Matthew Yglesias: We Could End Polio Forever For About $1 Billion (Slate)
The Gates Foundation believes it has a plan to get this done for about $5.5 billion over a six-year period, and they've raised about $4 billion in pledges already. Their rather modest "ask" of the United States government is that we increase our annual contribution to this effort to $200 million a year from its current pace of $150 million a year …
Charles Hill: On Decadence (The American Interest)
"Decline" we Americans and Westerners mope about daily; "fall" most of us still hope to postpone. Decadence, it would seem, is the mean between the two.
Salty Bison: DIY Jar Head Halloween Costume
Today we're taking a caloric filled jar of cheese balls and turning it into the most legit Halloween costume you've ever seen. So lick off those cheesy fingers and don't throw away the jar because we're going to upcycle that baby.
German Kindergarten Designed as a Giant Cat (My Modern Metropolis)
The building is shaped to mimic a crouching kitty with its ears upright, looking as though it is ready to pounce at any moment. The circular windows at the front of the imaginative architecture serve as the enormous cat's eyes whereas the tail in the back is actually a slide. Inside the kitty kindergarten, all of the usual amenities are present-classrooms, coatrooms, a kitchen, dining room, and a main hall.
Laverne & Shirley (credited as Laverne De Fazio & Shirley Feeney in the first season) is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milwaukee brewery called "Shotz Brewery."
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Laverne & Shirley
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Laverne & Shirley
mj wrote:
They were doin' it their way
Laverne and Shirley.
Charlie responded:
Laverne & Shirley
Adam answered:
Laverne & Shirley.
Say what you will about this show, the first 6 or so eps directed by James Burrows are as funny as any more classic shows.
Marian replied:
Laverne and Shirley
Sally said:
I believe that the answer to the question dejour is the old sitcom, "Laverne & Shirley."
While I loved, "Happy Days," this show was just un-watchable for me!!
PS: Thank you, Marty, for a much-needed belly laugh today!
"Iowa native Steve Chmelar, who created the foam finger prototype in 1971 (which Geral Fauss would later go on to mass produce in 1978), said he didn't like his invention's newfound infamy...
'She took an honorable icon that is seen in sporting venues everywhere and degraded it,' Chmelar told FoxSports."
This a joke, right? I am ROTFLMAO here...
Dale of the Springs of Diamonds, Norcali, is avoiding the smoke by visiting Bodega Bay, where the birds can be a nuisance.
BttbBob replied:
"Laverne and Shirley"... I don't remember which one was which, but I think Laverne is the one in the leather jacket... or maybe that is Shirley. I dunno fer sure. Can ya help a guy out here, eh?
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'Laziness' Moment - As I'm 60 now, I have decided that I can be indolent if'n I chose to be and not give a fig about it... and I don't... Therefore...
And, Joe S responded:
One of my favorite comedies, Laverne and Shirley. I watched it every chance I got.
I'm tired, Wallace was with us all day. What a blast. Did I mention I'm tired? We went to the playground down the block, Wallace had the entire playground to himself. We were there for two hours and he never stopped running one time.
I'm tired.
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 the FRESH'TV's Funniest Of The Funniest: A Paley Center for Media Special'.
ABC begins the night with the FRESH infomercial 'ABC Fall Preview Special', followed by a FRESH'Secret Millionaire', then a FRESH 2-hour version of what used to be the Jerry Lewis 'MDA Telethon'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'The Simpsons', then a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy', and another RERUN'Family Guy'.
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 'Big Bang theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', 'Bad Ink', and another 'Bad Ink'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers', 'Breaking Bad', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Bad' (runs 1 hour, 4 minutes), then a FRESH'Low Winter Sun'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 1
[7:00AM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 2
[8:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Giant Water Bug
[9:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Giant Huntsman Spider
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF - Season 7 - Episode 7
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF - Season 7 - Episode 8
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF - Season 7 - Episode 9
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 1
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 5
[3:00PM] BROADCHURCH - Season 1 - Episode 1
[4:00PM] BROADCHURCH - Season 1 - Episode 2
[5:00PM] BROADCHURCH - Season 1 - Episode 3
[6:00PM] BROADCHURCH - Season 1 - Episode 4
[7:00PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[10:00PM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 10 NEW
[11:00PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[2:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 9 - Think Gently of the Erring
[3:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 10
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Real Housewives Of OC', and 'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay', 'Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy', and 'Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny'.
