Paul Krugman: Marches of Folly (New York Times)
What we should have learned from the Iraq debacle was that you should always be skeptical and that you should never rely on supposed authority. If you hear that "everyone" supports a policy, whether it's a war of choice or fiscal austerity, you should ask whether "everyone" has been defined to exclude anyone expressing a different opinion. And policy arguments should be evaluated on the merits, not by who expresses them …
Alex Santoso: "L'Enfant Exterieur (The Outer Child) by Cristian Girotto" (Neatorama)
In his art series L'Enfant Exterieur (The Outer Child), Paris-based photo retoucher extraordinaire Cristian Girotto took photographs of models and re-imagined them as grown up children. Or is it childish grown ups? Any way you look at it, the results are all sorts of fantastic: …
ROGER EBERT: The Ballad of Narayama (1958; A Great Movie)
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens up between its origins in the kabuki style and its subject of starvation in a mountain village! The village enforces a tradition of carrying those who have reached the age of 70 up the side of mountain and abandoning them there to die of exposure.
Ethel Roberta Louise Mae Mertz (née Potter) is one of the four main fictional characters in the highly popular 1950s American television sitcom I Love Lucy, played by Vivian Vance. Ethel is the main character, Lucy's middle-aged landlady. Ethel was most likely born about 1905, and was raised in New Mexico. She is married to Fred Mertz, played by William Frawley, with whom she had a career in vaudeville. The two female characters are close friends, habitually scheming together, Ethel being generally the voice of reason as a counterpart to Lucy's hare-brained ideas.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Potter
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Her maiden name was Ethel Roberta Louise Mae Potter.
Charlie wrote:
Potter
Adam answered:
Ethel Roberta Louise Mae Mertz (née Potter)- Potter.
Marian responded:
Potter
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Ethel Roberta Louise Mae Potter. The perfect sidekick to Lucy, Vivian Vance.
Sally said:
This is more my speed than, 'Heavy Metal' questions, for sure...
Okay, as for the question dejour, Ethel's "birth name" was Ethel Louise Roberta Mae Potter, and she became Ethel Mertz when she married Fred Mertz in the 1930s.
Here are Ethel and Fred, who could ever forget them??
PS: @B2BB, I must unequivocally state that there was no alcohol involved in the, "Muffin Caper" last week - at least not on my part. Although I never drink at 9 AM, I may need to make an exception after we hash and rehash the story, on the bus, in the weeks to come. I will let you know...
MAM wrote:
Potter ~ Ethel Roberta Louise Mae Potter played by Vivian Vance.
BttbBob answered:
Potter... Rumors have it that she was a cousin to Colonel Sherman T. Potter, but they have not been verified by any reliable sources at this time...
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And, Joe S replied:
Ethel Roberta Louise Mae Mertz (née Potter) is one of the four main fictional characters in the highly popular 1950s American television sitcom I Love Lucy, played by Vivian Vance. Ethel is the main character, Lucy's middle-aged landlady. Ethel was most likely born about 1905, and was raised in New Mexico. She is married to Fred Mertz, played by William Frawley, with whom she had a career in vaudeville. The two female characters are close friends, habitually scheming together, Ethel being generally the voice of reason as a counterpart to Lucy's hare-brained ideas.
I loved Lucy. I still have a thing for redheads.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Golden Boy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Bill Cosby, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Garbage.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Michelle Monoghan, John Green, and Tone Bell.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', followed by a FRESH'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', then a RERUN'Go On', followed by a RERUN'The New Normal', then a FRESH'Smash'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Jenna Fischer, Dennis Rodman, and Black Prairie.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Selena Gomez, David Steinberg, and Pinback.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Jake Bugg, The Trouble with Templeton, Angel Haze, and Maximum Hedrum.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Splash', followed by a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', then a FRESH'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Gerard Butler, Vanessa Hudgens, and T.I.
