How we learned to stop having fun (guardian.co.uk)
We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, but what? Barbara Ehrenreich unpicks the causes of our unhappiness.
Glenn Greenwald: Your modern-day Republican Party (salon.com)
Mitt Romney can't say -- at least not until he engages in a careful and solemn debate with a team of "smart lawyers" -- whether, in the United States of America, the President has the power to imprison American citizens without any opportunity for review of any kind. But in today's Republican Party, Romney's openness to this definitively tyrannical power is the moderate position.
Nora Ephron: Some People (huffingtonpost.com)
"Some people" are saying that Katie Couric went too far on 60 Minutes. "Some people" will say anything. And there's no real need to mention their names, because I can just say that "some people" are saying it and get away with it.
Bronwen Tomb: A Hostile Greeting in Kentucky (theday.com)
Today the Equality Ride went to the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Ky. I was depressed when we came into town. Each Equality Rider is responsible for planning a stop, and this was mine along with my partner Matt. The situation was bad. The administration planned to do all they could to shut us down, and very few students had been in touch with me, so I didn't have any reassurance that anyone wanted us to come or cared to talk with us.
Slay it again (guardian.co.uk)
Seven seasons of the hit TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer were not enough for its legions of devoted fans. The wait for season eight is finally over, writes Emily Wilson - what a shame it's only a comic.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'The Unit', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
On a RERUNDave (from 2/15/07) are Sienna Miller, Jim Barber with Seville, and Nas.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Rose McGowan, Chef Wolfgang Puck, and Billy D. Washington.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a FRESH'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Gerard Butler and Tim McGraw.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Rosario Dawson and Martina McBride.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Marley Shelton and William Tell.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'George Lopez', followed by a FRESH'Jim', then a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Boston Legal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Hilary Swank, the latest "Dancing with the Stars" castoff, and Hilary Duff.
The CW offers a RERUN'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH'Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For The Next Pussy'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'House'.
MY here has LIVE preseason 'MLB Baseball', with the Rangers visiting the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', antoher 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', 'Driving Force', and anther 'Driving Force'.
AMC offers the movie 'A Bronx Tale', followed by the movie 'Mister Roberts', then the movie 'Operation Petticoat'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 77;
[1:00 PM] As Time Goes By - Episode 2;
[1:40 PM] My Hero - Ep. 4 All In The Mind;
[2:20 PM] Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 6;
[3:00 PM] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 17;
[4:00 PM] The Prisoner - Ep. 17 Fallout;
[5:00 PM] The Avengers - Ep. 11 Have Guns, Will Haggle;
[6:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 10 Hinton;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News - BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 13;
[8:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 13;
[8:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 2;
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 Parent Hood;
[10:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
[11:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 9;
[11:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 1;
[12:00 AM] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 18;
[1:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
[2:00 AM] The Avengers - Ep. 1 From Venus With Love;
[3:00 AM] Trust - Episode 4;
[4:00 AM] Trust - Episode 5;
[5:00 AM] Trust - Episode 6;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives', 'Work Out', another 'Work Out', and still another 'Work Out'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', 'Mind Of Mencia', and another 'Mind Of Mencia'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 3/21/07) is Chris Hansen.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 3/22/07) is Katie Couric.
FX has the movie 'Man On Fire', followed by the movie 'Alien Vs. Predator', then the SEASON PREMIERE'The Shield'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Ancient Discoveries', another 'Ancient Discoveries', and 'Beyond The Da Vinci Code'.
