Ted Rall: The Pravda-ization of the News
Try as they may to make the news as boring as possible, U.S. media outlets keep churning out hilarious "news" stories. Hardly a day passes without the release of some piece whose content is so ridiculous, its tone so absurdly credulous, that it makes us feel as if we live in a bizarre reincarnation of the propaganda-soaked Soviet Union.
Paul Constant: "(Middle) Class War: An Economist Explains How to Make America Fair Again" (The Stranger)
Reich is absolutely a better bomb-thrower than politician. His new agenda of releasing short, prickly tracts every year or so is a good one, and if this e-book earns the audience it deserves, he could change the political conversation for the better. After a lifetime of serving the people, it turns out that his most important role is as a private citizen, speaking for the people who have no voice.
Don McLeroy (Stephen Colbert Video)
Former Texas Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy discusses the documentary "The Revisionaries," science in textbooks and religious conservatism.
Georgetown University Letter to Rep. Paul Ryan…
[W]e would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few. As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has wisely noted in several letters to Congress - "a just framework for future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons." Catholic bishops recently wrote that "the House-passed budget resolution fails to meet these moral criteria."
Froma Harrop: Immigration Becomes a New Story (Creators Syndicate)
Those who saw mass migration from Mexico as a threat and those who did not all agreed on one thing: It was unstoppable without dramatic action by the federal authorities. They turned out to be wrong about that. The title of a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center, "Net Migration From Mexico Falls to Zero - and Perhaps Less," says it all.
Connie Schultz: An Empty Lot Full of Meaning (Creators Syndicate)
Two and a half years ago, a house in a poor neighborhood in Cleveland made international headlines for the saddest of reasons. … First it was one body found in the two-family home on Imperial Avenue. Then it was three bodies. Soon it was six. By the time I flew home, the bodies of 11 women, all of them African-American, had been discovered at the home of Anthony Sowell.
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The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.
Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco. They were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and are, to date, America's most successful vocal group with 12 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
The Supremes
BttbBob wrote:
Their name says it all... Although, one could add the word 'Awesome'...
'The Awesome Supremes'... Yes, I like it...
Charlie responded:
(Diana Ross and) The Supremes.
Diana Ross
Mary Wilson
Cindy Birdsong
Birdsong replaced the troubled Florence Ballard during the group's most successful years. Also note that Birdsong once sang with Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles.
"Someday We'll Be Together" was the decade-ending #1 song of the 60s.
From The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The Supremes
Adam answered:
The Cast of 'Glee'.
Sally said:
The Supremes, with 12 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, are America's most successful vocal group (to date).
My girls! Love that Motown sound!!
PS: JoeS, your girls are getting big, and still very beautiful! Almost as darling as mine, and Maddie Muffin of course. Dale, from DS, we are awaiting your announcement, hopefully, tomorrow. :)
Kenny responded:
The Supremes had 12 number 1 singles for most by a U.S. vocal group. But Elvis had 18.
Marian said:
The Supremes
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
The Supremes had 12 #1 hits during their careers. When I worked at Caesars in Tahoe for a year all you ever heard about Diva Diana Ross is what an absolute Bitch she was. She had an entourage of about eight security thugs to keep the public at least ten feet away from her. Staff was ordered never to look or talk to her. Florence Ballard got kicked out of the group and died a poverty stricken junkie.
PS - Colton Darius Nathaniel Small arrived at 9:58pm weighing in at 6lbs 11oz & 18 ˝ lbs. Already a handsome dude!
MAM wrote:
"The Supremes", an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.
The Supremes: Diana Ross (left), Mary Wilson (center), Florence Ballard (right) circa 1965
And, Joe S answered:
Those were the days my friend. The Supremes.
That's all I got to say about that.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race'. then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'NYC 22'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Harry's Law', then a FRESH'T-rump's Effrontery & Fluffery'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'GCB'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'The Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by another FRESH'The Cleveland Show'.
