Special Bonus
Michael Dare
'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Jazz From Hills
Trimmed Bush and Hedges
Reader Contribution
Bush vs. Cheney Debate
Here's a 1-minute video mash-up I created of Bush and
Cheney debating each other.
Sim
Reader Suggestion
A Bear Votes
Click here: A Bear Votes
Election Day is only two weeks away and we need your help! With so
much at stake this election, we need everyone who cares about our
air, water, wildlife, and wilderness to go to the polls and vote
for conservation of the environment up and down the ballot!
Because our wildlife can't vote, Defenders of Wildlife -- in
partnership with SaveOurEnvironment.org -- brings you the "A Bear
Votes" flash movie to remind you and your friends to go to the
polls for them on November 2.
Thanks, Marianne!
Suggested Reading
Matthew Rothschild
An Excerpt:
One of the things that concerns me most about the Bush administration is it's messianic militarism. George W. Bush really does believe that God put him in the Oval Office, when we all know that it was William Rehnquist and four of his cronies. But he thinks that God is speaking through him. That's what he told some Amish people earlier in the campaign. As Molly Ivins points out, that's a strange thing to say, because I thought God could conjugate verbs better than that. But it's a very troubling thing for George W. Bush to be invoking God as his justification. He has said time and time again that we are delivering the gift of freedom to the people in Iraq, but it's not our gift to deliver -- it's the gift of God Almighty. And that makes him to be God's little efficient delivery boy.
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Contributions
More bumper Stickers
George W. Bush: It's Hard Work Being President -- Now Watch This Drive
& A Quote
Hey, Bill O'Reilly, Is That A Vibrator In Your Rear Or Are You Just
Glad To See Andrea Mackris?
Your Name Here: I Was Voting For Kerry Because I Hate Bush -- Now I'm
Voting For Kerry Because He'll Be A Great President
Your Name Here: I'm Mad As Hell And I'm Voting
A Favorite Quotation:
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths.
Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful
mind on something like that?" -- Barbara Bush (The War President's
Mom), March 18, 2003 on "Good Morning America"
Thanks, Bruce!
Reader Suggestion
'Just In Case'
Just in case you haven't seen this clip - a 4 min song titled "Asshole", with a slideshow presentation featuring all the "assholes" of bushco and their lapdogs.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another rainy day, and colder, too.
Finally vacuumed out the heaters so we could fire 'em up tonight - gonna be nippy by local standards - might get all the way down to 58° or 59°.
Wonder why CBS dumped the Season Premiere of 'King Of Queens', as well as the Series Premiere of 'Center Of The Universe' and replaced them with a rerun of 'CSI: The 2nd One'. KCBS played promos for both
comedies during the day - their online TV schedule had the comedies listed as of 9:30pm (pdt).
Talked to dear old Dad tonight. He's predicting a big Kerry win (and he lives in a very red area).
Too Hot For Wal-Mart
Jon Stewart
Wal-Mart won't stock Jon Stewart's big best-seller, "America (The Book)," because one page shows nine naked bodies - with the heads of the Supreme Court justices pasted on them.
In the pseudo civics textbook, readers are asked to restore the judges' dignity by matching the nine with their black robes on the opposite page.
"America," written by Stewart and his "Daily Show" colleagues, will mark its third week Sunday at No.1 on The New York Times best-seller list.
Jon Stewart
To Receive Gotham Award
Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" will be honored with Gotham Awards from the Independent Film Project.
On Dec. 1, Cheadle will receive the Gotham Actor Award for his body of work, while "Eternal Sunshine" will be honored with the organization's inaugural Celebrate New York Tribute.
"Don was such an obvious choice," IFP/New York President Michelle Byrd told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "He's someone who very seamlessly goes between smaller independent productions to larger commercial movies. He's a consummate actor's actor."
Don Cheadle
Big Dog Stumping
Bill Clinton
Former US president Bill Clinton, recovering from heart surgery, will go out on the stump for John Kerry next week, giving what Democrats hope will be a crucial boost to their presidential candidate.
"He's going to join John Kerry at a campaign rally in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on Monday," Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said Wednesday.
His return will be cause for optimism among Democrats looking for any advantage to break the poll deadlock between Kerry and resident George W. Bush in a number of battleground states.
Bill Clinton
Stumps for John Kerry
Leo DiCaprio
"Titanic" star Leonardo DiCaprio stumped for John Kerry, while Fred Thompson of NBC's "Law & Order" campaigned for resident Bush in Florida, one of the swing states in the presidential election.
