Waterboarding (nevadathunder.com)
In the medieval form of waterboarding, a victim was strapped to a board and tipped back or lowered into a body of water until he or she believed that drowning was imminent. The subject was then removed from the water and revived. If necessary the process was repeated.
Brent Budowsky: Battle Royale: Democrats Have Shot At Senate and House Control (buzzflash.com)
It is fine to criticize Democrats and I am first in line to do so, and will have much more to say after the election. But this is the time for rally cry, for battle cry, for all hands on deck, for everyone manning the barricades because the core of our democracy, the very issues of war peace, are on the table and the battle is that close for control.
Mark Foley's One Sick Pup (villagevoice.com)
Turns out former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley was sitting around in his underwear sending e-mails to teen boys about masturbation, or "spanking it" as the Republican Congressman calls it. Brian Ross at ABC News got hold of the messages and when Foley found out, he quit almost on the spot.
Nat Hentoff: A Marriage Made in Hell (villagevoice.com)
According to Shariah law, championed by Khatami, "virgin girls are not allowed to be executed-for their purity might open the doors of heaven to them. To avoid this, virgin girls, such as Atefeh, who are sentenced to death, are raped before execution to ensure their proper place in hell." (This is a coldly ingenious Iranian definition of "adultery.")
Courtney E. Martin: Positive Aging Acts Are Popping Up All Over (womensenews.org)
The Fullerton, Calif., organization started in April 1998 when commercial artist Sue Ellen Cooper and a group of five friends went to tea dressed in purple clothing and red hats, in the spirit of the line, "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me," in the poem "Warning" by British author Jenny Joseph.
JAY PARINI: Other People's Books (chronicle.com)
What interests me about other people's books is the nature of their collection. A personal library is an X-ray of the owner's soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements.
Rebbetzin Holly Pavlov: One among many: Can a single individual really make a difference? (jewishworldreview.com)
The great Rabbi, the Chafetz Chaim, compared this to two people in a boat. One person decides to drill a hole under his seat. When his companion objects, the man with the drill retorts, "But the hole is under my seat, not yours!" Of course, the hole will sink both of them, and it would be wrong to think otherwise. So it is with the Jewish people - we cannot "drill a hole" under our own seat by sinning, and assume it affects no one but us. We are all in the same boat, and the salvation of one is the salvation of all.
Charles Krauthammer: Krauthammer's Law: Everyone is Jewish until proven otherwise (jewishworldreview.com)
There are 13 million Jews in the world, one-fifth of 1 percent of the world's population. Yet 20 percent of Nobel Prize winners are Jewish, a staggering hundredfold surplus of renown and genius. This is similarly true for a myriad of other "everyones" - the household names in music, literature, mathematics, physics, finance, industry, design, comedy, film and, as the doors opened, even politics.
Just thought I'd let you the second season starts next week on CBC.
From the network page-
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Adventures in Time and Space...
David Tennant steps into the role of the doctor for the second series of Doctor Who. Following on from the phenomenal success of the first series in 2005, the second installment is full of new thrills, new laughs, new heartbreak, and some terrifying new monsters.
Together, the Doctor and Rose travel back in time to the Highlands of Scotland to find Queen Victoria confronted by a terrifying creature, and back further to 18th Century France, where a lethal menace stalks Versailles. In the future, a sinister secret lurks at the hospital on New Earth - and the human race is threatened by a remorseless silver army of emotionless Cybermen.
Series Two of Doctor Who premieres Monday, Oct 9 (Thanksgiving Monday) at 8:00pm.
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CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 10', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', and pads the left coast with local crap and maybe a 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers the SEASON PREMIERE'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'All Of Us', then the SEASON PREMIERE'Girlfriends', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'The Game', then a FRESH'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Til Death', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Til Death', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'War At Home'.
MY has a FRESH'Desire Highlights', followed by a FRESH'Fashion House Highlights'.
