Garrison Keillor: What you learn from losing a ballgame
The absolute dumbest thing I've seen on Facebook is "Find out who you are and be that person and live that truth and everything else will come," which I saw last week. Anyone who actually believes it should not be allowed to handle sharp objects. We are contradictions is who we are and we need to get them under control and learn to be of use to the world around us. "Find out who you are and be that person." That is exactly what our commander-in-chief has done and that's why half of America is whooping and hollering - they love that he makes the other half of America grind their molars.
Paul Waldman: Medicare just turned 54. Let's remember what Republicans said about it. (Washington Post)
… 54 years ago when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill that created Medicare and Medicaid. What's striking is how little things have changed. Back then, Democrats sought to expand the number of Americans with health coverage, having to overcome the determined opposition of Republicans and the health-care industry. And those Republicans warned that expanding government in this way would inevitably lead us down the road to socialism, which would leave America in ruins.
"I'm Coming Out" is a song recorded by American singer Diana Ross. It was written by and produced by Chic members Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, and released in August 22, 1980 as the second single from Ross' self-titled tenth album Diana (1980).
In 1979, Ross commissioned Chic founders Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards to create material for a new album after taking her daughters to see the band in concert, following the success of Ross's final Ashford & Simpson-composed and produced LP, The Boss. Rodgers got the idea for "I'm Coming Out" after noticing three different drag queens dressed as Diana Ross at a New York club called the GG Barnum Room. The lyrics hold an additional meaning to Ross, as she was leaving Motown Records and "coming out" from under Berry Gordy's thumb. According to the BBC4 documentary "How to Make It in the Music Business", Ross loved the record until she put it in front of Frankie Crocker, who pointed out that 'I'm Coming Out' is what homosexuals use to announce their homosexuality; she ran back to the studio in tears and demanded to know why Rodgers wanted to ruin her career.
The song was another hit from the album, peaking at number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in November 1980. It is also notable for being the first song usually performed at Ross' performances and concerts since 1980.
"I'm Coming Out" has been regarded as an anthem for the LGBTQ+ community. The phrase "coming out" to describe one's self-disclosure of sexual orientation or gender identity had been present in the gay subculture in the early 20th century, analogous to a débutante's coming-out party or celebration of her formal presentation to society.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Diana Ross.
Randall wrote:
Diana Ross?
Dave said:
Diana Ross. Miss Ross (as Diana expected to be addressed) was happy after recording the song until somebody told her "coming out" is what people do when they announce they are gay. Miss Ross thought her fans would think she was gay and that it would end her career, although the lyrics didn't specifically refer to sexual orientation. She eventually got over that and usually opened her concerts with the song. "I'm Coming Out" was a single from Miss Ross' last Motown album, "Diana" (1980), and topped out at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Diana Ross, like most of the talent discovered by Barry Gordy's studio, was in the process of leaving the struggling label. "Diana" was a great success hitting #2 on the Album chart and was on the chart for a year. Miss Ross was nominated for a Grammy for "I'm Coming Out."
Alan J answered:
Diana Ross.
Mac Mac replied:
Diana Ross
zorch responded:
Diana Ross.
Deborah wrote:
I'm thinking Diana Ross recorded that song, after she split from the Supremes. And I could be wrong.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
No google machine, I'm going with Diana Ross, who I guess commissioned it from her totally non-gay friend, Michael Jackson.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
"I'm Coming Out" is a song recorded by American singer Diana Ross.
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• Opera singer Geraldine Farrar ran into problems with society women requesting the loan of her costumes to be used in programs to benefit charity. Early in her career, she granted these requests, but after several expensive costumes were returned in poor condition, she declined all of these requests. When a buxom woman wanted to borrow her second act Tosca costume and became obnoxious when she declined, Ms. Farrar told the woman, "Dear lady, until you can lift your façade and restrain your posterior, you would need not one but several of my Tosca dresses."
• When soprano Beverly Sells was set to debut at La Scala, she had a problem with a wardrobe mistress. Ms. Sells had asked for a silver costume, but the costumer brought her a gold lamé costume at each rehearsal. At each rehearsal, the wardrobe mistress promised to have the silver costume ready at the next rehearsal, but she always brought the gold costume instead. Ms. Sells solved the problem by taking scissors and cutting the gold costume in half. The other opera singers cheered her, and she made her debut in a silver costume.