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'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Breakout Kings', then another FRESH'Breakout Kings'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', followed by a FRESH'The Killing', then a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] WILLIAM & KATE: A FAIRYTALE ROMANCE
[7:30AM] PRINCE WILLIAM'S AFRICA
[8:30AM] PRINCESS DIANA: HER LIFE IN JEWELS
[9:30AM] DIANA'S DRESSES
[10:30AM] WILLIAM AND HARRY: THE BROTHER PRINCES
[11:00AM] WILLIAM & KATE: A FAIRYTALE ROMANCE
[12:00PM] PRINCE WILLIAM & PRINCE HARRY: INTO THE FUTURE
[1:00PM] BRITAIN'S ROYAL WEDDINGS
[3:00PM] HARRY'S ARCTIC HEROES
[4:30PM] ROYAL WEDDING HIGHLIGHTS ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH-From Pole To Pole
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Mountains
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME PREDATORS-Planet Earth: Extreme Predators NEW
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH-From Pole To Pole
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Mountains
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME PREDATORS-Planet Earth: Extreme Predators
[2:00AM] THE MAKING OF PLANET EARTH-The Making of Planet Earth
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH-From Pole To Pole
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Mountains (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'real Housewives Of OC', 'Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding', another 'Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Broken Lizard's Super Troopers', 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat ... I'm Fluffy', 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly', 'South Park', and 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man', followed by the movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
History has 'Ax Men', another 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', and 'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Dancer in the Dark
[9:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers
[10:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Noshing and Moshing
[11:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Smooching and Mooching
[12:00PM] Freaks and Geeks-The Little Things
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Best Man for the GOB
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Whistler's Mother
[2:00PM] Arrested Development-Not Without My Daughter
[2:30PM] Arrested Development-Let 'Em Eat Cake
[3:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[3:15PM] Doubt
[5:30PM] Miller's Crossing
[8:00PM] The Bank Job
[10:30PM] King of New York
[12:45AM] The Bank Job
[3:15AM] Fear City
[5:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
[7:45A] Visioneers
[9:20A] Eclipse
[9:30A] My Year Without Sex
[11:15A] Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
[1:00P] Visioneers
[2:40P] My Year Without Sex
[4:25P] Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
[6:10P] Toe to Toe
[8:00P] Tiny Furniture
[9:45P] New Boy
[10:00P] A Life Less Ordinary
[11:45P] Land of Plenty
[1:45A] Tiny Furniture
[3:30A] A Life Less Ordinary
[5:15A] Pol Pot's Birthday
[5:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Cheryl Hines & Margaret Cho (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has 'Dream Machines', another 'Dream Machines', followed by the movie 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark'.
Actress Sofia Vergara arrives for a party thrown by Google and the Hollywood Reporter, on the eve of the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, at the W Hotel in Washington, April 27, 2012.
Photo by Jonathan Ernst
Some of Louisiana's best known musicians have joined forces in an ongoing effort to help save Louisiana's coast and at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival fans will reap the benefits of the homegrown collaboration.
On Saturday, Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars featuring Tab Benoit, Dr. John, Cyril Neville, Anders Osbourne, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Johnny Vidacovich, Johnny Sansone and Waylon Thibodeaux hit the Acura Stage - the festival's largest - just before another headliner: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Benoit, a Cajun musician, founded the all-star band to help send the message that coastal land loss is as big a national problem as it is a state problem.
Coastal Louisiana, which sits atop the 7,000-year-old Mississippi delta, has lost about 1,900 square miles of land since the 1930s.
Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.
The 150-pound fossil recovered last year in northern Kentucky is more than 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. To the untrained eye, it looks like a bunch of rocks or a concrete blob. Experts are trying to determine whether it was an animal, mineral or a form of plant life from a time when the Cincinnati region was underwater.
Scientists at a Geological Society of America meeting viewed it Tuesday at the Dayton Convention Center in Ohio.