FX has the movie 'The A-Team', followed by the movie 'The Proposal', then the movie 'The Proposal', again.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Mountain Men', another 'Mountain Men', and still another 'Mountain Men'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Miracle at St. Anna
[9:30AM] Dilbert-The Pregnancy
[10:00AM] Dilbert-The Delivery
[10:30AM] Dilbert-Company Picnic
[11:00AM] Dilbert-The Fact
[11:30AM] Dilbert-Ethics
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Best Man for the GOB
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-Whistler's Mother
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Not Without My Daughter
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Let 'Em Eat Cake
[2:00PM] Arrested Development-The One Where Michael Leaves
[2:30PM] Arrested Development-The One Where They Build a House
[3:00PM] Fallen
[5:45PM] The Last Legion
[8:00PM] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Sarah Silverman Wears a Black Dress with a White collar
[11:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Ed Helms Wears a Grey Shirt & Brown Boots
[12:00AM] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
[3:00AM] Pathfinder
[5:15AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Sarah Silverman Wears a Black Dress with a White collar
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] A'mare
[6:15AM] Polish Wedding
[8:15AM] Big Trouble in Little China
[10:00AM] Searching for Bobby Fischer
[12:00PM] The Writers' Room-Game of Thrones
[12:30PM] The Writers' Room-New Girl
[1:00PM] Polish Wedding
[3:00PM] Strange Brew
[4:30PM] Big Trouble in Little China
[6:15PM] Raising Arizona
[8:00PM] Antwone Fisher
[10:00PM] Traffic
[1:15AM] King of New York
[3:15AM] Night Shift
[5:00AM] The Writers' Room-Game of Thrones
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-New Girl (ALL TIMES EST)
Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim attends the opening of the Enescu Festival on August 31, 2013, in Bucharest, Romania. Barenboim said in Bucharest, where he will open the festival, the situation in Syria "cannot continue this way."
Photo by Andrei Pungovschi
Liberty Maniacs is a merchandising company known for taking smart and snarky digs at the government; its parody T-shirts contain slogans like "Santorum Happens" and "The CIA: Democratizing the Shit Out of the Third World."
Not surprising then was the company's recent decision to make a product line that parodied the dreaded NSA. Liberty Maniacs' new line of merchandise carries the official agency seal, edited to read, "Peeping While You're Sleeping," along with the slogan, "The NSA. The Only Part of the Government That Actually Listens."
According to The Daily Dot, the popular online market site Zazzle quickly removed the line from its site almost as soon as it went live. The reason cited was that Liberty Maniacs' use of the NSA seal "may infringe upon intellectual property rights."
The NSA seal is protected by Public Law 86-36, which states that it is not permitted for "…any person to use the initials 'NSA,' the words 'National Security Agency' and the NSA seal without first acquiring written permission from the Director of NSA."
Director Stephen Frears (L) poses with actors Judi Dench (C) and Steve Coogan (R) during a photocall for the movie "Philomena" during the 70th Venice Film Festival in Venice August 31, 2013. The movie debuts at the festival.
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi
The same aristocratic line that that lent its namesake to the sandwich may have a claim on the Mocha Frappuccino, too.
A researcher in the United Kingdom says she has discovered a 350-year-old recipe from the Earl of Sandwich for a chilled chocolate dessert that would have been similar to the frozen drinks sold at coffee houses today.
"It's not chocolate ice cream, but more like a very solid and very dark version of the iced chocolate drinks you get in coffee shops today," researcher Kate Loveman, of the University of Leicester, said in a statement. "Freezing food required cutting-edge technology in 17th-century England, so these ices were seen as great luxuries."
In the 1660s the Earl of Sandwich, Sir Edward Montagu, collected recipes for iced chocolate treats - long before his great, great grandson, John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, was credited with inventing the sandwich.
In her research, Loveman found a recipe for a chocolate delicacy that the Earl himself concocted: "Prepare the chocolatti [to make a drink]… and Then Putt the vessell that hath the Chocolatti in it, into a Jaraffa [i.e. a carafe] of snow stirred together with some salt, & shaike the snow together sometyme & it will putt the Chocolatti into tender Curdled Ice & soe eate it with spoons."
A 10-year-old boy has won Alaska's annual giant cabbage contest, submitting a 92.3-pound (41.9 kg) specimen named "Bob" to officials at the state fair.
Keevan Dinkel of Wasilla, Alaska, produced this year's winning entry, which was carried in by several Boy Scouts, in the Alaska State Fair's Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off on Friday night.
His giant cabbage, which rose to about thigh height on a typical adult, and those of other contestants were weighed at the fairgrounds in Palmer, in a contest watched by hundreds of onlookers, attended by green-clad women dressed as "cabbage fairies" and monitored by a representative of the state Division of Weights and Measures.
Produce can grow to enormous sizes under Alaska's summer midnight sun. Growing big cabbages is a tradition in this part of the state, just north of Anchorage, which is considered Alaska's main farm belt.
Keevan's "Bob" fell short of the world-record 138.3-pound (62.7-kg) cabbage, called the "Palmer Pachyderm," grown last year by Palmer greenhouse owner Scott Robb.
Margarita Mamun of Russia performs with the clubs during the individual all-around competition final at the 32nd Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Kiev August 30, 2013.
Photo by Gleb Garanich
Tens of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts have roared into Milwaukee to celebrate the 110th anniversary of Harley-Davidson Co, but few traveled as far as Chai Chua.
The 46-year-old business owner bid farewell to his wife and three children in Brunei about a week ago and set off with seven of his closest friends. They flew to Los Angeles, then hopped on rented Harley-Davidson motorcycles and headed to the Midwestern state.
