• A man once made a will saying that his son would not be able to inherit his wealth until he had become a fool. Such a will was puzzling, and Rabbi Jose and Rabbi Judah decided to consult Rabbi Joshua about it. When Rabbi Jose and Rabbi Judah arrived at the house of Rabbi Joshua, they discovered that Rabbi Joshua was letting his young son climb onto his back and ride on top of him as they played Horsie together. When Rabbi Joshua learned why they had come, he said that the will was not difficult to understand. When a man has children, he is allowed to act foolishly — just like Rabbi Joshua had done while playing Horsie with his son. Therefore, the will was simply saying that the dead man’s son could not inherit the dead man’s property until the son had children of his own.
• As a little girl, author Beth Lisick suffered an accident in which she became a bloody mess after a butcher knife accidentally flew out of her brother’s hand and struck her in the corner of her eye. Blood flowed freely, and her mother took her to the emergency room and got her stitched up, then took her home. However, Beth had a weird sense of humor, so she snuck out of her house instead of taking a bath, and caked with blood, she rang the doorbell of her best friend, Amy, and scared her best friend’s mother by looking psychotic, raising a knife (which she had “borrowed” without permission) in a menacing way, and asking, “Can Amy come out to play?” By the way, when a boy teased Amy, who had buck teeth, by giving her the nickname “Buck Tooth Beaver,” Beth stood up for her friend by kicking the boy in a place that earned her a special nickname: The Nutcracker.
• The children of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright were entirely normal. As teenagers, his daughters used to sit by the fireplace and hold hands with their boyfriends. Their younger brothers used to sneak up on them and throw wadded-up paper at them. Mr. Wright used a very large room as a bedroom for all of his children. The bedroom had a low partition in the middle, and the girls slept on one side of the partition, while the boys slept on the other side. When the girls had a slumber party, the boys threw pillows at them over the low partition. And when Mr. Wright built a studio onto his house so he could work at home with his employees, his children would sneak onto a balcony overlooking the studio and throw things at their father’s draftsmen.
• The oldest child of children’s book author Lois Lowry is Alix, who attended nursery school when she was almost five years old. While picking up Alix one day, Lois carried her youngest child, a newborn named Ben. Alix’s teacher was surprised to see Ben, saying, “I didn’t know Alix had a baby brother. When we talked about families at Circle Time, she told us she was the only child in the family.” Then she said that of course Ben was a newborn, so Alix had been a single child when she spoke about her family. Actually, Alix had not been a single child then, for two other children were between Alix and Ben. But Alix wanted to be the only child — the center of attention — and for a while in nursery school, she was.
• Christian writer Dale Hanson Bourke became concerned when a four-year-old bully named Brian hit her four-year-old son, named Chase, in the playground. She had been hearing from her son that Brian had been doing bad things, so she advised, “If he ever does that to you again, just hit him right back!” Chase, however, was unwilling: “But, Mom, that might make him cry.” This comment helped Ms. Bourke to calm down. A few days later she learned that young Brian’s parents were involved in a messy divorce case, contributing to his bad behavior, and so she and her son prayed for Brian. Because of the seriousness of the situation, young Chase prayed first to Jesus, and then to God.
Big Bird is a character on the long-running PBS/HBO children's television show Sesame Street. An eight-foot two-inch (249 cm) tall bright yellow anthropomorphic bird, he can roller skate, ice skate, dance, swim, sing, write poetry, draw, and ride a unicycle. Despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one long word (from the song called "ABC-DEF-GHI"), pondering what it could mean. He would refer to grocer Mr. Hooper as "Mr. Looper", among other mispronunciations. He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and right next to Oscar the Grouch's trash can and he has a teddy bear named Radar. In Season 46, Big Bird's large nest is now sitting within a small, furnished maple tree, and is no longer hidden by used construction doors.
Caroll Spinney originally performed Big Bird from 1969 to 2018. As of 2020, Big Bird is performed by Matt Vogel who began in 1998 as an understudy before becoming the character's full-time performer in 2018.
In 2000, Big Bird was named a Living Legend by the United States Library of Congress.
