Jim Hightower: ROMNEY GOES HUNTING... FOR VOTES (jimhightower.com)
When George Romney ran for president in 1968, he opposed the war in Vietnam. When it came out that he'd earlier supported the war, he blamed that on having been "brainwashed." At the time, Senator Gene McCarthy, noting that Romney wasn't known for being too bright, commented that brainwashing him wouldn't have been necessary, since "I would have thought a light rinse would be sufficient."
Greg Palast: Don't Fire Gonzales (Posted on smirkingchimp.com)
Before President Bush fired his sorry ass, US Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico, in a last sad attempt to suck up to his Republican padrones, allowed his chief mouthpiece, Norm Cairns, to speak with me. He shouldn't have.
Tony Hendra: A Question for Mayor Giuliani: Didn't 9/11 Um, Happen on Your Watch? (Posted on smirkingchimp.com)
Excuse me Mr Mayor, I hate to interrupt - I know as the front-runner you have more important issues to attend to - but there's a question I've been wanting to ask you for almost six years. I've especially been wanting to ask you since you've been going round promoting yourself as the candidate who knows best how to prevent further terrorist attacks on US soil.
Annalee Newitz: How to Control My Body
Recent efforts to limit women's control of their bodies doesn't end with abortion. There is also a recent decision from the FDA regarding a pill that would eliminate menstruation.
Kara Alaimo: Girls' Work-Day Event Grows Up, Moves On (womensenews.org)
After this week's Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day the Ms. Foundation will hand off the initiative. The event, with 35 million now participating, has journeyed from controversy to influence over the past 15 years.
Brendan O'Neill: Misery lit... read on (news.bbc.co.uk)
The bestseller lists are full of memoirs about miserable childhoods and anguished families. Waterstone's even has a "Painful Lives" shelf. Why are authors confessing their hurt so freely and do readers find morbid enjoyment in them?
zEN mAN (observing the beauty of a huge Bald Eagle as it clutches a dead Carp in its claws in Blue Lakes.....they wait in the trees like vultures for the fish to die....as opposed to the Osprey who pick live fish right out of the water)
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by the movie 'Along Came Polly'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers a RERUN'7th Heaven', followed by a FRESH'7th Heaven', then a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a FRESH hourlong 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH'Simpsons', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy', then a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has has the movie 'Joy Ride', followed by the movie 'My Best Friend's Wedding'.
A&E has has 'Cold Case Files', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', still another 'Gene Simmons', and yet another 'Gene Simmons'.
AMC offers the movie 'Open Range', followed by the movie 'Conan The Barbarian', then the movie 'Commando'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 2;
[12:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 3;
[1:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 4;
[1:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[2:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[2:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 7;
[3:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 8;
[3:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 9;
[4:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 10;
[4:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 11;
[5:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 13;
[5:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 14;
[6:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 15;
[6:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 16;
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 9 A Thing Or Two About Loyalty;
[8:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 8 Excell;
[9:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 9 McDonald;
[10:00 PM] Footballers Wive$: Overtime - Episode 15;
[10:30 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 23 Farrier;
[11:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 8 Excell;
[12:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 9 McDonald;
[1:00 AM] Footballers Wive$ Overtime - Episode 15;
[1:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 23 Farrier;
[2:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 8 Excell;
[3:00 AM] Life On Mars - Episode 1;
[4:00 AM] Life On Mars - Episode 2;
[5:00 AM] Life On Mars - Episode 3;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Joe Dirt', followed by the movie 'Coming To America', then a FRESH'Mind Of Mencia', and a FRESH'Reno 911!'.
FX has the movie 'Alien Vs. Predator', followed by the movie 'I, Robot', and a RERUN'The Shield'.
History has 'Cities Of The Underworld', 'Countdown To Armageddon', and 'The Antichrist'.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] The Emperor and the Assassin;
[08:45 AM] Below;
[10:35 AM] The Devil's Backbone;
[12:30 PM] The Emperor and the Assassin;
[03:15 PM] Below;
[05:05 PM] The Devil's Backbone;
[07:00 PM] The Great Silence;
[08:50 PM] Media Lab Results;
[09:00 PM] Roadside Prophets;
[10:40 PM] Suckers;
[12:15 AM] The Tao of Steve;
[01:50 AM] IFC News Special;
[02:00 AM] Roadside Prophets;
[03:40 AM] Suckers;
[05:15 AM] The Tao of Steve. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has has the movie 'The Poseidon Adventure', followed by 'Painkiller Jane'.