"We have seen the prairies, the mountains, Mount Rushmore and now the Mecca for riders," Chua said, shouting over blues music outside of the Harley-Davidson Museum where revelers kicked off the celebration with a bike rally on Thursday.
The party spread across several sites in the city, including the SummerFest grounds where bands including ZZ Top, Blue Oyster Cult and the Doobie Brothers performed.
Three founders of Femen said Saturday they had left Ukraine in fear for their lives after police discovered weapons in their Kiev offices that the feminist group says were planted.
Alexandra Shevchenko, Anna Hutsol and Yana Zhdanova "have fled Ukraine fearing for their lives and for their liberty" and would "continue their activities in Europe", said a statement on the group's website.
The three women decided to leave after Ukrainian police called them in for questioning on Friday, the statement said.
The group, known for its topless political protests, is facing a criminal investigation after police said they confiscated a TT handgun and a grenade from its offices in central Kiev on Tuesday.
The group has said Hutsol and other activists were beaten by special services last month in an attempt by the government to pressure them to halt their protests, which target figures including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A participant bicycles away from the effigy of The Man (R, top) at the Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, August 29, 2013. The federal government issued a permit for 68,000 people from all over the world to gather at the sold out festival, which is celebrating its 27th year, to spend a week in the remote desert, cut off from the outside world to experience art, music and the unique community that develops.
Photo by Jim Bourg
Occupy Wall Street protesters who once vowed to "occupy" the courts by challenging their arrests on minor violations have since been defeated by the slow pace of justice, with many forgoing trial.
As Occupy's two-year anniversary approaches on September 17, the movement that once captivated national attention has largely faded.
More than 2,600 arrests were made in Manhattan in connection with Occupy, including 700 on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1.
Approximately half of all defendants pleaded guilty in exchange for a dismissal of charges after six months of staying out of trouble with the law. Hundreds more accepted other plea deals. Overall, fewer than 70 cases reached trial, less than 3 percent of the total; 53 resulted in convictions.
Many defendants found it too onerous to return time and again for court dates at the overburdened New York City Criminal Court, which handles hundreds of thousands cases a year, even when they felt their arrests were illegitimate, said Martin Stolar, a National Lawyers Guild attorney who handled hundreds of cases.
A Jewish group is calling for a boycott of an upcoming concert by former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters, claiming that the musician uses anti-Semitic imagery in his current tour.
In his show "The Wall," Rogers uses an inflatable pig with a Star of David on it as a stage prop, though the pig also has other religious, political and corporate emblems emblazoned on it.
Michael Szentei-Heise, the director of the Jewish Community in Dusseldorf, urged the boycott of Walters' September 6 concert in the German city, the Associated Press reports.
Waters - who according to reports has urged musicians not to perform in Israel - has denied charges of anti-Semitism that have been leveled at him. Responding to an open letter from Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham H. Foxman, Waters wrote, "For the record I am not anti-Semitic, neither is my theatrical piece The Wall and nor are any of the props, puppets or projections in that work."
However, Waters added, "You are right in saying that I have attacked The Israeli Governments' policies in Gaza, the West Bank, and in Israel itself."
Participants dance around and atop an art car parked beside the "Truth is Beauty" sculpture created by Marco Cochrane at the 2013 Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, August 30, 2013. The Burning Man organization received approval from the federal government to have a maximum of 68,000 participants attend the festival.
Photo by Jim Bourg
The teachings of televangelist Kenneth Copeland and his family focusing on the virtues of trusting God to keep healthy are under scrutiny after a cluster of measles cases linked to his family's North Texas megachurch revealed many congregants hadn't been vaccinated against the highly contagious disease.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries has won supporters worldwide through television programs, crusades, conferences and prayer request networks. He was a pioneer of the prosperity gospel, which holds that believers are destined to flourish spiritually, physically and financially.
Although church officials were quick to act after the outbreak - including hosting clinics in August where 220 people received immunization shots - and have denied they are against medical care or vaccinations, people familiar with the ministry say there is a pervasive culture that believers should rely on God, not modern medicine, to keep them well.
Of the 21 people who contracted measles linked to the church, 16 were unvaccinated. The others may have had at least one vaccination, but had no documentation.
A shiver down the spine is one way of keeping cool during summer in Japan -- traditionally viewed as a time when the spirit world makes its presence felt.
August sees millions of Japanese return to their home towns for the Obon season, in which relatives gather to temporarily welcome back the spirits of their dead forebears.
Despite its association with the deceased, Obon is a cheerful period that frequently involves fireworks and dancing in "yukata", a light summer kimono.
But it's also a time for ghost stories, with dozens of temporary haunted houses opening up across the country to mark the season.
The tradition goes back to the Edo period (1603-1868), when people packed Kabuki theatres in August to see ghost stories.
A man attempts to launch a colourful kite during the annual Singapore Kite Festival at the central business district area of Marina Bay in Singapore August 31, 2013.
Photo by Edgar Su
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