A&E has 'Flip This House', followed by a FRESH'Flip This House', 'The First 48', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Undefeated', followed by the movie 'Pale Rider', then the movie 'High Plains Drifter'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] Wire in the Blood - Episode 3;
[4:00 pm] Wire in the Blood - Episode 4;
[6:00 pm] Bargain Hunt - Ardingly;
[6:30 pm] Bargain Hunt - Shepton Mallet;
[7:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Norden;
[8:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Allen;
[9:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Corry-Thomas;
[10:00 pm] Footballers Wives Overtime - Episode 8;
[10:30 pm] Mile High - Episode 18;
[11:30 pm] Cash in the Attic - Finch;
[12:00 am] Cash in the Attic - Norden;
[1:00 am] Footballers Wives Overtime - Episode 8;
[1:30 am] Mile High - Episode 18;
[2:30 am] Cash in the Attic - Finch;
[3:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 13;
[3:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 15;
[4:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 19;
[4:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 9;
[5:00 am] Father Ted - Ep. 3 Tentacles of Doom;
[5:30 am] Father Ted - Ep. 4 Old Grey Whistle Theft;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder', followed by the movie 'Not Another Teen Movie', 'South Park', and 'Jim Gaffigan: Beyond The Pale'.
History has 'Test Lab', 'Violent Earth', and 'Lost Worlds'.
IFC -
[07:50 AM] Love and Death on Long Island;
[09:25 AM] Shattered Glass;
[11:00 AM] Love Liza;
[12:35 PM] The Good Thief;
[02:25 PM] Love and Death on Long Island;
[04:00 PM] Shattered Glass;
[05:35 PM] Love Liza;
[07:10 PM] The Good Thief;
[09:00 PM] Very Bad Things;
[10:45 PM] Greg the Bunny: Naturally Sewn Killers;
[11:00 PM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman #1;
[11:30 PM] The Business: Episode 1;
[12:00 AM] Very Bad Things;
[01:45 AM] Greg the Bunny: Naturally Sewn Killers;
[02:00 AM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman #1;
[02:30 AM] The Business: Episode 1;
[03:00 AM] Crawlspace;
[04:25 AM] Afraid of the Dark. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Face/Off', followed by the movie 'Species III'.
Sundance -
[06:35 AM] Foxes;
[08:30 AM] Silence of the North;
[10:15 AM] Das Bus;
[12:00 PM] The Grass Harp;
[02:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 7;
[02:30 PM] The Hill: Episode 6: It's Time To Be Mad As Hell;
[03:00 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 2: Inside Out;
[03:30 PM] Tony Takitani;
[04:50 PM] Sea Horses;
[05:15 PM] It's All Gone Pete Tong;
[07:00 PM] Childstar;
[08:45 PM] Ryan;
[09:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 7;
[09:30 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 2: Inside Out;
[10:00 PM] A Man's Gotta Do;
[11:35 PM] Sea Horses;
[12:00 AM] Dark Water;
[01:45 AM] Dazed and Confused;
[03:30 AM] The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face;
[04:45 AM] Far From War: Chechnya, The Endless War;
[05:45 AM] It's All Gone Pete Tong. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Musicians Willie Nelson, left, and Neil Young sit together as they listen during a news conference before the start of the Farm Aid concert in Camden, N.J., Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006.
Photo by Mel Evans
Yo-Yo Ma, world renowned cellist and founder of the Silk Road Project, a cross cultural awareness and exchange program, shows off his Silk Road Chicago T-shirt as he is introduced at the opening of the Art Institute of Chicago's 'Silk Road Chicago' exhibit Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, in Chicago. The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that extended across Asia, linking powerful civilizations such as Rome and China. The exhibit highlights various art forms that show the result of harmonious exchange of culture among people from diverse societies, distant places, and different faiths.
Photo by M. Spencer Green
Liza Minnelli, fresh off her cameo appearance in the film "The OH in Ohio" and her recurring role in "Arrested Development," will guest-star in an upcoming episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
Minnelli, 59, will play a former beauty queen whose daughter, an aspiring beauty queen, was found murdered on Halloween night, said Pam Golum, a spokeswoman for Wolf Films, which produces the NBC show.
The episode, called "Masquerade," is filming now and will air in November, Golum said Thursday.
For followers of urban legends, Subliminal Smut Embedded Into Disney Classics division, there is perhaps no more discussed and overanalyzed single case than the
Little Mermaid Officiating Bishop With A Hard-On. Disney has of course denied it for years, and per their word, from other angles the only bony protrusions peeking out from his cleric's clothes appear to be a
pair of knobby knees. Still, the knot-tying moneyshot (pictured, left) does tend to suggest perhaps a surfeit of enthusiasm on behalf of the man of God, an ambiguity that the
Jim Hill blog reports is now taken care of with the pending DVD rerelease (right).
