Returned-Julie
[3:45PM] The Returned-Victor
[5:00PM] The Returned-Serge et Toni
[6:15PM] The Returned-Lucy
[7:30PM] The Returned-Adele
[8:45PM] The Returned-La Horde
[10:00PM] Glory
[12:30AM] Tenderness
[2:45AM] Blue Velvet
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-American Horror Story (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'I, Robot', followed by the movie 'Final Destination 2'.
Vanessa Mae speaks to journalists at the PovoDog dog shelter run by the Volnoe Delo Oleg Deripaska Foundation in Baranovka near Sochi during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, February 22, 2014.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
Hollywood stars are lighting up Broadway in limited-run plays that can be box office gold for the theater industry and give film and television actors a prestigious career boost.
British actress Rebecca Hall, of 2013's Disney-Marvel superhero blockbuster sequel "Iron Man 3," is appearing on the New York stage in the 1920s play "Machinal," after making her Broadway debut in January to critical acclaim.
Multiple Emmy winner Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad" fame switched from the small screen to the stage to play late U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in "All the Way," which opens on March 6.
The same month, James Franco, an Oscar nominee for "127 Hours," will begin previews in the Depression-era drama "Of Mice and Men" with TV's Leighton Meester of "Gossip's Girl."
In April, dual Academy Award winner Denzel Washington ("Training Day" and "Glory') will open in "A Raisin in the Sun," and Golden Globe winner Michelle Williams ("My Week with Marilyn") and Alan Cumming, of TV's "The Good Wife," will appear in a revival of the Berlin-set musical "Cabaret."
Demonstrators protest what they say is Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor and Venezuela native Gustavo Dudamel's failure to speak out against embattled president Nicolas Maduro, outside Disney Hall in downtown Los Angeles Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Dudamel returned to Los Angeles following appearances in Venezuela early this week, and was scheduled to direct the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Friday night.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Health officials in the San Francisco Bay Area are warning local residents that thousands of them may have been exposed to measles, a potentially deadly disease that was once eliminated in the United States but has rebounded in recent years.
The latest measles threat started when an infected student at the University of California, Berkeley, rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train system earlier this month, possibly exposing hundreds of thousands of people to the disease, the Los Angeles Times reports.
And in a worrisome trend, it's the college-educated residents of affluent areas who are skipping vaccinations. "It's that whole natural, BPA-free, hybrid-car community that says, 'We're not going to put chemicals in our children,'" Dr. Nina Shapiro, of UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, told Salon.com.
Because of successful vaccination efforts, measles had virtually disappeared from the developed world, though it continues to spread elsewhere, causing about 164,000 deaths worldwide each year, the CDC reports.
Hundreds of items from the estate of the celebrated pianist Van Cliburn are scheduled to go up for auction next month.
The New York auction house Christie's has scheduled a March 4-5 auction of the Van Cliburn collection. The items were left behind in Cliburn's Fort Worth-area mansion when he died a year ago this month.
It'll be the second auction of items from the Cliburn collection. Bidders bid more than $4.3 million for 166 lots of antiques, jewelry and other items in May 2012.
Among the items available in this latest bidding is a 144-year-old piano bought by Cliburn's mother, Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn, in the 1940s and given to her son.
Jo Beaudry holds up a sign as she joins nearly 250 gay rights supporters protesting SB1062 at the Arizona Capitol, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in Phoenix. The protesters gathered demanding Gov. Jan Brewer veto legislation that would allow business owners to refuse to serve gays by citing their religious beliefs. The governor must sign or veto Senate Bill 1062 by the end of next week.
Photo by Ross D. Franklin
The last dry town in Connecticut is considering whether to give up on Prohibition.
Bridgewater, an affluent bedroom community of 1,700 people tucked into the hills of western Connecticut, may have more at stake in a referendum than bragging rights: The town's average age has risen above 50 and the state is threatening to close the only school.
First Selectman Curtis Read says restaurants that serve alcohol could provide a much-needed boost.
Repeal has become the hottest issue in Bridgewater, with dozens attending a November town meeting on the issue. Read said it was clear people were reluctant to "show their cards" and a referendum was chosen in part for privacy, so that voters do not have to reveal opinions to neighbors. The timing of the vote, originally scheduled for Tuesday, now remains to be determined after it was postponed to make sure it complies with decades-old blue laws.
Bridgewater has taken up the issue for the first time since 1930s because two developers proposed opening restaurants, as long as they could serve alcohol. Some residents have bars in their garages but the town, which is home to actress Mia Farrow and a large weekend population of people from New York City, currently does not have a restaurant aside from a village store with a delicatessen.
A celebrity hair stylist has accused rapper and former "American Idol" judge Nicki Minaj of stealing his designs for the colourful wigs that helped boost her career, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Friday seeking $30 million in compensation.
Terrence Davidson, whose celebrity clients include singers Patti LaBelle and Jennifer Hudson, began working for Minaj in 2010 and designed her wigs for high-profile events worldwide, the suit filed in Atlanta said.
The rapper also wore Davidson-designed wigs in a music video for the song "Super Bass," according to the lawsuit. One of Minaj's best-known wigs is called the "Pink Upper Bun."
Davidson, 41, said he and Minaj's staff discussed a joint business venture that would include selling wigs and creating a reality television show about a celebrity wig stylist.
But the performer and her representatives in 2012 "took active steps to isolate Mr. Davidson and preclude him from the notoriety he deserved for his wig designs," the lawsuit said.