DiCaprio spoke to some 400 students - mostly female - at the University of Central Florida on Tuesday, while 200 more waited outside.
The 29-year-old actor, who is registered as a Democrat in Los Angeles County, said it was the first time he had publicly supported a candidate.
Leo DiCaprio
Pick Kerry to Be the Next President
Kids
Kid power! Democrat John Kerry is the winner, and the rest of the country should pay attention because the vote on Nickelodeon's Web site has correctly chosen the president of the United States in the past four elections.
Nearly 400,000 children and teens voted, and the results were released Wednesday. Kerry received 57 percent of the vote; resident Bush got 43 percent.
Nickelodeon has been airing information on the Nov. 2 election, plus sponsoring debates where kids could put forth their views on the environment, the war in Iraq and terrorism. Some animated shows on the cable channel also have been focusing on the election.
Kids
Brings Bush-Bashing to Utah
Michael Moore
Filmmaker Michael Moore brought his Bush-bashing to the heart of conservative Utah Wednesday, saying he was proud of student organizers who held firm against critics who tried to keep him out.
"I feel bad for students who had to suffer through this simply because they believe in freedom of expression," Moore said before his sold-out speech at Utah Valley State College.
Even in this GOP stronghold, the crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Moore, but protesters would occasionally break through the din. Some jeered Moore by calling him a liar and criticizing his weight.
"I love that sound," Moore said of the boos interrupting him. "It's the sound of a dying dinosaur. ... It's embarrassing for them."
Michael Moore
Appears For 'Degrassi' Finale
Kevin Smith
If you know anything about Kevin Smith, you're probably wise to his fascination with a little TV show in Canada called Degrassi. For ages now he's wanted to be involved somehow with the show and apparently he's finally getting his wish. According to a press release from CTV, the station behind Degrassi: The Next Generation, Smith is in town right for a guest-starring role in the show's final three episodes of the season.
Plus, Smith hasn't come alone and will be appearing on the show with a "co-guest star". Who that is will certainly be open to debate (Jason Mewes perhaps?), but all the details will be announced tomorrow from the Epitome Productions set.
Smith first become obsessed with Degrassi when he worked at a convenience store. In a 1996 article for Details Magazine entitled "Obsession Confession", Smith confessed, saying, "I used to work at this convenience store, and on Sunday mornings the only thing that kept me from gutting the customers in a sleepy rage was Degrassi Junior High."
Kevin Smith
Dropped From ABC
Miss America
ABC-TV has pulled the plug on Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network television sponsor for the first time in 50 years.
ABC, which had carried the annual telecast since 1997 with a series of one-year contracts, notified Miss America Organization officials that they will not pick up the option this year, Acting President and CEO Arthur McMaster said Wednesday.
The move, which comes on the heels of a Sept. 18 pageant that drew a record-low 9.8 million viewers, could jeopardize the foundation of a program that grew from an Atlantic City publicity stunt into a TV icon, largely on the strength of the contest and crowning beamed into millions of living rooms each September.
Miss America
Planning New Version of Song
Band Aid
The founders of Band Aid, the 1984 charity effort that raised millions for Ethiopian famine relief, plan a new version of the single "Do They Know It's Christmas," a British newspaper reported.
The Sun tabloid said Wednesday that Bob Geldof and Midge Ure had approached top British acts including Coldplay, The Darkness, Robbie Williams and Dido to appear on the single, which would be released before Christmas.
Band Aid
Sony to Re-Release Classic Films
Harold Lloyd
More than 30 years after he died and a half a century since his last film, silent screen star Harold Lloyd, whose career rivaled Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, is returning to U.S. movie theaters.
Sony Pictures Releasing on Wednesday said it had acquired rights to release films of the legendary comedian, and it will distribute freshly printed Lloyd classics like "Safety Last!" and "The Freshman" in theaters starting early next year.
Sony, a unit of Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp, said the deal includes virtually the entire library: shorts and features, silents and talkies. Lloyd's career spanned 35 years and included more than 200 comedies. He died in March 1971 at age 77.
Harold Lloyd
Getting Star on Walk O'Fame
'Godzilla'
Godzilla, the fire-breathing movie monster born in a nuclear accident, is joining Hollywood royalty with a star on the Walk of Fame.
A ceremony will honor the giant lizard in front of Hollywood Boulevard's famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Nov. 29, the world premiere of "Godzilla Final Wars," Toho Pictures Inc. President Shogo Tomiyama said Wednesday.
