Amanda Hess: Marriage Is the New Middle-Class Luxury Item (Slate)
As traditional work and family structures crumble in the United States, middle-class Americans have the money to build relationships, yet remain satisfied as individuals. For working-class Americans, personal stability sometimes requires staying single and avoiding the risk of abuse, abandonment, and even more economic and emotional disruption.
David Weigel: "Photo: Hooters Restaurants in San Diego Won't Serve Bob Filner" (Slate)
The signs went up at our four locations in San Diego this morning," said Melissa Fry, director of marketing for HootWinc, the west coast Hooters franchise. "It's not a political move for us in any way, shape, or form. We're strictly taking a stand for the fair treatment of women. At our franchise alone, we employ 1100 beautiful, talented women."
Josephine Livingstone: "Hired by a bitch to find scum" (Prospect Magazine)
Often responding to Philip or Sam, the private investigator (PI) may be identified by his coat and hat. His natural habitat: the wet street corner or, unauthorised, another person's home. He is commonly accused of committing the very crime under his investigation. You will find him lit starkly, from the side. He is good at getting women into bed, but they often turn out to be malevolent villainesses. He is American.
Mark Edmundson: The Ideal English Major (Chronicle Review)
English majors want the joy of seeing the world through the eyes of people who-let us admit it-are more sensitive, more articulate, shrewder, sharper, more alive than they themselves are. The experience of merging minds and hearts with Proust or James or Austen makes you see that there is more to the world than you had ever imagined. You see that life is bigger, sweeter, more tragic and intense-more alive with meaning than you had thought.
Daniel Campagna: 5 Things You Learn from Becoming Famous for No Reason (Cracked)
I work at a desk in an office. I spend 7.5 hours a day (give or take) staring at a computer screen that's 30 inches from my face. I'm nearsighted. Every day I wear a button-up collared shirt. Some days I wear a suit and tie. I am the antithesis of the rock and roll lifestyle. Yet for two glorious weeks on a tour of Western Europe, I was a rock star. A children's rock star.
"Classical Gas" is an instrumental musical piece composed and originally performed by Mason Williams. At the time of the work's release, what was Mason Williams' day job?
Katharina von Bora, referred to as "die Lutherin" (January 29, 1499 - December 20, 1552), was the wife of Martin Luther, German leader of the Protestant Reformation. Beyond what is found in the writings of Luther and some of his contemporaries, little is known about her. Despite this, Katharina is often considered one of the most important participants of the Reformation because of her role in helping to define Protestant family life and setting the tone for clergy marriages.
It is pretty certain that her father sent the five year old Katherina to the Benedictine cloister in Brehna in 1504 for education. This is documented in a letter from Laurentius Zoch to Martin Luther, written on October 30, 1531. This letter is the only evidence for Katherina von Bora's time spent within the monastery. At the age of nine she moved to the Cistercian monastery Marienthron (Mary's Throne) in Nimbschen, near Grimma, where her maternal aunt was already a member of the community. Katharina is well documented at this monastery in a provision list of 1509/10.
After several years of religious life, Katharina became interested in the growing reform movement and grew dissatisfied with her life in the monastery. Conspiring with several other nuns to flee in secrecy, she contacted Luther and begged for his assistance.
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Across Asia and Africa the dark forces of religious enthusiasm are gathering strength, and reason and tolerance are not safe even in the secular states of the West. The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper has said that it was the spread of the spirit of science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that finally ended the burning of witches in Europe. We may need to rely again on the influence of science to preserve a sane world. It is not the certainty of scientific knowledge that fits it for this role, but its uncertainty. Seeing scientists change their minds again and again about matters that can be studied directly in laboratory experiments, how can one take seriously the claims of religious tradition or sacred writings to certain knowledge about matters beyond human experience?
~Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory (New York: Pantheon, 1992) , p. 258-259.
Sally said:
Katharina von Bora, was a nun who became Martin Luther's wife. No wonder he broke away from the RC church... Nuns are off-limits there...
Sister von Bora, just imagine her with a ruler in one hand...
PS: @Michelle, I spent some considerable time looking for my book, "Cosmos" to no avail (I have a ton of books). I want to know what is on "Cosmos" pg.308???"