Sundance -
[04:00 AM] Yom Yom;
[06:00 AM] Milo 55160;
[06:00 AM] Simple Men;
[08:00 AM] James' Journey to Jerusalem;
[09:00 AM] The Lady in Question is Charles Busch;
[11:00 AM] In Short: Documentaries;
[12:00 PM] Breathless (1960);
[01:00 PM] Emile;
[03:00 PM] Build;
[03:00 PM] Waste = Food;
[04:00 PM] Build;
[05:00 PM] Air Guitar in Oulu;
[06:00 PM] Forty Shades of Blue;
[08:00 PM] Episode 5: All Blessed Secrets;
[09:00 PM] Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple;
[10:00 PM] Freeze Frame;
[11:00 PM] Octave;
[12:00 AM] n/a;
[01:00 AM] In Short: Festival 5;
[02:00 AM] Episode 5: All Blessed Secrets;
[03:00 AM] Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple;
[04:00 AM] Milo 55160;
[04:00 AM] Things To Do Before You're 30. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actors and musicians including Elton John, George Clooney, Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger called Saturday on world leaders to take "decisive action" over atrocities in Darfur.
The statement was being released to coincide with the Global Day for Darfur Sunday, marking the fourth anniversary of the conflict.
"The international community must end its stalling and take decisive action," the group, which also includes Hugh Grant, Mia Farrow and Mark Knopfler.
The Global Day for Darfur was to be marked around the world by activists overturning 10,000 hourglasses filled with fake blood.
The event has been organised by a coalition including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Actress, model and singer Ninel Conde of Mexico poses backstage at the 2007 Billboard Latin Music Awards in Coral Gables, Florida April 26, 2007.
Photo by Marc Serota
A hometown celebration of Kurt Vonnegut's life and literary prowess was highlighted Friday night with the last thing the author wrote - a speech he had planned to deliver himself at Butler University.
Vonnegut wrote the 13-page lecture two weeks before he died at age 84 on April 11, said his son, Mark, who spoke on his father's behalf at the annual McFadden Memorial Lecture.
The sold-out event was part of a yearlong tribute to the author. Indianapolis officials designated 2007 the "Year of Vonnegut," with readings and forums intended to encourage people to visit libraries and to read.
Mayor Bart Peterson presented Vonnegut's widow, Jill Krementz, a proclamation designating Friday as Kurt Vonnegut Day in Indianapolis. State Rep. Greg Porter also presented a resolution by the Indiana General Assembly in Vonnegut's honor.
The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.
It was the first successful launch from Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in the southern New Mexico desert.
Suzan Cooper and Wende Doohan fired the rocket carrying small amounts of their husbands' ashes, and those of about 200 others, at 8:56 a.m. local time.
Since it was a suborbital flight, the rocket soon parachuted back to Earth, coming down at the White Sands Missile Range.
He's still two years away from replacing Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show," but already Conan O'Brien seems to be sizing things up.
"Have you planned any changes while ... you were looking?" Leno asked O'Brien when the latter dropped by the late-night talk show Friday.
O'Brien reassured Leno, the show's host since 1992, that he won't be moving onto its Burbank set any time soon.
"It's years away," O'Brien quipped, adding that rather than succeed Leno in 2009 as planned, he's decided to take the job Rose O'Donnell is leaving on daytime television's "The View."
Ballet dancers perform "Le Corsaire", by Adolphe Adam with Stephane Bullion of Opera National de Paris dancing the head role, at the Yekaterinburg Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Yekaterinburg April 28, 2007.
Photo by Denis Sinyakov
Teller, the silent half of Penn & Teller, has a habit of introducing magic and drama into unexpected places.
As a youngster he dared to stage his nascent act at a party for rowdy Cub Scouts (he was pelted with candy). As a young man he appeared at a Princeton University pub in front of rowdier students (he was pelted with beer).
