Froma Harrop: Hillary Needs Classier Friends (creators.com)
Sometimes I forget why the Clintons disturb me. Then they offer a reminder. Case in point are reports that one of Hillary Clinton's most pampered donors made big bucks off scams against the elderly.
Jim Hightower: THE SEVENTEEN TRADITIONS (jimhightower.com)
My father taught me about progressive values. Not by sitting me down to explain them, but by living them. He never called himself progressive, and actually thought of himself as conservative, but he had a strong faith in common folks, a populist distrust of big business and autocratic government, a deep belief in economic fairness, and a commitment to the notion of the common good. He summed up his political philosophy one day when he said to me: "Everybody does better when everybody does better."
Joey Ramone Birthday Bash 2007 (villagevoice.com)
Remembering the punk legend at the Fillmore East at Irving Plaza. Fans up front against the barricade included this girl with an angel-winged Joey Ramone tattoo.
Susanne Shaphren: Purple Prose (irascibleprofessor.com)
I'd planned on being away from my desk for less than an hour. I needed to stop at the post office to be sure I'd properly decoded the anything but simple rate hike and placed the appropriate postage on a stack of manuscripts. Surely, it wouldn't take five minutes to buy a purple pen. If everything went smoothly, I'd treat myself to a quick browse through my favorite bookstore. After the fourth store, I wondered if everybody on the planet had suddenly decided to join me in using purple glitter ink on custom purple checks to thwart identity theft.
Dr. Mark H. Shapiro: Fighting the Red Menace (irascibleprofessor.com)
It used to be that the "red menace" referred to the expansionist goals of the "Iron Curtain" countries and the former Soviet Union, in particular. Those of us of a certain age recall the John Birch Society and "duck and cover drills" when the words "red menace" are spoken. But these days it seems that there is a new red menace, at least in the eyes of those educators who determine political correctness. The "red menace" that these folks -- the same ones who brought us the self-esteem movement -- are talking about is the red ink (or pencil) marks that teachers put on students' papers to call attention to mistakes.
Joke on MySpace costs Wal-Mart worker his job (mlive.com)
ALMONT TWP. - When David Noordewier posted a joke on his MySpace page, he believed it was just a crude but funny bit of humor. But his bosses at the Shelby Township Wal-Mart store weren't laughing. The Almont Township man was fired from his cashier job Feb. 27 after posting the joke, which suggested average IQs would increase if a bomb were dropped on every Wal-Mart.
zEN mAN (observing the Deputy Assistant to the President, Bush Admistration Director of Political Affairs and co-conspirator with Karl Rove who has just resigned (and deleted all her E-Mails) in the light the US Attorney firing scandal....she will receive a subpoena...soon...stay tuned)
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by another RERUN'Without A Trace'.
NBC opens the night with a 2-hour 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Friday Night Lights', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives', followed by a RERUN'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers a RERUN'7th Heaven', followed by a RERUN'Hidden Palms', then a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a (R) 'The War At Home', followed by the movie 'Bad Boys II'.
MY has has the movie 'Mind Over Murder', followed by the movie 'Highwaymen'.
A&E has 'Criss Angel', another 'Criss Angel', '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 'Dante's Peak', followed by the movie 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High', then the movie 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High', again.
BBC -
[9:00 AM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 1;
[10:00 AM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 2;
[10:30 AM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 2;
[11:00 AM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 3;
[11:30 AM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 3;
[12:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 4;
[12:30 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 4;
[1:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 5;
[1:30 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 5;
[2:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 6;
[2:30 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 6;
[3:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 7;
[3:30 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 7;
[4:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 8;
[4:30 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 8;
[5:00 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 9;
[5:30 PM] Footballers Wive$ - Episode 9;
[6:30 PM] Hollyoaks - Hollyoaks Special;
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 1 Will You Tolerate This?;
[8:00 PM] Four Weddings and a Funeral - Four Weddings and a Funeral;
[10:00 PM] The Real Queens of England - The Real Queens of England;
[11:00 PM] Four Weddings and a Funeral - Four Weddings and a Funeral;
[1:00 AM] The Real Queens of England - The Real Queens of England;
[2:00 AM] Hollyoaks - Hollyoaks Special;
[3:00 AM] Bromwell High - Ep 5 Fire Drill;
[3:30 AM] Bromwell High - Ep 6 Valentine's Day;
[4:00 AM] Bromwell High - Ep 7 Goodbye Mr. Crisps;
[4:30 AM] Bromwell High - Ep 8 Baby Boom;
[5:00 AM] Bromwell High - Ep 9 Sack Race;
[5:30 AM] Bromwell High - Ep 10 Perfect;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again', 'Larry The Cable Guy', 'Bill Engvall: 15 Degrees Off Cool', and more 'Larry The Cable Guy'.
