Ted Rall: MR. OBAMA: RESIGN NOW
Locking up people who haven't done anything wrong is worse than un-American and a violent attack on the most basic principles of Western jurisprudence. It is contrary to the most essential notion of human decency.
How to help yourself (guardian.co.uk)
Ever wondered how clinical psychologist Linda Blair tries to solve the dilemmas on G2's problem page, Private Lives? As her weekly advice slot comes to an end, she reveals her nine golden rules of therapy.
MARYANN JOHANSON: Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots (charlestoncitypaper.com)
The opening sequence of this hard-to-pin-down horror/sort-of comedy features a young boy who's been afflicted with a gypsy curse getting actually dragged to hell by soul-lusting demons, presumably to suffer for all eternity for a very minor crime. Business is meant here. There's no fooling around.
Are there any TV programs that you secretly feel sheepish about watching regularly, but do so anyway because you REALLY like them? C'mon now, fess up! I will!
On Our Miss Brooks, Eve Arden was a high school teacher. What subject did she teach?
A English
B History
C Home Ec
D Phys Ed
E Science
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Our Miss Brooks, an American situation comedy, starred Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952-56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits.
Our Miss Brooks was considered groundbreaking for showing a woman who was neither a scatterbrained klutz nor a homebody but rather a working woman who transcended the actual or assumed limits to women's working lives of the time. Connie Brooks was considered a realistic character in an unglamorized profession (she often joked, for example, about being underpaid, as many teachers were at the time) who showed women could be competent and self-sufficient outside their home lives without losing their femininity or their humanity.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
Not that you would guess it from some of her students
But I think it was A, English.
Charlie responded:
Never my favorite class.
A English
Alan J answered:
A English
Gary G replied:
...English.
Marian the Teacher said:
English
Jim, the recently retired teacher from CA, replied:
She was an English teacher....
Willow responded:
Willow
MAM said:
A English, at fictional Madison High School, radio (1948-56) and television (1952-56).
Eve Arden as 'Our Miss Brooks'
And, Joe S ("LeBron! LeBron! You listening? I told you, there ain't no "I" in team. Big Baby."
~ I said that) wrote:
I listened to Our Miss Brooks on the radio, one of my regular shows. I remember that she was an English teacher.
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Another thick marine layer and another day with no sun. Quite nice.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Million Dollar Password', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'The Unit'.
NBC fills the night on the East Coast with LIVE'2009 Stanley Cup Finals', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC fills the night on the East Coast with LIVE'2009 NBA Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos'.
The CW offers an old 'Jericho', followed by the movie 'Desperately Seeking Susan'.
Faux has a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'Bernie Mac', followed by an old 'Raymond', then an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Fugitive', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[3:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 1
[4:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 2
[5:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 3
[6:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 4
[7:00 PM] The Apprentice UK - Episode 5
[8:00 PM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 10
[9:30 PM] Britain's Biggest Spenders
[11:00 PM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 10
[12:30 AM] Britain's Biggest Spenders
[2:00 AM] Any Dream Will Do (90) - Episode 10
[3:30 AM] Britain's Biggest Spenders
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Real Housewives Of NYC', and still another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Accepted', followed by 'Scary Movie 3', and 'Katt Williams: American Hustle'.
