Paul Slansky: A Modest Proposal for the 4th: Take Back Old Glory (huffingtonpost.com)
Of all the stupid things done by the anti-war crowd, the most gratuitously moronic was allowing the sanctimonious hypocrites of the right to co-opt the nation's most basic icon, its flag. The emblem of the country's highest aspirations was mindlessly ceded to the holier-than-thou zealots who used it as a bludgeon against the less fanatical. Everyone who's voting for Obama -- and especially those who are public figures -- must immediately procure a flag pin and not be seen without it before November 5th. If you can't do it with pride, do it as an act of subversion.
David Greenberg: Waving the Flag (slate.com)
John McCain isn't a scoundrel, but in a presidential race in which he now trails Barack Obama, patriotism is shaping up as his last refuge.
Comic-book artist Michael Turner dies at 37 (latimes.com)
Michael Turner, a leading contemporary comic-book artist who was known for the highly stylized covers he created for major titles and for drawing female characters with curves as commanding as their superpowers, has died. He was 37.
Richard LaGravenese: Freedom Banned (huffingtonpost.com)
In Perry, Indiana, the School Board has suspended a teacher for allowing her students to read "The Freedom Writers Diary." How can it be that they did not see the value of the lessons to be learned?
The death of life writing (books.guardian.co.uk)
Celebrity memoirs, breathless lives of 18th-century socialites and countless royal mistresses - whatever happened to the golden age of biography? And what is the future for a genre in which the best subjects have already been written about, time and again, asks Kathryn Hughes.
Charlie was first, and correct, observing:
In Dr. No he drove a
D: Sunbeam Alpine
(Series II)
Steven B answered:
The first car Bond drove was in Dr. No and it was a light blue Sunbeam
Alpine.
Bond later sold the car to Maxwell Smart of CONTROL at a spies
swap meet and Smart had it painted red and a machine gun mounted under
the hood. No doubt trying to emulate Bond who by that time had the DB5
with all its goodies.
Smart later traded the Sunbeam in for a VW Karmann
Ghia because the Sunbeam just wasn't crappy enough.
Alan J replied:
Aston Martin
Sally, in extremely humid and muggy Northern NJ, said:
I have never been a fan of the James Bond, "007" movies, but did catch the first one, "Dr No." As I recall, the car used was a "Sunbeam Alpine" (D). I remember this because my date was much more enthralled with the car than with me, and he drove a Chevy that he treated like a Cadillac. Can you believe that?
Paul wrote:
It was the Sunbeam
And, Buzzcook responded:
Ok if Dr. No is the first Bond movie then D. Sunbeam Alpine
On "Get Smart" (1965),
Agent Maxwell Smart
(Don Adams) drove
a 1965 Sunbeam Tiger Mark I in the opening credits for the first two seasons. The car was used in several episodes throughout the first four seasons, though sometimes substituted by a very similar-looking Sunbeam Alpine with Tiger badging. A Volkswagen Karmann Ghia was used in the opening credits for the third and fourth seasons but never used in any episode. For the fifth season, the show featured a 1969 Opel GT used in the opening credits as well as the episodes for that season. Only used in the pilot episode was an early-'60s Ferrari 250 GT cabriolet.
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I use the Seti search program as a screen saver, kinda cool to think you are helping to search for extraterrestrial martian monsters and stuff but it looks like they want to cut funding for the Arecibo Observatory. The repugs probably figure that if intelligent life is found off the Earth they would have one up on the GOP.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Password', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'NUMB3RS'.
NBC opens the night with FRESH'U.S. Olympic Trials', followed by 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a 2-hour RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives'.
The CW offers a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', then a RERUN'Aliens In America', followed by a RERUN'The Game', then a RERUN'Girlfriends'.
Faux has a RERUN'Til Death', followed by another RERUN'Til Death', 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 'Married...With Children', followed by an old 'Raymond', then the movie 'X-Men'.
A&E has 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmon', still another 'Gene Simmons', yet another 'Gene Simmons', one more 'Gene Simmons', 'The 2 Coreys', and another 'The 2 Coreys'.
