The New York Times, in an article Sunday, Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits - NYTimes.com , reports that the Obama Administration is open to the idea of taxing certain employer provided health benefits as a way to help finance health care for the uninsured. Would you support such an approach?
Carolyn Foster Segal: "The One Minute Egg(head)" (irascibleprofessor.com)
It sounds like a joke: a community college is offering what it calls "micro-lectures," whose lengths run from one to three minutes (presumably the extended three-minute lectures are for subjects like Calculus IV). In fact, at one time it was a joke -- as in Father Guido Sarducci's "The Five-Minute University." But this is no laughing matter. There's no time for laughter, or much of anything else. We've got some serious business to take care of here -- and quickly.
JACOB BERNSTEIN: "Suze Orman: The Money Lady"
Suze Orman is in a television studio chewing out America. In three hours of satellite appearances, she has scolded the residents of nearly every major city in the United States about what they're doing wrong - in her estimation, more or less everything.
Michelle Garcia: "Suze to G.W.: 'Give America Your Money'" (advocate.com)
Financial guru Suze Orman sounded off to Women's Wear Daily about former president George W. Bush. "Commander in chief?" Orman said in a profile by Jacob Bernstein. "You blew up every single financial vessel we had and if you think you aren't personally responsible, well, the blame starts at the top. There is no higher top than you, SIR! If I were you, I would feel so absolutely horrific that I would take every penny I had and distribute it to anybody and everybody to help them in whatever way I could. You owe the American people every penny of your fortune and your family's fortune."
Mark Danner: "US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites" (nybooks.com)
On the confidential "ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody," submitted to CIA Acting General Counsel John Rizzo by the International Committee of the Red Cross in February 2007.
Jacob Weisberg: How the Kindle will change the world (slate.com)
I'm doing my best not to become a Kindle bore. When I catch myself evangelizing to someone who couldn't care less about the marvels of the 2.0 version of Amazon's reading machine-I can take a whole library on vacation! Adjust the type size! Peruse the morning paper without getting out of bed!-I pause and remember my boyhood friend Scott H., who loved showing off the capabilities of his state of-the-art stereo but had only four records because he wasn't really that into music.
Graham Kolbeins: With Love, Yoko (advocate.com)
Yoko Ono speaks out on behalf of gay rights, has had four dance mixes reach number 1 in the past decadeŠand she Twitters. Now, how many septuagenarians can you say that about?
Margaret Hamilton (Miss Gulch/The Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz) was a grade school teacher before she got her Hollywood break.
Which Gilligan's Island' regular was her pupil?
A Jim Backus
B Bob Denver
C Alan Hale (Jr.)
D Russell Johnson
E Natalie Schaffer
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
A Jim Backus
Charlie wrote:
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A Jim Backus
~ Tony In Philly answered:
A Jim Backus
Jim from CA responded:
Jim Backus
Marian the Teacher replied:
Jim Backus
Sally said:
I think Margaret Hamilton was the teacher of Jim Backus, the actor who played the millionaire on, "Gilligan's Island" (A).
Yes, she played a classic role in, "The Wizard of Oz," but I remember when she was a guest star on "The Addams Family" playing the role of Hester Frump.
PS: Hey joe b, happy to read about your doggie. Maybe I should head up to that vet for my fleeting sight... Kidding aside, being good to a pet is a virtue in my book!
MAM wrote:
A Jim Backum who played Thurston Howell, lll on Gilligan's Island was an elementary student of Margaret Hamilton
And, Joe S notef:
A Jim Backus. (I did not know that, O Wise One.)
CBS begins the night with the 'Presidential Address', followed by a FRESH'NCIS', then a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
On the left coast, it's a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS', then a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Mary Tyler Moore, Blake Lively, and White Lies.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Virginia Madsen, Jason Ritter, and Chicago.
NBC starts the night with the 'Presidential Address', followed by a FRESH'Biggest Loser 7'.
On the left coast, it's 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Biggest Loser 7'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno (R-Enabler) are Condoleezza Rice, Bill Hader, and PJ Harvey & John Parish.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Rachel Maddow, John Cena, and Gambriella Cilmi.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Chris Cornell.
ABC opens the night with the 'Presidential Address', followed by a FRESH'Jim', followed by another FRESH'Jim', then a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars'.
On the left coast, it's a FRESH'Jim', followed by another FRESH'Jim', then a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', and some form of 'Primetime'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are the latest "Dancing with the Stars" castoff, Zach Braff, Cheryl Hines, and Charlie Wilson sits in with the band.
The CW offers a FRESH'Reaper', followed by a RERUN'90210'.
Faux has the 'Presidential Address', followed by a FRESH'House', then pads the left coast with old 'King Of The Hill''s.