The CW offers the FRESH'The iHeartRADIO Album Release Party With Justin Timberlake', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Beast'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'New Girl', then a FRESH'Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Florida
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 12 - Denzel Washington, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Bailey, Conor Maynard
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 13 - The Parting Of the Ways
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE CHRISTMAS INVASION
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Walnut Tree
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 2 - D-Place
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 3 - The Priory
[4:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Sebastian's
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Giuseppi's
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 8 - Lido Di Manhattan Beach
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Classic American
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Burger Kitchen, Part 1
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 6 - Burger Kitchen, Part 2
[10:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 7 - The Greek at the Harbor
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Burger Kitchen, Part 1
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 6 - Burger Kitchen, Part 2
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 7 - The Greek at the Harbor
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Walnut Tree
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 2 - D-Place
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 3 - The Priory (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', another 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'The Jeselnik Offensive', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Jeselnik Offensive'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 2/28/13) is Rachel Maddow.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 2/28/13) is Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau.
FX has the movie 'The Fighter', followed by a FRESH'The Ultimate Fighter', then a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear', and 'Vikings'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
[7:15AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Much Funnier Second Episode
[8:30AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-And Now, the Sordid Personal Bits
[9:45AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Ultimate Holy Grail Episode
[11:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-Lust for Glory
[12:15PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-Finally! The Last Episode (Ever) (For Now ...)
[1:30PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
[2:45PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Much Funnier Second Episode
[4:00PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-And Now, the Sordid Personal Bits
[5:15PM] Out There-Springoween
[5:45PM] Signs
[8:00PM] Lethal Weapon 2
[10:30PM] Lethal Weapon 3
[1:00AM] Lethal Weapon 4
[3:45AM] Venom
[5:30AM] Action-One Easy Piece (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comedian Tig Notaro & Parenthood's Jason Ritter (Episode 4, Season 2)
[6:30A] Always Crashing In The Same Car
[6:45A] I Hate Valentine's Day
[8:15A] Paris
[10:30A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Resolutions (Episode 16, Season 1)
[11:30A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Betrayal (Episode 17, Season 1)
[12:30P] I Hate Valentine's Day
[2:00P] Paris
[4:15P] Rain Man
[6:30P] Big Fan
[8:00P] Once
[9:30P] The Border
[11:20P] Sleeping Beauty
[1:05A] Student Services
[3:05A] The Border
[4:55A] Bitch
[5:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Betrayal (Episode 17, Season 1) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Robot Combat League'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 11/14/12) are Kristen Stewart, Glenn Howerton, and Lianne La Havas.
Years of newsroom cutbacks have had a demonstrable impact on the quality of digital, newspaper and television news and in how consumers view that work, a study released Monday found.
Nearly one-third of consumers surveyed by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism said they have abandoned a news outlet because it no longer gave them what they had counted on, either with fewer or less complete stories.
Pew's annual State of the News Media report delivered what has become a common litany of grim business statistics. Television news viewership is down. Newsroom employment at newspapers is down 30 percent since a peak in 2000 and has gone below 40,000 people for the first time since 1978. Newsweek shut its print edition and Time magazine is cutting staff.
Government coverage on local television news has been cut in half since 2005, the study said. Sports, weather and traffic now account for 40 percent of the content on these broadcasts; yet that's just the sort of information readily available elsewhere. That's a recipe for future erosion, Mitchell said.
Cable news is increasingly cable talk, although it's difficult to conclude whether that is because of financial considerations or the sense among executives of what viewers want. Over the last five years, CNN has sharply cut back on produced story packages and live event coverage, the study found.
Revellers celebrate "Ash Monday" by participating in a colourful "flour war", a traditional festivity marking the end of the carnival season and the start of the 40-day Lent period until the Orthodox Easter, in the port town of Galaxidi, some 215 km (134 miles) north west of Athens, March 18, 2013. The revellers "fight" by throwing coloured flour, charcoal dust and powder painting until they essentially run out of supplies.