A sign welcomes visitors to Aberdeen during the first annual Kurt Cobain Day on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Aberdeen, Wash. The town formally recognized Cobain with a new statue and exhibit at the Aberdeen Museum of History. The line "Come As You Are" on the welcome sign is the title of one of the band's popular songs.
Photo by Joshua Trujillo
The producer of a film at the center of an alleged investment scam said he was shocked to learn that people he thought were helping bankroll his film were being indicted by the Justice Department.
The department charged six people and arrested five of them Thursday for allegedly seeking investors for films they didn't really intend to fund. Kase Chong, producer of the completed film "Beyond the Mat," told TheWrap he was stunned to hear that his supposed backers had been charged with fraud - and remained "optimistic" the film can still be released.
"We thought we had distribution," said Chong, whose film has screened privately at several festivals. "Things seemed to be going in the right direction."
The five men who were arrested pleaded not guilty in an arraignment, and the sixth is a fugitive.
The allegations are detailed in two indictments filed Thursday. The first involves company Mutual Entertainment LLC, later renamed Film Shoot LLC. Prosecutors say the company falsely dangled the promise that John Cusack, Gerard Butler and Jon Voight might star in a film called "The Smuggler."
A federal lawsuit filed in New York charges that Sony Music Entertainment cheated "American Idol" contestants including Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood out of at least $10 million in royalties.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by 19 Recordings, a music company founded by "Idol" creator Simon Fuller.
The lawsuit says 19 discovered the royalty issue from two separate audits of Sony's records.
Other artists named in the suit include Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry and Jordin Sparks.
An artist plays with fire during the opening ceremony of Electronic Music Festival in Nefta, south of Tunisia February 21, 2014.
Photo by Zoubeir Souissi
A movie crew was working on train tracks without permission from the railroad when a freight train crashed into the production team and its equipment, killing one and injuring seven others, a sheriff's investigator said Friday.
The Savannah-based crew was shooting footage for "Midnight Rider," a film based on the life of singer Gregg Allman, when the crash happened Thursday afternoon. Wayne County sheriff's detectives were working Friday to piece together how and why it happened.
The deadly collision took place at a railroad trestle that crosses the Altamaha River in the rural county about 60 miles southwest of Savannah. The tracks, owned by CSX Railroad, cross private land owned by forest-products company Rayonier, which has a nearby paper mill. Joe Gardner, the lead detective on the case, said the crew had Rayonier's permission to film on its property next to the train tracks.
The train struck and killed a woman identified by the sheriff's department as 27-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Jones of Atlanta. Gardner said he didn't know what job she performed on the film crew. Seven others were injured, one seriously enough to be taken by helicopter to a Savannah hospital. Further information on their conditions was not immediately available Friday.
Authorities provided few details about the collision. Gardner said it wasn't clear if crew members were actually on the trestle bridging the river or just on the tracks at the river's edge. He said the train smashed some of the crew's equipment, and it's possible some of the injuries were caused by flying debris. Among the items found on the tracks was what appeared to be a mattress for a bed, Gardner said.
People wear masks near a carnival figure representing big business at the start of a protest march in Nantes, western France, to demonstrate against the construction of a new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, some 30 kilometres (19 miles) away, February 22, 2014.
Photo by Stephane Mahe
Rudolph the reindeer is having a glittering antler makeover - the latest attempt to halt some of the thousands of road deaths of the roaming caribou in the wilds of Finland.
Anne Ollila of the Finnish Reindeer Herder's Association says the antlers of 20 reindeer have been painted with various fluorescent dyes to see how the animals react and whether the paints are resistant to the harsh Arctic climate.
If successful, animals with glittering antlers will be free to roam Lapland - a vast, deserted area in northern Finland where herders tend to some 200,000 reindeer.
Ollila says reflectors and reflective tape have proven unsuccessful as reindeer have torn them off - and road signs warning drivers of roaming reindeer often are stolen by tourists as souvenirs.
Maria von Trapp, a member of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for "The Sound of Music," has died, her brother said Saturday.
Von Trapp, 99, died at her home in Vermont on Tuesday, Johannes von Trapp said.
"She was a lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people," he said. "There wasn't a mean or miserable bone in her body. I think everyone who knew her would agree with that."
Maria von Trapp was the last surviving member of the seven original Trapp Family Singers made famous in "The Sound of Music." Their story was turned into the film and Broadway musical.
She was the third child and second-oldest daughter of Australian Naval Capt. Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. Their seven children were the basis for the singing family in the 1959 Broadway musical and 1965 film, which won the Oscar for best picture. Maria von Trapp was portrayed as Louisa in the film and musical.
"The Sound of Music" was based loosely on a 1949 book by von Trapp's second wife, also Maria von Trapp, who died in 1987. It tells the story of an Austrian woman who married a widower with seven children and teaches them music.
In 1938, the family escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria. After they arrived in New York, the family became popular with concert audiences. The family eventually settled in Vermont, where they opened a ski lodge in Stowe.
Rosmarie von Trapp, Johannes von Trapp and Eleonore Von Trapp Campbell were born to Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp.
A Mute Swan lands at the Titicus Reservoir in Purdys, New York, February 19, 2014. The latest move to eradicate invasive species has put the regal Mute Swan in sharpshooter's sites, but bird lovers from New York to Michigan are filling petitions to call off the proposed mass slaughter while the killing picks up speed in other states. Picture taken February 19, 2014.
Photo by Eduardo Munoz
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