Scientists say the fossil is 450 million years old. University of Cincinnati geologist Carl Brett said it's the largest fossil ever extracted from that era in the Cincinnati region.
A pair of lead actors from a prize winning film about escaping Cuba have emerged from hiding to confirm they are seeking political asylum in the United States.
The young Cuban actors went missing last week while en route to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York where they were due to appear at the movie's U.S. premiere.
Actress Anailin de la Rua and actor Javier Nunez, cast members of "Una Noche" ("One Night"), broke their silence Friday night in a TV appearance on the Miami-based Spanish language channel America TeVe.
The pair said their real-life decision to leave Cuba stemmed from the success of the film and invitations to travel to festival premieres - Berlin in February and then New York.
They spent six days in Germany in February, their first overseas trip, but returned to Cuba and only began to think of leaving the island permanently when they got news of the invitation to New York.
Johnny Galecki arrives for a party thrown by Google and the Hollywood Reporter, on the eve of the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, at the W Hotel in Washington April 27, 2012.
Photo by Jonathan Ernst
Andrew Wyeth's humble studio in the picturesque Brandywine Valley isn't something the average day tripper would stumble upon, but the late artist made his wishes loud and clear for anyone who might have found their way down the winding wooded path to his door.
"I AM WORKING SO PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB. I do not sign autographs," announces a small white sign at the entryway.
Now for the first time, the public will be able to get past that sign and venture into Wyeth's world.
Starting July 3, the studio will be open to the public for a handful of tours each day. Shuttle buses will transport a maximum of 14 people for the short ride from the museum to the studio for each tour. Timed tickets go on sale June 1.
The fieldstone A-frame structure was built as a schoolhouse in 1875 and purchased by Wyeth's father, the celebrated illustrator N.C. Wyeth, in 1925 when the school closed. Andrew Wyeth married his wife, Betsy, in 1940 and the old schoolhouse became their home, where they raised their sons Nicholas and Jamie, as well as Wyeth's art studio. The family also spent many summers in Maine.
They moved to another house nearby in 1961 but Wyeth kept the place as his studio for the remainder of his life. He painted thousands of egg tempera paintings, drawings and watercolors there, from the dark self-portrait "Trodden Weed" to his hundreds of secret Helga paintings, which generated worldwide publicity and controversy when they were suddenly revealed in 1986.
Long famous for "coffee shops" where joints and cappuccinos share the menu, the Netherlands' famed tolerance for drugs could be going up in smoke.
A judge on Friday upheld a government plan to ban non-Dutch residents from buying marijuana by introducing a "weed pass" available only to residents.
The new regulation reins in one of the country's most cherished symbols of tolerance - its laissez-faire attitude to soft drugs - and reflects the drift away from a long-held view of the Netherlands as a free-wheeling utopia.
The most recent figures from the government's statistics bureau says the country has more than 650 coffee shops, 214 of them in Amsterdam. The number has been steadily declining as municipalities have imposed tougher regulations, such as shuttering ones close to schools.
However the Dutch government collapsed this week and new elections are scheduled for September. It is unclear whether the new administration will keep the new measures in place.
Musician Ian Anderson of the rock band Jethro Tull is shown in this 2011 publicity photo released April 25, 2012. Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick," originally released in 1972, was significant for its 44-minute song created around the idea it was an epic poem written by a boy. Now, Jethro Tull's singer, flautist and frontman Anderson is commemorating the album's 40th anniversary with a tour and a followup to the original, "Thick As A Brick 2."
Photo by Martyn Goddard/
The company that makes "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs is seeking to overturn a verdict awarding nearly $6 million to a St. Louis-area woman who claims her bare breasts were recorded without permission.
St. Louis Circuit Judge John Garvey last month sided with Tamara Favazza in her suit against Mantra Films Inc. and MRA Holdings LLC, awarding her $5.77 million. She was a 20-year-old college student in 2005 when someone lifted her tank top during a party at a St. Louis bar, exposing her breasts. Another person filmed it. She later discovered the recording was part of the "Girls Gone Wild Sorority Orgy" DVD series.
