Tom Danehy: Tom remembers his (sometimes contentious) encounters with Jeff Smith (Tucson Weekly)
He later saw me chatting with NRA President Charlton Heston and asked, considering my stance on guns, how I could warm up to the Antichrist. I said, "All I know is that (Heston) marched with Dr. King back when it was dangerous to do so, both physically and career-wise. After that, unless he starts molesting children, he gets a lifetime pass from me."
Amanda Hess: Millions of Americans Watch Porn. But For Academics, Studying It Remains A Challenge (Slate)
Slate: Pasadena City College professor Hugo Schwyzer seems to have catapulted himself to become the nation's most famous teachers of pornography by being the worst at it. He recently took to Twitter to admit that he fantasized about having sex with porn stars in front of his class, that he carried on an extramarital affair with a porn star, and that he used his position as "the porn professor" to earn the affections of his female students.
David Weigel: 3 Reasons Cracked Is the Only Site That Gets Listicles Right (Slate)
There is nothing inherently wrong with the listicle, and no one should feel shame for reading facts in numerical order instead of plowing through a #longread. But every listicle-maker starts with a choice. He or she could cobble together some popular items that will elicit a "like" or a "share" because they're familiar, or he/she can tell us something we don't already know. Cracked is what happens when the Internet tries harder.
"Somethin' Stupid" is a song written by C. Carson Parks and originally recorded in 1966 by Parks and his wife Gaile Foote, as "Carson and Gaile". It is best known in the hit version by Frank Sinatra and his daughter, Nancy Sinatra.
The single spent four weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and nine weeks atop the easy listening chart, becoming Frank's second gold single as certified by the RIAA and Nancy's third. It was the first and only instance of a father-daughter number-one song in America. Nancy Sinatra has said she thinks it's "very sweet" that some people refer to it as the "Incest Song". The single also reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart the same year.
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Charlie was first, and exactly correct, with:
There aren't that many candidates, I don't think, so it isn't hard to guess it's "Somethin' Stupid' by Nancy and Frank Sinatra (1967). A.K.A "The Incest Song".
mj wrote:
It was a harmless little ditty
Something Stupid by Frank and Nancy Sinatra. What I find interesting is, that while neither had a strong voice, each (especially Frank) could evoke a gut emotional response.
Alan J answered:
Something Stupid by Frank and Nancy Sinatra
Sally said:
Didn't have to think twice about this one:
"Somethin' Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra.
Frank sure tried to promote Nancy, but she just didn't have 'it!'
PS: I never liked Frank Sinatra!
I did like the Irish tenors, like Dennis Day - anyone remember him??
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
"Somethin' Stupid" is a song originally written by C. Carson Parks and
released by Carson and Gaile. It was more famously released in 1967 by
Frank Sinatra and his daughter, Nancy Sinatra. The song rose to #1 on the
US Singles Chart and won the elder Sinatra his first Gold single. It was
released on the album The World We Knew. It was the first and only
instance of a father-daughter number-one song in America.
John I from Hawai'i says,
"Something Stupid by Frank and Nancy Sinatra."
Lonely Lois in Oregon replied:
Ha! I didn't have to look this one up either! Remember hearing it on the A.M. Radio..."Something Stupid" by Frank and his kid, Nancy, who played "Coco" in an episode of the
"Man From U.N.C.L.E." which starred David McCallum! Is that one degree of seperation or two?
Leo in Maryland answered:
"Something Stupid" by Frank and Nancy Sinatra.
Marian is off on an adventure.
Dale of Stiflingly Sticky Diamond Springs, Norcali, took the day off.
Randall responded:
My guess is:
Frank and Nancy Sinatra for the aptly titled:
"Something Stupid"
BttbBob responded:
I thought about this for a bit and concluded that it was probably that Frank-Nancy Sinatra song whose name, "Something Stupid", I couldn't recall until I looked it up. Then, it was, like, oh yeah! So, I'm half right... "Half a bite, half a loaf, half of sumpthin' is better than nuthin'...", as I always say... And I always thought that Nancy was a foxy lady, too. I think it was the boots thing...