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Billy in Cypress U.S.A. was first, and correct, with:
Radar
Mark. said:
Radar.
Alan J answered:
Radar.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Radar.
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Radar.
Mac Mac replied:
Radar
Leo in Boise said:
Radar
Dave wrote:
Radar. I had no idea that Big Bird even had a teddy bear, although I’m not surprised.
David of Moon Valley wrote:
i'll wager...
…that it was named Henderson….if not, then i’m inna dark…and plan to stay that way for a while….
otherwise i get my secondjection on wednesday…St Patty’s Day, hmmm, maybe they’ll make them all green that day….
DJ Useo said:
I must confess I had no idea of the true answer, but I phoned a friend & was told "Radar".
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On Friday, March 12, 2021, on TRMS, Rachel began a story by recounting a scene in the movie “ANIMAL HOUSE” in which the new pledges to one of the affluent fraternities were being swatted by a large wooden paddle, and their reply after each swat was to say “Thank you, sir, may I have another.” Rachel then began to discuss the "DJT vs RNC" battle for donations with DJT sending “cease and desist” letters to the RNC and telling all of his followers to send all of their donations directly to him and him alone and to never send any money to the corrupt RNC for anything ever again. Essentially, the battle was DJT swatting and the RNC saying “Thank you, sir, may I have another” to which he immediately replied with a harder swat on the asses of the RNC. Rachel then suggested that the RNC needed a safe-word for their BDSM game and that word should be “AVOCADO!!!” I will remember that story every time I have guacamole or any other avocado dish and dedicate that meal to those poor, helpless little gop’ers who are having the “shit and money” scared/beaten out of them by their “chosen one”.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Lupita Nyong'o and Martin Freeman.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sam Smith.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Young Rock', followed by a FRESH'Kenan', then a FRESH'This Is Us', followed by a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Benedict Cumberbatch, Madelaine Petsch, and Rosé.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Joel McHale, Yara Shahidi, and Mark Harris.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Kelly Marie Tran.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'To Tell The Truth', followed by a RERUN'black-ish', then a RERUN'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'Soul Of A Nation'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Michelle Obama and Brittany Howard.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'Superman & Lois'.
Faux has a FRESH'Holmes Family Effect', followed by another FRESH'Holmes Family Effect'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Law Abiding Citizen', followed by the movie 'Bad Boys II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] 2012
[11:30PM] 2012
[3:00AM - 5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has a FRESH'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has an hour of old 'The Office', followed by 2 hours of old 'Drunk History', and another hour of old 'The Office'.
FRESHThe Daily Show.
FX has the movie 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout', followed by a FRESH'Mayans MC'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', another 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', then a FRESH'Assembly Required'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Life Of Brian
[8:00am] Little Big League
[11:00am] Hoosiers
[1:30pm] Kingpin
[4:15pm] Ghostbusters II
[6:45pm] Ghostbusters
[9:00pm] The Blues Brothers
[12:00am] Ghostbusters
[2:15am] Ghostbusters II
[4:45am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1205: Killer Fish (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:00am - 8:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[9:00am] 48 hrs.
[11:00am] another 48 hrs.
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order: criminal intent
[2:00am] columbo
[3:45am] columbo
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Fifth Element', followed by the movie 'The Magnificent Seven'.
"Our main story tonight concerns, I'm sorry to say, Tucker Carlson," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. "This week — as he now seems to every week — Tucker set off a bit of a firestorm," this time around women serving in the military. "This comment sparked an all-too-familiar cycle of condemnation, defensiveness, and hype," he said, "and look, I would like nothing more than to not play into his wildly offensive schtick," but Carlson already gets lots of attention — from, for example, more than 3 million Fox News viewers on an average night, even young people.
And if Carlson's expanding role at Fox "wasn't enough, Tucker's also being floated as a potential future presidential candidate, which would be seriously alarming, because of all the things that Tucker is — a conspiracy theorist, a misogynist, Islamophobe, a troll — one of the most dangerous is that he is the most prominent vessel in America for white supremacist talking points," Oliver said. "Tucker — conveniently for him — doesn't fit neatly into a lot of people's perception of white supremacist," but "given that Tucker has the admiration of white supremacists and the ears of millions of your relatives, coworkers, and elected officials, we thought tonight it would be worth talking about him: where he came from, what his tactics are, and why what he represents is so dangerous."
