'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Question
Page Problem
HI!
I am a faithful BartcopE reader and enjoyer, (excuse the grammar, I am from Texas). I have been having a problem with the page for the last few months and I wonder if anyone else has the same problem.
Whenever I click on a link and leave the page, when I try to go 'back' to the page it is GONE and I can't connect to it for at least a day, no matter how I try!
I have never had this problem with any other page. If i remember to right click on the link and open a new tab or window, the page, of course, stays up, but I don't consistently remember to do that!
So, for today, for instance, I only got as far as the first headline which took me to the Guardian, and came back to a blank white page. I shut down and tried to connect to the page from barcop, then i typed the address into the location bar, then i tried using an old bookmark...so on and so on, but no luck!
GRRRR!! It's happen about a dozen times and I've had my 'systems administrator' (my husband) check out the computer and browser with no change.
Can you help????
Thanks!
(keep hammerin')
laura
Hi Laura -
I don't know that much about html (and it shows), so if someone has an answer, please let me know.
Tried something different with the links today - please let me know if they work 'better' ('better' being a relative term).
Thanks.
Selected Sunday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Very spring-like day.
The kid picked a bouquet of 1 of everything that's blooming in the yard - it's quite nice.
Running late.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then a FRESH
made-for-tv-movie, 'Family Sins'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a
FRESH 'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with 'America's So-Called Funniest Videos', followed by a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH 'Alias',
followed by a FRESH 'The Practice'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a FRESH 'High School Reunion'.
Faux has a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'Oliver Beene', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a
FRESH 'Bernie Mac', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'Biography' (Andy Griffith), another 'Biography' (Don Knotts), and another 'Biography' (Ron Howard).
AMC offers the movie 'Navy SEALs', followed by the movie 'Jaws: The Revenge', then the movie 'Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 1;
[7pm] 'Faking It' - Insurance Man to Stuntman;
[8pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 8;
[8:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - The Robinsons: Sheffield;
[9pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Hayley;
[9:30pm] 'Ground Force' - Kingswinford;
[10pm] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[10:40pm] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 2;
[11pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 8;
[11:30pm] 'The Life Laundry' - The Robinsons: Sheffield;
[12am] 'What Not to Wear' - Hayley;
[12:30am] 'Ground Force' - Kingswinford;
[1am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[1:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 2;
[2am] 'Faking It' - Insurance Man to Stuntman;
[3am] 'What Not to Wear' - Hayley;
[3:30am] 'Ground Force' - Kingswinford;
[4am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[4:40am] 'Dead Ringers' - Episode 2;
[5am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 8;
[5:30am] 'The Life Laundry' - The Robinsons: Sheffield;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Profiles', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Kate Winslet), 'Riverdance: Live At New York City', and 'Riverdance: A Journey'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Best In Show', 'MAD TV', another 'MAD TV', 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
HBO has a FRESH 'Sopranos' - and Steve Buscemi joins the cast.
History has the FRESH 'Iraq War: One Year Later' (part 1 of 5), followed by the FRESH 'Iraq War: One Year Later' (part 2 of 5), 'Mail Call', and then it's nothing but infomercials - boo. hiss.
IFC -
[4PM] 'Home Movie' (2002);
[5:15PM] 'Unzipped' (1995);
[6:30PM] 'God Said Ha!' (1999);
[8PM] 'Sexy Beast' (2001);
[9:45PM] 'Songcatcher' (1999);
[11:30PM] 'Sexy Beast' (2001);
[1:15AM] 'Dancer in the Dark' (2000);
[3:45AM] 'Songcatcher' (1999);
[5:45AM] 'IFC In Theaters'. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Route 666', followed by the movie 'Dagon'.