MY has 'Street Patrol', another 'Street Patrol', 'Jail', and another 'Jail'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', and still another 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Clear And Present Danger', followed by the movie 'Star Trek: Nemesis', then the movie 'Sleeping With The Enemy'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 22
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 4
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 1
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Sebastian's
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 9
[9:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 10
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 9
[12:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 10
[1:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 9
[2:00 AM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 10
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 7 Dukes of Hazzard: Catherine Bach, Tom Wopat and John Schneider
[4:00 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2
[4:30 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 10 Eaton
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 11 Smith
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', still another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', and 'Jim Gaffigan: Beyond The Pale'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 3/19/09) is Bruce Springsteen.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 3/16/09) are Jonathan Chait and Neil Gaiman.
FX has the movie 'Phone Booth', followed by the movie 'The Marine', then the movie 'Black Hawk Down'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'How The Earth Was Made', followed by a FRESH'How The Earth Was Made', and 'The Universe'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The Last Metro
[8:20 AM] Kansas City
[10:20 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[11:20 AM] The Pianist
[2:00 PM] The Last Metro
[4:15 PM] Kansas City
[6:20 PM] Deuces Wild
[8:05 PM] The Royal Tenenbaums
[10:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[10:15 PM] IFC Music Blast
[10:30 PM] Wilfred
[11:00 PM] Modern Toss
[11:30 PM] IFC Web Blast
[11:45 PM] IFC Film Blast
[12:00 AM] Ed Gein
[1:30 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:45 AM] The Business
[2:15 AM] Modern Toss
[2:45 AM] Hell Girl
[3:15 AM] Witchblade
[3:45 AM] Raging Bull (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Star Trek: Enterprise', another 'Star Trek: Enterprise', 'ECW', and a FRESH'WCG Ultimate Gamer'.
Sundance -
[06:30 AM] The Education of Ms. Groves: Episode 2
[07:00 AM] U-CARMEN eKHAYELITSHA
[09:15 AM] Texas Gold
[09:45 AM] Lights in the Dusk
[11:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Stereophonics, Colbie Caillat & Joan Armatrading
[12:00 PM] TransGeneration: Episode 8
[01:00 PM] U-CARMEN eKHAYELITSHA
[03:15 PM] The Situation
[05:10 PM] Lights in the Dusk
[06:25 PM] I Really Hate My Job
[08:00 PM] Terminal City: Episode 8
[09:00 PM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 5
[09:30 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Create
[10:00 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: The Greening of Southie
[11:15 PM] Backstage
[01:15 AM] It's Not Easy Being Green Season 2: Episode 5
[01:45 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Create
[02:15 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: The Greening of Southie
[03:35 AM] I Really Hate My Job
[05:15 AM] The Angelmakers (ALL TIMES EDT)
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa celebrates with his trophy after winning the Best Film award for his movie 'Tokyo Sonata' at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong March 23, 2009.
Photo by Bobby Yip
David Letterman said he and longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko had a bumpy trip to matrimony last week.
During a taping Monday of CBS' "Late Show," Letterman said he and Lasko married March 19 at the Teton County Courthouse in Choteau, Mont., but only after their truck got stuck on a muddy road.
Letterman and Lasko, whose son, Harry, was born in November 2003, didn't take an immediate honeymoon. The late-night host was back at work in New York on Monday to deliver the news - and a few jokes about the marriage.
After avoiding marriage for more than two decades, Letterman said, "I secretly felt that men who were married admired me ... like I was the last of the real gunslingers, you know what I'm saying?"
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin "Fat Tony" Scalia a "homophobe" in a recent interview with the gay news Web site 365gay.com . The Democratic lawmaker, who is gay, was discussing gay marriage and his expectation that the high court would some day be called upon to decide whether the Constitution allows the federal government to deny recognition to same-sex marriages.
"I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court," said Frank. The video of the interview is available online.
Scalia dissented from the court's ruling in 2003 that struck down state laws banning consensual sodomy. He has complained about judges, rather than elected officials, deciding questions of morality about which the Constitution is silent.
Controversial topics like gay rights and abortion should not be in the hands of judges, he has said, calling on people to persuade their legislatures or amend the Constitution.
A 'cybernetic human' robot code-named HRP-4C walks on the catwalk during a fashion show as part of the opening day event of Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, March 23, 2009. The 158 centimeter (62.2 inch) tall black-haired robot, developed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, a government-backed organization, has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to make the debut at a fashion show. The new walking, talking robot was designed to look like an average Japanese woman, although its silver-and-black body recalls a space suit.
Photo by Shizo Kambayashi
Robin Williams was recovering at the Cleveland Clinic after heart surgery that his doctors deemed successful, his publicists said Monday.
The 57-year-old actor had an operation to replace an aortic valve on March 13, publicists Mara Buxbaum and Chris Kanarick said. He was expected to make a complete recovery in the next eight weeks.
"His heart is strong and he will have normal heart function in the coming weeks with no limitations on what he'll be able to do," said Dr. A. Marc Gillinov, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. "A couple of hours after surgery, he was entertaining the medical team and making us all laugh."
Williams was initially treated at the University of Miami Hospital before being transferred to Cleveland. He had been in Florida earlier this month when he was forced to cancel the remainder of his one-man comedy show, "Weapons of Self-Destruction," after experiencing shortness of breath.
NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.