FX has the movie 'Godzilla', followed by the movie 'Open Water', then 'The Shield'.
History has 'Star Wars Tech', 'Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed', and 'The Universe'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] Dinner For Five #33;
[06:45 AM] Dancer in the Dark;
[09:10 AM] Two Family House;
[11:00 AM] Mondays in the Sun;
[01:00 PM] Dancer in the Dark;
[03:25 PM] Two Family House;
[05:15 PM] Mondays in the Sun;
[07:15 PM] Trees Lounge;
[09:00 PM] Leaving Las Vegas;
[11:00 PM] Wonderland;
[12:50 AM] New Rose Hotel;
[02:30 AM] Leaving Las Vegas;
[04:30 AM] Wonderland. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has fills the night with 'Stephen King's The Stand'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Open City;
[07:00 AM] In Short: The Art of Seduction;
[08:00 AM] House;
[08:00 AM] A House in Jerusalem;
[10:00 AM] News from Home/News from House;
[12:00 PM] The Apostle;
[02:00 PM] In the Sun: Michael Stipe and Special Guests (Long Version);
[03:00 PM] Furnish;
[03:00 PM] Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon;
[05:00 PM] Furnish;
[05:00 PM] Following;
[06:00 PM] Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon;
[08:00 PM] Episode 4: Every Inch a King;
[09:00 PM] Bowery Dish;
[10:00 PM] Havoc;
[11:00 PM] In Short: The Art of Seduction;
[12:00 AM] Three...Extremes;
[02:00 AM] Episode 4: Every Inch a King;
[03:00 AM] Female Trouble;
[04:00 AM] Following. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actor Tommy Chong, left, and his wife Shelby arrive at the 2007 National Council of La Raza ALMA Awards in Pasadena, Calif. Friday, June 1, 2007.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Paul Newman is donating $10 million to Kenyon College to help start a scholarship fund, the private liberal arts school said. Newman, 82, graduated from the central Ohio college in 1949 with a degree in drama and economics.
The donation will fund partial and full scholarships for 15 to 20 students a year, college spokesman Shawn Presley said. The first Newman's Own scholars will be announced this summer.
Newman and his wife, Joanne Woodward, have donated privately to Kenyon in the past. The couple went public at the college's request because Kenyon hopes the contribution will spur donations from other alumni, Forrester said.
Newman has given more than $175 million to charities from the profits earned by his Newman's Own brand of dressings, pasta sauces, popcorn and salsa.
Actress Sara Forestier arrives for the screening of the film 'Chacun Son Cinema' ('To Each His Own Cinema'), at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday, May 20, 2007.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
Legendary poet and singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen says he was delighted to surrender creative licence to renowned composer Philip Glass in their collaborative stage piece, "Book of Longing."
The performance features a quartet of singers putting Cohen's poetry to music composed by Glass.
Cohen says he was such an admirer of Glass's work that he didn't hesitate to allow his words to be interpreted any way the New York composer saw fit.
The 90-minute piece features 22 poems that touch on love, humour, balladry and Cohen's practice of the dharma. It makes its world premiere Friday as part of the Luminato arts festival in Toronto.
Comedian Cheech Marin does a stand up routine at the 2007 National Council of La Raza ALMA Awards in Pasadena, Calif. Friday, June 1, 2007.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
What happens when you put someone in a room to snack on potato chips while watching a David Letterman monologue on television?
The person eats 44 per cent more chips than someone who has the same snack food but isn't watching television, according to the findings of an unusual study presented Saturday at the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting in Toronto.
And if it's Jay Leno, Letterman's late-night talk-show rival, on the tube, there's a 42-per-cent increase in potato chip consumption.
