'Best of TBH Politoons'
Jazz From Hills
Trimmed Bush and Hedges
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Geov Parrish: Without DeLay (Seattle Weekly)
Tom DeLay is on his way out.
BOB HERBERT: From 'Gook' to 'Raghead' (NY Times)
I spent some time recently with Aidan Delgado, a 23-year-old religion major at New College of Florida, a small, highly selective school in Sarasota.
FRAZIER MOORE: PBS''Now' Visits Guantanamo Prison (AP)
A former prisoner who says he was the man under the black hood in the gruesome photo from Abu Ghraib speaks out on this week's edition of the PBS newsmagazine "Now."
Hundreds go to Colorado to protest antigay Focus on the Family (The Advocate)
At least 500 people braved cold temperatures and light snow Sunday in front of the Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., to protest the conservative Christian group's campaign against gay rights and same-sex marriage.
Jeffrey Epstein: Paula Abdul: Straight Up
Out.com Exclusive: The sweetest American Idol judge delightfully dishes with us.
Ruth Conniff: The Republican Crack Up (The Progressive)
There's reason to hope that the Republicans are cracking up. Barbara Boxer thinks so.
Amanda Griscom Little: Higher Ed (Grist)
An interview with actor and solar advocate Edward Norton
from Bruce
An Appeal
Here is your chance to do a good deed and give an organization a
pleasant surprise. All you have to do is send a $5 check to:
Ohio University College Democrats
18 W. State Street
Suite 102
Athens, Ohio 45701
Thanks a bunch!
Bruce
Another Rant
Avery Ant
TOO BIG TO FIT IN YOUR HEAD
http://www.averyant.com/video_male_ego.htm
Reader Question
Shirley Temple Black
This ole Vet was about 6yrs old when he fell in love with the 5yr old
Shirley dancing on stage at a Chicago theater. I now wonder if shes still
alive, and what is her condition, can you dig up something ?
~ Ole vet
No problem, Ole Vet -
Shirley Temple was born
23 April, 1928, in Santa Monica, California.
Married twice -
John Agar (1945 - 1950)
and
Charles Black since 16 December, 1950.
She is a breast cancer survivor.
A republican, she served as an Ambassador under Nixon, Ford & Reagan.
Biography for Shirley Temple
Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Shirley Temple Black
Shirley Temple Fans
Shirley Temple: A Little Star
A Tribute to Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple's Hollywood
Shirley Temple Dolls
Whatever happened to Shirley Temple?
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Some sun, but clouds are rolling in - more rain on the way.
Found little net bags of key limes at the grocery store, but the price wasn't marked anywhere, so I tracked down a produce guy & asked him.
He said they were 99¢, and since that seemed way too cheap, I asked was he sure, and he said yes, so I went back & got a second bag.
Checking out, the price wasn't listed on the scanner, but the checker rang up $3.99 for each bag. I wanted them, but not that badly, so I said the produce guy told me they were 99¢, and if they were $3.99, forget it.
She called the produce guy, and he confirmed he told me they were 99¢, but that he really didn't know for sure.
We're having a key lime pie weekend!
Production Suspended
'Chappelle's Show'
Production of the popular Comedy Central series "Chappelle's Show" has been suspended and its third season's premiere indefinitely delayed.
Comedy Central issued a statement Wednesday, saying: "All parties are optimistic that production will resume in the near future."
The season will not start May 31 as originally scheduled, the statement added.
Last summer Comedy Central signed Chappelle to a deal reportedly worth $50 million for a third and fourth season. The two-year agreement also allowed Chappelle to develop other programming for the cable channel and cut him in on DVD sales, a lucrative factor considering his series' first-season DVD sold more than 2 million copies.
'Chappelle's Show'
Media Failing on Nuclear Stories
Walter Cronkite
When it comes to reporting on nuclear arms, the U.S. news media let readers and viewers down, giving them only part of the story, former news anchor Walter Cronkite said Wednesday.
The celebrated CBS retiree, joining in a panel discussion on the sidelines of a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, said narrow reporting means the U.S. public is "largely unaware" that the 1970 treaty obliges their government to move toward full nuclear disarmament.
"There's been a lot in the news about nonproliferation," Cronkite said, referring to Iran and North Korea, whose nuclear programs, under fire from the U.S. government, make daily headlines.
"But, unfortunately, the nuclear disarmament obligations of the nuclear weapons states receive far less attention in news reporting, at least in our United States," he said.
Under the nonproliferation treaty, more than 180 countries commit to not pursuing nuclear arms, in exchange for a commitment by five nuclear powers - the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China - to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.
Walter Cronkite
Meets With Pakistan Leader
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie met Pakistan's prime minister in Islamabad to thank him for hosting Afghan refugees.
