ANDREW GUMBEL: An Opposition That Opposes (lacitybeat.com)
Now the Democrats need to stop fighting among themselves, and take the message to a broader national audience. They might not have had the courage to stand up against a popular Republican administration. Now all they need is the courage to oppose an unpopular Republican administration. Really, how hard can that be?
Arianna Huffington: Lieberman's Loss Makes Cheney Talk Terror (HuffingtonPost.com. Posted on AlterNet.org)
... being against the war in Iraq doesn't mean you are against fighting the war on terror. It means you are against a failed policy that has created more terrorists than it has killed, that has cost America 2,591 lives and $305 billion dollars, that has thrown Iraq into a bloody sectarian civil war, and that has so lessened our standing abroad that we are unable to be a real power broker in an exploding Middle East.
Patrick Allitt: The Art of Tithing (incharacter.org)
Anne Willingham of Atlanta's Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, agrees that tithing teaches financial self-discipline and admits that it can be a struggle. She was surprised, on marrying into the Episcopal Church in the 1960s, to find the tradition weak there. She had been raised a Southern Baptist and suggested tithing to her husband. "He said, 'We can't afford to,' but I said, 'We can't afford not to,' so we agreed to a six-month experiment. At the end of six months we were as well off as before, so we continued to tithe. He died two years ago, and by then we had tithed continuously for forty-three years, while sending all six of our children through private school and college." She adds, perhaps a shade ruefully, "In all those years, we never had an argument over money, because there was never enough money left to argue over!"
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 7', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', and pads the left coast with 'Dateline', and maybe a RECYCLED'Battlestar Galactica'.
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'Grey's Anatomy'.
The WB offers a FRESH'Just Legal', followed by a RERUN'Charmed', then another RERUN'Charmed'.
Faux has a FRESH infomercial - 'Fox Fall Preview 2006', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'War At Home'.
UPN has an old 'Fear Factor', followed by the movie 'First Blood'.
A&E has has 'Flip This House', followed by a FRESH'Flip This House', 'BTK Killer Speaks', followed by a FRESH'Intervention', and 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
AMC offers offers the movie 'Back To The Future', followed by the movie 'Back To The Future', again, then the movie 'Inspector Gadget'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 Sandgate;
[3:00 pm] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 La Gondola;
[4:00 pm] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place;
[5:00 pm] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's;
[6:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 10;
[9:00 pm] Life On Mars - Episode 3;
[10:00 pm] Footballers Wives Overtime - Episode 2;
[10:30 pm] Mile High - Episode 12;
[1:30 am] Footballers Wives Overtime - Episode 2;
[2:00 am] Mile High - Episode 12;
[3:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 2;
[3:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 11;
[4:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 10;
[4:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[5:00 am] Just For Laughs - Episode 2;
[5:30 am] Just For Laughs - Episode 1;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again', followed by the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy tour: One For The Road', 'Mind Of Mencia', and 'Reno 911!'.
History has has 'Mega Disasters', 'Countdown To Ground Zero', and 'The Revolution'.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] Y Tu Mama Tambien;
[08:00 AM] Birthday Girl;
[09:35 AM] The Matchmaker;
[11:15 AM] The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain;
[01:00 PM] At The IFC Center #16;
[01:30 PM] Bend It Like Beckham;
[03:30 PM] The Matchmaker;
[05:15 PM] The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain;
[07:00 PM] Max;
[09:00 PM] Reservoir Dogs;
[11:00 PM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman #2;
[11:30 PM] The Business: Episode 2;
[12:00 AM] Reservoir Dogs;
[02:00 AM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman #2;
[02:30 AM] The Business: Episode 2;
[03:00 AM] Birthday Girl;
[04:35 AM] She's Gotta Have It;
[08:00 AM] The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has has the movie 'Earthquake: Nature Unleashed', followed by the movie 'Volcano: Nature Unleashed'.
Sundance -
[07:10 AM] Buffalo Bill and the Indians;
[09:15 AM] The White Balloon;
[10:40 AM] Go Further;
[12:00 PM] Play It As It Lays;
[01:45 PM] Brother;
[02:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 8;
[02:30 PM] Harvie Krumpet;
[03:00 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 2: The Moon;
[03:30 PM] 200 Motels;
[05:15 PM] Monsterthursday;
[07:00 PM] Sugar Town;
[08:35 PM] Harvie Krumpet;
[09:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 8;
[09:30 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 2: The Moon;
[10:00 PM] Primo Amore;
[11:45 PM] Brother;
[12:00 AM] Audition;
[02:00 AM] The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess;
[03:35 AM] The Gift;
[04:45 AM] The White Balloon. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Actress Ashley Judd wears a broad smile as she watches qualifying for the IndyCar Series' Meijer Indy 300 auto race Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky. Judd's husband, Dario Franchitti, drives in the series.
Photo by Ed Reinke
War protesters extended the olive branch to their new neighbors in resident Bush's adopted hometown by hosting a barbecue Saturday - and a few even showed up.
Anti-war demonstrator Jim Goodnow said he was glad some area residents - roughly half a dozen - visited the new protest site.
On Saturday, a week into the group's summer protest, nearly 150 people attended the barbecue under a large tent filled with banners that read "A mother's loss, a nation's pain."
But Sheehan was absent. She was to spend a second night in a hospital in nearby Waco after a minor gynecological procedure and treatment for dehydration.
