Howard Zinn: America's Blinders (progressive.org)
Now that most Americans no longer believe in the war, now that they no longer trust Bush and his Administration, now that the evidence of deception has become overwhelming (so overwhelming that even the major media, always late, have begun to register indignation), we might ask: How come so many people were so easily fooled?
John Dean: Bush's Unprecedented Arrogance (FindLaw.com; Posted on Alternet.com)
In the end, this issue is going to be resolved by the 2006 midterm election. If Republicans lose control of either the House or Senate, the investigations of the Bush/Cheney White House will begin. It won't be pretty. It will make dealing with lying about sex look like High School hazing. It will even make Richard Nixon look like a piker when it comes to staying within the law.
Bruce Reed: Look who's winning the battle of ideas (slate.com)
After two decades of practice, American conservatives now seem to have the art of cognitive dissonance down to a science. They believe in smaller government, even as they make it bigger. They believe that cutting taxes will balance the budget, even as those tax cuts (once again) send the deficit soaring. They think of conservatism as a font of new ideas, even as they keep making the same mistakes pursuing the same old, tired ones.
MARTHA ULLMAN WEST: Dancers as Living Archives (chronicle.com)
Dancers are the living archives of dance history. Long after they leave the stage, in their minds and muscles they hold the memory of form, rhythm, mood, and intent, constituting an irreplaceable resource for performers, historians, and frequently the choreographers themselves.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Cold Case', then the made-for-tv movie 'Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'West Wing', then a FRESH'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a FRESH'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH 2-hour 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy'.
The WB here has LIVE'NBA Basketball', with the Clips visiting the Lakers.
Faux has a RERUN'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'War At Home', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'Free Ride'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Flip This House', 'The First 48', 'Confrontation', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers offers the movie 'Sixteen Candles', followed by the movie 'Two Weeks Notice', then the movie 'Two Weeks Notice', again.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[2:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 2;
[3pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[3:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 7;
[4:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 9;
[5pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Stewart;
[5:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Burdett;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Wespoint 14;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Wetherby 5;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Holmes;
[8:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Peltier;
[9pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 4;
[10pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 8;
[11pm] 'Mile High' - Episode 8;
[12am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 4;
[1am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 8;
[2am] 'Mile High' - Episode 8;
[3am] 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - Episode 1;
[3:40am] 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - Episode 2;
[4:20am] 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' - Episode 3;
[5am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 15;
[5:30am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 16;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Jamie Foxx), and yet another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Scary Movie 2', followed by the movie 'Super Troopers'.
History has 'Grounded On 9/11', 'Man Who Predicted 9/11', '10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America', and another '10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America'.
IFC -
[6AM] sex, lies and videotape;
[7:45AM] Hoop Dreams (1994);
[10:45AM] The Widow of St. Pierre (2000);
[12:30PM] At The IFC Center #12 (2006);
[1PM] Short: Blue City (1996);
[1:15PM] Hoop Dreams (1994);
[4:15PM] The Widow of St. Pierre (2000);
[6PM] Big Bad Love (2001);
[8PM] %burden of dreams%;
[9:45PM] Solaris (2002);
[11:30PM] %burden of dreams%;
[1:15AM] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002);
[3:15AM] Solaris (2002);
[5AM] A Decade Under The Influence Part 1 (2003). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has fills the night with 'Stephen King's Rose Red'.