Sundance -
[2PM] 'Just a Kiss' (Feature);
[3:30PM] 'Mississippi Masala' (Feature);
[5:30PM] 'Tanner '88: Child's Play' (Short);
[6PM] 'A Calcutta Christmas' (Documentary);
[7PM] 'Shorts Program 111' (Short);
[8PM] 'Our Father' (Feature);
[9:30PM] 'Karmen Gei' (World Cinema);
[11PM] 'Genesis' (World Cinema);
[12:45AM] 'Captives' (World Cinema);
[2:30AM] 'CQ' (Feature);
[4AM] 'The Isle' (Feature);
[5:35AM] 'Westray' (Documentary). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'Lady In The Lake' (1946);
[8am] 'Murder She Said' (1961);
[9:30am] 'MGM Parade Show #22' (1955);
[10am] 'Three Little Words' (1950);
[12pm] 'Million Dollar Mermaid' (1952);
[2pm] 'The Valley Of Decision' (1945);
[4pm] 'The African Queen' (1951);
[6pm] 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938);
[8pm] 'The Chocolate Soldier' (1941);
[10pm] 'Rose Marie' (1936);
[12am] 'Stella Maris' (1918) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'The Last Flight' (1931);
[3am] 'Flight Commander' (1930);
[5am] 'Fugitive in the Sky' (1937). (ALL TIMES EST)
Ethan (L) and Joel Coen, writers and directors of the new film 'The Ladykillers,' pose together at the film's premiere in Hollywood March 12, 2004. The film opens March 26 in the United States.
Photo by Fred Prouser
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
NY Artist
Spencer Tunick
The artist who made his name taking pictures of hundreds of nude people in public around the world has taken up a new cause.
Spencer Tunick, who once battled former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for the right to photograph a crowd of naked people in Times Square, photographed nearly 100 HIV-positive people posing in a French bistro in New York's meatpacking district on Saturday.
At the bistro, black and white men and women of all shapes and sizes -- and all nude -- draped across restaurant counters, benches and across the floor in an event marking the tenth anniversary of POZ magazine for people with AIDS and HIV.
The New York-based Tunick, 37, said his latest work "brings up art issues and social issues," and seeks to make the viewer think about the vulnerability and resilience of people who are HIV positive.
Spencer Tunick
Photographer Spencer Tunick (back to camera) works with 100 self-identified HIV positive people who posed nude for a cover of POZ magazine, March 13, 2004 in New York City. Founded in 1994, POZ magazine is a national news, information, and entertainment magazine for people affected by HIV and AIDS.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
Musical Headed for Vegas
'We Will Rock You'
Queen is ready to rock Paris.
That's Paris, Las Vegas, where "We Will Rock You," London's hit musical based on the music of Queen, will have its U.S. premiere in September.
"When you think of Queen the musical, Vegas is the right place for us to go," says Jane Rosenthal, co-founder with Robert De Niro of Tribeca Theatrical Productions. She, De Niro and Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are four of the show's several producers.
Featuring 25 Queen classics, including "Bohemian Rhapsody," "We Are the Champions" and "Another One Bites the Dust," the show has been an SRO attraction in London's West End since opening in May 2002.
'We Will Rock You'
Top Phrase
'Wardrobe Malfunction'
The Janet Jackson bare breast incident during the Super Bowl halftime show is among this year's events recognized as changing the way we speak.
Global Language Monitor, a group that analyzes the latest trends in word usage declared "wardrobe malfunction" as Hollywood's Top Word or Phrase for Impact on the English language.
Rounding out the top five on the group's list: "Bootylicious," "extreme makeover," "Gigli" and "Give it up!"
'Wardrobe Malfunction'
Global Language Monitor
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Says She's Served Jail Time
Diana Ross
Singer Diana Ross, ordered to return to Arizona to serve a drunken driving sentence, says she has already met a state requirement to spend 24 consecutive hours in jail.
Ross pleaded no contest last month to a drunken driving charge in Tucson in December. She arranged to serve her 48-hour sentence in Greenwich, Conn., where she lives.
But Tucson City Court Magistrate T. Jay Cranshaw found that Ross failed to serve 24 consecutive hours as required by Arizona law.
Ross served 47 hours in the custody of Greenwich police over a three-day span, Cranshaw found.
Diana Ross
Members of the Plumbers' Local 130 Union dye the Chicago River green for St. Patrick's Day, Saturday, March, 13, 2004, in Chicago.
Photo by Brian Kersey
Event Stirs Interest
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is on its fastest sales track yet. But despite industry support for the idea, don't look for Coachella organizers to create spinoffs any time soon.
Running May 1-2 at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, Calif., Coachella is expected to sell out well before showtime. The first week of March, its Web site was already warning fans that in contrast to 2003, they are unlikely to score tickets on event day. Single-day passes are $75 apiece, and two-day passes are $140 -- the same price as in 2003.