Known in Japan as "Gojira," from a combination of the words for gorilla and whale, the monster first appeared in director Ishiro Honda's 1954 black-and-white classic.
'Godzilla'
Pulls Ads From Sinclair
Burger King
Hamburger chain Burger King said on Wednesday that it would not run its commercials during a controversial program about U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry to be aired by Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Burger King's move suggests advertisers may not be assured the new program's format averts political controversy. Democrats have branded plans to air the program as a blatant partisan attack less than two weeks before the Nov. 2 ballot.
A Sinclair official said the company respected Burger King's decision. He could not say whether other advertisers had pulled their commercials from the program.
Sinclair shares fell nearly 17 percent after the controversy began earlier this month, with investors concerned about a potential advertising boycott or legal threat.
Burger King
Taking Time Off
Dave Barry
Miami Herald humor columnist Dave Barry, who has poked fun at life's more bizarre aspects for 20 years, is giving up his weekly column from next January for at least a year, the paper said on Wednesday.
The Herald quoted Barry as saying he wanted a break to spend more time with his wife and child after a hectic summer and might return after a year.
"Part of the reason for taking a year off is to find out if I just can't stand not being able to write," Barry, 57, told the paper.
Dave Barry
Pleads Guilty to Hitting Clubgoer
Courtney Love
Rocker Courtney Love pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Wednesday for hitting a clubgoer on the head with a microphone stand during a performance.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson granted Love a conditional discharge, meaning her case will be sealed after one year if she pays the victim $2,236 to cover medical expenses, joins a drug-treatment program and does not commit any other crimes.
If Love violates the conditions, she could face 15 days in jail.
Courtney Love
Painting in an Envelope Comes to Auction
El Greco
An unknown painting by old master El Greco, discovered by chance in a brown envelope in a flat in Spain, will be offered for sale in December with a starting price of 600,000 pounds ($1.1 million).
The oil-on-wood portable altarpiece that fits snugly into a medium-sized envelope was found earlier this year when a man living in a small apartment in western Spain responded to an advertisement offering valuations of art objects.
The painting, "The Baptism of Christ," by Domenikos Theotokopoulos -- who signed himself El Greco (the Greek) -- is not listed in any catalog of the seminal artist's works.
El Greco
Plan Upsets U.S. Agency
Arch Illumination
The National Park Service is upset over a plan to illuminate the Gateway Arch in pink on Monday in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Spokesman Dave Barna said Wednesday the Park Service is not opposed to the cause, but rather the precedent it sets for possible future uses of the 630-foot-tall arch, which the agency is charged with maintaining.
"If you allow a certain type of event with one organization, you open it up to everyone else," he said. "You have to assume there'll be some individual who'll want to do this in some protest manner.
Congress approved illuminating the Arch at the urging of Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., whose mother died of the disease in 1988.
Arch Illumination
Breast Cancer Action
Learn more about the "Faith-Based Parks" movement within the top echelons of the Bush Administration
U.S. Declines To Endorse Statement
Women's Rights
The United States has refused to join 85 heads of state and government in signing a statement that endorses a 10-year-old U.N. plan to ensure every woman's right to education, health care and choice about having children.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kelly Ryan wrote to organizers of the statement that that the United States was committed to the plan of action adopted at a 1994 U.N. conference in Cairo, Egypt, and "to the empowerment of women and the need to promote women's fullest enjoyment of universal human rights. The United States is unable, however, to endorse the world leaders' statement" because it "includes the concept of 'sexual rights,' a term that has no agreed definition in the international community."
Women's Rights
Newspaper Endorsements
Daily Tally
On a rare day this month, resident George W. Bush has topped Sen. John Kerry in the number of new newspaper endorsements, while also grabbing today's biggest prize.
Today's biggie for Bush: the Boston Herald. Kerry picked up the second largest paper endorsing today, The Honolulu Advertiser, but Bush answered with The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. In all, we added six papers to Bush's total and three to Kerry's.
In E&P's exclusive daily endorsement tally, Kerry continues to lead by a wide margin, with 55 papers backing him, compared to 42 for Bush. The democrat also remains far ahead in total circulation of his endorsers, by about a 9-5 margin.
JOHN KERRY
55 newspapers total
9,226,709 daily circulation
GEORGE W. BUSH
42 newspapers total
5,477,272 daily circulation
For the complete list of newspapers, by state, Daily Tally