Dale of Passionate Diamond Springs, Norcali, replied:
Martin Luther's wife. He called her the "morning star of Wittenberg" since she rose at 4 a.m. to care for her many responsibilities. She took care of the vegetable garden, orchard, fishpond, and barnyard animals, even to the butchering of them herself. Katharina spawned six children: Johannes (Hans) (1526-1575), Elizabeth (1527-28) who died at eight months, Magdalena (1529-42) who died at thirteen years, Martin Jr. (1531-1565), Paul (1533-1593), and Margarete (1534-70); in addition she suffered a miscarriage in 1539. The Luthers also raised four orphan children, including Katharina's nephew, Fabian. I guess that Lutheran women weren't allowed to smile!! That's a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod clearing machine in the photo below!!
BttbBob said:
Martin Luther... I called two Lutherans I know to see if they knew who she was. Nope...
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Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora
And, Joe S replied:
Katharina von Bora was Martin Luther's beloved wife,
Now they're walking hand-in-hand, in the afterlife.
Probably, along the Banks of Jordan.
Doug's post today triggered a memory. I was working in the Bahamas around the time, "Help" was being filmed. While I didn't see the Beatles, local rumor had it, as Kevin said yesterday, that George Harrison's gf Patti Boyd had been there.
Here is her pic again. What do you think?? ~ Sally
Then Kappy in Philly responded:
When I first saw it, I thought it was Marianne Faithfull. After someone said it was from "Help", I saw this:
If you google pics of her from '65, it sure looks like her, but then again bangs were the rage at the time.
It looks like it was while filming in the islands... - Kappy in Philly
Less marine layer, more sun, but still cooler than seasonal.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'Elementary'.
On a RERUNDave (from 4/25/13) are Jim Parsons, a Top Ten List presented by Barry Sanders, and Snoop Lion.
On a RERUNCraig (from 5/22/13) is Stephen Fry.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'Hollywood Game Night', then a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 6/25/13) are Sandra Bullock, Bob Saget, and Il Volo.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 3/14/13) are Katie Couric, Freddie Highmore, and Justin Timberlake.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/27/13) are Andy Dick, Faye, and the Men.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Motive', then a FRESH'Rookie Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Ashton Kutcher, Melanie Griffith, and Big Sean.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux indulges in some good old-fashion corpse-fucking with a RERUN'Glee', followed by a RERUN'New Girl', then a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Panic 9-1-1'.
AMC offers the movie 'Pulp Fiction', followed by a FRESH'Owner's Manual', then another FRESH'Owner's Manual'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 17
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 18
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 19 - Captain's Holiday
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 20 - Tin Man
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 21 - Hollow Pursuits
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Mojito's, The Junction, Bazzini
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Hannah & Mason's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Moore Place
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 17
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 18
[6:00PM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 2 - Episode 2
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 8 - Jungles
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 9 - Shallow Seas
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 10 - Seasonal Forests
[10:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 5 - White Goliath Beetle
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 8 - Jungles
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 10 - Seasonal Forests
[1:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 5 - White Goliath Beetle
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 9 - Shallow Seas
[3:00AM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 2 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 8 - Jungles
[5:00AM] FLORIDA ADVENTURE WITH DOMINIC BONUCCELLI (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart John Oliver is Simon Pegg.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Richard Brodhead.
FX has the movie 'Superbad', 'Anger Management', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', then a FRESH'Wilfred', and another 'Wilfred'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', then another FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning', then another FRESH'Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
[8:15AM] Braddock: Missing in Action III
[10:30AM] Missing in Action
[12:45PM] Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
[2:45PM] Braddock: Missing in Action III
[5:00PM] Jarhead
[7:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zoe Saldana Wears a Tan Blouse and Glasses
[8:00PM] Crank: High Voltage
[10:00PM] Bangkok Dangerous
[12:15AM] Bad Ass
[2:15AM] Bad Ass
[4:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:30AM] Bunk
[5:00AM] Bunk
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] That Thing You Do!
[7:45AM] Control
[10:00AM] Orlando
[12:00PM] That Thing You Do!
[1:45PM] Snow Cake
[4:15PM] Orlando
[6:15PM] Snatch
[8:00PM] Wall Street
[10:15PM] American Gigolo
[12:15AM] Wall Street
[2:30AM] American Gigolo
[4:30AM] Colin Fitz Lives! (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian', followed by the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Harrison Ford, Donald Faison, and Kurt Braunohler.
Actress Jennifer Aniston poses for photographers as she arrives for the UK premiere of "We're the Millers" in Leicester Square in central London August 14, 2013.
Photo by Andrew Winning
Former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler will host Al-Jazeera America's central nightly newscast when the network goes on the air next Tuesday.
The new network on Wednesday began filling in some of the details about what its schedule will look like. Over the past couple of months, it has announced the hiring of several U.S. television veterans for the launch.