AMC offers the movie 'My Cousin Vinny', followed by the movie 'The Birdcage', then the movie 'Look Who's Talking'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 8
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episodes 5 & 6
[3:00 PM] Prince Charles & Prince William: Royal Rivals?
[4:00 PM] The Royal Jewels
[5:00 PM] Prince William and Prince Harry: Princess Diana's Legacy
[8:00 PM] Mickey Blue Eyes - Mickey Blue Eyes
[10:00 PM] I'm a Boy Anorexic
[11:00 PM] Mickey Blue Eyes
[1:00 AM] I'm a Boy Anorexic
[2:00 AM] Mickey Blue Eyes
[4:00 AM] I'm a Boy Anorexic
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 11 Inglis
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 12 Kitching
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List', followed by the movie 'Beverly Hills Cop II', then 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has 'Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed', 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', and 'Dane Cook: Vicious Circle'.
FX has the movie 'The Punisher', followed by the movie 'I, Robot', and '30 Days'.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', and 'Tougher In Alaska'.
IFC -
[07:00 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[08:00 AM] High and Low
[10:30 AM] The Bad Sleep Well
[01:05 PM] In the Bedroom
[03:20 PM] IFC In Theaters
[03:30 PM] Private Fears in Public Places
[05:35 PM] IFC News Special
[05:45 PM] House of D
[07:25 PM] George Washington
[09:00 PM] Garden State
[10:45 PM] Trans
[12:05 AM] High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story
[02:00 AM] Garden State
[03:45 AM] Trans
[05:05 AM] House of D (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Russell Mulcahy's Tale Of The Mummy', followed by the movie 'The Shaft'.
Sundance -
[04:45 AM] Black, White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
[06:00 AM] The Sea Inside
[08:05 AM] House
[09:00 AM] Panic at the Disco, David Gray & Suzanne Vega
[10:00 AM] Episode 8
[11:00 AM] Samuel Jackson on Bill Russell
[12:00 PM] Ginger and Cinnamon
[02:00 PM] Part 5
[03:00 PM] Episode 1
[04:10 PM] Wetlands Preserved
[05:50 PM] Episode 7
[06:25 PM] West Bank Story
[07:00 PM] Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
[09:00 PM] Episode 9
[10:00 PM] Monsoon Wedding
[12:10 AM] One Take Only
[01:40 AM] Nice Bombs
[03:00 AM] Episode 3
[03:30 AM] Episode 5
[04:00 AM] Sonny (ALL TIMES EST)
A vast collection of 78 rpm records - valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history - is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.
The more than 200,000 records represented the entire inventory of "Records Revisited," a landmark Manhattan store owned by Morton Savada, who died in February from lung cancer at age 85.
Savada's collection included recordings from 1895 to the 1950s, with big band, jazz, country, blues, gospel, polka, folk, Broadway, Hawaiian and Latin among the genres. It also contains spoken-word, comedy and broadcast recordings, and "V-disks," which were distributed as entertainment to the U.S. military during World War II.
Records Revisited was the last store exclusively selling 78 rpm recordings and was a frequent haunt for those in the film and music industries, including actor/directors Woody Allen and Matt Dillon. Savada often lent his 78s to movie and music producers rather than selling them, and never sold the last copy of a recording because he regarded his collection as an archive, not an inventory.
Marchers in the Novato, CA July 4th parade carry hundreds of red, white and blue origami birds symbolizing the desire for residents to end the war in Iraq.
Photo by Lisa Weston
Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie has completed a 110-day solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a boat propelled by wave power to claim another world first.
Weak waves and opposing ocean currents delayed his arrival, which was originally set for late May.
The 9.5 metre (31-foot) boat is equipped with two special fins at the front which can move like a dolphin's tail each time the vessel rises or falls with the rhythm of the waves.
Horie, who will turn 70 in September, reached his destination in the channel between the main Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikoku just before midnight (1500 GMT Friday) after covering some 7,000 kilometres (3,780 nautical miles) from Hawaii without a port call.
The Beach Boys along with actor John Stamos (NBC Hit Seies E.R.) performed to a crowd of 50,000 + who had gathered on the famous beach in front of the Atlantic City Hilton Casino on Friday Afternoon July 4th, 2008 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Memorabilia belonging to a former British royal servant -- including a letter from the late princess Diana after the birth of Prince William -- shattered pre-sale estimates at auction Saturday.
