I know a whole lot of people are now talking about that "bi" something word. It has to do with the right and the left making nice. Good idea I guess. No reason to get into a rumble if the other guy is willing to say ok, you are not a total piece of crap. Makes sense. It used to happen all the time politically in my old mans America. When AM radio was top 40 rock n roll and cable news shows were not born yet. Those were the days when we hated Russia and people here who were a different color than us. Oh we still don't care much for anyone that doesn't look exactly like us but we have kinda gotten over Russia. That's progress I guess. Now that hate didn't just go up in smoke and drift away. Nahh, it just moved on to the ongoing war between those conservatives and progressives. Both sides think they're right and nothing is gonna change their mind. Not even facts. Especially not the facts cuz they are totally boring. It might have been this way a little bit back when Goldwater & LBJ were stirring things up but don't think it ranked with what's going down these days.
Right now some are calling on the professional talkers to cease fire and stop slugging it out on the air but even not so smart people like me know it's not that simple. When Jon Stewart says both sides are equally bad it makes me think I'm sure glad I don't host a tv show where I need to say things to make both sides think I'm with them. If just one side likes me and the other thinks I'm a left or right wing tool I got no chance to host the Oscars. Zero. And then to make things worse, no one other than those same old Prius driving liberals would even come on his show. You know he's thinking why would I do this? So he could be labeled as one of those partisan hacks (whatever the hell that is)? Regular viewers of his show know he serves up a ton of stuff from that FOX NEWS comedy channel cuz you would have to be crazier than Beck or their "Blonde Brigade" to not put it on the air. Funny to the 10th power but does he really need to always tack on the counter punches from those pissed off pip squeak hosts on MSNBC who get their butts handed to them ratings wise to really be fair and balanced? Kinda like showing footage of some Saudi women getting stoned to death and to even things up cut to 30 seconds of a Jersey girl being dissed by some Guido. Sometimes people and or things are not equally disturbing. Comparing Keith Olbermann or Ed Schultz to the right wing machine now ruling the airwaves is both silly and chickenshit.
When I was in the sixth grade there was this guy named Steve and he was a real bad ass. Sometimes on the way home after school he would punch a 2nd or 3rd grader just for fun and not a love tap either. Once I saw him kick a little kid in the nuts and his face lit up like it was Christmas day. Since he was way bigger and tougher than me I did nothing to help that kid and watched him sorta crawl down the street crying all the way. Should have done something. Still bugs me to this day. The thing about this guy is he hit first and knew no one would hit back. Oh maybe some little kid would yell something at him after getting pounded but that was about it. Now let's just say I had grown a pair and manned up as the elephant women running for office liked to say and called him out for being a jerk. I would have gotten my head beaten in and if it was covered by CNN, the AP or other "objective" news sources it would have probably gone something like this …… two young males were involved in an altercation. Both suspects are in custody. Not a word about a good or bad guy. Nope. Just the facts. Instead it was about never taking sides so as to not upset one group or the other. You see Steve had a pretty large family and a butt load of buddies. If they saw his face on the news and heard that he was actually a waste of human flesh they would be calling the tv station complaining faster than 100,000 fans leaving a Dallas Cowboy game before halftime. You see no matter what you hear on talk radio or cable news shows about the power of the biased mainstream media and liberal people in general, they are 100% total Pussies. There I said it. They or we just won't fight back. Maybe something to do with breast feeding way too long or checking out one too many Nancy Drew books from the library (I still dig her). Who knows?
Some very book smart (liberal/progressive) humans would like to see us still turn the other cheek when the Right attacks but it's not gonna stop Rush, Ann Coulter or FOX NEWS from kicking them in the gonads again and again just cuz they can. Duh. Has there ever been a bully who has suddenly said "my bad, I'm a total asshole" and stopped doing or saying terrible things? Ok, maybe when they are about to unhook the breathing tube (Lee Atwater). The most important thing I learned with Steve is if you don't take a stand and say something is wrong you sorta know you don't really deserve to be swallowing up air someone else could be using. Someone better than you. It won't happen again for me. Now I know for a fact that my side is full of crap too but at least we share our toys most of the time. The other side is mostly about having more stuff than they could possibly ever play with (I know that's not my call). If it's all about the scoreboard though I guess they win every time but even that dead lady and first mean girl Ayn Rand must have felt a little creepy once in awhile. I know if I ever run into Steve again I'm gonna ask him how he feels today about all the kids he made pee their pants. Even if these days he runs some big hedge fund or off shore business maybe, just maybe he might want to apologize to a couple of the little guys he terrorized. It's something to hope for but I wouldn't bet on it happening cuz no one ever pointed a finger at him back then and said no, that's not cool. Yup, most of the time there is a right and wrong. Even if you host a tv show that you want everyone to like sometimes you have to say screw it and refuse to report 2 + 2 = 8,650 just cuz one side said it might = 5! One is way more wrong than the other. Now that's just my opinion. I suppose there are two ways to look at it. Later.
