Doug Muder: What if there's no spending problem? (Weekly Sift)
Recently I ran into a potentially game-changing question: What if there is no problem? In other words, instead of being trapped in the dismal liberal/conservative argument about which apocalypse we're headed towards, what if we're actually not headed towards an apocalypse at all?
Marc Dion: Switchblades Don't Kill People; Thinking Kills People (Creators Syndicate)
On a day when they were in the process of electing a new pope, on a day when it was raining, on a day when the Texas Legislature was considering legalizing switchblade knives, I skipped down a rain-soaked sidewalk singing songs from "West Side Story," the only tunes I know that are suitable to thinking about switchblade knives.
Mark Shields: Maybe Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer (Creators Syndicate)
Miraculously, a single government policy initiative has united Washington, D.C. … What, you ask, was this bold, fresh idea? The announcement from the Transportation Security Administration that, as of April 25, it will be all right for passengers to carry pocketknives onto the nation's airliners.
Global Internet Porn Habits Infographic (PornMD)
The […] interactive infographic shows the top 10 most commonly searched terms on porn sites over a 6 month period.?You can check out every state in the U.S. and then see what other countries around the world are searching for.
Sam Adams: Did Veronica Mars Ruin Kickstarter? (Slate)
Why should a major entertainment studio like Warner Bros. risk their own money when they can get fans to pay in advance? Investors expect a return on their investment, but the VMMP's backers paid many times the value of the rewards they could expect to receive: $50 for a DVD and a t-shirt; $100 to add a Blu-ray and a poster.
Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate.
The series was a spin-off from the sitcom Happy Days.
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Baron Dave ("Look at this: It's a Ronald Reagan pen. It has no point." -- Mork and Mindy) was first, and correct, with:
"Mork and Mindy" spun off from "Happy Days". Not really one of its better shows, either, though it was weird. Garry Marshall was hot in the 70s.
Alan J said:
Happy Days
mj wrote:
Mork
Originally appeared to take a sample of humanity back to Ork on Happy Days.
Marian replied:
Happy Days
Charlie responded:
My memory isn't totally shot yet.
Happy Days
Adam answered:
A well past it's prime Happy Days.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Happy Days."
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Happy Days
Sally said:
Or Patrick if you purrfer...
Mork & Mindy was a spin-off from an episode of Happy Days - which at the time, I found hysterical. It was a long time ago...
Mork and 'The Fonz,' great TV a way back when...
PS: @B2BB. Yes, I've told garden club tales, but you have yet to hear about the senior bus to the market days...
Last Thursday, for instance, we entered the market and expecting to see the Thomas' English Muffins for 99 cents (as someone said was advertised) we found them marked, $4.19 FOR 6 BLOODY MUFFINS! Then, a few minutes later, we found the Thomas delivery man chatting at the end of the aisle. He told us that, "We have the wrong sale flyer," and that the muffins were as marked that day.
"It's a part of the Thomas marketing strategy to have 99 cents sales."
Laughingly, he says, "It creates 'excitement' for the customers!"
You don't tell that to seniors - and not expect, "Excitement" for yourself. Waving our 6-muffin packs at him, we moved forward.
He froze in his tracks.
"Balderdash!" shouted our 91 year old man from his electric shopping cart!
"Tell you what I'll do" he said. - seeing the seriousness of the situation: "Let me mark them 99 cents for you today, you are such good customers."
Wise move, muffin man.
No tellin' what would have happened if we'd have had some wine...
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcal responded:
Mork and Mindy was a spin-off of Happy Days. Weren't Robin and Pam cute. I had the hots for her and then she was vamoosed by that Mark Harmon guy. I'm still jealous!!!! She's still hot!!!
MAM wrote:
"Happy Days" seen in February 1978, in which an alien from the planet Ork landed on Earth and attempted to kidnap Richie. So popular was the nutty character created by Robin Williams that Williams was given his own series in the fall of 1978, and it became an instant hit.
BttbBob replied:
'Happy Days'...
Robin Williams is the greatest ad-lib comedian of all time...