• Giacomo Puccini's first big success was the opera Manon Lescaut, for which soprano Lucrezia Bori bought a beautiful dress in which to make her debut as Manon in a revival. Mr. Puccini visited her backstage, looked at the dress, and told her that it was too lovely - after all, her character was supposed to be penniless and starving. Then, to make the dress more suitable to her character, he splashed it with coffee. Ms. Bori was not pleased with Mr. Puccini's attention to detail.
• When she was seven years old, Beverly Sills was fortunate enough to see and hear Lily Pons in Lakmé at the New York Metropolitan Opera House. At her entrance, Ms. Pons made a major impression on the audience because her costume included a brief halter top, lots of skin, and a silken wrap around her hips. Young Beverly exclaimed, "Mama! Mama! Her belly button is showing!"
• African-American opera singer Grace Bumbry knew how to get publicity. In London, she promised the press that when she danced the Dance of the Seven Veils, she would end up wearing nothing but "jewels and perfume." In fact, she ended up wearing a bikini covered with jewels - to the delight of the audience. Afterward, Ms. Bumbry laughed as she said, "They never sold so many binoculars."
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Love Island', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Meek Mill.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Jamie Bell, Margaret Qualley, and Freya Ridings.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Hasan Minhaj, Vanessa Kirby, and Sam Fender.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Tony Shalhoub, Gov. Larry Hogan, Rhianne Barreto, and Jeff Quay.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/28/19) are Ben Barnes, Badflower, and Rory Culkin.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Holey Moley', followed by a FRESH'Family Food Fight', then a FRESH'Reef Break'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Milo Ventimiglia, Alison Brie, and the Head and the Heart.
The CW offers a FRESH'iZombie', followed by a FRESH'The Outpost'.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef', followed by a FRESH'Spin The Wheel'.
MY recycles an old 'The Good Wife', followed by another old 'The Good Wife'.
A&E has 'Live Rescue', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'Road House', followed by the movie 'Gladiator', then the movie 'Mamma Mia!'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 24-Displaced
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 25-Worst Case Scenario
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 26-Scorpion, Pt. 1
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-Scorpion, Pt. 2
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 2-The Gift
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 3-Day of Honor
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 4-Nemesis
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 5-Revulsion
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 6-The Raven
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 7-Scientific Method
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 8-Year of Hell, Pt. 1
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 9-Year of Hell, Pt. 2
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 10-Random Thoughts
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - Ep 11- Concerning Flight
[8:00PM] THE DA VINCI CODE (2006)
[11:30PM] THE DA VINCI CODE (2006) (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing NY', another 'Million Dollar Listing NY', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing NY', 'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has all old 'The Office' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Diane Guerrero.
Scheduled on a FRESHDavid Spade are Dana Carvey, Al Madrigal, and Sarah Tiana.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by a FRESH'Baskets', and another 'Baskets'.
History has 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', then a FRESH'Ax Man', followed by a FRESH'Alone'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Inescapable
[8:00A] Java Heat
[10:15A] DeepStar Six
[12:45P] Transporter 3
[3:00P] Universal Soldier
[5:30P] Drillbit Taylor
[8:00P] Office Space
[10:00PThe Campaign
[12:00A] Office Space
[2:00A] Coneheads
[4:00A] Sherman's Showcase-Meet Sherman
[4:30] ASherman's Showcase-The Showcase Dancers
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Ice Cream Soup
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Luau for Two (ALL TIMES EDT)
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[6:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Talented Mr. Ripley
[12:00pm] Outbreak
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] No One Saw a Thing
[4:00am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[4:30am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[5:00am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[5:30am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Fast & Furious', followed by the movie 'Fast Five'.
TBS:
Conan (from 6/12/19) are Louie Anderson and Matt Braunger.
Two members of Rammstein kissed onstage in Moscow as a sign of defiance at the country's notoriously anti-LGBT+ stance.
Guitarists Paul Landers and Richard Kruspe were seen moving towards one another before kissing during a performance of "Aüslander".