Mark Morford: "Dear Tea Party: You will now get yours" (San Francisco Gate)
And now, hot on the heels of our recent letter to whiny young Democrats, a loving shout-out to all those moderates and independents, confused conservatives and hard-line Repubs who went just a little more than slightly insane this past election.
Froma Harrop: Obama in Indonesia (Creators Syndicate)
Barack Hussein Obama, the mixed-race president born in Hawaii, partly educated in Indonesia - defender of a controversial Islamic center near ground zero in Manhattan - is tentatively scheduled to visit Jakarta's Masjid Istiqlal, the largest mosque in Southeast Asia. Mercifully, the American elections are over.
Rachel Maddow: Must-See TV, Part 1
"Here is why we have a huge problem making our already messy democracy work. It's Rachel Maddow on the $200 million a day we are spending on the President's trip to Asia . . . except that we're not. But it doesn't matter: the right wing has made it fact for a huge segment of our population, an increasing number of whom will now be sitting in Congress." - Andrew Tobias
Rachel Maddow: Must-See TV, Part 2
"And here she actually agrees with Rand Paul on something . . . and makes the fundamental point that adding $700 billion to the deficit by extending tax cuts on income above $250,000 will make the deficit bigger. Not smaller. Bigger. Not smaller. Bigger. Not smaller. Bigger. And yet it is the Republicans' number one priority. And we really, really, really need to fight it." - Andrew Tobias
Andrew Tobias: Daily Comment
"The irony is that, on most things, it's the Republicans who go for the simple -- generally simplistic -- argument, while Democrats say, "No, it's more complicated than that." Here it's VERY simple: 1. No amount of tax cuts will induce a business owner to hire a new employee he doesn't need to handle demand, because the employee will be unproductive so reduce profit, regardless of taxes. 2. No tax increase will dissuade a business owner from hiring a new employee he does need to handle demand, because doing so - if his business is profitable to begin with - will increase his profit, regardless of taxes. Full stop." -- Mark Budwig
Jim Hightower: HARD TIMES, SOFT HEADS
A recent New York Times headline used the word "soft" to describe today's economy. On what planet does that wordsmith live? Soft implies cushions and comfort, while the economic reality that most Americans are experiencing is one of unrelenting hard times.
Steve Johnson: The Simpsons' not-so-little helper (Chicago Tribune)
The new "Simpsons World: The Ultimate Episode Guide (Seasons 1-20)" compiles facts about America's longest-running TV family with a vengeance: 1,200 pages and almost 9 pounds distilled from more than 8,000 minutes of creamy television goodness.
20 Questions: John Grant
John Grant first made his mark as the frontman of the Czars. He recently released his first solo effort, 'Queen of Denmark,' which received MOJO magazine's seldom-awarded "Instant Classic" label upon review. Sitting down with PopMatters 20 Questions, John discusses his love of roller coasters, his kinship with Charlie Kaufman, and his expansive multi-lingual talents.
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
The new year will begin with a new Speaker of the House (No doubt, 'Tan-boy' Boehner, R-Orange). Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing Speaker, has announced her intention of running for Minority Leader of House... Some Democratic Representatives think this is not such a good idea. Rep. Albio Sires (D-NY) said, "We need some new direction, and I think the best way is for her to move on."... Others support Pelosi, "I am confident that under her leadership we will never abandon our principles," said Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ).
Speaker Nancy Pelosi to seek minority leader post
The Dating Game is an ABC television show that first aired on December 20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by
Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973, but it resurfaced in several syndicated versions (1973-1974 as The New Dating Game, 1978-1980, 1986-1989 and 1996-1999; repeats of the last version appeared in the 1999-2000 season.) For years it would almost always be aired in tandem with another Barris production, The Newlywed Game, which premiered on ABC the following year.