Seigenthaler's hour-long show will air at 8 p.m. Eastern time. It will be followed by a magazine-style show anchored by Joie Chen called "America Tonight."
Ali Velshi, like Chen a CNN alum, will host a business-oriented show, "Real Money," that will air weekdays at 7 p.m. ET. Antonio Mora will host "Consider This," a talk show about current events.
"Late Night News," for which no anchor has been listed, will be a second news summary that airs at 11 p.m. ET, the beginning of prime time on the West Coast.
Cast member Matthew Modine gestures at the premiere of "Jobs" in Los Angeles, California August 13, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on August 16.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Former "Star Trek" actor George Takei has reasserted his stance that next year's Winter Olympics should be moved from Sochi to Vancouver due to Russia's "horrific" and "homophobic" anti-gay laws.
The 76-year-old, who is gay, says he was "outraged" by the law, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in June, which outlaws "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to children, threatening so-called offenders with prison sentences, hefty fines or, in the case of foreigners, deportation.
"We've gotta learn from history," Takei said this week in a telephone interview from his California home. "In 1936, the Olympics committee granted the rights to stage the Summer Olympics in Berlin. Three years before that, Hitler came to power and he got a law passed which seemed innocuous at that time: Jewish professors could not get tenure.
"But then the international stage was offered to him and he gloried in it, and it raised his status and gave him more power amongst the German people. And his campaign of horror began and you know where that led.
"Putin is a former KGB guy, and now he's president of Russia, and he got this - some people say it's innocuous, I think it's horrific - propaganda law passed, homophobic propaganda law passed. And now we're offering him that same international stage, that same international spotlight.... I think we need to take the Winter Olympics away from Russia."
ABC says "Grey's Anatomy" star Sandra Oh is leaving the medical drama after the coming season.
Shonda Rhimes, the show's creator and executive producer, said she's grateful for what she called the actress' "brilliant" work. Rhimes said "Grey's Anatomy" will savor Oh's character of Dr. Cristina Yang in the upcoming 10th season and then give her the exit she deserves.
ABC said it intends to keep "Grey's Anatomy" on its schedule for years to come and with as many of the original cast as possible.
Others who have left the drama include Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight.
Cast member Lesley Ann Warren poses at the premiere of "Jobs" in Los Angeles, California August 13, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on August 16.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Playwright Larry Kramer and sportswriter Frank Deford are among this year's winners of awards given by the PEN American Center, the literary and human rights organization.
Sergio De Le Pava, author of "A Naked Singularity," has received a $25,000 prize for writing the best debut novel. Katherine Boo's "Beyond the Beautiful Forevers" is cited for best nonfiction and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass' "What Light Can Do" for best essay collection. Boo and Hass each will receive $10,000.
Also Wednesday, Kramer was named a master dramatist and received $7,500, while Deford was honored with a $5,000 prize for lifetime achievement.
Consumer Watchdog, the advocacy group that uncovered the filing, called the revelation a "stunning admission." It comes as Google and its peers are under pressure to explain their role in the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance of US citizens and foreign nationals.
"Google has finally admitted they don't respect privacy," said John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's privacy project director. "People should take them at their word; if you care about your email correspondents' privacy, don't use Gmail."
Cast member Lukas Haas poses at the premiere of "Jobs" in Los Angeles, California August 13, 2013. The movie opens in the U.S. on August 16.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
A woman has been charged with felony counts of assault and elder abuse in an attack on 73-year-old R&B singer Lester Chambers at a Northern California blues festival where he had just dedicated a song to Trayvon Martin.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that Alameda County prosecutors charged 43-year-old Dinalynn Andrews-Potter of Barstow in the July 13 attack at the Hayward festival.
Authorities say Chambers was performing the song "People Get Ready" for Florida teen Martin just after George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder when Andrews-Potter shouted something and shoved the singer into an amplifier. Chambers ended up on the ground with bruises and swelling.
Chambers and his family had asked that Andrews-Potter be charged with a hate crime, but authorities say her motives were unclear.
Heidi Fleiss, nicknamed the "Hollywood Madam" in the 1990s after she was accused of running a high-priced Southern California call-girl ring, may face charges after 392 pot plants were found at her Nevada desert home, a county sheriff said on Tuesday.
Deputies who went to Fleiss' home in Pahrump, some 45 miles west of Las Vegas, last week searching for a wanted female found the marijuana plants, Nye County Sheriff Tony De Meo said.
Fleiss, 47, told detectives she was growing cannabis so she could sell it to a Las Vegas cooperative, but admitted that she did not have a license to do so, according to a news release issued by the Nye County Sheriff's Office.
