Marc Dion: It's Labor Day, So Start a Riot (Creators Syndicate)
My maternal grandmother was an illiterate immigrant from French Canada who lived in the United States for 67 years and never learned to speak English. She was also a socialist. Four of her sons fought in World War II. She told me that if you weren't a socialist, you were stupid because not being a socialist meant you liked being poor while other people were rich. The economics of a New England cotton mill town meant she lived in a tenement neighborhood two miles from the mansions of the mill owners. She couldn't read, but her eyesight was fine.
Ted Rall: Freedom of the Press? Not in the US (Creators Syndicate)
No consideration of freedom of the press in the U.S. is complete without a hard look at the case of Julian Assange. The founder and publisher of WikiLeaks is rotting in an English prison, awaiting extradition to the United States for possession and dissemination of classified information - exactly what The New York Times did when it published the Pentagon Papers and the Edward Snowden revelations. He is being "treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated," says journalist John Pilger, who recently visited him. Incredibly, corporate media is siding with the Trump administration, not merely ignoring Assange but mocking him and accusing him of treason (which is impossible because he's not American).
Mark Shields: Could the 2020 Election Be Another 1980? (Creators Syndicate)
Fewer than 3 out of 10 voters personally like Trump and just over 1 out of 4 both like him personally and approve of his policies. Contrast that with the average of 47% of voters who both personally dislike Trump and also disapprove of his policies. This tells us that 2020 should be about change rather than continuity. The best hope for the embattled Trump campaign is for the Democrats to nominate a candidate who --because of his or her personality or character defects or frightening ideas - will somehow make change more disturbing than continuity.
Lenore Skenazy: Parents, Panic and Pixels (Creators Syndicate)
St. Francis College Sociology professor Emily Horowitz, author of two books on sex offenses, says that "sexual crimes against children have been decreasing for over 20 years" - even as more and more children have been going online. So fear of "stranger danger" online is as misplaced as the stranger danger fear offline. "Children are almost never abducted by strangers, even with the advent of online games and social media," Horowitz says.
Susan Estrich: Joe Kennedy for Senate. Not. (Creators Syndicate)
Joe Kennedy, son of former Congressman Joe Kennedy, son of former attorney general. He is "thinking" about running against Markey, according to his post on Facebook. Why? Not because he disagrees with him on anything, at least anything that he mentions.
Not because he doesn't like him or because he is ineffective. Markey was first elected to the House in 1976 and is one of the best-liked members of the Senate.
Susan Estrich: To Uphold the Constitution and Laws (Creators Syndicate)
We all know what happens next. The American Civil Liberties Union or Planned Parenthood turns to their exhausted network of lawyers; a suit is brought; briefs are written; hearings are held; and years later, the law is finally thrown out for good. Time and money, time and effort, down the tubes. And you and me are the fools who are paying for it. The ACLU lawyers may be volunteers, but the government lawyers defending an unconstitutional law are being paid by the hour, year after year, to try to make that 14-year-old bear a child. The vulnerable are always the targets.
Susan Estrich: Happy Birthday, President Clinton (Creators Syndicate)
Days after Ronald Reagan took office, Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of the Children's Defense Fund - my hero - wandered the halls of the U.S. Senate, looking for even a handful of votes to support programs for children. People suffered. They are suffering now. This isn't a fight for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. It is a fight for the health and well-being of the poorest among us, a fight for a safety net without holes, a fight to hold families together. Perhaps we are not liberal enough; that's what I thought of my parents. Then again, 51% of America is probably not to Bill Clinton's left. The country is a better place because you were our president, even if we have miles still to go before we sleep.
Froma Harrop: "Andrew Luck: The Quarterback We All Need" (Creators Syndicate)
Luck should inspire those who feel stuck in damaging (and far less glamorous) jobs. One can walk away from good money in search of less stress, a punishing commute and long hours. Sometimes the better job is the one that pays less. As for Luck, he won't become a storied quarterback in the mold of Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. Quarterbacks these days can play until middle age. Luck's not going there. But he is giving us a valuable call on setting priorities for our limited time on Earth. Luck is the quarterback we all need.