Carlson frequently, ingenuously asks what white supremacy or white nationalism even means, but when you look at his long public record of commentary, Oliver said, it's essentially the sum of his message: "He is scared of a country that looks nothing like the one he grew up in, because diversity isn't our strength; immigrants make our country poorer, dirtier, and more divided; and any attempt to change that culture is an attack on Western Civilization." And Carlson is so dangerous, he said, because his "well-laundered version" of white supremacy reaches millions of people who wouldn't be receptive to the unlaundered version.
Glenn Close on Monday received an Academy Award nomination for her work in Hillbilly Elegy. She also received a Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award nomination for the same role.
Close was nominated for best actress in a supporting role, along with Maria Bakalova in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Olivia Colman in The Father, Amanda Seyfried in Mank and Yuh-Jung Youn in Minari. Monday marked Close's eighth Oscar nomination. She has yet to win.
As far as the Razzies, the actress was nominated for worst supporting actress along with Lucy Hale and Maggie Q in Fantasy Island, Kristen Wiig in Wonder Woman 1984 and Maddie Ziegler in Music.
In Hillbilly Elegy, Close plays Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance. The film is directed by Ron Howard, based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by J.D. Vance.
The Netflix film received three Razzie nominations: Worst director for Howard, worst screenplay for Vanessa Taylor, and worst supporting actress for Close. As far as Oscars, it was also nominated for best makeup and hairstyling.
In the latest attempt to ramp up pressure on the Biden administration to overhaul regulations on how schools deal with sexual misconduct, the advocacy group Know Your IX released a 37-page report Monday describing hardships students say they’ve experienced after filing Title IX complaints.
The report, based on testimonials from 107 students who reported sexual violence to their schools over the past decade, described students dropping out of college, feeling suicidal and facing threats of defamation lawsuits from the accused. Two students said their attackers hired a private investigator to track them, while two others described developing chronic nervous system disorders from the stress of their assaults and the school investigations.
Know Your IX’s report highlights what victims’ rights advocates see as urgent and long-standing problems with how sexual assault victims are treated on campuses. The group is calling on the Department of Education to reverse changes to Title IX rules spearheaded by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, which gave more protection to accused students. The group is also demanding that the Education Department provide resources to ease the physical and financial toll students face after a sexual assault.
"Student survivors need immediate action on Title IX. What seems like just a few months to nonstudents is an entire semester for a student," said Sage Carson, manager of Know Your IX. "Survivors can’t spend another semester, let alone another four years, with the current status of the Title IX regulation."
The regulation, issued under the gender equity law Title IX, governs how schools taking federal funding must handle sexual misconduct cases involving the nation’s 56 million K-12 students and 20 million college students. The rules, which DeVos called a signature achievement of her tenure as education secretary, give accused students more avenues to defend themselves, restrict how a school can investigate sexual assault allegations, and limit schools to only investigating incidents that happen at school or as part of a school activity.
The French government announced Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938.
The colorful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter titled “Rosebushes under the Trees” has been hanging in Paris’ Musee d’Orsay museum for decades.
French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin told a Paris news conference that “the decision to return a major work from the public collections illustrates our commitment to the duty of justice and reparation vis-à-vis plundered families.”
The oil work will be returned to the family of Nora Stiasny, a Holocaust victim who was dispossessed during a forced sale in August 1938.
Bachelot-Narquin said that French authorities hadn’t initially identified the painting as being stolen by the Nazis, and its provenance only recently came to light after French government-led investigations on the issue.
The Vatican, protectors of predators and pedophiles, declared Monday that the Catholic Church won't bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”
The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless gay unions. The answer, contained in a two-page explanation published in seven languages and approved by Pope Francis, was “negative.”
The note distinguished between the church’s welcoming and blessing of gay people, which it upheld, but not their unions. It argued that such unions are not part of God's plan and that any sacramental recognition of them could be confused with marriage.