FX has the movie 'Night At The Museum', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', then a FRESH'Expedition: Africa'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] We Have Decided Not to Die
[6:15 AM] Mad Dog Morgan
[8:00 AM] The Last Wave
[9:50 AM] United We Stand
[10:00 AM] The Cars That Ate Paris
[11:35 AM] Face
[1:30 PM] The IFC Media Project
[2:00 PM] The Last Wave
[3:50 PM] We Have Decided Not to Die
[4:05 PM] Mad Dog Morgan
[5:45 PM] Shopping
[7:35 PM] Made
[9:15 PM] Confidence
[9:15 PM] Confidence
[11:00 PM] The IFC Media Project
[11:30 PM] A Decade Under the Influence
[12:25 AM] Palookaville
[2:00 AM] The IFC Media Project
[2:30 AM] Made
[4:10 AM] Confidence
[4:10 AM] Confidence
[5:55 AM] Face (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'The Book Of Beasts', followed by the movie 'King Arthur'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Everything's Gone Green
[07:40 AM] Site Specific: Seville
[08:00 AM] Episode 6
[08:30 AM] Episode 6
[09:00 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Burning the Future: Coal in America
[10:35 AM] Fridays at the Farm
[11:00 AM] Ladette to Lady - Season 3: Episode 5
[12:00 PM] Spectacle: Smokey Robinson
[01:00 PM] Dreams With Sharp Teeth
[02:45 PM] Oss 117: Cairo - Nest Of Spies
[04:25 PM] The King of Ping Pong
[06:15 PM] Somersault
[08:00 PM] Flying: Confessions...: Part 3
[09:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol & Madeleine Peyroux
[10:00 PM] A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
[11:45 PM] Engine 371
[12:00 AM] The President's Last Bang
[01:45 AM] Flutter
[03:05 AM] Forty Shades of Blue (ALL TIMES EDT)
The wheels and cogs of the clock are seen inside the Big Ben Clock Tower above the Houses of Parliament in London April 30, 2009. Commonly called Big Ben, which is actually the nickname of the bell inside it, the 96-metre Clock Tower looks down on the Houses of Parliament along the River Thames and has become a symbol of stability, endurance and democracy in Britain. It was 150 years ago on Sunday that the four-faced Great Clock started keeping time, and on July 11, 1859, Big Ben first struck time.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth
Some 500 actors, including prominent stars George Clooney and Tom Hanks, urged members of the largest U.S. actors union to vote "yes" on a new contract with Hollywood's major studios on Friday.
In a statement released by the 120,000-member Screen Actors Guild, signers "wholeheartedly recommend that SAG members VOTE YES on our tentative Television and Theatrical Contracts."
SAG had been embroiled in a bitter labor dispute with Hollywood's major film and television studios for nearly a year until last month when its contract negotiators reached an agreement over a new labor accord.
Key sticking points in negotiations had centered on how much actors would get paid for work released on the Internet. Some members, including SAG president Alan Rosenberg, have argued for more concessions by the studios.
Visitors look at a watch-shaped sculpture composed of counterfeit watches during the Counterfeit Comparison Exhibition 2009 organised by the Korea Customs Service (KCS) at a convention centre in Seoul May 27, 2009. About 60 local and international brands participated in the counterfeit comparison exhibition which gave consumers information on how to distinguish between original goods and counterfeits, KCS said.
Photo by Jo Yong-Hak
City authorities demolished the homes around the recently rebuilt shack of "Slumdog Millionaire" child star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail but left his standing Saturday.
A bulldozer and about 30 men leveled about 18 shanties in the section of the Garib Nagar - "city of the poor" - slum where Azhar, 10, and his family live. They left another dozen partially standing.
The city tore down the same homes, including Azhar's, 16 days ago. The next week, authorities leveled the nearby lane where "Slumdog" co-star Rubina Ali lived.
Azhar's father, Mohammed Ismail, said their home was spared because authorities knew about his son's role in the Oscar-winning movie.
Passionate letters from Edith Piaf in which the grieving French singer tells one of her many lovers he could supplant the man of her life will go on auction in Paris next month, Christie's said Friday.
Fifty-four letters, dated from 15 November 1951 to 18 September the following year, will go under the hammer on June 25 and are expected to fetch between 60,000 and 90,000 euros (over 125,000 dollars).
The letters are to French cycling champion Louis Gerardin, two years after the death of France's world middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan, who died in a plane crash on his way to a rematch with Jake LaMotta in late 1949.
Their tempestuous affair ended in 1952, when Piaf, the subject of a Oscar-winning biopic entitled "La Vie en Rose" in 2007, married French actor Jacques Pills in New York.
Vance McLennan, 28, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, displays Transformers tattoos that cover his entire back at BotCon 2009, the official Transformers convention, marking the 25th anniversary of the Transformers phenomenon in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, May 29, 2009. The show precedes the opening next week of the Transformers movie, 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.' BotCon runs through Sunday, May 31, at the Pasadena Convention Center.