"Sardine" and "pilchard" are common names used to refer to various small, oily fish in the herring family Clupeidae. The term "sardine" was first used in English during the early 15th century and may come from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, around which sardines were once abundant.
The terms "sardine" and "pilchard" are not precise, and what is meant depends on the region. The United Kingdom's Sea Fish Industry Authority, for example, classifies sardines as young pilchards.[5] One criterion suggests fish shorter in length than 15 cm (6 in) are sardines, and larger fish are pilchards.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Herring
Alan J answered:
Herring.
Dave wrote:
Clupeidae. Sardines are related to Herring, another oily fish with a strong taste. There are as many as 21 species classified as "sardines" for commercial purposes, some grow no longer than 6 inches long (so they fit into a sardine can), and some are in schools of immature pilchards, another, larger, clupeoid. When canned, sardines are a somewhat nutritious snack, however disgusting they are.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
HERRING
Ed K replied:
Little, salty ones.
Deborah responded:
Sardines are fish that you buy in cans, like anchovies. Seriously, they're called pilchards in the UK, and may even be considered young tarpon. They travel in large schools and are not endangered. So I guess the lesson for today is to eat more sardines.
zorch said:
Sardines are a kind of herring.
Adam answered:
Small and oily? What are you getting at?
Cal in Vermont replied:
Smelly little ones that even the cat won't eat. Probably related to mackerel which the cat won't eat either. Anchovies, on the other hand are OK, especially on pizza.
Joe S replied:
Small ones, the kind that fit nicely on a saltine cracker.
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• Wendell Corey (1914-1968), an American actor who appeared in such films as Sorry, Wrong Number and Rear Window, remembers his most memorable Christmas. In 1956, his oldest daughter, Robin, had been in bed for six months after falling ill with rheumatic fever. In September her doctors even thought that she would die. Because it was Christmas, her doctors allowed her to get out of bed and join the family. Wendell and his wife, Alice, prayed for a blessing. Robin came downstairs, put on a Harry Belafonte record, and danced. And after Christmas she continued to grow stronger, and in 1963, when Mr. Corey wrote about her, she was completely healthy - and the Corey family were big fans of Harry Belafonte.
• Denise Jackson, wife of country and western singer Alan Jackson, knows how to give good Christmas gifts. For Christmas 1996, she gave her mother a mink coat (Alan gave his mother a mink coat, too). Denise says, "And my mom opened it and she was just prancing around like a teenager and was just thrilled." Denise's sister-in-law asked Denise's mother where she would wear the fur coat, and she replied that she was going to the local steak house - a restaurant somewhat classier than a Dairy Queen. By the way, one Christmas Denise gave her husband a car that looked familiar to him. He said, "That looks just like the 1955 Thunderbird I built [restored] in high school." Denise replied, "It is."
• On Christmas night of 1987, Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC fame was driving his Jeep when a car driving on the wrong side of the street hit him. Unconscious, he was taken to the emergency room, and he stayed at the hospital for a few days. Exactly one year later, he came out of the Tunnel nightclub in Manhattan. Unfortunately, a fight broke out between some other people. A man fired some shots, and Jay was shot in the leg. He ended up in the same emergency room where he had been taken a year previously. The same doctor and the same nurse were on duty, and they looked at Jay and said, "Jay! Not you again!"
• Heidi May is a woman of wit and intelligence. Her Christmas present to her boss, Henry Rollins, former singer of Black Flag, leader of the Rollins Band, spoken-word artist, occasional actor, and author, was a T-shirt on the back of which are the words "HEIDI RULES!!!" (By the way, Heidi is married, but not to Henry. She is a long-time employee of Henry's company, 2.13.61. Also by the way, Henry was born on February 13, 1961.)