The Germany heavy metal band posted a photo of the moment on their Instagram page with the caption: "Russia, we love you!"
It follows their performance in Poland where they crowdsurfed in a rubber dinghy waving a Pride flag, following the news that LGBT+ people had faced violence during a Pride march in the country.
Both moments have prompted delighted reactions from fans, with one referring to it as a "power-move" while another said it was "heartwarming" to see.
The Television Academy will not hand out a Governors Award in September at the 71st Emmys Awards, Deadline has confirmed. It marks the first time since 1994 and second time ever that the special honor won't be presented.
The honor is bestowed to "an individual, company, organization or project for outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences or management of television which is either of a cumulative nature or so extraordinary and universal in nature as to go beyond the scope of the Emmy Awards presented in the categories and areas of the competition."
The Academy's board of governors did not put forward a name this year, according to Variety, which first broke the news Wednesday.
Last year, Star Trek received the Governors Award, which was first handed out in 1978 to CBS executive William S. Paley. There was no award given in 1993 or 1994.
The Creative Arts Emmys are set for September 14-15 and the Primetime Emmys are September 22 on Fox.
Following months of controversy and drama, court battles, public meetings, a musical lineup announced with great fanfare and a cascade of departures beneath a cloud of uncertainty, the Woodstock 50 festival has been canceled, reports the Poughkeepsie Journal, which is part of the USA TODAY Network.
A golden anniversary celebration set for Aug. 16-18, Woodstock 50 was announced in January as a means of memorializing the iconic event of decades ago that many consider to be the crowning achievement of the 1960s counterculture - the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
But organizers struggled to get it out of the starting gate. There were fits and starts, the loss of financial and production partners and the failure to secure permits or a venue. Through it all, the Woodstock 50 team remained defiant that the festival would proceed as planned.
That all came crashing down Wednesday afternoon, however. The Woodstock celebration five decades in the making, the event hailed as a 21st century call to action, the musical event of the year at which Jay-Z and Carlos Santana would perform, was canceled with a press release.
Wednesday's announcement followed the departure over recent days of Woodstock 50's major acts, including Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, Santana, the Lumineers and Dead and Company, as well as musicians who performed at the 1969 festival such as Country Joe McDonald and John Sebastian.
Ernest Hemingway wasn't the only Great American Writer with something to say about Paris.
Hemingway's contemporary and fellow Nobel laureate, John Steinbeck, was best known for "The Grapes of Wrath," ''Of Mice and Men" and other fiction set in his native California. But he was a world citizen for much of his adult life, and he absorbed enough of Paris to write down some memories and impressions, and add a funny, fictional spin.
In the mid-1950s, Steinbeck wrote a series of columns for the French newspaper Le Figaro titled "One American In Paris." One of those pieces, widely believed to have never come out in English, appears this week in the summer issue of The Strand Magazine , a literary quarterly which has published rare works by Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and many others.
In his Paris piece, Steinbeck teases the French café culture and apparently his own literary stature as a serious, even self-important, writer who helped define the Great Depression through the impoverished but steadfast Joad family of "The Grapes of Wrath." The heroes of "One American in Paris" represent a more privileged class: a French chef, his trusted cat Apollo - and the unexpected zest of Apollo's catnip.
Unlike Hemingway, Steinbeck had no youthful or war time experiences in Paris. During World War II, he worked in London, Italy and North Africa as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune; he didn't arrive in Paris until 1946, the year after the war ended, when he was in his mid-40s. Years later, he would acknowledge that his view of the city was "naive," but "it is an eye of delight." Susan Shillinglaw, a Steinbeck scholar and a professor of English at San Jose State University, said the author's affection inspired the humor of his Le Figaro contributions.
An ardent critic of the federal government who has argued for selling off almost all public lands has been named the Trump administration's top steward over nearly a quarter-billion federally controlled acres, raising new questions about the administration's intentions for vast Western ranges and other lands roamed by hunters, hikers and wildlife.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Monday signed an order making Wyoming native William Perry Pendley acting head of the Bureau of Land Management. The bureau's holdings are sweeping, with nearly one out of every 10 acres nationally, and 30% of minerals, under its dominion, mostly across the U.S. West.
