'Best of TBH Politoons'
Filling For Jay Marvin Tomorrow
Erin Hart
Erin Hart on
AM 760 June 26 and 30, July 3 and 4.
A quartet of shows coming up as Erin fills in for the vacationing Jay Marvin,
morning host on Boulder's Progressive Talk, AM 760, Monday, June 26th and Friday, 30th,
as well as Monday, July 3rd and Tuesday, the 4th, from 6am - 10am (MDT).
Celebrate what's left of our nation after the Bush administration by taking
our country back.
June 26th guests include: Bill Ritter, Colorado's gubernatorial candidate,
talks charity, gay and women's rights. And Big Ed Schultz checks in on
issues of the day.
We will no doubt discuss the arrest of the Miami 7. "Aspirational" not
"operational" terrorist-suspects who have to ask their FBI infiltrator and
informant for a van and a digital camera? Who exercise in Ninja outfits?
Anybody worried about overreach here? Anybody hear echoes of co-INTELPRO?
The war in Iraq has caused much ado in Congress--how does this affect YOU
and your choices in November? What is your exit strategy? Our war dead
totals 2517 as of this writing, martial law prevails in Baghdad.
That and so much more-please check out
erinhartshow.com for further details.
Adventure is everywhere. . .
Freshly Updated!
Dick Eats Bush
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
RANDALL BALMER: Jesus Is Not a Republican (chronicle.com)
And what has the religious right done with its political influence? ... - the purpose of all this grasping for power looks something like this: an expansion of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the continued prosecution of a war in the Middle East that enraged our longtime allies and would not meet even the barest of just-war criteria, and a rejiggering of Social Security, the effect of which, most observers agree, would be to fray the social-safety net for the poorest among us.
David Podvin: A HATRED SO TRUE (Satire; makethemaccountable.com)
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
Edmund White: The New Gay Fiction (villagevoice.com)
After years of neglect from the mainstream, queer lit undergoes a renaissance
Rabbi Berel Wein: Marriage is more than a living arrangement rewarded with financial privileges (jewishworldreview.com)
Amid "wedding season," a short overview of the traditional Jewish matrimonial ceremony
Rabbi David Aaron: The Secret to a Life without Strife (jewishworldreview.com)
The Oral Tradition teaches that a rasha (evil person) may sometimes be very successful in this world, while a tzaddik (righteous person) sometimes destitute because G-d rewards the rasha for whatever good he does in this world and saves his punishment for the eternal afterlife, while a tzaddik receives his punishment for whatever bad he does in this world and get his rewards in the eternity afterlife. Despite the fact the tzaddik's rewards are eternal, this principle still doesn't seem fair. Why should the rasha have a good life while the tzaddik suffers?
Charlie Brooker: Supposing ... Americans are the nicest people on earth (guardian.co.uk)
Greetings from America, where everyone's so bloody friendly and laid-back and nice it makes you want to puke blood in their faces.
Buffy the sci-fi phobia slayer: Series still has so much heart that it can stake it to the wariest viewers (whedon.info)
I've always had a handy excuse to get out of seeing any movie or TV show that didn't interest me.
Michon Scott, Lakewood, CO: Not enough angry smart people (rogerebert.suntimes.com)
It appears lots of people are accusing Mr. Gore (and Mr. Ebert) of being narrow-minded in saying the debate's over. But insisting the debate continue is, to my mind, a rather cheap, cynical ploy to put off doing anything.
Commentoon: Iran Women Protest (womensenews.org)
Reader Suggestion
Folk Songs
Folk Songs of the Far Right Wing - at Huffington Post.
Purple Gene Reviews
'Wordplay'
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sun never broke through.
The local TV weather heads have been going on for days about how hot & humid this weekend was supposed to be.
Thankfully, these so-called forecasters had their collective heads up some collective rectal cavity & they got it all wrong.
Our jaunt out to the Valley was quite pleasant and I was glad to have brought my trusty jacket along.
'Fisheye' and 'Maximum John' were a lot of fun, and it was great to see so many familiar faces.
No new flags.
Honorary Citizen of Canada
Dalai Lama
The motion to declare His Holiness the Dalai Lama an Honorary Citizen of Canada was unanimously approved this afternoon (Friday) in the House of Commons.