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• Anita O'Day helped change the way that female singers dressed in the 1940s. Usually, they wore nice dresses, but that can cause problems: 1) good dresses can be expensive, and 2) keeping dresses clean and looking good during life on the road can be difficult. Once, jazz vocalist Anita O'Day bought a floral-print dress at a thrift store, but after wearing the dress during a performance in a club without air conditioning, she discovered why the dress had been so reasonably priced. Ms. O'Day had perspired - a lot - and the perspiration had caused the ink in the floral-print dress to tattoo her body. Her skin now looked like a flower garden. Because of that mishap, she went to bandleader Gene Krupa and said that she would continue to wear dresses at fancy venues, but she would like to wear easier-to-keep-looking-nice shirts, skirts, and band jackets in other venues. Mr. Krupa said that was OK with him, and soon other female vocalists dressed like Ms. O'Day.
• At a show in London, Roy Stride, lead singer of Scouting for Girls, sang the song "1+1=3," which is about an unplanned pregnancy. The lyrics include the line "Take off your clothes and come to bed," and when he sang the line, six males in the balcony stripped off their clothing and flung it onto the stage. Mr. Stride says, "I was nearly knocked out by a shoe." He adds, "When I wrote the song, I honestly never considered fans would take the lyrics literally. Greg [Churchouse], our guitarist, says he suspected there might be some stripping. He blames me for being confronted by six bare male butts when he walked into our dressing room after the show. I was just glad the guys had come to collect their clothes. I was worried they'd go home naked."
• People should be able to wear pretty much whatever they want to, as long as the clothing covers the essentials, but other people can be judgmental. Ani DiFranco started her career as a musician with a look that included a shaved head and big boots. Later, she decided she wanted hair and a pretty dress. But she remembers the first time she walked out onstage in a dress - she heard young women screaming, "Sellout!"
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Ameica's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'Bring The Funny'.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe a RERUN'To Tell The Truth', and/or an old '20/20'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', followed by a RERUN'Masters Of Illusion', then another RERUN'Masters Of Illusion'.
Faux has a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by another RERUN'Last Man Standing', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'What Just Happened??! With Fred Savage'.
MY recycles an old 'Cops', followed by an old 'Big Bang Theory', then another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by still another old 'Big Bang Theory', then yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has the movie 'National Treasure', followed by the movie 'National Treasure: Book Of Secrets'.
AMC offers the movie 'Die Hard With A Vengeance', 'Fear The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'Fear The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Preacher'.
BBC -
[12:30AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Summer
[1:40AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Autumn
[2:50AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Winter
[3:50AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Ends of the Earth
[6:00AM] WILD CITY: SINGAPORE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Hidden World
[7:00AM] WILD CITY: SINGAPORE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Urban Wild
[8:00AM] WILD CITY: SINGAPORE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Islands
[9:00AM] WILD CITY: SINGAPORE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Forest Life
[10:00AM] THE PATRIOT (2000)
[1:30PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE (2001)
[4:30PM] THE PATRIOT (2000)
[8:00PM] BRAVEHEART (1995)
[12:00AM] BRAVEHEART (1995)
[4:00AM] INTO THE STORM (2014) (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Potomac', then a FRESH'Married To Medicine', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', and 'Real Housewives Of Potomac'.
Comedy Central has the movie Blended', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', followed by the movie 'Captain America: The First Avenger', then a FRESH'The Weekly', and another 'The Weekly'.