Yeah, the boots...
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"Too bad, So sad" Moment - Nobody caught my Madonna age error so "The Boss" loses out. Not-my-fault! Howsoever... I'll make that a 'standing bounty'. Ya catch an age error, $5 to "The Boss"... (I think JoeS did once some time ago, but my agent says the bounty is NOT retroactive (emphasis, his). Sorry, Boss...)
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(76) Code name: "Condor"...
(69) Garth... and Barth
(77) Real-life Olympic Gold Medal winning 'Iron Man'... Awesome...
(37) Zounds! Such eyes! It's as if she's really looking RIGHT AT ME!
(85) Jimmy's sweetheart for the past 68 years... Married for 67 of 'em...
Nicknamed "Steel Magnolia" by the press, when Jimmy ran in '76, for her sweetness and drive. I think she's a marvelous, admirable person.
Born this day:
(1952-2009) My brother, Dan, the guitarist I wrote of on Thursday, looks remarkably like this photo of Patrick...
(1920-2006) Now be honest... Would you mess with ol' Ma here? Huh? Would ya? Not me... I never mess with a woman who's chompin' on a cigar...
... and holding a Thompson .45 caliber sub-machine gun. Nope... Not me...
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Unforgettable', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Crossing Lines', then another FRESH'Crossing Lines'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Secret Millionaire', then a FRESH'Whodunnit?', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'Bad Ink', then another FRESH'Bad Ink'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Departed', 'Breaking Bad', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Bad', then a FRESH'Low Winter Sun'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 3
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 10-11 - Episode 4
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Spanish Pavilion, Kingston Cafe, Capri, La Frite
[9:00AM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS - Season 1 - Episode 1
[10:00AM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS - Season 1 - Episode 2
[11:00AM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS - Season 1 - Episode 3
[12:00PM] RAMSAY BEHIND BARS - Season 1 - Episode 4
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 4
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 5
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 6
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR AT THE MOVIES
[5:30PM] TIME BANDITS
[8:00PM] THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
[10:00PM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Ashes Denote That Fire Was NEW
[11:00PM] THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
[1:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Ashes Denote That Fire Was
[2:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 7 - The Hope Too Bright To Last
[3:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Ashes Denote That Fire Was
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 5
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Eat, Drink, Love', and another 'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie '50 First Dates', followed by the movie 'Jackass 3D'.
FX has the movie 'Just Go With It', followed by the movie 'Step Brothers'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', then a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Affliction
[8:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-David Cross Wears a Red Polo Shirt and Brown Shoes with Red Laces
[9:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zoe Saldana Wears a Tan Blouse and Glasses
[9:30AM] Dilbert-Art
[10:00AM] Dilbert-The Trial
[10:30AM] Dilbert-The Dupey
[11:00AM] Dilbert-The Security Guard
[11:30AM] Dilbert-The Merger
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-In God We Trust
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-Storming the Castle
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Pier Pressure
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Public Relations
[2:00PM] Arrested Development-Marta Complex
[2:30PM] Arrested Development-Beef Consomme
[3:00PM] Arrested Development-Shock & Aww
[3:30PM] Meatballs
[5:30PM] Slumdog Millionaire
[8:15PM] Slumdog Millionaire
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Gillian Jacobs Wears a Red Dress with Sail Boats
[11:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants
[12:00AM] Jarhead
[2:30AM] The Thaw
[4:30AM] Action-Blowhard
[5:00AM] Action-Mr. Dragon Goes to Washington
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Polish Wedding
[8:00AM] The Limey
[10:00AM] Big Trouble in Little China
[11:45AM] French Roast
[12:00PM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[12:30PM] The Writers' Room-Parks and Recreation
[1:00PM] The Writers' Room-Breaking Bad
[4:00PM] The Limey
[6:00PM] The Warriors
[7:45PM] Dog Day Afternoon
[10:00PM] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
[12:30AM] Requiem for a Dream
[2:45AM] Animal Kingdom
[4:45AM] Uncle Kent (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare', followed by the movie 'Freddy vs. Jason'.
