Paul Krugman: This Republican Economy (New York Times)
What should be done about the economy? Republicans claim to have the answer: slash spending and cut taxes. What they hope voters won't notice is that that's precisely the policy we've been following the past couple of years. Never mind the Democrat in the White House; for all practical purposes, this is already the economic policy of Republican dreams.
Susan Estrich: The Old Country (Creators Syndicate)
My grandparents left here a hundred years ago. They would never talk about it. When I asked my grandfather, Papa Dave, where he lived, he just shook his head. When I said I might want to visit someday, he exploded. Why would you ever want to go there?
Mark Shields: "Our First 'No Veterans' Campaign" (Creators Syndicate)
The conservative author Michael Barone has written, "War demands equality of sacrifice." Our generation has now repealed that great American value. The dedication and the excellence of the American volunteer military is unarguable. What is clear is an all-volunteer military is bad public policy for the nation. In the words of respected military journalist George Wilson's combat veteran: "An army doesn't fight a war, a country fights a war. ... And if a country is not willing to fight a war, it should never send an army."
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40+ years of the strip's daily existence.
Doonesbury began as a continuation of Bull Tales, which appeared in the Yale University student newspaper, the Yale Daily News, beginning September 1968. It focused on local campus events at Yale.
As Doonesbury, the strip debuted as a daily strip in about two dozen newspapers on October 26, 1970 - the first strip from Universal Press Syndicate. A Sunday strip began on March 21, 1971. Many of the early strips were reprints of the Bull Tales cartoons, with some changes to the drawings and plots.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Doonesbury
Marian responded:
Doonesbury
BttbBob wrote:
Doonsebury...
B.D. is The Man!
(...having been one, I'm damn'd proud of that medic...)
Charlie replied:
Doonesbury. I've probably read every strip back to '70, and at least some of the "Bull Tales" strips were reproduced as early Doonesbury, but I don't think this one did.
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Adam answered:
Doonesbury.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, is vacationing.
Sally said:
Bull Tales first appeared on September 30, 1968, and two years later was re-launched into syndication as Doonesbury.
Not Doonesbury, but really cute, huh?
PS: It's a gray, and rainy day, temps in the 60's - SO perfect for me!! Okay, we could do with a little sun (so I can see indoors) but I'll trade for the cool any day!!
Dale of Diamond Springs answered:
Doonesbury started out as Bull Tales at Yale. I still love it! I've always been jealous of Trudeau because he stole my secret passion of that era, Jane!!!
MAM wrote:
Doonesbury ~ Doonesbury" started as a syndicated comic strip in October 1970. The strip, created by writer/cartoonist Garry Trudeau, is satirical in nature. It often makes fun of pop culture and political figures. It also has a decidedly liberal slant to it -- one Trudeau openly admits to. Republican political figures and policies are made fun of in the strip much more than Democratic ones. The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone (prep school slang for "someone who is out to lunch") and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University.
And, Joe S said:
Rabbit. That was yesterday, I can't believe I didn't send in my answer. I knew it! I knew it! I knew this guy who used to raise angora rabbits. He had a very large barn and he raised rabbits on the lower level and he cured Marijuana in the upper part, very warm and dry up there.. He moved to Oregon and I never saw him again. He also built wooden filing cabinets that he sold for huge sums. So if you live in Oregon and you know someone like that, it may be my old friend. Or he might be in prison.
The answer to today's question is Doonesbury. I didn't know that, I had to look it up.
I'm trying something new, I'm going to try to get to bed before 1:00 am, that's like in 11 minutes so I gotta hurry. I tried it last night but it didn't work, but I was in bed by 2:15 am.
Marine layer so thick the sun never peeped through.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Neil Patrick Harris, Noomi Rapace, and Alan Jackson.
On a RERUNCraig (from 4/18/12) are Michael Sheen and Michael Ian Black.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Love In The Wild'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Emma Stone, Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Robinson Brotherhood.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Michael Fassbender, Sean Parker & Shawn Fawning, Callie Thorne, and The Walkmen.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/2/12) are Angie Johnson, Moshe Kasher, and Bombay Bicycle Club.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by another RERUN'Last Man Standing', then an extra special '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Andy Samberg, National Spelling Bee Champion Snigdha Nandipati, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Catalina', followed by a RERUN'LA Complex'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'Hells Kitchen'.
MY recycles an old 'Cold Case', followed by another old 'Cold Case'.