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Happy Birthday today to:
Actors -
Gary 'Lt. Dan' Sinise (57)
Rob Lowe (48) 'Brat-Pack Dude' - Razzie winner for 'St. Emos' Fire'...
Kurt Russell (61) 'Goldie's guy'
Patrick Duffy (63) 'The Good Ewing'
Vicki Lewis (52) 'Beth' in 'NewsRadio' - She made 'quirky' very sexy... :)
Musicians -
Paul Kantner (71) Captain of 'Jefferson Airplane/Starship' [Jefferson Airplane - Today - YouTube]
(Co-written with Marty Balin; Balin sings lead vocals. This a personal favorite)
John Sebastian (68) 'Lovin' Spoonful' [Do You Believe in Magic? - YouTube] (his first video - 1965)
Marla answered:
Mork and Mindy was spun off Happy Days.
And, Joe S replied:
The series was a spin-off from the sitcom Happy Days. The character of Mork was played by a then-unknown Robin Williams who impressed producer Garry Marshall with his quirky comedic ability as soon as they met. This occurred when Williams was asked to take a seat, Willams immediately sat on his head on the chair and Marshall cast him on the spot, and later wryly commented that Williams was the only alien who auditioned for the role.
Happy St Paddy's Day. What a week, will the excitement never end? First, National Pie (pi) day, then The Ides of March and now St. Patrick's Day. Whoo-hoo! I can barely contain myself!
Me (in a green shirt) and the Fri (1985)
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'T-Rump's No Star Flim-Flam Fluffery'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Revenge', followed by a FRESH'Red Widow'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'The Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by another FRESH'The Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'Bob's Burgers'.
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 movie 'Godzilla', 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'The Talking Dead', and 'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 6
[7:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Giant Water Bug
[8:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Giant Huntsman Spider
[9:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Black Hairy Thick Tail Scorpion
[10:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Giant Centipede
[11:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 5 - White Goliath Beetle
[12:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Army Ants
[1:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Giant Malaysian Honey Bees
[2:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 8 - Guatemalan Beaded Lizard
[3:00PM] MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN
[5:30PM] THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE
[8:00PM] THE SHINING
[11:00PM] THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE
[1:30AM] MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 5
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'I Love You, Man', followed by the movie 'Grandma's Boy', 'Tosh.0', and 'Workaholics'.
FX has the movie 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon', followed by the movie 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'.
History has 'The Bible', followed by a FRESH'The Bible', then a FRESH'Vikings'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Arrested Development-Exit Strategy
[6:30AM] Arrested Development-Development Arrested
[7:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:15AM] The Core
[10:00AM] Dilbert-The Shroud of Wally
[10:30AM] Dilbert-Art
[11:00AM] Dilbert-The Trial
[11:30AM] Dilbert-The Dupey
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-S.O.B.s
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-Fakin' It
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Family Ties
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Exit Strategy
[2:00PM] The Breakfast Club
[4:15PM] Sixteen Candles
[6:15PM] Out There-Frosty King
[6:45PM] The Breakfast Club
[9:00PM] American Pie
[11:00PM] Out There-Frosty King
[11:30PM] Out There-The Great Escape
[12:00AM] American Pie
[2:00AM] Sixteen Candles
[4:00AM] The Good Girl (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Paris Je T'aime
[8:00A] Man in the Chair
[10:00A] Let It Rain
[11:45A] Always Crashing In The Same Car
[12:00P] Tiny Furniture
[1:45P] Paris Je T'aime
[3:45P] Man in the Chair
[5:45P] Lipsett Diaries
[6:00P] Le Divorce
[8:15P] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
[10:00P] Being John Malkovich
[12:00A] Female Perversions
[2:00A] High Art
[3:45A] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
[5:30A] ICONOCLASTS - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar + Chuck D (Episode 6, Season 6) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Leprechaun', followed by the movie 'Leprechaun 2'.
A U.N. policy-making body agreed upon a declaration Friday urging an end to violence against women and girls despite concerns from conservative Muslim countries and the Vatican about references to women's sexual and reproductive rights.
Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Libya, Nigeria and Sudan, along with Honduras and the Vatican, expressed reservations about the declaration of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, but did not block adoption of the 18-page text.