Source
Marian was first, and correct, with:
The Dating Game
~ Tony in Philly wrote:
The Dating Game
Alan J answered:
The Dating Game
Charlie wrote:
I still don't know what happened with the question from a couple of days ago. I was preparing a message (with the wrong answer), but apparently I didn't send it, though I thought I had. It isn't in my Sent folder, so I guess I was lucky since I think I would have been the only one to get it wrong! Anyhow, today's answer (I think), is
The Dating Game
I confess to having watched that pretty regularly, so we can blame Barris for that.
I didn't realize that show started as early as 1965.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
The Dating Game is an ABC television show that first aired on December 20,
1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris
Adam responded:
I'm going to say 'The Dating Game'
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
The Dating Game in 1965... As a teenager I thought it was kitschy then, and do even more so now... as a curmudgeon! Blech!
Sally said nothing.
MAM wrote:.
"The Dating Game" Three bachelors or "bachelorettes" competed for the favor of a
contestant of the opposite sex blocked from their view. The contestants' racy banter, and its "flower power"-motif studio set, was a revolution for the game show genre.
"The Dating Game" with Paul Lynde, 1967
PS After some non-delightful time off, I am back !
And, Joe S responded:
The Dating Game. Absolutely detested it. Phah! I liked The Gong Show though.
November 11
In the mail:
Marty -
Re: Ed, the retired teacher with 3 jobs, ("There's no Insanity like Religious Insanity...") responded:
Nope, this is Ed the not-retired Photographer/Reggae Musician currently with no jobs.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'Shit My Dad Says', then a FRESH"CSI: The Original One', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Cher and Bruno Mars.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Juliette Lewis and Rampage Jackson.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Community', followed by a FRESH"30 Rock', then a FRESH"The Office', followed by a FRESH'Outsourced', then a FRESH'Apprentice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kim Kardashian, Dennis Miller, and Soulja Boy.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jeff Goldblum, Mark Valley, and Robyn.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are DJ Z-Trip, Justin Taylan, and Jimmy Eat World.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Private Practice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Harrison Ford, Gary Dell'Abate, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a FRESH'Nikita'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH"Fringe'.
MY recycles an old 'Without A Trace', followed by another old 'Without A Trace'.
A&E has 'The First 48' another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then another FRESH'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'To Hell And Back', followed by the movie 'A Few Good Men', then the movie 'A Few Good Men'.
BBC -
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Susan Sarandon and The Feeling
[9:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[10:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 2 The End of the World
[11:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 3 The Unquiet Dead
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 4 Aliens of London
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 World War Three
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 Dalek
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 Walnut Tree
[4:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 9 Gordon Ramsay, Juliette Binoche and Scouting for Girls
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Long Game
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 23 I, Borg
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
[12:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 13 Deja Q
[1:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 14 A Matter of Perspective
[2:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 23 I, Borg
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 Dalek
[4:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Long Game
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', another 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Ugly Americans', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', 'Ugly Americans', and 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Rosario Dawson.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Quincy Jones.
FX has the movie 'What Happens In Vegas', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', yet another '2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'It's Always Sunny In Philly', then a FRESH'The League'.
History has 'Patton 360', 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Station Agent
[7:35AM] Bookies
[9:15AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[9:35AM] Tapeheads
[11:15AM] D.E.B.S.
[12:55PM] Bookies
[2:35PM] Tapeheads
[4:15PM] D.E.B.S.
[5:55PM] Lords of Dogtown
[7:45PM] The Grid
[8:00PM] Fast Food Nation
[10:00PM] Arrested Development
[10:30PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[11:00PM] Bad Lieutenant
[12:35AM] Fast Food Nation
[2:35AM] Sherrybaby
[4:15AM] Bad Lieutenant
[5:45AM] The Grid (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:05 AM] Visioneers
[7:45 AM] Faintheart
[9:25 AM] Still Walking
[11:25 AM] The American Astronaut
[1:00 PM] Faintheart
[2:35 PM] Still Walking
[4:35 PM] The American Astronaut
[6:10 PM] The Wednesdays
[6:30 PM] Comedy Of Power
[8:20 PM] Mary and Max
[10:00 PM] Public Sex
[11:50 PM] Pen Pusher
[12:00 AM] Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
[2:00 AM] Mary and Max
[3:40 AM] Public Sex
[5:30 AM] Comedy Of Power (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Hollywood Treasure', another 'Hollywood Treasure', 'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files', 'Hollywood Treasure', another 'Hollywood Treasure', followed by a FRESH'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Michael Cera, Julie Bowen, and Jon Dore.