The Dalai Lama is the third non-Canadian to receive this honor, the other two being Raoul Wallenberg in 1985 and Nelson Mandela in 2001.
Dalai Lama
Showcases Palau Envoy
'Colbert Report'
The ambassador of the tiny western Pacific nation of Palau will appear on an episode of the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report."
The United States administered Palau's affairs as a U.N. trust territory from 1947 until its independence in December 1994. Before that, Palau was ruled by Japan, Germany and Spain, dating to 1885. In 1994, the government signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States for 50 years.
Colbert taped the show - which will be televised this summer - in one of the U.N.'s TV studios. At one point, the comedian joked with Beck about Palau's currency, producing beads and wanting to know how much they were worth. Beck replied that Palauans now use dollars.
'Colbert Report'
Auction Canceled
Martin Luther King
Sermons, books, notes and speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be spared the auction block next week because the civil rights icon's alma mater, Morehouse College in Atlanta, has bought them.
King's heirs had tried to sell it to the U.S. Library of Congress in 1999. But the deal fell through, and the auction had raised concerns about where the historic archive would end up.
Sotheby's said late on Friday that Morehouse College, the historically black institution from which King graduated in 1948, purchased it for an undisclosed sum.
Martin Luther King
Heads For Syndication
'Two and a Half Men'
Tribune Broadcasting has licensed syndication rights to the hit CBS comedy "Two and a Half Men" from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, with the sitcom's off-network debut set for fall 2007.
The deal covers the entire run of the series, which returns to prime time in the fall for its fourth season on CBS.
The Tribune station group, which licensed "Men" on a cash-plus-barter basis, also will double-run the show on weekdays for the first three years; two additional episodes will air on weekends.
'Two and a Half Men'
Awaiting China OK For Shanghai Park
Disney
Walt Disney Co. is awaiting approval from China's central government to build a theme park in Shanghai, the China Daily reported on Saturday.
Shanghai's mayor in March said the city was eager to host Disney, after the $1.8 billion Disneyland Hong Kong opened in 2005, while China's capital city Beijing also wants one.
Disney and Shanghai are believed to want to open the park in time for Shanghai's World Expo in 2010. City government preparations for the Expo rival in scale and enthusiasm Beijing's preparations for the 2008 Olympics.
Disney
Sues Over 9/11 Internet Film
Paramount
Paramount Pictures is suing a District of Columbia man to stop distribution of an Internet film based on a script by director Oliver Stone.
Yale University graduate Chris Moukarbel, 28, made an abbreviated version of Stone's upcoming $60 million movie "World Trade Center," about two Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers, Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, rescued from the rubble of the twin towers. The 12-minute film - based on a bootleg script and starring Yale student actors_ was offered for free through Moukarbel's Web site.
Moukarbel, who graduated from Yale last month with a master of fine arts degree, could not be located for comment. The film has since been taken off his site, replaced with a note reading, "Video removed at request of Paramount Pictures."
Paramount
Lost Volcano Under Water
Smoke
A submerged island discovered off the coast of Sicily forms part of a vast underwater volcano, according to new research unveiled by Italian volcanologists and due to be broadcast in the autumn.
Tracing two 40-metre (130-foot) columns of bubbles in the sea off the southern Italian island, researchers discovered smoking openings, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said on Thursday.
In 1831 an eruption caused Fernandea's peak to mount 65 metres above the surface of the sea, forming an island of volcanic matter of some four square kilometres (1.5 square miles).
Britain promptly claimed sovereignty over the new territory, naming it Graham Island, until the ruler of Naples and Sicily, King Ferdinand II of Bourbon, seized it and gave it its current Italian name.
Smoke
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Hits Windshield
Drunk Pelican
The driver was sober. The bird he hit may have been under the influence. A California brown pelican flew through the windshield of a motorist on the Pacific Coast Highway in Orange County Thursday, and wildlife officials said the bird was probably intoxicated by a chemical in the water.
Though toxicology tests take several weeks, the odd bird behavior was likely the result of poisoning from domoic acid, which has been found in the ocean in the area, said Lisa Birkle, assistant wildlife director at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach.