Souvenirs for sale are seen during the opening night of a festival celebrating the supposed visit of aliens to the Kelly-Hopkinsville area in 1955, in Kelly, Kentucky August 16, 2013.
Photo by Harrison McClary
A private jet carrying rock bands Ratt and Dokken had to make an emergency landing in northwestern Illinois after smoke was detected in the cabin Saturday afternoon.
Chuck Brennan, a friend of the bands who chartered the flight, told The Associated Press that the plane took off from the Moline airport but pilots had to turn it around when smoke appeared in the front of the plane at about 7,000 feet.
Brennan said the pilots donned oxygen masks and landed the Challenger 601 with no incident. There were no injuries reported by the pilot or the 13 passengers.
Ratt and Dokken, both big names from the 1980s hair metal scene, played in Moline on Friday night with Lita Ford and Sebastian Bach. They were heading to the Chicago suburb of Wauconda for an outdoor show Saturday with Ford, Bach and Warrant.
A participant looks at a picture depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin with make-up during the Prague Pride Parade where several thousand people marched through Prague's city centre in support of gay rights August 17, 2013.
Photo by David W Cerny
Bob Newhart has been appearing on television for more than half a century.
He won a Peabody Award after the first year of his first show. He guest-hosted Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" 87 times and "Saturday Night Live" twice. He is number 17 on TV Guide's list of the greatest television stars of all time.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a statue on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. He's been awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American humor. And he's been inducted into the TV Academy's Television Hall of Fame.
Oh, and he's never won an Emmy.
Newhart himself has only been nominated six times - once for writing, in 1962, and the other five times for acting, on shows ranging from his sitcom "Newhart" to the drama "ER," the TNT movie "The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice" and, this year, the CBS series "The Big Bang Theory."
Through 80 summers, drive-in theaters have managed to remain a part of the American fabric, surviving technological advances and changing tastes that put thousands out of business. Now the industry says a good chunk of the 350 or so left could be forced to turn out the lights because they can't afford to adapt to the digital age.
Movie studios are phasing out 35 mm film prints, and the switch to an eventually all-digital distribution system is pushing the outdoor theaters to make the expensive change to digital projectors.
The $70,000-plus investment required per screen is significant, especially for what is in most places a summertime business kept alive by mom-and-pop operators. Paying for the switch would suck up most owners' profits for years to come.
The digital transformation has been underway in the film industry for more than a decade because of the better picture and sound quality and the ease of delivery - no more huge reels of film. The time frame isn't clear, but production companies are already phasing out traditional 35 mm film, and it's expected to disappear completely over the next few years.
An industry incentive program will reimburse theater owners 80 percent of the cost of conversion over time, Vogel says, but because most drive-ins are small, family-run businesses, it's hard for many to find the money, period. And the reimbursement doesn't cover the tens of thousands of dollars more that many will have to spend renovating projection rooms to create the climate-controlled conditions needed for the high-tech equipment.
A demonstrator wears a mask at the protest camp, near the entrance to a site run by Cuadrilla Resources, near Balcombe in southern England August 16, 2013. An oil explorer has suspended drilling in southern England in response to the threat of an escalating protest against fracking, the controversial process used to extract gas and oil from shale deposits that has transformed the U.S. energy market. Caudrilla Resources's site in the village of Balcombe in rural West Sussex has become a focal point for protesters who oppose fracking, a technique the company has pioneered in the search for shale gas in Britain.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth
A camouflage-clad bride and groom got a little advice from a bewhiskered witness on their wedding day: "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson.
WTAE-TV reports Robertson told the couple to always love and forgive one another as they were wed Saturday morning at a Field & Stream store near Pittsburgh.
Robertson popped in for the nuptials of Mehgan Cook, who sported a camouflage sash on her dress, and Charlie Miller, who was completely clad in camo gear.