The name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options in the space agency's effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year.
NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report" to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time the contest ended Friday.
NASA reserves the right to choose an appropriate name. Agency spokesman John Yembrick said NASA will decide in April, but will give top vote-getters "the most consideration."
Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang says plans for a 40th anniversary concert are "all speculative ideas" for now, but he hopes to bring them to reality this summer.
Lang told Billboard.com that his vision is "a free event ... a very green project," possibly in New York City.
"We want to have as small a carbon imprint as we can and use as many green techniques as we can," said Lang, who was in Austin to participate in a South by Southwest panel discussion on the legendary 1969 concert.
The holdup? "It's got to be sponsor-driven," he said.
A flip off his bicycle took "Today" show co-host Matt Lauer off the air Monday with a shoulder injury.
Lauer, 51, was riding his bicycle on Long Island this weekend when a deer jumped into his path. He flipped over the bike's handlebars and was slightly hurt, NBC said.
"Today" show publicist Megan Kopf said Lauer, who was wearing a helmet, separated his shoulder and was scheduled to have surgery Monday.
Lauer's broadcast partner, Meredith Vieira, joked on the air that Lauer thinks the deer was hired by the competition.
Israel's military condemned soldiers for wearing T-shirts of a pregnant woman in a rifle's cross-hairs with the slogan "1 Shot 2 Kills," and another of a gun-toting child with the words, "The smaller they are, the harder it is."
The T-shirts were worn by some Israeli Defense Force soldiers to mark the end of basic training and other military courses, the newspaper Haaretz said.
The appearance of the T-shirts followed allegations of misconduct by Israeli troops during the three-week Gaza war. Palestinian officials say about 1,400 Palestinians were killed, most of them civilians. Thirteen Israelis died, three of them civilians.
The military sought to portray the T-shirts as "tasteless" humor and condemned the soldiers involved, saying in a statement that the shirts "are not in accordance with IDF values."
Polish artist Goshka Macuga poses in front a tapestry of Picasso's "Guernica" at the Whitechapel Gallery in London March 23, 2009. Macuga has been commissioned by the gallery to create a site specific work focusing on the presentation of Picasso's "Guernica" which was displayed at the gallery in 1939.
Photo by Andrew Winning
A judge refused to establish a conservatorship for Peter Falk on Monday but has scheduled testimony to decide whether court intervention is necessary to allow visits between the ailing actor and his daughter.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aviva K. Bobb scheduled an evidentiary hearing on May 27 to try to determine how close the "Columbo" star was to his adopted daughter, Catherine, before falling ill.
Catherine Falk petitioned for a conservatorship in December, saying her father was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and advanced dementia. She has withdrawn a petition to take over her father's estate but has argued for a conservatorship because she claims Falk's wife, Shera, is blocking attempts to visit her father.
Sitting inside his palatial Hollywood Hills mansion, Adam Carolla and his talk show host pal Jimmy Kimmel chat candidly - in a frenetic, almost stream-of-consciousness way - about pornography, Siegfried and Roy, the modeling industry, gay rodeos and the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are."
The former hosts of Comedy Central's "The Man Show" are comfortably slouched on brown leather chairs inside Carolla's office upstairs, where a pink box overflowing with childrens' toys sits in the corner. A totally casual affair, it seems - except that each is wearing a bulky headset, making them look as if they're monitoring air traffic or playing "Gears of War" online.
The headsets are, in fact, recording the uncensored conversation for Carolla's daily podcast, an endeavor the 44-year-old radio and TV personality launched last month after his popular syndicated morning radio show was canceled when CBS switched the format of KLSX from talk to pop music.
France's famous chef Alain Ducasse, right, poses next to his life-size wax model displayed at Paris' Grevin Museum in Paris Monday, March 23, 2009.
Photo by Francois Mori
An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas. The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen passing gas on the bus Monday to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult to breathe. The bus driver handed the teen the suspension form the next day.
Polk County school officials said there's no rule against flatulence, but there are rules against causing a disturbance on the bus.
The teen said he wasn't the one passing gas.
Whether he did it or not, he might have gotten off easy. A 13-year-old student at a Stuart school was arrested in November after authorities said he broke wind in class.
Experts have begun unbinding Leonardo Da Vinci's 12-volume Atlantic Code, a move they say will help preserve the Italian master's largest collection of drawings and writings and allow some pages to go on display.
Sheets of the Code, which holds Da Vinci's ideas on geometry, nature, weaponry, anatomy and other subjects, will be exhibited in September in the Milan church that houses his 'Last Supper' fresco.
The Code or Codex Atlanticus is conserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana library in Milan.
The Code is made up of 1,119 sheets and was originally assembled in the 16th century by sculptor Pompeo Leoni.
Elke, a five-day-old Francois Langur, makes her media debut at Taronga Zoo's Wildlife Hospital in Sydney March 24, 2009. Taronga's keepers have decided to hand-raise the monkey after she was rejected by her mother.
Photo by Daniel Munoz
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Which Gilligan's Island' regular had a Top 40 hit in 1958?
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