Sundance -
[6:15AM] Monster Road;
[7:35AM] The Secret Lives of Dentists;
[9:20AM] The Other Side of the Street;
[11AM] Make It Real (to me);
[12PM] It's All Gone Pete Tong;
[1:35PM] Hermitage-niks: A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 2 - Guardian Angels;
[2PM] Ladette to Lady: Episode 5;
[3PM] Kath & Kim: Kath & Kim: Sex;
[3:30PM] Monster Road;
[4:50PM] It's All Gone;
[6:30PM] Hermitage-niks: A Passion for the Hermitage: Episode 2 - Guardian Angels;
[7PM] Ladette to Lady: Episode 5;
[8PM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 2: Fallow Time;
[9PM] Monkey Dust: Episode 5;
[9:30PM] Kath & Kim: Kath & Kim: Sex;
[10PM] The Secret Lives of Dentists;
[11:45PM] Stronger;
[12AM] Bad Guy;
[1:45AM] Gamblin;
[2AM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 2: Fallow Time;
[3AM] Monkey Dust: Episode 5;
[3:30AM] Female Perversions;
[5:25AM] The Other Side of the Street. (ALL TIMES EDT)
'Grinder girl' Kivd Kahl performs during The City of Fire, Coney Island USA spring gala in New York, Friday, April 7, 2006. The benefit was held by the Coney Island USA, which operates a not-for-profit multi-arts center that puts on the annual Mermaid Parade in Coney Island. The group launched a fundraising campaign to purchase a permanent home in which to preserve their circus sideshow. The building that has housed the Coney Island USA sideshow for 11 years is up for sale and the group hopes to make a bid on it.
Photo by Shiho Fukada
Audience members who expected to see Bill Nye "The Science Guy" conduct experiments and wow their children received quite a surprise Wednesday when Nye spoke at McLennan Community College.
The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."
He pointed out that the sun, the "greater light," is but one of countless stars and that the "lesser light" is the moon, which really is not a light at all, rather a reflector of light.
A number of audience members left the room at that point, visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence.
"We believe in a God!" exclaimed one woman as she left the room with three young children.
Nye also was critical of what he said was governmental agencies' lack of action, even lack of understanding, in protecting the Earth from global warming and wasted resources.
Democratic Party leaders in Vermont on Saturday passed a motion asking Congress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against resident Bush.
The measure asks the Republican-controlled House to pass articles of impeachment against Bush for misleading the nation on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and engaging in illegal wiretapping, among other charges.
Democratic state committees in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and North Carolina have taken similar steps.
Car owner and actor Paul Newman, right, talks with Newman-Haas Racing technician Norm Hornitschek during qualifying for the Grand Prix of Long Beach, Saturday, April 8, 2006, in Long Beach, Calif.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
A Massachusetts correctional officer is being disciplined for showing the gay cowboy movie "Brokeback Mountain" to inmates at the state's largest prison because his boss determined that the film includes content inappropriate for a prison setting.
Massachusetts Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said Saturday that the action was not related to the critically acclaimed film's plot involving a gay love affair.
"It was not the subject matter. It was the graphic nature of sexually explicit scenes," Wiffin said.
She said the officer, whom she declined to identify, failed to follow prison guidelines that require staff who schedule films to review them in advance for excessive violence, nudity or sex, as well as scenes involving assaults on correctional staff.
A city councilman wants to offer a $50,000 public reward for leads in the unsolved murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G. Councilman Dennis Zine proposed Friday to offer the reward for 60 days.
"I am hopeful someone will come forward with information which will lead to the eventual apprehension of the murderers involved in this case," Zine said in a statement.
Zine's motion was under review by a council committee. A 1997 measure offering a $25,000 reward expired after several months.
Sonic Youth principals Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, plus their daughter, Coco, on shakers, will appear on the season finale of the WB drama "Gilmore Girls" to perform an acoustic version of the new song "What a Waste."
The show, of which the Moore/Gordon family is a professed fan, was taped Friday (April 7) in Los Angeles and will air May 9.
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova gestures before racing in the annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity race in Long Beach, California April 8, 2006.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
Edward Albee will teach at Princeton University and write a new play for a local theater as the first person named to a new playwriting fellowship.
Funded by the Ford Foundation, the Princeton University/McCarter Theatre Playwriting Fellowship program will bring Albee to Princeton for several months in the fall of 2007, it was announced Thursday. The program is a joint effort between Princeton and McCarter, which won a 1994 Tony Award for outstanding regional theater.
Capitol Records will be replacing first-run copies of its new Beatles collection in order to remedy a manufacturing mistake.
On Tuesday (April 11), the label will release "The Beatles: The Capitol Albums, Vol. 2," which includes the four Beatles albums issued by Capitol in 1965: "The Early Beatles," "Beatles VI," "Help!" and the American version of "Rubber Soul."