Cook said she had been engaged to another man, but he died in a car crash four years ago. But she met Miller at the scene and eventually the two started dating.
Singer sentenced to labor
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge reinstated Chris Brown's revoked probation Friday and gave the singer a new sentence to perform 1,000 hours of community labor such as cleaning beaches or highways, removing graffiti or performing other chores assigned by the probation department.
Brown's current legal troubles are the latest repercussions of his arrest four years ago for assaulting his former girlfriend, Rihanna.
The popular R&B singer sat in a courtroom for nearly an hour as his lawyer, Mark Geragos, and a prosecutor shuttled in and out of the judge's chambers, with Geragos apparently seeking his client's approval for a plan to keep him from facing more serious consequences.
Superior Court Judge James Brandlin finally emerged and announced that an agreement had been reached.
Brandlin then told Brown he must perform 1,000 hours of community labor with one of four public programs: California Department of Transportation highway cleanup, graffiti removal, beach cleanup or Probation Alternative Work Services.
A boy takes a picture with a Soviet-made film camera of an art installation on a bank of the Yenisei River in the village of Ovsyanka, some 24km (15 miles) south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, August 17, 2013.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
A Los Angeles County law requiring adult film performers to wear condoms is constitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
The decision is a setback to porn producers who filed a lawsuit to block the implementation of the Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act, or Measure B, which was approved by voters last November. It was sponsored by five individuals affiliated with the nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
In the ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson wrote that supporters presented sufficient evidence of the health risks the measure seeks to reduce.
Since the law's adoption, Los Angeles County health officials have confirmed they are investigating at least one alleged violation.
Outspoken Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is opposing the appointment of an independent monitor and other moves to address a judge's finding that his agency racially profiled Latinos, according to a court filing on Friday.
The move could result in a judge ordering the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to comply with constitutional requirements that ban the practice.
In May, U.S. District Judge Murray Snow found that Arpaio's office singled out Latinos, and that deputies unreasonably prolonged detentions, marking the first finding by a court that the agency engages in racial profiling.
Snow delayed issuing orders in the case in June after both parties indicated they wanted time to work toward an agreement.
Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox said she wasn't surprised by the sheriff's reluctance to agree to key terms but added, "the remedies are coming, like it or not."
Josh Hubeli details a 1926 Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix at the Gooding & Company auction pavilion in Pebble Beach, California, August 16, 2013. The auctioneer is expecting to fetch about $3 million when the vintage race model is put on the block this weekend.
Photo by Michael Fiala
A Romanian princess, the daughter of exiled former Romanian King Michael, appeared in a U.S. court on Friday with her American husband on charges related to cockfighting in rural Oregon, authorities said.
Irina Walker, 60, was among 18 people charged with holding 10 cockfighting "derbies" in 2012 and 2013, according to the indictment filed in federal district court in Oregon.
A woman reached by phone at the Romanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., who declined to be identified, said the mission had been informed that a daughter of King Michael had been arrested in Oregon.
"She was born in Switzerland," the woman said. "We don't really have a lot of information on her."
The exiled king, who was forced to abdicate in 1947 and then went into exile, said in a statement that he had learned of his daughter's arrest with "profound sadness."
Princess Irina is the third of five daughters of the Romanian king and is married to John Wesley Walker, a former Coos County sheriff's deputy, the Oregonian newspaper reported. She moved to Oregon in 1983 and married Walker in 2007, the paper reported.
Just weeks after calling for the removal of gray wolves from the Endangered Species List, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now under fire for allegations that it intentionally excluded three prominent scientists-whose views diverged from the Service's on delisting-from an upcoming peer review process.
In June, Fish and Wildlife called to delist gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, leaving an exception for the struggling Mexican wolf in the Southwest. Agency director Dan Ashe told the media that the gray wolf had recovered to the point that it could thrive and even enlarge its territory without federal oversight. Several wolf advocates and some members of Congress disagreed. Once wolves are delisted, their management will fall to individual states.