Her visit with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday came two days after a census showed that more than 3 million Afghans were living in Pakistan. Millions of Afghans have fled to Pakistan to escape wars and poverty since 1979, when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan.
Jolie, who is a U.N. goodwill ambassador, will meet Afghan refugees during her three-day stay, officials said.
Angelina Jolie
Urges Congress on Medical Marijuana
Montel Williams
Talk show host Montel Williams joined a group of medical marijuana advocates Wednesday in imploring Congress to allow him and other sick people to use the drug without fear of prosecution.
"This is really so simple it's ignorant," said Williams, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. He said legal drugs do not help the pain.
"I'm hurting right now. I'm hurting. Why? Because I knew I had to come to Washington, D.C., and I can't carry anything because I know I'd get busted," he said.
Williams spoke at a Capitol Hill news conference where a bipartisan group of lawmakers said decisions about medical marijuana should be left to the states.
Montel Williams
Posts Big Profit Gain
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Television station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. on Wednesday said quarterly net income rose sharply on stronger broadcast revenue and cost cuts, pushing its shares up nearly 8 percent.
Sinclair, owner of the largest group of TV stations in the United States, said it is off to a better-than-expected start in 2005. The company said it beat its prior expectations for broadcast revenue and that it cut TV operating expenses by a greater amount than forecast.
First-quarter profit totaled $11.3 million, compared with $289,000 a year earlier, Sinclair said. After paying preferred dividends, net income was $8.8 million, compared with a loss of $2.3 million last year.
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Returning As MTV Movie Awards Host
Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon will return as host of the MTV Movie Awards.
The 14th annual awards ceremony will be taped June 4 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The show will air June 9.
MTV has added two new categories this year: best frightened performance and best video game based on a movie, which join a slate of categories such as best fight, best kiss and best action sequence.
Jimmy Fallon
Actor Threatened
Mykelti Williamson
Police arrested a man who allegedly threatened "Forrest Gump" star Mykelti Williamson with a gun while both were driving on city streets.
The man followed Williamson, yelling racial slurs and pointing a gun at the actor before running him off the road and approaching his vehicle on foot Tuesday, Williamson said.
But the man didn't shoot, and eventually backed off and drove away.
Williamson got the license plate number of the man's sport utility vehicle and called police, who tracked down the suspect and arrested him.
Mykelti Williamson
Pageant Ending
America's Junior Miss
America's Junior Miss pageant will crown its last winner this summer after an almost half-century run because of problems attracting sponsors and a major television contract, pageant officials said Wednesday.
The board that governs the pageant in which high school seniors compete for college scholarships voted Tuesday to end the event after the June 25 show.
The 48-year-old program once had big-name sponsors such as Coca-Cola. It produced future celebrities such as TV newswoman Diane Sawyer (America's Junior Miss 1963).
America's Junior Miss
Deli Sending U.S. Troops 2 Tons
Operation Salami Drop
Brothers Marc and Michael Brummer figure the best way they can help support U.S. troops stationed in Iraq is to try to feed them - thousands of them. The co-owners of Hobby's Deli hope to send salami to the entire 42nd Infantry Division, currently in Tikrit.
It'll take an estimated 23,000 salamis to reach that goal. But the first 2,000 or so of the dried meat - about 2 tons in all - was boxed and loaded onto a U.S. Postal Service truck Tuesday in the first phase of what the brothers dubbed "Operation Salami Drop."
There are 2,500 more salamis in the store ready to go and 5,000 more on order, Marc Brummer said. All have been purchased with donations of $10 per salami, including a 13-year-old girl who donated $1,000 from her bat mitzvah money.
The inspiration for the project was twofold. The Brummers' 82-year-old father, Sam - who owned the 95-year-old deli before his sons took over its operation - fought in World War II in France and described receiving a salami in the mail about every month and carrying it around in his backpack for weeks.
"My whole platoon would line up and I would slice pieces for them," Sam Brummer recalled. "It was very important to us."
Operation Salami Drop
Faltering Start
Art Auctions
The spring art auctions started with a hiccup on Tuesday when the highest priced work and other top lots failed to sell at Sotheby's Impressionist and modern sale, leading executives to conclude their estimates were just too high.
Some works, notably Max Beckmann's "Self Portrait With Crystal Ball" and Pablo Picasso's "Women of Algiers" commanded strong prices. But Wassily Kandinsky's "Two Riders and Reclining Figures," promoted as a significant masterpiece, went unsold when bidding topped out at $11.25 million.
Sotheby's had estimated the work would sell for $15 million to $25 million.
The auction took in a total of $91,294,400, well short of the low pre-sale estimate of $127 million. Twenty of the 65 lots on offer went unsold.
Art Auctions