While the declaration of the commission, created in 1946 for the advancement of women, is non-binding, diplomats and rights activists say it carries enough global weight to pressure countries to improve the lives of women and girls.
Earlier in the talks Iran, Russia, the Vatican and others had threatened to derail the declaration with concerns about references such as access to emergency contraception, abortion and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, activists said.
Natalie Maines is starting out nervous on stage, almost 10 years to the day that the Dixie Chicks spitfire slammed then-resident George W. Bush and forever changed the fate and fortunes of the country superstars.
On this night she barely speaks between songs.
Her hair slicks up in a punkish pompadour. She looks slimmer than when the Dixie Chicks began a hiatus in 2007 that may never end. The crowd at the South by Southwest music festival to hear Maines perform her solo debut "Mother" for only the second time is a healthy size, but it is also far from a packed house.
Now 38 and a solo artist for the first time in her career, Maines is candid about the past and guarded about the future. Ask whether the Dixie Chicks will ever record new music again, she curls in her chair with tense energy and declines to predict.
"I think I thought time would heal and that I would come around. But just like the song says, I'm still waiting," said Maines, pulling a lyric from the band's defiant 2006 smash single "Not Ready to Make Nice."
The Pussy Riot documentary that was bought by HBO at Sundance will premiere on the channel in early June. Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer was directed and produced by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin and originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18th. The film follows the feminist punk group, who were arrested and prosecuted after their staged prayer protest in a Russian cathedral.
"It's one of the stories of the decade," Lerner told Rolling Stone in January. "It's feminism on trial." Freed Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich said she had "no regrets" last month on the anniversary of the protest, though Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina are still imprisoned. Alekhina's plea to defer her sentence to care for her young child was denied in January, and Russia banned footage of the performance that same month.
International Space Station (ISS) crew member U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford poses for a photograph dressed in Kazakh traditional clothing at Kustanay Airport after landing near the town of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan March 16, 2013. A Russian Soyuz capsule made a "bull's eye" landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Saturday, delivering a Russian-American trio from the International Space Station, a day after its originally scheduled touchdown was delayed by foul weather.
Photo by Alexander Nemenov
Health concerns are forcing Morrissey to cancel his North American tour.
In a statement released Friday night, his rep says the singer has to take a break after suffering a series of maladies, including double pneumonia, a bleeding ulcer and a gastrointestinal problem called Barrett's esophagus.
Fans can get refunds where they purchased their tickets. Morrissey thanked fans for their well wishes.
Morrissey had to cancel performances earlier this month because of his pneumonia.
Quentin Tarantino is a big fan of the legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone, but it doesn't appear the love goes both ways.
Morricone is best known for writing the scores for such classic Spaghetti Westerns as "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly," "A Fistful of Dollars" and "The Big Gundown," as well as enduring classics like "The Battle of Algiers," "Days of Heaven," and "The Mission." Tarantino has used excerpts from Morricone's scores in "Django Unchained," "Inglourious Basterds," and both volumes of "Kill Bill," but don't expect that to happen again.
In a talk with students at LUISS University in Rome, Morricone said he doesn't care for the way Tarantino uses music in his movies, declaring he "places music in his films without coherence," adding, " you can't do anything with someone like that."
"I wouldn't like to work with him again, on anything," Morricone went on to say. "He said last year he wanted to work with me again ever since 'Inglourious Basterds,' but I told him I couldn't, because he didn't give me enough time. So he just used a song I had written previously."
And Morricone didn't have kind words for Tarantino as a filmmaker. When asked if he'd seen "Django Unchained," Morricone replied, "To tell the truth, I didn't care for it. Too much blood."
A sign which reads "Germany" points to a figure symbolizing Sisyphus during the "Fallas" festival in Valencia March 16, 2013. The festival welcomes spring and honours Saint Joseph's Day with the burning of giant elaborate sculptures and effigies of wood and plastic in the early hours of March 20.
Photo by Heino Kalis
A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis this week has told the BBC paedophilia is an illness and not a crime.
Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of Durban, told BBC Radio 5 on Saturday that paedophilia was a "disorder" that needed to be treated.
Napier said he knew of at least two priests who became paedophiles after they were abused as children.
"Now don't tell me that those people are criminally responsible like somebody who chooses to do something like that. I don't think you can really take the position and say that person deserves to be punished. He was himself damaged."
The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet said on Friday he was determined to return to his old life after recovering from an acid attack that badly damaged his eyes, and his German doctor said this should be possible.
Wearing dark glasses and a black hat and scarf, Filin appeared at a news conference with his doctor in the west German town of Aachen where he is undergoing treatment to save his eyesight.
Filin, 42, described the exercises he did with his doctor, Martin Hermel, and said he felt a "great joy" when he was able to repeat certain movements.
Hermel said there had been some improvement in Filin's left eye but that the right eye would probably require further surgery and other treatment.
In this image released by the Brooklyn Musuem is a 1911 watercolor "Simplon Pass: Reading" by John Singer Sargent. The Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston are presenting an exhibition of John Singer Sargent's watercolors. The 93 works will be shown at the Brooklyn Museum April 5 to July 28. They'll be in Boston from Oct. 13 to Jan. 20, 2014. The exhibition will later travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
A railway construction project in central London has turned up the skeletons of 13 victims of the Black Death.
The find is a reminder of how much history sits beneath urbanized areas in the United Kingdom. In February, archaeologists in Leicester announced that they'd discovered the bones of the lost monarch Richard III underneath a city council parking lot. And this week, archaeologists in Edinburgh uncovered the grave of a medieval knight on the construction site of a new building.
The commuter railway at the center of the current discovery, called Crossrail, is under construction in southeast England. Archaeologists are consulting on the project to ensure that no historical artifacts or remains are destroyed. In a shaft near Charterhouse Square in the historic district of Farringdon, the researchers found two neat rows of 13 skeletons buried about 8 feet (2.5 meters) below the road.
The depth of the burials combined with pottery dating to 1350 found in the graves suggest that the skeletons belonged to plague victims who died around 1349. There are historical records referring to a Black Death burial ground that opened in 1348 in the area, where as many as 50,000 people may have been hastily interred in less than three years. The burial ground saw continued use until the 1500s, according to CrossRail.
The recent reports about NBC's post-Leno plans were as surprising as they were interesting. As in, they kind of came out of nowhere. So it might make sense to hear that, behind the scenes, Leno has been feuding with one of the top executives at NBC.
The New York Times' Bill Carter reports Leno and NBC exec Robert Greenblatt recently participated in a "exchange of pointed e-mails," over jokes Leno made about his networks' ratings performance. Greenblatt is the executive in charge of ratings performance, and, in short, NBC is doing terribly. The always-edgy Leno felt the need to point that out, as late night hosts are wont to do. But on the February 28 episode of The Tonight Show, he went too far. These jokes were what Greenblatt's ire:
For the geographically impaired, Leno called NBC "Cinco de Ratings," joked that The Biggest Loser is now the channel's "new motto," and then he capped it all off with a Manti Te'o joke.
Yep, those are some really edgy jokes from Mr. Leno. It's the kind of envelope-pushing stuff we've come to expect from him during his never-ending tenure as Tonight Show host. Mr. Greenblatt was unimpressed, though, and he emailed Leno to let his feelings be known. Then, the "pointed exchange" happened. Leno defended his right to make jokes at NBC's expense, citing the long history of late night hosts making fun of their overseers. We're never told how Greenblatt responded.
The interesting thing about Carter's report is that this was all happening at the same time as reports of NBC's post-Leno plans started to leak. On March 1, the day the alleged email echange would have likely occurred, The Hollywood Reporter's Kim Masters reported NBC were considering replacing or fast tracking Leno's departure from behind the Tonight Show desk to replace him with Jimmy Fallon. The logic behind the move was that Leno, despite still being the top-rated late night host in all demographics, was ceding some ground in the 18-49 demo to ABC's Jimmy Kimmel. The move to call Fallon up early may make sense from an economic standpoint, but to cite ratings performance seemed silly. Leno was and always has been winning every category.
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