Fleiss was not arrested because she was caring for exotic birds worth $200,000 and because she was cooperative throughout the investigation, De Meo said, but his office had turned the case over to prosecutors for potential filing of marijuana possession charges.
A general view of a walking garden as part as the "Floralientime" festival at the Brussels Grand Place, August 14, 2013. Brussels Grand Place, which is the city's main square, and City Hall have been decorated by landscape architects and floral artists presenting various floral creations, according to a media release by the organisers.
Photo by Yves Herma
A prosecutor who is the son of TV's Judge Judy sued the local sheriff for $5 million Wednesday for saying that the prosecutor had interfered in a child rape case.
Putnam County District Attorney Adam Levy said county Sheriff Donald Smith "maliciously attempted to destroy" his reputation.
The sheriff denied defaming Levy. He also said the timing of the lawsuit was "blatantly political" and implied it was intended to damage his re-election campaign.
Levy filed the lawsuit in county court in suburban New York, naming Smith only as an individual, not as a county employee.
The lawsuit stems from a child rape case against Alexandru Hossu, Levy's former personal trainer. In the court papers, Levy calls him "a close personal friend" and a frequent houseguest of his family in 2011 and 2012.
In announcing a pullout from Somalia after 22 years, Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that armed groups are killing and abducting aid workers. And in a scathing indictment of Somalia's leadership, the aid group accused civilian leaders of condoning or even supporting the attacks.
The pullout goes against the narrative of a Somalia emerging from decades of anarchy and violence amid military gains against Islamist insurgents, but it underscores the violence that persists. Some two dozen local journalists have been killed since the start of 2012. In June, a truck bomb and gunfire attack on the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu killed eight U.N. employees and five Somali civilians.
Doctors Without Borders, the winner of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize and known by its French initials as MSF, said the pullout will cut off hundreds of thousands of Somali civilians from humanitarian aid. For example, in Mogadishu, MSF runs the only pediatric intensive care unit, while in Jowhar, women will have nowhere to go for emergency Caesarean sections.
The decision comes after the release from prison of a Somali man convicted of killing two MSF staff. In December 2011 a Somali employee of MSF who recently learned his contract would not be renewed shot and killed a Belgian and an Indonesian worker at an MSF compound. Though the shooter was convicted and sentenced to 30 years, authorities released him from prison after only three months, MSF said.
In a blunt statement, MSF denounced "extreme attacks on its staff in an environment where armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly support, tolerate, or condone the killing, assaulting, and abducting of humanitarian aid workers."
Activists holding masks take part in a protest in front of the Japan Interchange Association, the de facto Japanese embassy, in Taipei, August 14, 2013. Protesters and supporters of "comfort women" who were forced to become sex slaves during World War II urged the Japanese government to formally acknowledge, apologize and accept its responsibility over comfort women for Japanese troops during World War II, according to local media. The Chinese characters on the mask read, "Apologize."
Photo by Pichi Chuang
Britain's Victoria & Albert Museum says it has acquired the archive of "Gone With the Wind" star Vivien Leigh, including personal diaries and letters to her husband, Laurence Olivier.
The London museum said Wednesday it bought the archive from Leigh's grandchildren for an undisclosed sum.
The trove includes photographs, annotated film and theater scripts, and thousands of letters from Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Noel Coward and others.
There are more than 200 letters exchanged with Olivier, to whom Leigh was married for 20 years.
Ancient rock etchings along a dried-up lake bed in Nevada have been confirmed to be the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America, dating back at least 10,000 years.
The petroglyphs found on limestone boulders near Pyramid Lake in northern Nevada's high desert are similar in design to etchings found at a lake in Oregon that are believed to be at least 7,600 years old. Unlike later drawings that sometimes depict a spear or antelope, the carvings are abstract with tightly clustered geometric designs - some are diamond patterns, others have short parallel lines on top of a longer line.
"We initially thought people 12,000 or 10,000 years ago were primitive, but their artistic expressions and technological expertise associated with these paints a much different picture," said Eugene Hattori, the curator of anthropology at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City who co-authored a paper on the findings earlier this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
The petroglyphs could be as much as 14,800 years old, said Larry Benson, a geochemist who used radiocarbon testing to date the etchings and co-wrote the paper.
Radiocarbon testing dated the carbonate layer underlying the petroglyphs to roughly 14,800 years ago. Geochemical data and sediment and rock samples from adjacent Pyramid Lake show they were exposed to air from 13,200 to 14,800 years ago, and again from 10,500 to 11,300 years ago.
A Horned Owl sits in an enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, August 14, 2013.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
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