Photo by Yannis Behrakis
Dozens of celebrities may be running afoul of a law requiring lobbyists to register with the state as they unite under the banner of one group that is seeking to prevent a method of gas drilling in New York.
Artists Against Fracking opposes hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and boasts members including Yoko Ono and actors Mark Ruffalo and Susan Sarandon.
But the group and nearly 200 entertainers who are gaining attention and support in the dispute, which is splitting New Yorkers, aren't registered lobbyists, according to a search by The Associated Press of the database of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics. State law is designed to disclose who is trying to influence government action, how much money they are spending and where the money's going.
Failing to register as a lobbyist is not a criminal offense. Commonly, when a person new to lobbying is believed to have failed to lobby as required by law to track the influence of money on public policy, that person is given a chance to submit a lobbing form and pay a $200 fee.
Convenience-store owners in Maine are concerned that the state lottery wants to rebrand its scratch-off lottery tickets as "Kwikies."
"That's going to be real uncomfortable for my girls behind the register to have guys come in and say, 'Hey, give me a Kwikie,'" David Welch, owner of Village Market in Fairfield, Me., told the Bangor Daily News after receiving a letter from the Maine State Lottery informing him of the plan.
"It's highly inappropriate," Kaylee Constable, one of Welch's employees, added. "[Customers] come in and joke around with me and say, 'Can I get a Kwikie?' I'm only 19 years old, and I have 40- and 50-year-old men saying sexual remarks to me."
The newspaper interviewed a cashier who said he tested the new name by asking customers if they would like a Kwikie.
"I tried that on a couple of women," Tom Borden, a cashier at Fox Brook Variety in Dover-Foxcroft, said. "It didn't go over very well."
Cooked and coloured eggs are sorted by an employee on a conveyor belt at the Beham coloured eggs company in Thannhausen, near Augsburg March 18, 2013. Beham is Bavaria's biggest coloured eggs producer and has stepped up its production to 200,000 eggs per day to meet the high demand ahead of Easter.
Photo by Michael Dalder
The Tony Awards are going back to the place where the Rockettes high-kick it.
The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show that honors the best of Broadway, said Monday the glittery event will be broadcast live by CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 9. Nominations will be announced April 30.
Producers of the show were forced to find a new home for the 2011 event after Cirque du Soleil moved into the 6,000-seat Rockefeller Center arena with its $50 million acrobatic rock opera "Zarkana." The Tonys had been hosted at Radio City from 1997-2010.
For the past two years, the Tonys were handed out at the Beacon Theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The venue was much smaller, having only about 2,870 seats, leading to ticket-rationing and a struggle to seat the often large amount of show producers.
China has become the world's fifth-largest arms exporter, a respected Sweden-based think-tank said on Monday, its highest ranking since the Cold War, with Pakistan the main recipient.
China's volume of weapons exports between 2008 and 2012 rose 162 percent compared with the previous five-year period, with its share of the global arms trade rising from 2 percent to 5 percent, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said.
China replaces Britain in the top five arms-dealing countries between 2008 and 2012, a group dominated by the United States and Russia, which accounted for 30 percent and 26 percent of weapons exports, SIPRI said.
After decades of steep increases in military spending and cash injections into domestic contractors, experts say some Chinese-made equipment is now comparable to Russian or Western counterparts, though accurate information about the performance of Chinese weapons is scarce.
Reut Harel, a street performer, stands in a pose as she promotes the 2013 Jerusalem Science Festival March 18, 2013. The Jerusalem municipality and local museums are hosting a five-day festival focusing on developments in the science world.
Photo by Baz Ratner
A once-prominent New Jersey defense attorney whose clients included entertainers and rap stars has been found guilty on all counts at his murder and racketeering trial.