The note immediately pleased conservatives, disheartened advocates for LGBT Catholics and threw a wrench in the debate within the German church, which has been at the forefront of opening discussion on hot-button issues such the church’s teaching on homosexuality.
The Vatican holds that gay people must be treated with dignity and respect, but that gay sex is “intrinsically disordered.” Catholic teaching says that marriage is a lifelong union between a man and woman, is part of God’s plan and is intended for the sake of creating new life.
Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the Universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal.
The deep underwater telescope, which has been under construction since 2015, is designed to observe neutrinos, the smallest particles currently known.
Dubbed Baikal-GVD, the telescope was submerged to a depth of 750-1,300 meters (2,500-4,300 feet), around four kilometers from the lake's shore.
Neutrinos are very hard to detect and water is an effective medium for doing so.
The floating observatory consists of strings with spherical glass and stainless steel modules attached to them.
Jars of dirt taken from a Cold War-era military caper and lost in a freezer for decades could hold crucial new information about climate change and sea level rise. A study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists says that plant fossils found in a sample of dirt collected from a mile beneath the ice in the mid-1960s suggest that the world’s pre-human climate was at one point warm enough to completely melt the Greenland ice sheet.
The dirt researchers inspected is a sediment sample from the bottom of an ice core, retrieved by drilling down into the ice sheet that covers the majority of Greenland. It’s pretty hard to actually reach all the way down to bedrock when taking samples due to the incredible pressure from the ice, explained Drew Christ, the study’s lead author and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vermont. There are only a few expeditions that have actually gotten sediment from the bottom of the glacier. “We have less of this [sediment] than moon rocks,” Christ said.
This particular sample yielded a lot of plant matter, some of which was visible to the naked eye. “It’s like if you went hiking, and got a bunch of twigs and forest floor stuff in the bottom of your boot and poured it out at the end of the day,” Christ said. “It’s kind of like that, but it’s been frozen for 1 million years.”
Christ and the team behind the study used isotope analyses of various elements that helped the researchers tease out the last time the samples were exposed to the sun and cosmic rays. The dating showed the plant matter is roughly 1 million years old.
The dirt sample Christ and his team used to reach these conclusions has its own incredible backstory, including that it was almost lost to history. The sample was originally recovered from the first ice core of Greenland ever taken during a 1966 expedition to a military base called Camp Century. The actual purpose of the expedition was a top-secret James Bond-esque style mission called Project Iceworm (yes, really) to try and hide nuclear missiles under the ice near the Soviet Union (we’re not making this up). The scientific part of the expedition, while valid, was created mostly to give cover to this Cold War caper. Project Iceworm eventually failed, but at least we got this fascinating ice core out of this. (On the downside, though, climate change is melting out Camp Century, and could cause a toxic waste spill from leftover Cold War-era supplies and chemicals.)
For hundreds of years, people have looked up at the hazy peaks of California's Santa Lucia Mountains at sunset and seen tall, cloaked figures staring back. Then, within moments, the eerie silhouettes disappear.
These twilight apparitions are known as the Dark Watchers — shady, sometimes 10-foot-tall (3 meters) men bedecked in sinister hats and capes. They primarily appear in the afternoon, and according to a recent article on SFGate.com, visitors to California have seen them perched ominously on the mountaintops for more than 300 years.
One famous observer who felt the presence of the Watchers was the American author John Steinbeck. In his 1938 short story "Flight," a character sees a black figure leering down at him from a nearby ridgetop, "but he looked quickly away, for it was one of the dark watchers," Steinbeck wrote. "No one knew who the watchers were, nor where they lived, but it was better to ignore them and never to show interest in them." (This was a family obsession; Steinbeck's son, Thomas, went on to co-author a book about the Watchers with painter Benjamin Brode, Dowd wrote.)
So, who — or what — are the Dark Watchers?
One theory, according to Dowd, is that they are merely figments of the observers' pattern-seeking minds. In other words, it's a classic case of pareidolia: a psychological phenomenon in which an observer's brain finds patterns or significance in a vague or random image.
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