A special "Under the Sea," bulge-free, M-I-C edition of Why For [JimHillMedia.com]
A Berlin opera house condemned for canceling performances of a Mozart work because of concern it might provoke violence by Muslims said on Thursday it might consider staging the production if it had security assurances.
"If there was a new security plan, we could consider it," Alexander Busche, a spokesman for the Deutsche Oper, said when asked about reinstating "Idomeneo," which includes a scene with the severed heads of the Prophet Mohammad, Buddha and Jesus.
He said that although the opera house had already decided on its program until mid-June, there were some free days which could be used.
English singer Robin Gibb, left, poses for a photo with new Miss World Tatana Kucharova from the Czech Republic after the Miss World beauty pageant final in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday Sept. 30, 2006. Kucharova defeated 103 other contestants in voting among a panel of judges and from television viewers around the world during a two-hour finals ceremony in the Polish capital.
Photo by Alik Keplicz
Elmo, the wildly popular Sesame Street character, introduced Laura Bush on Saturday as "one of his favorite people," after a White House breakfast honoring National Book Festival authors.
Bush said she was happy with the festival's success, in what is now its sixth year. The event, modeled after a book festival she began as first lady of Texas, will include more than 70 authors this year.
"No matter what your political perspective, everybody shares one thing, and that's a love for reading and books," she said.
The husband of the late state Controller Kathy Augustine was arrested in Virginia on Friday and charged with killing her with an injection of a paralyzing drug.
A warrant charging Chaz Higgs with first-degree murder was issued this week in Reno. A police affidavit quotes the coroner's office as saying Augustine's death was caused by succinylcholine; police described the drug as a powerful paralytic. The warrant and toxicology test results had been kept secret until Higgs' arrest.
Augustine, 50, died in a Reno hospital July 11, three days after Higgs, a critical care nurse at another hospital, said he found her unconscious in her Reno home.
Three days after her death, Higgs attempted suicide. He was released from a hospital later that day and didn't attend his wife's funeral the following day.
Higgs had been the nurse for Augustine's previous husband, Charles Augustine, who died three years ago in Las Vegas. His death certificate says he died of complications from a stroke.
Three weeks after her husband's death, Kathy Augustine married Higgs in Hawaii.
British actress Angela Lansbury (R) and granddaughter Katherine Shaw arrives at the Sony Global Marketing Partners' Conference dinner in Beverly Hills September 29, 2006.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Keep those sugarless treats out of Fido's reach. Veterinarians warned on Friday that a commonly used sweetener might cause liver failure in dogs, and perhaps even kill them.
Their report in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association appears to strengthen the suspected link between the sugar substitute xylitol, thought to make dogs sick, and possible liver failure.
Researchers Sharon Gwaltney-Brant and Eric Dunayer with staff at a poison unit of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Urbana, Illinois, gathered information on eight dogs treated between 2003 and 2005 after eating products containing xylitol.
Each dog became ill, and five died or had to be put down because of liver failure, possibly from ingesting xylitol.
Iceland's capital and several towns plunged into darkness on Thursday as street lights were turned off for people to get a better view of the night sky.
Even though rain and clouds dimmed the view for the thousands of people who went out star gazing, the man who thought up the event was happy.
"All the streets lights are off, we can see a few stars," said writer Andri Snaer Magnason, speaking by telephone from the darkened streets of downtown Reykjavik, Iceland's capital and home to about 200,000 people.
An astronomer gave a commentary on national radio on what people could see in the half hour the lights were out.
Actor James Cromwell (R) poses with his wife, Julie Cobb, as they arrive to attend premiere of the movie 'The Queen' in New York September 29, 2006.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
A Canadian teacher who lived a frugal life but gave large, anonymous donations to people in need, has left a C$4.3 million ($3.8 million) fortune to an environmental charity.
Roberta Langtry, 89, kept her wealth a secret until her death last year. The Toronto woman had worked as an elementary school teacher and speech therapist for 55 years, quietly amassing millions, mainly from financial investments.
"She was friends with all her neighbors and they loved her but had no idea she had two nickels to rub together," Robert Borden, her executor and long-time friend, said on Friday.
Borden, who became Langtry's financial adviser in 1973, said the retired teacher had been deeply environmentally conscious and incredibly frugal.
A model displays a creation as part of Roberto Cavalli's Spring/Summer 2007 women's collection during Milan Fashion Week September 30, 2006.
Photo by Max Rossi
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