Photo by Reed Saxon
An oil painting depicting Madonna in the nude with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie failed to meet the reserve price of £15,000 when it went under the hammer at an auction in Glasgow.
The portrait did attract some bids, but not enough to satisfy the seller.
Brian Clements, Director at McTears Auctioneers, said: "Surprisingly Peter Howson's controversial piece Madonna and Guy did not sell on the day.
The portrait was being sold by a private collector and was expected to reach £22,000.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi is fighting back in a scandal feeding on his fondness for young women, with his lawyer acknowledging Saturday the media mogul has moved to block publication of hundreds of photos taken of guests at his sumptuous Sardinian villa.
State television reported that among the photos were some taken last New Year's Eve, with the guests including an 18-year-old Neapolitan woman at the heart of the political and personal scandal.
Berlusconi, speaking by telephone to an election rally in northern Italy Saturday, described himself as the victim of a campaign of "insults" he alleged was run by the center-left opposition to discredit him ahead of European Parliament elections next weekend.
The Sardinian photographer who apparently took most of the photos in question, Antonello Zappadu, went to the Carabinieri paramilitary police headquarters in Cagliari Saturday evening to hand over a CD with the photos, the Italian news agency ANSA reported from the capital of the Mediterranean island.
A Taiwanese man who lost two million US dollars in Las Vegas is threatening to sue the casino for using feng shui to cause his losing streak, a report here said.
The man, surnamed Yuan, alleged that the Venetian dug a one-metre (40-inch) square hole on the wall of the presidential suite he was staying in April last year and covered it with a black cloth, said Apple Daily.
The casino also put two white towels in front of Yuan's suite and turned on two large fans facing his room without notifying him, it said.
Yuan claimed that his luck turned bad after discovering the arrangements and that he went from winning 400,000 dollars to losing two million, the report said.
The casino has promised to refund him 100,000 dollars in cash and the same amount in chips, the paper said, without explaining why it had agreed to this.
A float in the shape of the character "Pinocchio" and decorated with daffodil blossoms participates in a parade during the daffodil festival (Narzissenfest) along Grundlsee lake in the village of Grundlsee May 24, 2009. The daffodil festival takes place every year in the Ausseerland to celebrate the blossoms and the start of springtime in this mountainous region of Austria.
Photo by Leonhard Foeger
An Ohio man arrested for mowing unkempt grass at a public park said he just wanted to make his city look nice. John Hamilton said he took control of the situation because the grass in Sandusky's Central Park was about a foot high. According to a police report, a witness said Hamilton was blowing grass onto the sidewalk and shredding trash in the park that had not been picked up.
Police said they arrested 48-year-old Hamilton after he refused to stop mowing and charged him with obstructing official business and disorderly conduct.
City Manager Matt Kline called the arrest unfortunate and said he understands Hamilton's frustration. Kline said budget cuts have left Sandusky understaffed for seasonal maintenance work.
Never mind the bullocks, indeed -- Johnny Rotten and some stampeding cows have started a rush toward punk advertising in the United Kingdom.
The Sex Pistols frontman, now known as John Lydon, stars in popular U.K. TV commercials for the butter brand Country Life. Dressed in country-gent tweeds, the one-time scourge of polite society is seen watching traditional English folk dancers, running from cows and declaring, "It's not about Great Britain -- it's about great butter!" with the gusto he once reserved for sneering "I am an anti-Christ/I am an anarchist."
On other British channels, punk forefather Iggy Pop stars in ads for the online car insurance brand Swiftcover in which the shirtless Stooges frontman declares: "You think I'm selling car insurance? I'm not -- I'm selling time!"
But he is selling car insurance -- and lots of it. Swiftcover says its first-quarter sales soared 31 percent over the same period last year, thanks to the ad. And Lydon has heated up butter sales -- Country Life parent company Dairy Crest credited that ad, which debuted on U.K. television October 1, 2008, with driving an 85 percent increase in sales by volume of its "spreadable" brands in fourth-quarter 2008.
A bar-headed goose walks with one of her day old her chicks at the zoo of Servion near Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 27, 2009.
Photo by Dominic Favre
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On Our Miss Brooks, Eve Arden was a high school teacher. What subject did she teach?
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