Big draws for this year's Coachella -- which typically leans toward eclectic lineups -- include Radiohead, Wilco, the Cure and a reunion of seminal alternative band the Pixies.
For the rest, Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Egyptian Play Blasts U.S. Foreign Policy
'Messing with the Mind'
Before the curtain ever rises on a new play condemning American involvement in the Middle East, actors dressed as U.S. soldiers wave plastic assault rifles and bark "Sit down and shut up!" as they herd audience members who have been milling about in the theater's cafeteria into the auditorium.
There is little subtlety in "Messing with the Mind," a play that uses dark humor, graphic newsreel films and loosely connected scenes to condemn the American occupation of Iraq and U.S. designs in the region.
"Having a plot is an old condition for a play. What is important, in my evaluation, is to keep the spectator glued to his seat ... to include the audience in the theatrics — it guarantees a different kind of watching," Khaled el-Sawy, the writer, director and lead actor, told The Associated Press.
"People are shocked by the fake shots and the shouting. It's my way of telling them, 'Let's play occupation and occupied people,' with all the humiliation that that entails," he said.
For more, 'Messing with the Mind'
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Sues Over Firing
Andrew Fessel
The former head of research at ABC filed suit against the television network on Friday, alleging he had been fired in retaliation for not dismissing a black employee and a female.
Former senior vice president of research Andrew Fessel claimed that network President Alex Wallau told him to fire a male black employee and a woman and began to question Fessel's performance when he refused.
Fessel, who was fired last August, claims damages of more than $2.5 million from the Walt Disney Co. broadcaster in the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court..
Andrew Fessel
View of the front wall of the Perito Moreno glacier, which started to break down March 12 for the first time in 16 years, is shown at the Lago Argentino (Argentino Lake), in the Park and National Reservation Los Glaciares, southwest of Argentina in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, March 13, 2004. The Perito Moreno glacier, considered one the most significant natural attractions of Argentina, has a wall of ice of more than 70 meters (230 feet) above the water surface, with 30 km (20 miles) long and a total surface of 257 km. (106 square miles).
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North Pole Adventurer Reported Missing
Dominick Arduin
French-Finnish adventurer Dominick Arduin, who went missing a week ago during her bid to become the first woman to ski to the North Pole alone, has been reported missing by her support team, Finnish police said.
While a helicopter search for Arduin, 43, between Tuesday and Thursday failed to find a trace of her in the area she would have been if she had experienced any problems, rescuers said on Thursday that they chose to believe she was fine and had continued beyond the search area.
"We are working from the theory that she is fine, still skiing and that she has only a communication problem," Bernard Buigues, whose firm provides logistics services for her expedition and organizes the search, told AFP at that time.
That optimism had apparently evaporated by Friday when the firm, according to Hiukka, reported Arduin missing to Finnish authorities.
Arduin, an experienced Arctic adventurer, went missing last Saturday a day after setting out on the ice from northern Russia on her second attempt to become the first woman to reach the North Pole alone on skis. A search for her was launched on Tuesday.
Dominick Arduin
A model takes part in the 17th International Body Painting contest at the Fantasy Film Festival in Brussels March 13, 2004. Sixteen artists from all over Europe had four hours to prepare their creation.
Photo by Yves Herman
Praises Man In Speech On Women's Rights
Bunnypants
U.S. resident George W. Bush has marked International Women's Week by paying tribute to women reformers -- but one of those he cited is really a man.
"Earlier today, the Libyan government released Fathi Jahmi. She's a local government official who was imprisoned in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy," the president said in a speech at the White House on Friday.
The only problem was that, by all other accounts, "she" is in fact "he".
"Definitely male," said Alistair Hodgett, spokesman for the human rights advocacy group Amnesty International, whose representatives tried to see Jahmi in prison during a recent visit to Libya.
Bunnypants
Eti, an orangutan mother, grooms her baby Kirana, a three-year-old female at the Taman Safari park in Bogor, West Java on March 12, 2004. Orangutans, which breed slower than any other primate, produce a baby once every 7-8 years. Mass deforestation in their native Sumatra and Borneo has brought the primates extremely vulnerable to extinction.
Photo by Supri
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