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Denzel Washington, Hilary Duff, and Russell Peters.
Actress Halle Berry arrives at 'On Acting - A Conversation with Halle Berry' during American Film Institute's AFI Fest 2010 in Los Angeles on Tuesday,Nov. 9, 2010.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Comedian Tina Fey, whose parody of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin some say influenced the 2008 U.S. presidential election, accepted the Mark Twain prize for American Humor on Tuesday before a packed audience at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
An all-star line-up of comedy luminaries from fellow Twain Prize winner Steve Martin to Betty White saluted Fey for her pioneering role as the first lead female writer on "Saturday Night Live" to her Emmy Award-winning comedy "30 Rock."
Fey, in a glittery black cocktail dress, thanked all of the stars who traveled across the country to honor her.
"It means so much to me that you care about showbiz more than your families," she said.
British actors, at front, from left, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Daniel Ratcliffe arrive at the opening of the Warner Brothers Studios Leavesden in London,Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. At rear are British director, David Yates, left, and British producer David Barron. The studio has been used for production of all the Harry Potter movies and other recent hits, including 'The Dark Knight' and 'Inception.'
Photo by Jim Ross
Ted Danson's day job is performing with Drew Barrymore in "Everybody Loves Whales," a movie now being filmed in Alaska.
On Tuesday night, he switched from acting to environmental advocacy and urged a timeout for exploratory petroleum drilling in Alaska's Arctic Ocean.
"If you're going to drill in environmentally sensitive areas, make sure you've got it right. And we haven't gotten it right yet," he said.
A federal judge ordered the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to expand its environmental review of a 2008 lease sale in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast, a body of water shared with Russia that's the home to bowhead whales, polar bears, walrus and other marine mammals.
The federal agency that preceded the bureau, the Minerals Management Service, issued 487 leases in the Chukchi after receiving bids totaling $2.7 billion. A subsidiary of Shell Oil accounted for most of the bidding and the company hoped to drill exploratory wells last summer.
Betty White has had countless roles over her award-winning career, but now she has a gig she's always wanted: "Forest Ranger."
The actress known for her roles on "The Golden Girls" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was made an honorary ranger Tuesday by the U.S. Forest Service. White, 88, said that as a young girl she wanted to be a forest ranger, but women weren't allowed to have the job.
On Tuesday, the Forest Service presented her with a badge and a ranger's Stetson hat, which she donned during a ceremony at the Kennedy Center. When Smokey Bear arrived mid-ceremony, White gave him a big bear hug and later asked to take the Forest Service mascot with her. She settled for a toy Smokey with its own small hat.
White said some of her first memories as a child are riding in front of her father on a horse into the High Sierras. They would stay for three weeks and never see "another two-legged soul," she said. The family also went camping in Yellowstone National Park. White said her teachers eventually asked that she write essays on topics other than Yellowstone.
A friend from the motion picture academy left a message, but Francis Ford Coppola didn't want to return the call.
"Well, I am always nervous when I get a phone call from folks where I am living," explained the director of such classics as "The Godfather" trilogy and "Apocalypse Now." "(It's a) 'Why are they calling me?' kind of thing and 'Who's sick?' or 'Who's passed away?' But it was happy news."
Indeed. Former Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis was on the line to inform Coppola that he would be honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, to be presented at the academy's second-annual Governors Awards Saturday night in Hollywood.
"It is sort of the ultimate award for producing," noted Coppola. "I've been a writer, a director and I have gotten more than my share of those honors. The Thalberg award for me is kind of a trifecta."
A golden ticket offering admission to the Hugh Hefner's Midsummer's Night Dream Party at the Playboy Mansion is shown in this publicity photo releasedto Reuters November 9, 2010. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has been called many things over the years, but a modern-day Willy Wonka may not be one of them. That is about to change. This Friday, tucked within the pages of some 200,000 Playboy magazines on U.S. newsstands will be 10 "Golden Tickets" to the Midsummer Night's Dream Party thrown by the pajama-clad playboy known to millions of readers as "Hef."