U. S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during the commencement program at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006.
Photo by Judi Bottoni
When Jamie Gold bluffed, his opponents folded. When he had the best hand, they threw in all their chips.
With a run of cards, a huge chip stack and an uncanny knack for reading other players, Gold, a talkative former Hollywood talent agent, cajoled his way to victory Friday at the World Series of Poker for the $12 million US grand prize.
The 12-day marathon that began with a record field of 8,773 players ended with the flourish that Gold made his trademark. With 3.9 million in chips in the pot, Gold declared "all in" and stood beside the pile of cash at the table to convince the last remaining player, Paul Wasicka, it was his for the taking.
"I knew that he was weak, but he had a hand. And then I knew it was my chance," said Gold, whose clients have included Jimmy Fallon and Lucy Liu. "I went all in, and then I just went into my act."
It may not be the world's greatest artwork, but David Aberg's 8,000-square-metre painting is definitely the biggest.
The Swedish artist said Friday that he spent 2 1/2 years and 100 tonnes of paint to complete his work, Mother Earth, inside an aircraft hangar in Angelholm, southern Sweden.
Guinness World Records in London confirmed it was the world's largest painting done by a lone artist, more than twice as big as the previous record holder.
Aberg's painting depicts a woman holding a peace sign.
Celeste Holm smiles during a press conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film, 'High Society' in Newport, Rhode Island August 12, 2006.
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi
A senior Russian police officer said Saturday that a late curator, who has been the focus of an investigation into the theft of art from the State Hermitage Museum, had offered to sell some of the stolen items to an antiques dealer.
The thefts highlighted lax security and antiquated record-keeping at Russian institutions and underscored the funding crisis that has plagued museums and archives since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Larisa Zavadskaya, the curator in charge of the Russian art collection where the thefts occurred, died suddenly at work when a routine inventory check began last year. Earlier this week, police detained four suspects, including Zavadskaya's husband and their son, and charged them with involvement in the thefts.
Zavadskaya's husband confessed that he and his wife were involved in some of the thefts and that they took place over several years, his lawyer said.
The family of the late Notorious B.I.G. lost a bid to expand its wrongful death lawsuit against the city to include new claims that a rogue police officer was on duty at the site of the killing.
While waiting for the retrial to begin in January, his family submitted a motion last month alleging that former officers David Mack and Rafael Perez, working for Death Row Records mogul Marion "Suge" Knight, were behind the rapper's shooting death.
His family contends that Perez was at the museum the night of the slaying and tipped Mack to the rapper's whereabouts. Both former officers, Knight and the alleged triggerman, Amir Muhammad, have denied involvement in the killing. They were not named as defendants in the proposed new suit.
U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper denied the request Thursday, ruling there was "no admissible evidence that Perez was on duty ... at the scene of the murder."
George Benson performs at the JVC Jazz Festival at Fort Adams in Newport, R.I., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Fans enjoyed jazz acts on three stages set around the Fort Adams waterfront during the second day of the three day festival.
Photo by Stew Milne
A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that the statute of limitations had run out before Jacque Hollander filed her lawsuit against the so-called Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Hollander claimed Brown raped her at gunpoint in 1988 when she was employed by him and threatened to have her killed if she told anyone.
Hollander later developed a thyroid condition and was told by her doctor the alleged rape was the cause.
She filed suit against Brown and his company, Brown Enterprises Inc., in January 2005, saying the two-year statute of limitations didn't apply because she learned of her disease 12 years after the alleged incident.
The appeals court said this week in a 12-page opinion written by Judge Kenneth Ripple that U.S. Magistrate Judge Sidney Schenkier was correct in throwing out the suit in June 2005 on grounds it was 15 years too late.
A participant poses during a lesbian and gay parade in Tokyo August 12, 2006. About 3,800 people attended the largest homosexual event in Japan.
Photo by Toru Hanai
Billed as the largest private collection of Barbie dolls, the lifelong passion of a Dutch mother will go under the hammer next month.
Up for sale are 4,000 dolls spanning the entire history of Barbie and her friends, family and fashions which stretches back to 1959.
"This is a collection of virtually everything -- and most of it is in mint condition as it has never been taken out of its boxes, making it particularly highly prized," said Daniel Agnew, toy expert at auction house Christie's.
Conservatively priced at around 100,000 pounds ($190,000), the collection will go on sale in London on September 26.
Actor Drew Carey imitates the face of his Cleveland Indians bobblehead doll before the Indians' baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, as part of Drew Carey Bobblehead Doll Night at Jacobs Field in Cleveland.
Photo by Jeff Glidden
A 10-year-old girl is to pick up a big reward after finding a lump of whale sick on a beach. Melissa Cathcart was beachcombing on holiday in north Wales when she came across the massive lump of yellow vomit. And she is set to pocket £3,500 by selling the giant mammal sick, known as ambergris, to perfume makers.
Her mother Kay told The Sun: "We recently heard on the radio about ambergris, but when Melissa found some I couldn't believe it!"
The rare, waxy substance is produced by sperm whales and known as "floating gold".
Perfume makers use it to slow down evaporation in perfumes and it can be worth up to £10 a gram.
Performers from Italy's Kataklo Athletic Dance Theatre balance on bicycles for photographers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9, 2006 The festival will runs until August 28, 2006.
Photo by David Moir
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