He and Penn Jillette took their ironic form of magic, replete with the threat of danger as well as comedy, to generally irony-free Las Vegas, where they've been rewarded with a long-running show at the Rio hotel and casino.
And how about this: Teller is fulfulling a long-held dream of staging Shakespeare's "Macbeth" the way he believes it should be: as a "supernatural horror thriller." He's working with the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank, N.J., for an early 2008 debut.
Despite 17 uses of the F-word, the documentary "The Hip Hop Project" has been given a commercially friendly PG-13 rating after its director and star successfully appealed the film's initial R tag.
The film follows once-homeless rapper Chris "Kazi" Rolle as he helps a group of poor New York teens make a hip-hop album. "Project" follows their four-year journey, including studio time funded by Bruce Willis and producer Russell Simmons.
Willis and Queen Latifah executive produced the film. Matt Ruskin directed. Independent distributor ThinkFilm will release it on May 11 in 15 urban markets.
Six of the eight members on the Motion Picture Assn. of America's Ratings Review Board agreed to change the rating, which was issued for the film's language.
Babies, held by amateur sumo wrestlers, face each other during a baby-crying contest at Sensoji temple in Tokyo April 28, 2007. Eighty-four babies born in 2006 took part in the event which is held to pray for the babies' health and growth. The winner of the contest is the baby who cries the loudest.
Photo by Toru Hanai
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim is launching three series and a seventh late night of programming.
Two series -- "Fat Guy Stuck in Internet" and "Superjail" -- join the previously announced summer premiere "Lucy, Daughter of the Devil."
The seventh night will be added at 11 p.m. ET on Friday, July 6.
Picked up for additional seasons are "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job," "Moral Orel" and "Assy McGee." Also returning are "Frisky Dingo," "Robot Chicken," "The Boondocks," "Metalocalypse," "The Venture Bros.," "Squidbillies," "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" and "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." "Aqua Teen" will have new episodes in the fall and a fifth season in 2008.
Buying an antenna for a high-definition television seems as out of place as using a rotary phone to make a call.
But some consumers are spending thousands of dollars on LCD or plasma TVs and hooking them up to $50 antennas that don't look much different from what grandpa had on top of his black-and-white picture tube.
Local TV channels, broadcast in HD over-the-air, offer superior picture quality over the often-compressed signals sent by cable and satellite TV companies.
"Eighty-year-old technology is being redesigned and rejiggered to deliver the best picture quality," said Richard Schneider, president of Antennas Direct. "It's an interesting irony."
In this undated handout photo provided by Christie's, a necklace of 68 rare natural pearls, each as big as marbles, that were once part of the treasury of an Indian maharaja sold for a record $7 million dollars at Christie's auction house in New York, Wednesday, April 25, 2007. The necklace was assembled for the Maharaja of Baroda in India in the 1850s and had seven strands of pearls until it was broken up sometime after 1948. Sixty-eight of the largest and most luminous pearls, fastened with a Cartier clasp, were made into the two-strand necklace that sold today
The U.S. government has arbitrarily and capriciously sought to ease rules for foreign fisherman on "dolphin-safe" tuna, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Friday in upholding current standards.
The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was the latest in a long dispute on what tuna sold in the United States can be labeled "dolphin safe" -- a designation that means tuna is fished using practices that protect dolphins.
Previous such decisions angered Mexican and South American fishing industries.
The dispute involves the use of huge "purse seine" nets, which fisherman have used since the late 1950s to boost their capture of tuna swimming beneath dolphins. The nets get their name as they can be closed like a drawstring purse.
Rodin's "The Thinker" has sat at the entrance to the Detroit Institute of Arts for decades, welcoming generations of visitors to one of the nation's largest fine arts museums.
Now, for the first time since acquiring it in 1922, the institute is loaning out the iconic sculpture to a garden park near Grand Rapids while the museum is closed this summer for renovations.
"The Thinker" is scheduled to leave Detroit May 22 and go on display the next day at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, where it will stand outdoors in a grassy area near a waterfall through Oct. 31.
Baby orangutan Kasih, gets a face full of sun as she clings on to her mother Bess for a free ride up a ladder at the Phoenix Zoo, Friday, April 27, 2007.
Photo by Mary Schwalm
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