Pendley, a former midlevel Interior appointee in the Reagan administration, for decades has championed ranchers and others in standoffs with the federal government over grazing and other uses of public lands. He has written books accusing federal authorities and environmental advocates of "tyranny" and "waging war on the West." He argued in a 2016 National Review article that the "Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold."
In tweets this summer, Pendley welcomed Trump administration moves to open more federal land to mining and oil and gas development and other private business use, and he has called the oil and gas extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, "an energy, economic, AND environmental miracle!"
Western Values Project executive director Chris Saeger said in a statement that the appointment could lead public lands to being handed over to the Trump administration's "special interest allies."
Princess Haya, who is battling her husband Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum in a UK court, is the third princess who has sought to escape the Gulf emirate in recent years.
Activists say the attempts by Haya and two of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters to escape the United Arab Emirates (UAE) throw a harsh spotlight on the country's rights record, even as it tries to present a glitzy and modern image to the West.
In 2000, Sheikha Shamsa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum tried to escape the family's entourage during a holiday in England, but was reportedly picked up two months later and forcibly returned to Dubai.
And in 2018, another daughter, Sheikha Latifa, fled Dubai before being allegedly captured at sea off India. Supporters released a harrowing video, purportedly by her, in which she describes her living conditions.
Princess Haya, 45, the half-sister of Jordan's King Abdullah and an equestrian competitor in the Olympics for her native Jordan, surfaced this year in Britain where she has applied for a forced marriage protection order.
An Arizona man says a body donation center where FBI agents reported finding buckets of human organs and a Frankenstein-like body sold his mother's body to the U.S. Army for "blast testing."
Jim Stauffer told Phoenix television station KNXV on Tuesday that he contacted the Biological Resource Center after his 73-year-old mother, who had Alzheimer's, died five years ago. He said he now feels "foolish" because he only contacted the donation facility after his mother's neurologist couldn't accept the body at the time.
Stauffer said he signed BRC paperwork outlining what he would and would not permit the center to do with his mother's body. Several days later, he received a box with a majority of her ashes.
He had no idea what actually happened until he says Reuters combed through internal BRC documents obtained by authorities and found out Stauffer's mother, Doris, was sold to the military for "blast testing."
"She was then supposedly strapped in a chair on some sort of apparatus, and a detonation took place underneath her to basically kind of get an idea of what the human body goes through when a vehicle is hit by an IED," Stauffer said.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday restored federal protections to grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, abiding by a court ruling last year that removal of the bears' threatened status violated the Endangered Species Act.
Reinstatement of Yellowstone-area grizzlies to the U.S. threatened species list capped years of legal wrangling over one of the most iconic animals roaming a region of the Northern Rockies that encompasses parts of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.
The Trump administration's decision to "de-list" the Yellowstone grizzly, formally proposed in 2016 during the Obama era, was based on federal wildlife managers' findings that the bear's numbers had sufficiently rebounded in recent decades and no longer warranted federal safeguards.
The move, welcomed by big-game hunters and ranchers, applied to about 700 bears in the region, and led to plans for the first licensed trophy hunts for grizzlies in areas adjacent to Yellowstone park in more than 40 years.
A number of environmental groups and Native American tribes then sued in federal court seeking to overturn the decision, arguing that grizzly populations could plunge again without protection. They cited pressures that hunting and encroaching human development posed to a species that is slow to reproduce.
Were the ancient Egyptians able to use reed boats to travel as far as the Black Sea thousands of years ago?
A group of adventurers believe so, and will try to prove their theory by embarking on a similar journey in reverse. In mid-August the team of two dozen researchers and volunteers from eight countries will set off from the Bulgarian port of Varna, hoping their Abora IV reed boat will take them the 700 nautical miles through the Bosphorus, the Aegean and as far as the island of Crete.
The team is specifically seeking to prove a hypothesis lent credence by Herodotus, the expedition's German leader, Dominique Goerlitz, told AFP.
The construction was carried out with the help of volunteers and two members of the Aymara indigenous community from Bolivia's Lake Titicaca, Fermin Limachi and his son Yuri.
It is no accident that the Abora IV bears a striking resemblance to the famous Ra II reed boat that Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl used in his 1970 attempt to cross the Atlantic -- Limachi's father helped build that vessel too.
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