IFC -
[06:30 AM] The Barbarian Invasions;
[08:15 AM] Me Myself I;
[10:00 AM] Girls Town;
[11:35 AM] IFC News Special;
[11:45 AM] The Barbarian Invasions;
[01:30 PM] Me Myself I;
[03:20 PM] Girls Town;
[04:55 PM] The Barbarian Invasions;
[06:40 PM] In the Bedroom;
[09:00 PM] Kitchen Stories;
[10:45 PM] Dogville;
[01:45 AM] The Children of Heaven;
[03:15 AM] Kitchen Stories;
[04:55 AM] Dogville. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', another 'Stargate SG-1', still another 'Stargate SG-1', and 'ECW'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Let's Rock Again;
[06:00 AM] The Mighty Celt;
[07:00 AM] The Best Man;
[09:00 AM] Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt;
[11:00 AM] Uncle Douglas;
[11:00 AM] Zoot Suit;
[01:00 PM] Da Kath & Kim Code;
[02:00 PM] Gettin' Square;
[04:00 PM] Seven Times Lucky;
[06:00 PM] Episode 4;
[06:00 PM] Episode 5;
[07:00 PM] Admissions;
[08:00 PM] Southern Belles;
[10:00 PM] A Good Woman;
[11:00 PM] Memento Mori;
[01:00 AM] Little Death;
[02:00 AM] Episode 5;
[02:00 AM] Episode 4: Uolace and Joao Victor;
[03:00 AM] Diary of a Porn Virgin;
[04:00 AM] Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. (ALL TIMES EDT)
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is relocating its performance program from Los Angeles to New Orleans' Loyola University.
To celebrate the move, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and trumpeter Terence Blanchard - a New Orleans native - planned to join the program's incoming class for a performance at Loyola on Monday.
Only a handful of students are chosen for the graduate-level college program, previously based at the University of Southern California. The selection process lasts for several months and includes several national and regional auditions.
The institute is a nonprofit educational organization created in 1986 in memory of Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer who believed the best way to learn jazz was from a master of the music.
Martin Sheen was among a group of peace activists cited during an anti-nuclear protest Sunday at the Nevada Test Site, authorities said.
A total of 39 protesters, including Sheen, were released after being cited by sheriff's deputies for crossing onto test site property following the rally, test site spokesman Darwin Morgan said.
The site, about 70 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is where the federal government conducted above- and below-ground nuclear detonations from 1951 to 1992. It remains a site for non-nuclear government tests on radioactive materials.
U.S. singer Joan Baez, right, meets Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel, left, at a restaurant after her concert in Lucerna Palace in Prague, Monday, April 2, 2007. Their friendship has historic roots; during the June 1989 first concert of Joan Baez in communist Czechoslovakia, the then dissident and future president Vaclav Havel was enthusiastically greeted by the audience despite being declared the 'enemy of socialism and working people' by the communist leaders. He later cited Baez as a great influence in the so-called Velvet Revolution at the end of 1989.
Photo by Marta Myskova
"NBC Nightly News" weekend anchor John Seigenthaler signed off for good this weekend after the network decided not to renew his contract due to budget cuts.
NBC said Monday it would name a successor soon; someone whose duties will also include weekend work at NBC or MSNBC.
NBC bosses decided that a newsman whose primary duties were anchoring on the weekend was a luxury they could no longer afford.
NBC's weekend newscast tops its rivals in the ratings. During weekdays, "NBC Nightly News" has been eclipsed by ABC's "World News" during the past two months.
He wears Jesus' robes and a neon blue halo, looks like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and is causing a stir at a Chicago art school.
An undergraduate student's papier mache sculpture of Obama as a messianic figure - entitled "Blessing" - went on display Saturday at a downtown gallery run by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. By Monday, word of the piece had spread on political blogs, and the school had been flooded with calls.
David Cordero, 24, made the sculpture for his senior show after noticing all the attention Obama has received since he first hinted he may run for the presidency.
"All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins," Cordero said. "In a lot of ways it's about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped."
KITT, the flame-throwing, river-jumping, talking muscle car from the `80s TV show "Knight Rider" is up for sale.
Restored to its debut-season glory, the modified black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am is offered at $149,995 at a Dublin auto dealership. Johnny "Vette" Verhoek of Kassabian Motors has had the car, officially called Knight Industries Two Thousand, on display for about a month.
It is one of four documented "camera cars" used for close-up shots and scenes where David Hasselhoff, who played Michael Knight in the series, was behind the wheel.
Although it cannot achieve the 300 mph speeds that KITT reached, soar 50 feet in the air or throw smoke bombs, key features of the star car are intact. Perhaps most important, the red scanner light on the nose glows and makes a humming noise.
Yoko Ono answers questions during a news conference following the dedication of the 'Wish Tree for Washington D.C.' at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Monday, April 2, 2007, in Washington.
Photo by Kevin Wolf
CNN's loss is CBS' election coverage gain: Veteran reporter and analyst Jeff Greenfield is leaving the cable news channel to work as senior political correspondent for CBS News.