History has 'The Food That Built America', another 'The Food That Built America', and still another 'The Food That Built America'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Fire in the Playhouse
[6:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Love That Story
[7:00A] Sherman's Showcase-July 8, 1995
[7:30A] Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
[9:30A] Drillbit Taylor
[12:00P] Tropic Thunder
[2:30P] First Blood
[4:30P] Rambo: First Blood Part II
[6:45P] Rambo III
[9:00P] Gladiator
[12:30A] Rambo III
[2:45A] Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia
[4:45A] The Three Stooges-Higher Than a Kite
[5:10A] The Three Stooges-Hokus Pokus
[5:35A] The Three Stooges-The Hot Scots (ALL TIMES EDT)
With today's technology, digital aging has the potential to look pretty damn real, if at times somewhat uncanny. That's not good enough, though, for Richard Linklater, who, still buzzing from the 12-years-in-the-making Boyhood, just signed on to direct a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along that will film over a span of 20 years. This news was met with plenty of excitement, but also a touch of anxiety, what with our planet being more or less on the precipice of a climate catastrophe. Even Blumhouse, the co-producers on this project, cracked a joke about the audacious timeline on Twitter, writing, "The most ambitious thing about this tremendous project we are undertaking with Richard Linklater is that we boldly assume there will be a planet in 20 years."
It's all a bit meta for sure and Twitter is having a field day with it, since we'll all probably be too busy drowning or choking on polluted air to watch it by 2039.
If all this talk of impending world doom is bumming you out, distract yourself with the realization that Merrily We Roll Along is also the play attached star Beanie Feldstein performs in Lady Bird. Neat!
A commercial for Christian Dior's men's fragrance, for which actor Johnny Depp shot scenes in southeastern Utah, has been pulled from YouTube after people objected on Twitter that it appropriated images of Native American culture.
Commenters criticized the ad for Dior's brand Sauvage, which showed Depp walking in Utah's striking redrock country, intercut with images of a Native American dancer and a Native American woman. Those critics note that the fragrance name is French for "savage," a word used as an insult against Native American people.
Late Friday afternoon, the Dior ad ceased to exist on YouTube, replaced by a terse message: "Video unavailable. This video is private." Posts also were removed from Instagram and Twitter.
The only words spoken in the ad were delivered by Depp, who said, "We are the land," and the name of the fragrance.
"[T]he fact that 'Sauvage' is on some 'we are the land' BS is not surprising, but as always I find it deeply disturbing when brands force Native people to make the choice between stereotypes and misrepresentation, or utter invisibility," tweeted Adrienne Keene, an assistant professor at Brown University, who writes the "Native Appropriations" blog and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Despite Russian denials, German politicians and media are blaming Moscow for the Berlin assassination of a Georgian who once fought Russian forces in Chechnya, an affair that could spark a diplomatic crisis.
One security source, in comments to German weekly Der Spiegel, described the killing as a second Skripal affair -- referring to the attempt on the life of a former Russian agent in England last year.
On Friday, August 23, German police arrested a 49-year-old suspect from Russia's Chechnya republic, shortly after Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, had been shot dead.
Khangoshvili had fled to Germany from Georgia after surviving previous assassination attempts.
On Saturday, Der Spiegel, in a joint investigation with investigative websites Bellingcat and The Insider, reported details of how the Russian secret services -- or the regime of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov -- may have been involved in the killing.
The government of Denmark will buy the country's last four circus elephants in order to retire them, a minister said Saturday, as more countries move to shield wild animals from the practice.
Highly regulated, though still controversial, elephants, sea lions and zebras are the only animals that can be used in circuses in Denmark.
But a new anti-cruelty law will be introduced to parliament soon to impose a blanket ban for all animals, the ministry of food, agriculture and fisheries said in a statement.
The government will pay 11 million krone ($1.6 million, 1.4 million euros) to buy Ramboline, Lara, Djunga and Jenny, it said.
The animals will be sent to a zoo to live out their last days, though it is not yet clear which one.
A $50 million gift made earlier this year to Virginia's largest public university was given specifically to "promote the conservative principles of governance," newly released documents show, raising concerns from critics that it compromises academic freedom at the school.
George Mason University announced the gift earlier this year - the largest ever received in the school's history - from the estate of Allison and Dorothy Rouse to Mason's Antonin Scalia Law School.