William Tallon, known as Backstairs Billy, served the royal family for 51 years until his death last year aged 72.
The 700 lots -- which sold for nearly 450,000 pounds (569,000 euros, 892,000 dollars), almost double their estimate -- also included a note highlighting Queen Elizabeth II's late mother's penchant for gin.
A hand-written note from the queen mother, who died in 2002 aged 101, to Tallon read: "I think that I will take two small bottles of Dubonnet and gin with me this morning, in case it is needed." It fetched 16,000 pounds.
Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study says.
The declines in Indonesia and Malaysia since 2004 are mostly because of illegal logging and the expansion of palm oil plantations, Serge Wich, a scientist at the Great Ape Trust in Iowa, said on Saturday.
The survey found the orangutan population on Indonesia's Sumatra island dropped almost 14 percent since 2004, Wich said. It also concluded that the populations on Borneo island, which is shared by Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, have fallen by 10 percent. Researchers only surveyed areas of Borneo that are in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Peruvian archaeologist Sergio Chavez holds a piece from the Tiawanacu culture, unearthed at the Cundisa site in downtown Copacabana, on the shores of lake Titicaca near the border with Peru, July 4, 2008. Chavez says that some of the artefacts found at the site belong to the Tiwanaku and Incan cultures which populated the area thousands of years ago. His team has unearthed several tombs with human remains, as well as textiles, clay pots and jewellery at the site in tourist hotspot Copacabana, which was discovered by chance last month when builders started laying the foundations for a new market. Picture taken July 4, 2008.
Photo by David Mercado
Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.
"He was obsessed with dotting every `i' and crossing every `t'," Melissa Amschwand-Bellinger recalled about her husband, who died in 2001 at age 30.
But Spherion Corp., the temporary staffing company where Amschwand worked, told Amschwand-Bellinger she would not receive any of the $426,000 in benefits she believed she was due. When she went to court, Spherion succeeded in getting her lawsuit thrown out. The Supreme Court on June 27 refused to review the case.
Amschwand-Bellinger received a refund of the few thousand dollars in insurance premiums she and her husband dutifully had paid. The total, she said, would not cover the costs of his funeral.
The story has played out often under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Designed to protect employee benefits, the law has been used by employers as a shield against suits.
A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.
Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the exhibit.
The man tore off the head in protest at the exhibit, the spokesman added. The police were alerted and arrested the man, who did not resist. He was later released though he remained under investigation for assault and damaging property.
The wax figure is the latest in a gradual breaking down of taboos about Hitler in Germany more than 60 years after the end of the war and the Holocaust in which some six million Jews were killed.
A model displays the latest collection of Omani designer Amal Al Ra'aes during a fashion show held by Gulf designers in Manama July 5, 2008.
Photo by Hamad I Mohammed
It was many and many years ago in a cottage in the Bronx where Edgar Allan Poe lived his last years and wrote some of his classic pieces.
Long a tourist attraction, the small five-room building will soon give visitors an even better sense of Poe's final years with a planned renovation and the construction of a visitor centre.
Abigail Lootens, director of communications for the Historic House Trust, says it's going to be the first complete restoration of the property.
Work is expected to start in the spring and last a year. The cottage will be closed to the public during the work. The restoration will cost about $250,000.
FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines, Florida to Baltimore via the shipping company.
Police tell The (Baltimore) Sun they learned about the shipment when it was delivered Tuesday to the wrong resident.
Authorities posed as FedEx employees and arrested the shipment's intended recipient, 30-year-old Richard Gwatidzo.
Police say they also seized eight other FedEx boxes with nearly 400 pounds of the drug.
Warbie, a seven-week-old ring-tailed lemur is pictured yawning at Bristol Zoo Thursday, July 3, 2008. Warbie was born at the zoo on May 10 this year.
Photo by Ben Birchall
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I use the Seti search program as a screen saver, kinda cool to think you are helping to search for extraterrestrial martian monsters and stuff but it looks like they want to cut funding for the Arecibo Observatory. The repugs probably figure that if intelligent life is found off the Earth they would have one up on the GOP.