The driver was not hurt. The pelican needed surgery for a broken foot, and also had a gash on its pouch.
The Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center has received 16 calls of strange bird behavior in the past week, and was holding three other birds found disoriented and wandering through yards and in streets.
Drunk Pelican
NYC Freedom Tower Moved
Cornerstone
Even the symbol of new beginnings at ground zero wasn't immune from the realities of redesign and renegotiation. The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower, the soaring skyscraper that will replace the fallen twin towers at the World Trade Center, was quietly and temporarily removed from the site Friday, nearly two years after it was laid with much fanfare.
That July 4 ceremony was supposed to signal the start of construction. Instead, it initialized years of hand-wringing and argument over the building's design.
Authorities finally concluded that the cornerstone would need to be moved. Its location was made obsolete by the building's reconfiguration.
The 20-ton stone, laid near the temporary train station that now dominates the ground zero pit, was hauled away to Hauppauge, N.Y.
Cornerstone
In Memory
Harriet
A 176-year-old giant tortoise believed to have been studied by famed English naturalist Charles Darwin, has died in Australia after a short illness.
The extremely elderly tortoise, Harriet, was hatched on the Galapagos Islands in 1830 but lived out her final years at Australia Zoo in southeast Queensland where she was the star attraction.
Senior veterinarian John Hangar said Harriet, who had made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest living animal, had been credited with helping Darwin pioneer his theory of evolution.
"It's thought she may have been taken off there (Galapagos) by Charles Darwin," he said. "She's spent a period of time in Britain and found herself at the Botanic Gardens in Brisbane from about 1850 or 1860 onwards and eventually she found her way up to Australia Zoo."
Harriet was originally named Harry, as she was mistakenly identified as male, an error which was not rectified for more than a century.
Harriet
In Memory
Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling, one of the most prolific TV producers in history, died Friday at his Los Angeles mansion after suffering a stroke on June 18, according to publicist Kevin Sasaki. He was 83.
Spelling's hit series included "Beverly Hills 90210," "Melrose Place," "Love Boat," "Fantasy Island," "Burke's Law," "Dynasty," "Starsky and Hutch," "T.J. Hooker," "Charlie's Angels," "Hart to Hart" and "Hotel." Most recently he produced "7th Heaven," Charmed," and "Summerland."
He also produced more than 140 television movies. Among the most notable: "Death Sentence" (1974), "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" (1976) and "The Best Little Girl in the World" (1981).
Among his prestige films for TV: "Day One" (1989), about the making of the atomic bomb; "And the Band Played On" (1992), based on Randy Shilts' book about the AIDS crisis.
Born on April 22, 1923, Spelling grew up in a small house in Dallas "on the wrong side of the tracks," he wrote in his 1996 autobiography. He was the fourth son of immigrant Jews, his father from Poland, mother from Russia.
Spelling enlisted in the Army Air Corps after graduating from high school in 1942.
After combat and organizing entertainment in Europe during the war, he enrolled at Southern Methodist University, where he wrote and directed plays. He continued working in local theatrics after graduating.
Finding no work in New York, Spelling moved to Los Angeles, where he staged plays and acted in more than 40 TV shows and 12 movies. His skinny frame suited him for the role of a beggar in the MGM musical "Kismet." He worked for three weeks, repeating his one line: "Alms for the love of Allah."
That experience resulted in two decisions: he abandoned acting for the typewriter; he married a young actress he had been courting, Carolyn Jones, who played Morticia in "The Addams Family" series. They divorced after 13 years, and she died of cancer in 1983.
Spelling's friendship with such actor-producers as Dick Powell, Jack Webb and Alan Ladd led to his rapid rise as a prolific writer and later producer of TV series. In 1960, Powell, head of Four Star Productions, hired him to produce shows. "Burke's Law" became the first hit series Spelling created.
After Powell's death, Spelling teamed with Danny Thomas, scoring a huge success with "The Mod Squad." In 1969, Spelling began an exclusive contract with ABC. Former ABC programming chief Leonard Goldberg joined him as partner in 1972.
Spelling and his second wife, Candy, had two children, Tori, who became a star on the two Fox serials, and Randy, who appeared in the short-lived "Malibu Shores."
Aaron Spelling
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