Greenfield, who has been with CNN since 1998, worked at CBS News from 1979 to '83 as its media commentator. He begins his new job May 1, contributing to CBS' evening newscast and other programs.
Greenfield, who worked for ABC News from 1983 to '97, said he looked forward to being reunited with Paul Friedman and Rick Kaplan, one-time ABC colleagues now at CBS.
Some students and faculty on one of the nation's most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney to speak at commencement later this month.
Critics at the school question whether Cheney sets a good example for graduates, citing his promotion of faulty intelligence before the Iraq war and his role in the CIA leak scandal.
The private university, which is owned by the Mormon church, has "a heavy emphasis on personal honesty and integrity in all we do," said Warner Woodworth, a professor at BYU's business school.
Canadian-born actor William Shatner, in a pose similar to his Star Trek character Captain Kirk using his communicator, unveils North America's first real-time video conferencing cell phone during a news conference in Toronto April 2, 2007.
Photo by P. Moczulski
Whirlpool Corp. announced Monday that it has selected Clay Jackson of Richmond, Va., as the character promoting the reliability of its Maytag brand of large appliances.
The Benton Harbor-based company conducted a nationwide search for the "new face of Maytag." Whirlpool bought Maytag of Newton, Iowa, last year.
The company said that at least 1,500 people participated in the two months of auditions.
The Maytag Repairman was portrayed as always lonely because of the dependability of Maytag's appliances. Since appearing on television in 1967, he has only been played by three actors. The contract of the current repairman, Hardy Rawls, is not being renewed.
Penitents take part in the procession of 'La Paz' (The Peace) brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 1, 2007. Hundreds of Easter processions take place around the clock in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors.
Photo by Marcelo del Pozo
A potent form of history dripped from a copper still as George Washington's estate opened his rebuilt distillery to the public over the weekend.
Washington is best known as the first president of the United States and military hero of the Revolutionary War but the rough-hewn, sandstone building shows a lesser-known role he took on when he left office in 1797: the largest whiskey producer for a thirsty young nation.
Using his original recipe of rye, corn and malted barley, some of the United States' most prominent whiskey makers donned tricorn hats and other 18th-century garb to oversee the painstaking process of turning grain into firewater.
The methods have changed little over 200 years, they said. The grain is mixed with warm water and yeast, allowed to ferment and then heated over a fire. Alcohol evaporates through a copper pipe, then condenses back into liquid form.
Jeska Stolle tests the three-dimensional (3D) face scanner used to register individual details of passengers at the SAC Siemens airport centre in Fuerth near Nuremberg on March 30, 2007. The airport centre opened in December 2005 and presents the latest technologies available from Siemens for all airports and official areas where interior security is required.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
Hailstones the size of eggs have ravaged parts of southern China, killing 13 people.
Seven people were killed and one was injured when a bus was hit in a landslide triggered by hailstorms in a mountainous region of Sichuan Province.
The other six were killed by falling roofs and lightning.
The hailstorms pelted five counties in Fujian province, on the southeast China seaboard, punching holes in thousands of homes and damaging power supply facilities.
Sculptures of Buddha are lit by lamps during a lighting trial run in Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, central China's Henan province April 1, 2007.
Photo by Carlf Zhang
When the squat, red firetruck, smelling of greasy chips reached the literal end of the road, two young Americans jumped out and gave each other "high fives."
Nine months after they set off from Alaska to spread the gospel of biofuels, Seth Warren and Tyler Bradt completed their journey on Sunday at the end of Highway 3, which dead-ends at the southern tip of South America.
Along the way, the twenty-something buddies made hundreds of stops on two continents to ask for people's used frying oil and animal fat, which powered their lorry.
The lorry, baptized "Baby" by a Rastafarian in Belize, is packed with tanks to clean the waste vegetable oil or lard and turn it into fuel for its standard diesel engine.
An Air Force F-22-A Raptor flies through the air as condensation clouds form around the aircraft during the 42nd Naval Base Ventura County Air Show at Point Mugu, Sunday, April 1, 2007, near Ventura, Calif. The aircraft is not flying supersonic.
Photo by Richard Vogel
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