What makes this collection especially appealing to fans is that all tracks have been digitally remastered and are presented in both stereo and mono. Of these, many appear in stereo for the very first time on CD.
Unfortunately, Capitol realized after manufacturing that the original mono masters from "Beatles VI" and "Rubber Soul" never made it onto the initial pressing of this collection.
A designer sued Melanie Griffith for allegedly refusing to pay nearly $26,000 for dressing the actress and her daughters for the Golden Globes Awards and reneging on a promise to mention his name on the red carpet.
In the lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Niklas J. Palm claimed he designed dresses for Griffith and her daughters Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas to wear to the January event.
The lawsuit claimed breach of oral and written contract and intentional misrepresentation. It also names Griffith's husband, Antonio Banderas and their production companies as defendants.
A section of fence two ski patrolmen were trying to place around a volcanic fissure when they fell in Thursday is seen inside the fissure at Mammoth Mountain ski area in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Friday, April 7, 2006. The two died from asphyxiation, as did a third patrolman who tried to rescue them, according to the Mono County coroner.
Photo by Susan Morning
James Brown and Etta James will join Woody Allen and 600 other jazz musicians and singers playing at this year's Rochester International Jazz Festival.
The fifth annual, nine-day festival opens June 9 with Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band playing a benefit concert at the Eastman Theater for New Orleans' dislocated jazz community. The 70-year-old filmmaker and clarinet player rarely performs in large venues or outside New York City.
The festival will feature about 170 performances ranging from formal concerts to free street gigs. Brown, the 72-year-old Godfather of Soul, will be the top draw at the Eastman Theater on June 10. Etta James, best known for her 1960 version of At Last, will take the stage June 16 with The Roots Band.
This photo, provided by the University of Illinois Crop Sciences Department, shows two soybean cyst nematodes, about 1/64th-inch long, in their juvenile stage which is the stage that moves through the soil and actually infects plant roots. With soybean planting in Illinois just weeks away, crop researchers are reminding farmers about the pesky parasite that can rob yield even from soybean varieties thought to be nematode resistant.
Photo by Terry Niblack
Dan Brown, best-selling author of "The Da Vinci Code," is working to put up a wrought-iron fence around his home to keep out uninvited guests. It would sit atop a 2-foot-high stone wall and rise up no more than 6 feet, according to a letter his attorney presented to Rye selectmen recently.
Police Chief Alan Gould said Brown was concerned that the heightened attention brought on by a lawsuit claiming he stole ideas from a nonfiction book might create security concerns and could possibly lead to trespassers approaching his home. A judge in London ruled Friday in Brown's favor.
"We shared those concerns," Gould said. "Whether it's the paparazzi or someone who wants to pour goat's blood on the steps or just someone who wants a picture, it's our job to offer him and his family the same protection we would anyone else in town."
A D-color, flawless diamond ring of 50.53 carats with an estimate of $3,500,000 is displayed at Christies auction house, Friday, April 7, 2006 in New York. The ring is a part of the 'Magnificent Jewels' sale that opens Christies spring season.
Photo by Dima Gavrysh
Wearing only his gold necklace and grasping a large beer, Andrei relaxed voluptuously in a herbal beer bath, the latest Czech "therapeutic" offering which the rich Moscovite spa lover would not miss for anything.
The Russian businessmen, a frequent visitor to the renowned Marianske Lazne (Marienbad) spa in west Bohemia -- the destination of Europe's kings, emperors and nobility at the turn of the 20th century -- could not resist the temptation to try the country's first "beer spa" in the nearby town of Chodova Plana.
Owners of the town's Chodovar brewery, still producing along artisanal lines, launched the beer baths with the target of tempting tourists to their new hotel rather than boosting production.
Wild burros eat before being auctioned during the U.S. Departments of the Interior Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Adoption in Annville, Pa., Saturday, April, 8, 2006. The funds raised during the auction are used to support the program. More information can be found at http://www.adoptahorse.blm.gov.
Photo by Carolyn Kaster
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