The Tony Awards ceremony, left homeless after losing its long-term space at Radio City Music Hall, has found a new theater on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for the telecast.
The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show that honors the best of Broadway, said Wednesday that the June 12 event will be broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre by CBS.
The Art Deco theater has 2,800 seats and opened in 1929 as a showcase for vaudeville, musicals, opera and movies, and has hosted concerts by the Michael Jackson, James Taylor, Radiohead and Queen. The Dalai Lama taught in it in 1999 and former President Bill Clinton ended his 60th birthday celebration at the Beacon with a private Rolling Stones concert. Both Radio City and the Beacon are operated by Madison Square Garden Inc.
The eventual location of the show had been a mystery after Cirque du Soleil announced it would be moving into the 6,000-seat Radio City and debuting a new show that couldn't accommodate the time the Tonys would need to set up, rehearse and televise the live event.
The United States must prosecute former resident George W. Bush for torture if his admission in a memoir that he authorized waterboarding holds true, rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
In "Decision Points," published this week, Bush defended his decision to authorize waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning condemned by some as torture.
Bush said the practice was limited to three detainees and led to intelligence breakthroughs that thwarted attacks and saved lives. He told NBC in an interview to publicize the book that his legal adviser had told him it did "not fall within the anti-torture act."
Amnesty International's Senior Director Claudio Cordone said in a statement: "Under international law, anyone involved in torture must be brought to justice, and that does not exclude former resident George W. Bush.
"If his admission is substantiated, the U.S.A. has the obligation to prosecute him," he said. "In the absence of a U.S. investigation, other states must step in and carry out such an investigation themselves."
Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, right, receives Outstanding Contribution Award as host Alice Cooper looks on at the Marshall Classic Rock Roll ofHonour at The Roundhouse in London Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010.
Photo by Yui Mok
Former CNN anchor and current radio talk show host Lou Dobbs is joining the Fox Business Network.
The network said Wednesday that Dobbs will host a new daily program that will start in the first three months of next year. He'll also provide analysis and commentary on business news throughout the network's day.
Dobbs hosted a popular business-oriented program on CNN for many years that gradually changed into an opinionated general news program.
His campaign against illegal immigration made him a focus of political controversy. He tried to tone things down at CNN's request but quit a year ago, concluding that it was no longer a good fit.
If there's any actor who should be able to pick the name of his production company without getting into legal trouble, it's Gerard Butler, right?
Butler, after all, was briefly a lawyer before going on to star in "300," "Phantom of the Opera" and "Law Abiding Citizen." But he's been sued for trademark infringement over the name of his production company.
Here's the beef: Butler and business partner Alan Siegel named their shingle Evil Twins. But there's another Hollywood company operating under the banner Evil Twin Prods.
According to the complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Evil Twin Prods was started by Kristen Armfield and Harri Mark in 1996.
U.S. rock band Cheap Trick members perform at The Classic Rock Awards at Roundhouse, Park Lane in London Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010.
Photo by Paul Jeffers
Gordon Ramsay's kitchen nightmare has gone public.
The chef has released an open letter that exposes a painful family rift, accusing his father-in-law and former business partner of acting like a dictator.
Trouble brewed when Ramsay fired his wife's father, Chris Hutcheson, as chief executive of Gordon Ramsay Holdings after 12 years. In a subsequent interview, Hutcheson said Ramsay had turned into "a monster."
He also urged his mother-in-law, Greta Hutcheson, to "stop punishing" her daughter.
He calls AIDS a form of "justice" for homosexuals and wants retired pedophile priests to go unpunished. He says women who have an abortion will be greeted in the afterlife by their unborn child crying "Momma!"
Archbishop Andre Leonard, 70, was plucked from a sleepy Belgian citadel-town by Pope Benedict XVI in January to energize the country's Roman Catholic faithful and reverse 30 years of liberalism. The appointment was in line with Benedict's policy of putting tradition-minded and conservative bishops in important dioceses.
But since taking office, Leonard's hardline views have added turmoil to a church already mired in an abuse scandal. And, privately, some Vatican officials are expressing concern about an ever-worsening public relations disaster.
The controversy turned into a very public revolt last week when his spokesman resigned, saying he could no longer morally defend Leonard.