Documents obtained by the group UnKoch My Campus under the Freedom of Information Act and made public this week show that the Rouse trust specified its bequest be used "as an endowment to fund a chair or chairs that will promote the conservative principles of governance, statesmanship, high morals, civil and religious freedom and the study of the United States Constitution."
University officials say the Rouse trust won't have any say in selecting faculty at the law school and that there was nothing improper about specifying conservative governance as a principle to be promoted.
But when school administrators presented the deal to the university's gift acceptance committee last year, it appears they knew the language in the bequest was problematic. A copy of the minutes obtained by The Associated Press shows that the word "conservative" was dropped from a description of the gift. Instead the minutes say that the gift will be used to "promote the principles of governance, statesmanship, high morals, civil and religious freedom and the study of the United States Constitution."
It took hours for the Department of Defense to address a policy change regarding citizenship rules for some children born to US troops or government employees born abroad, and it appears they were caught off guard by the new US Citizenship and Immigration Services policy.
"The policy change from the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, infuriated many at the Pentagon and confused others in the military community," The New York Times reported, noting that some members of this community said the policy called into question the Trump administration's support for the military.
Amid confusion and outrage over the policy update, the Pentagon struggled to provide clear answers to inquiries. "We are just learning of this change, so don't have any information right away about how this impacts our Airmen," an Air Force source told Air Force Magazine editor Rachel Cohen Wednesday immediately after the policy was released. USCIS later clarified that the changes would affect only about two dozen troops a year.
USCIS, which explained that this is an effort to bring agency policy in line with those of the Department of State, clarified that about two dozen families may be affected each year.
The new policy is set to take effect October 29, 2019.
Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized Friday after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a San Diego prison.
A statement from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the stabbing occurred Friday afternoon at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego.
"Officers responded quickly, and found an inmate with stab wound injuries. He was transported to an outside hospital for medical care, and is currently in stable condition," the statement said.
The statement did not name Sirhan, but a government source with direct knowledge confirmed to The Associated Press that he was the victim. The source spoke under condition of anonymity, citing prison privacy regulations.
Corrections officials reported that the alleged attacker has been identified and has been segregated from the rest of the prison population pending an investigation.
Britain has long been proud of its historically progressive attitude to slavery, frequently pointing to the fact that this country abolished the trade across its territories as early as 1833.
But beneath the waters of Liverpool Bay lies something that should dent our complacency about this country's role in the ending of human bondage.
The wreck of the paddle steamer Leila, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1865, sheds new light on the actions of some British businessmen in supporting the southern slave states of the Confederacy during the US Civil War.
The 19th century paddle steamer was on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Bermuda loaded with guns and supplies for Confederate forces when it foundered on 14th January 1865 during stormy weather in Liverpool Bay, with the loss of 47 lives.
Leila was secretly built in Liverpool on behalf of the Confederate Government late in the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 as a purpose-built vessel to run the blockade imposed on the southern states by the Union forces of Abraham Lincoln.
If you take a look at the lymph nodes of a heavily tattooed person, you'll notice something very strange: a microscopic sprinkling of metal.
It's been known for some time that tattooing can result in metal nanoparticles being introduced to the body, where they're pumped around until they are caught by the immune system in a lymph node, found throughout the body, including in the armpit, groin, and neck. It was previously assumed that the contamination came from the inks, however, a new study has shown that's not the case.
Scientists have discovered that traces of nickel and chromium found in the lymph nodes of tattooed people actually originate in the needle of the tattoo gun, as reported in the Particle and Fibre Toxicology Journal.
The team, led by researchers at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Germany, started their investigation by studying the tissues of deceased tattooed and non-tattooed people. Within the lymph node tissues of the inked-up cohort, they found particles of iron, chromium, and nickel ranging from 50 nanometers to 2 micrometers in size. That might sound insignificant, but nanoparticles are potentially more dangerous than larger particles as they have a higher surface-to-volume ratio, which leads to a higher release of toxic elements.
To their surprise, these metals weren't that commonly found in the tattoo inks, so they began to look elsewhere for the source.
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