Favazza claimed in the suit originally filed in 2008 that she did not give consent and the resulting DVD damaged her reputation. A St. Louis jury sided with the DVD makers in 2010, but a retrial was granted.
Favazza, now a 26-year-old wife and mother, claimed that she only became aware of her appearance in the video when a friend of her husband pointed it out. She sued soon after learning she was in the video.
Three months after a jury sided with "Girls Gone Wild" in 2010, the judge in that case, John J. Riley, ordered a new trial, ruling that the verdict didn't reflect the weight of evidence. He wrote that it was clear in the video that Favazza was an "unwilling participant," saying she is seen mouthing the word "no" as her shirt is pulled down.
Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson (L) and his partner Justin Mikita arrive for a party thrown by Google and the Hollywood Reporter, on the eve of the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, at the W Hotel in Washington, April 27, 2012.
Photo by Jonathan Ernst
The U.S. government's unmanned drones patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border are venturing into Washington state's airspace.
In testimony before a U.S. Senate panel this week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said northern border surveillance using unmanned aerial aircraft now expands from North Dakota to eastern Washington.
The two 10,000-pound Predator-B unmanned aircrafts based in Grand Forks, N.D., have a 950-mile coverage range and "they do enter Washington airspace, in the vicinity of Spokane," said Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Gina Gray on Thursday.
The unmanned aircrafts "can stay in the air for up to 20 hours at a time, something no other aircraft in the federal inventory can do," Gray said. "In this manner it is a force multiplier, providing aerial surveillance support for border agents by investigating sensor activity in remote areas to distinguish between real or perceived threats, allowing the boots on the ground force to best allocate their resources and efforts."
A person wearing a mask depicting the indigeous character "Achu" (old man) of the Moxos culture, attends a catholic mass before a protest march in Trinidad in the Beni province in the Amazonic region of Bolivia April 27, 2012. The indigenous people of the territory of national park Isiboro Secure, known by its Spanish acronym TIPNIS, arrived to Trinidad to begin a new march to La Paz to defend their territory against the planned construction of a highway through the middle of the park.
Photo by David Mercado
The incidence of babies with irregular head shapes, such as a flattened section in the back of the skull, have increased in the United States since the Back to Sleep campaign was introduced in 1994 to prevent sudden infant death syndrome, an expert says.
"There's no doubt that as we as a country began putting babies to sleep on their backs, the incidence of [sudden infant death syndrome] declined significantly," Dr. Sherilyn Driscoll, director of pediatric rehabilitation medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said in a Mayo news release. "Simultaneously, the incidence of positional plagiocephaly, or head-shape asymmetry caused by babies' sleeping position, increased."
Driscoll said head-shape asymmetries generally are easy to treat but timing is crucial. Treatment must take place while the skull is still growing and before the skull bones have fused and soft spots have closed.
Head-shape asymmetry should be treated as soon as it's noticed. One method, called repositioning, involves supervised tummy time for babies when they're awake or showing them toys and encouraging them to turn to either side, Driscoll said.
As many as 200 activists, some chanting "go Joe, go Joe," rallied in Arizona on Saturday to support Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is facing a federal racial-profiling probe for his police sweeps against illegal immigrants.
Arpaio, who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff," is a resident of Fountain Hills.
Earlier this month the Obama administration said it was preparing to sue Arpaio and his department "for violating civil rights laws by improperly targeting Latinos."
The sheriff has denied any wrongdoing and lashed out at the federal government for targeting his department while failing to confront the more than 11 million illegal immigrants who live and work throughout the nation.
Arpaio supporter Buffalo Rick Galeener slammed the probe, which began under former resident George W. Bush in 2008, as "politically motivated."
A wayward dolphin swims in the Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach, California April 27, 2012. Animal rescue and Fish & Game biologists opted to leave the dolphin in the channel in hopes that it will find its way out.
Photo by Alex Gallardo
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