Jurors deliberated for a full day and parts of two others before returning their verdict Monday in the case of Paul Bergrin. He faced numerous counts including murder, racketeering, conspiracy, prostitution and drug-related offenses.
The former federal prosecutor who once represented an Army reservist charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, in addition to entertainers Queen Latifah, Lil' Kim and the group Naughty By Nature, has been in jail since his arrest in 2009 and had an earlier trial end in a hung jury.
The U.S. Attorney's Office alleged Bergrin used his law office to run a racketeering enterprise that engaged in drug trafficking, prostitution, bribery, plotting to murder witnesses and money laundering.
In a bustling sports bar filled with lanyard-wearing Conservative Political Action Conference attendees, an anxious Jonathan Krohn stared at the blank screen of his worn-out smartphone.
Krohn, an 18-year-old journalist, had good reason to feel stressed-out. Earlier that day, a group of CPAC attendees had cornered him in a hallway and peppered him with questions about why he was there. There was shouting. Two people mocked his clothes, and one cursed at him. (Krohn cursed right back.) Krohn answered their questions and, when he asked to be left alone, they pressed him even more. The incident had left him shaken.
Four years ago, Krohn was a featured speaker at the conference. A precocious 13-year-old with outspoken conservative views, he had authored a book, "Defining Conservatism," which landed him the conference speaking gig. The video of his remarks went viral online, and he was invited to share his views on the "Today" show, CNN and Fox News. He hung out with Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly and Andrew Breitbart. A star was born.
But in the years since, Krohn began to question his political beliefs. He devoured books on political philosophy and realized that he didn't actually have all the answers. In an interview with Politico's Patrick Gavin in the summer of 2012, Krohn conceded that he had veered away from the political views he so strongly defended as a young teen. If he were old enough, Krohn said, he would even vote to re-elect President Barack Obama.
The reaction from the conservative world was swift and fierce. Friends of Krohn's family vowed never to speak to them again, and CPAC attendees who knew him in 2009 anonymously derided him in online news stories.
A photographer (shadow R) takes pictures of a man checking on a dried-up cistern in a village of Weining county, Guizhou province, March 16, 2013. More than one million people in Guizhou and Gansu provinces are facing a drinking water shortage due to two lingering droughts, according to Xinhua News Agency.
A renowned American physicist created a row at University College London last weekend when he stormed out of a debate hosted by anIslamic group because men, women and couples in the audience were segregated.
The physicist, Lawrence Krauss, is a professor at Arizona State University. Krauss is a noted atheist who served on President Barack Obama's science policy committee during the 2008 presidential campaign.
The debate, sponsored by the Islamic Education and Research Academy, was entitled: "Islam or Atheism: Which Makes More Sense?"
Krauss told The Telegraph that he believes secular institutions such as University College, a public research university, should avoid every kind of segregation.
"It is the obligation of people who don't feel comfortable with that to decide how they are going to mesh with broader society, not the other way around," he said.
A former lead singer of the soul music group "The Spinners" has died in Orlando.
A statement released Monday by the manager of the rhythm and blues group said Bobbie Smith passed away Saturday morning due to complications from pneumonia and influenza. He was 76.
The statement says Smith had been diagnosed with lung cancer in November.
Smith was the group's original lead singer and was the voice on their first hit "That's What Girls Are Made For." Also called the "Detroit Spinners," the group earned nearly a dozen gold records and half a dozen Grammy award nominations.
The group's biggest hits in the 1970s included: "I'll Be Around," ''Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" and "Games People Play."
A section of solar power plant Shams 1 is seen during the official inauguration, at Madinat Zayed in Abu Dhabi March 17, 2013. The largest renewable energy project in the Middle East, Shams 1, covers 2.5 square kilometres in Madinat Zayed in the Western Region, and will generate 100 megawatts of clean and sustainable energy - enough to power 20,000 homes, and the biggest step so far towards Abu Dhabi's goal of obtaining 7 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to local media.
Photo by Ben Job
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