But in order for the delisting process to continue, federal law requires that a team of scientists evaluate the basis for the motion. As such, Fish and Wildlife hired a private contractor to select and oversee the peer review panel. According to Fish and Wildlife spokesman Gavin Shire, the agency isn't supposed to know who the panelists are. But the Associated Press revealed that the contractor chosen to assemble the panel had provided a list of candidates that redacted their names but included their professional resumes. Armed with this information, the Service found three esteemed wolf biologists, who-and this is the key part-had expressed concern with the gray wolf delisting plan. They also, along with 16 other prominent scientists, had signed a letter expressing this concern. Shortly thereafter, Fish and Wildlife effectively "delisted" the three scientists from the panel.
Yet under Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act, the decision to delist a species is required to be based on the best available science. "Had the Service followed this mandate, the best course of action would have been to develop a nationwide recovery plan for wolves using the best available science," Hartl said. "Instead, the Service basically asked the States whether they wanted wolves or not and based its decision to delist the wolf on these political considerations."
Alphorn players blow their instruments in an attempt to break the world record for the largest ensemble of people playing the alphorn, on the Gornergrat in front of the Matterhorn mountain near Zermatt, 3,089 metres (10,135 feet) above sea level, August 17, 2013. The musicians, clad in traditional Swiss costume, gathered on the Gornergrat ridge to perform a piece specially composed for their wooden horns. The 508 players broke a record set in 2009, when 366 musicians took part in a concert.
Photo by Ruben Sprich
From the moment parking meter mechanic James Bagarozzo began his scheme to steal from the machines, his life became overrun with quarters. He stashed them in his pockets, in a sack in his truck, in closets at his house.
Over more than eight years, he brought home $210,000 worth of quarters - 10,500 pounds (4,760 kilograms) of them - which he dutifully rolled and packed in $500 boxes to be exchanged for cash at banks on his lunch hour.
On Friday, a judge imposed a 2 1/2-year sentence on Bagarozzo, who blamed a gambling addiction and an illness he believed would kill him before he built a nest egg for his family.
From 2003 through 2011, the meter mechanic spent the first half of every workday stealing from 70 to 75 metres, prosecutors said. Rather than fix machines, he broke them so that quarters would collect on top where he could grab them with his hands instead of dropping into the collection canister.
Prosecutors said the money allowed Bagarozzo to send his daughters to college and pay off his mortgage, but defence attorney James Harrington said virtually everything was lost at casinos.
Anthony Weiner may be lagging in the race for New York City mayor, but he is winning in another area - hot dog marketing.
The delicious combination of Anthony Weiner's name and his sexually suggestive Twitter antics were apparently too good to pass up for one Florida marketing man, who has joined forces with an Illinois hot dog company to create a hot dog brand called Carlos Danger Weiners, which he has incorporated into the company Carlos Danger LLC.
The company, whose website launched today, was created by Randall Richards, the CEO of Web Dominators LLC, a marketing firm in Orlando, in partnership with Thrushwood Farms Quality Meats, a family-owned business in Illinois. Hot dog orders can be placed through the website, and Richards said he had been in touch with several chains such as Walmart and Publix about selling the dogs.
Richards said the idea for his company began percolating around three weeks ago, when new revelations emerged that Weiner had continued to send messages - under the name Carlos Danger - even after he had resigned from Congress and had begun planning his run for Big Apple mayor.
Described on the website as "the World's Most Delicious Dogs With Mocking Salacious Fun," the Carlos Danger Weiner site invites visitors to "Take a picture of yourself with your Carlos Danger Weiner and send it out to your friends, or even people you don't know at all!"
An American flag flies atop the stage at the first day of Hempfest, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, in Seattle. Thousands packed the Seattle waterfront park for the opening of a three-day marijuana festival - an event that is part party, part protest and part victory celebration after the legalization of pot in Washington and Colorado last fall. Hempfest was expected to draw as many as 85,000 people per day.
Photo by Elaine Thompson
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