Lead investigator Dr. Alan Hirsch says the study was part of ongoing research into what he calls "sensory specific satiety" - the idea that if you pay attention to how food tastes, you feel full faster and eat less.
"Anything that distracts you from paying attention to the sensory characteristics of the food will allow you to eat more," he said.
Damien Hirst, former BritArt bad boy whose works infuriate and inspire in equal measure, did it again on Friday with a diamond-encrusted platinum cast of a human skull priced at a cool 50 million pounds.
The skull, cast from a 35-year-old 18th century European male, is coated with 8,601 diamonds, including a large pink diamond worth more than four million pounds in the centre of its forehead.
"It shows we are not going to live for ever. But it also has a feeling of victory over death," Hirst said as the sparkling skull was unveiled to the public for the first time amid tight security at central London's White Cube gallery.
While the skull is platinum and the diamonds flawless -- and ethically sourced, Hirst stressed -- the teeth are real.
An accident involving one of the trucks carrying concert equipment for George Michael forced the British pop singer to cancel a show in Prague on Saturday, the Web site of a Czech newspaper reported.
The daily's Web site quoted concert promoter Petr Novak as saying the truck, which crashed while traveling through Romania, was carrying special sections of the stage.
"Unfortunately a large part of the special podium remained trapped in the truck and it was not possible to replace it," Novak was quoted as saying.
Federal authorities have charged a Chicago man with copyright violations for allegedly uploading several episodes of Fox's "24" on the Internet before the show's season premiere earlier this year.
Jorge Romero, 24, used a Web site to download the first four episodes of the sixth season of "24" and then uploaded them to LiveDigital.com, according to a federal complaint filed in Los Angeles on Friday.
The episodes appeared online more than a week before their television debuts on Jan. 14 and 15.
Romero was charged with one felony count of uploading copyrighted material to a publicly accessible computer network knowing the work was intended for commercial distribution.
In this photo released by Ernst & Young, Cirque Du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte poses with his trophy after he was named the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the Salle des Etoiles in Monte Carlo, Monaco, Saturday night, June 2, 2007.
Photo by Ken Lennox
A judge says he wants to give David Hasselhoff a chance to prove that he is not drinking before ruling in the actor's custody battle with ex-wife.
A court hearing on primary custody of their two daughters was postponed Friday because Hasselhoff's lawyer was ill. Superior Court Judge Mark A. Juhas rescheduled the hearing for Monday afternoon.
Hasselhoff, 54, and Pamela Bach, 43, have feuded over custody of their daughters Hayley, 16, and Taylor-Ann, 14. They were married in 1989 but divorced last year and have been sharing custody.
Virgin Atlantic Chairman Richard Branson and his wife Joan arrive for a private dinner at Maasai Mara national park, 260km (161 miles) southwest of Nairobi, June 2, 2007.
Photo by Thomas Mukoya
In 1966, several cemeteries that entered the remains of many Seneca were "relocated" to make way for the flood waters created by the Kinzua Dam. Some of these graves are threatened by the same waters that forced their removal 41 years ago.
Off Route 280, just over the Pennsylvania line is one of the oldest cemeteries in the region, some stones date back as far as 1772.
This cemetery is believed to be the resting place of the relocated remains of the great Seneca chief, Cornplanter and his friend and interpreter, Philip Tome.
The situation started when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used gravel from the bottom of the reservoir basin to create the road that outlines the river, according to Justin Schapp, Kinzua Dam Project Coordinator for the Seneca Nation.
Brassia Maculata : A Brassia Maculata orchid is seen at the XXXIII National Orchids Show "Eternal Spring", after winning the award as the best Central America specimen in Guatemala City.
Photo by Orlando Sierra
The theater where Abraham Lincoln was shot will be getting an $8.5 million upgrade over the next year and a half.
The improvements to Ford's Theatre will include its first elevator, new restrooms and renovations to the heating, air conditioning, lighting and sound systems, the National Park Service said.
The 144-year-old theater last underwent restoration in the 1960s, said Park Service spokesman Bill Line. The repairs are being done in part to improve access for the disabled.
The Park Service hopes to reopen the theater in November 2008. About 1 million people visit each year.
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