Dancers perform "Songs of the Wanderers" by the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan during a dress rehearsal at the National Theater in TaipeiNovember 10, 2010. The acclaimed production which features 3,500 kg (7,716 pounds) of golden rice grains will return to Taiwan for a run from November 10-13. The dance has toured the U.S., Canada, Singapore, Italy and Spain.
Photo by Nicky Loh
Years before leading his vastly outnumbered troops to their doom at Little Bighorn, a young George Armstrong Custer was described as accurate in math.
Nearly 30 years before his March to the Sea laid waste to a large swath of Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman was deemed a "fine energetic boy."
And two decades before he would earn the nickname "Stonewall," Thomas J. Jackson's dreams of a military career got a boost from a man who would help start the Civil War.
Those are some of the tidbits gleaned from more than 115,000 U.S. Military Academy application documents being posted online for the first time by Ancestry.com. The Provo, Utah-based genealogy website said Tuesday that the information can be viewed for free starting Thursday - Veterans Day - through Sunday.
After Sunday, it will cost $12.95 a month for unlimited access to the West Point records and the website's more than 100 million military documents, company officials said.
Kanye West now says he "didn't have the grounds" to call George W. Bush a racist, and the former president said Wednesday that he appreciates the rapper's regret.
Bush appeared in a live interview on the "Today" show, part of a book promotion tour, and also said that his conscience was clear when it came to recognizing ahead the financial problems at the end of his administration.
In his book, "Decision Points," Bush wrote that it was a low point in his residency when West declared at a fundraiser to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." In an interview taped Tuesday with NBC's Matt Lauer, West said he would tell Bush that he was speaking in a moment of frustration.
Shown a tape of West's remarks, Bush said he appreciated them and forgave him.
This video frame grab provided by KCBS/KCAL shows what could be a missile launched off the California coast, Monday, Nov. 8, 2010. The Defense Department said Tuesday it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and, if so, who might have fired it. Spokesmen for the Navy, Air Force, and other military organizations said they were looking into a video posted on the CBS News website that shows an object shooting across the sky and leaving a large contrail, or vapor trail, over the Pacific Ocean.
A species of cricket has the largest testes in relation to its body weight of any known creature in the world, stunned scientists reported on Wednesday.
The tuberous bushcricket (Platycleis affinis) has testes that amount to 13.8 percent of its body mass -- the rough equivalent of a man hauling around tyre-sized testicles weighing 10 kilos (22 pounds).
"We couldn't believe the size of these organs. They seemed to fill the entire abdomen," said Karim Vahed, a behavioural ecologist at Britain's University of Derby.
The tuberous bushcricket beat all rivals in a testicular comparison of 21 species of bushcrickets, also known in North America as katydids.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of Nov. 1-7. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:
1. NFL Football: Dallas vs. Indianapolis (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 8.55 million homes, 11.91 million viewers.
2. "America's Election Headquarters" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), Fox News, 5.09 million homes, 7.16 million viewers.
3. "America's Election Headquarters" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), Fox News, 4.95 million homes, 6.93 million viewers.
4. "America's Election Headquarters" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), Fox News, 4.85 million homes, 6.77 million viewers.
5. "Hannah Montana Forever" (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.), Disney, 4.67 million homes, 7.1 million viewers.
6. "America's Election Headquarters" (Tuesday, 11 p.m.), Fox News, 4.47 million homes, 6.23 million viewers.
7. "America's Election Headquarters" (Tuesday, 7:50 p.m.), Fox News, 4.27 million homes, 5.89 million viewers.
8. "Shake It Up" (Sunday, 8:30 p.m.), Disney, 4.08 million homes, 6.2 million viewers.
9. "The O'Reilly Factor" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), Fox News, 3.73 million homes, 4.8 million viewers.
10. "The Fox Report With Shepard Smith" (Tuesday, 7 p.m.), Fox News, 3.47 million homes, 4.52 million viewers.
11. College Football: Illinois vs. Michigan (Saturday, 12:01 p.m.), ESPN, 3.394 million homes, 4.32 million viewers.
12. Auto Racing: Nascar Sprint Cup, Texas (Sunday, 3 p.m.), ESPN, 3.391 million homes, 4.84 million viewers.
13. "America's Election Headquarters" (Tuesday, 12 a.m.), Fox News, 3.37 million homes, 4.6 million viewers.
14. "WWE Entertainment" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.265 million homes, 4.92 million viewers.
15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.263 million homes, 4.45 million viewers.
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