A&E has 3 hours of 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then another FRESH'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'Awake', then the movie 'The Bodyguard'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE: SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING AND ROYAL PROCESSION Part 2 NEW
[8:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:30AM] THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE: SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING AND ROYAL PROCESSION Part 3 NEW
[10:45AM] MEMORIES OF A QUEEN
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[1:00PM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 1- Piri Piri Chicken
[1:30PM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 2 - Thai Red Prawn Curry
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 2 - PJ's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED-Ep 1 - Glasshouse
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO-Ep 8 Father's Day
[5:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-Ep 12 - Resurrection Ship, Part 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 11
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 7
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 2
[9:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 4 - Davide
[10:00PM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 10 - Florida NEW
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 8 - Sabatiello's
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 4 - Davide
[1:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 10 - Florida
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 8 - Sabatiello's
[3:00AM] TORCHWOOD-Ep 13 Exit Wounds
[4:00AM] TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH-Episode 1
[5:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Pregnant In Heels'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Workaholics'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Gary Johnson.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jill Biden.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Avatar'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'United Stats Of America'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
[7:15AM] River Red
[9:30AM] Renaissance
[11:45AM] Invincible
[2:30PM] River Red
[4:45PM] The Three Stooges-Dopey Dicks
[5:10PM] The Three Stooges-Dunked in the Deep
[5:35PM] The Three Stooges-Flagpole Jitters
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Rollerskates
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-The Bots and the Bees
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Smunday
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Water Park
[8:00PM] Kill Bill: Vol. 1
[10:15PM] The Boondock Saints
[12:30AM] Kill Bill: Vol. 1
[2:45AM] The Boondock Saints
[5:00AM] Action-Blood Money
[5:30AM] Action-Blowhard (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Lea Thompson & Anthony Michael Hall
[6:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - NYPD's Rick Schroder (Episode 7, Season 1)
[7:00A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Will Forte & Jennifer Grey
[7:30A] This Is Not A Robbery
[8:45A] Lemon Tree
[10:35A] Rains
[10:45A] The Father of My Children
[12:45P] This Is Not A Robbery
[2:00P] Love Lust & The Undead
[2:30P] Lemon Tree
[4:25P] The Father of My Children
[6:30P] This Is Not A Robbery
[7:50P] Domino
[10:00P] PUSH GIRLS - Everyone Stares (Episode 1, Season 1)
[10:30P] PUSH GIRLS - Watch Me (Episode 2, Season 1)
[11:00P] The Last Mistress
[1:00A] PUSH GIRLS - Everyone Stares (Episode 1, Season 1)
[1:30A] PUSH GIRLS - Watch Me (Episode 2, Season 1)
[2:00A] I Am a Sex Addict
[3:45A] Making Plans for Lena
[5:40A] Right Foot, Left Foot (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has 'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files', another 'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files', followed by a FRESH'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files', then a FRESH'Hollywood Treasure'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Charlize Theron, Curtis Stone, and Bahamas.
U.S. musician Stevie Wonder performs during the Diamond Jubilee concert in front of Buckingham Palace in London June 4, 2012. Large crowds gathered on the grand red road leading to Queen Elizabeth's sumptuous London palace on Monday for the pop concert on the third day of her Diamond Jubilee to celebrate her 60 years on the throne.
Photo by David Moir
The star-studded West Coast performance of the gay marriage play "8'' led by George Clooney and Brad Pitt will be heard again this month - on radio and online.
A recording by L.A. Theatre Works of the March 3 performance in Los Angeles will be broadcast in the coming days on 90.7 KPFK in Southern California, 89.7 WGBH in Boston, 91.5 WBEZ in Chicago, 94.9 KUOW in Seattle, 91.1 KRCB in San Francisco, 89.3 WPFW in Washington, D.C.; and over 100 other markets nationwide. June is Gay Pride Month.
The play made its world premiere on Broadway last year starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Edwards, John Lithgow and Cheyenne Jackson.
In addition to Clooney and Pitt, the Los Angeles edition also featured Kevin Bacon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christine Lahti, Jane Lynch, Martin Sheen and John C. Reilly. It was directed by Rob Reiner.
The Los Angeles production is also available for streaming, download and CD at www.latw.org .
Singer Bon Jovi (C) performs at a fundraiser for U.S. President Barack Obama, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York June 4, 2012. Picture shot through window in ballroom.
Photo by Larry Downing
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and one of the deep pockets behind the Occupy movement, says he is helping launch a campaign this summer to highlight the influence of corporate money in American politics.
Cohen and the Move to Amend advocacy group will distribute rubber stamps with anti-corporate election spending messages so that the politically minded can mark their dollar bills. The end goal: To secure a constitutional amendment saying corporations do not enjoy the same protected rights as individuals and that money is not a form of speech.
Cohen plans to put a giant stamping machine on a national tour in August to encourage "thousands of people to buy rubber stamps and stamp any currency that comes into their possession," he tells Yahoo News. According to his attorney, this is legal, as long as the bills are still legible after the stamping. The Occupy movement tried the stamp tactic last October, defacing dollar bills with infographics that showed the income distribution in American society.
This round of stamps will include "Corporations are not people," "Money is not speech" and "Not to be used for bribing politicians," among other slogans.
Alec Baldwin wants to make sure students at a central New York school have the opportunity to get outside and play ball.
Local media outlets report that the actor was in the Syracuse area this past weekend to help a local high school's fundraising campaign to save its modified sports program.
The star of "30 Rock" attended an event held Sunday in the gym at West Genesee High School, where one of his nephews plays sports. Baldwin's mother and two sisters live in the Syracuse area.
He donated $25,000 to save modified sports at West Genesee this school year and is helping raise money for next year's programs.
Singer Annie Lennox performs during the Diamond Jubilee concert in front of Buckingham Palace in London June 4, 2012. Large crowds gathered on the grand red road leading to Queen Elizabeth's sumptuous London palace on Monday for the pop concert on the third day of her Diamond Jubilee to celebrate her 60 years on the throne.
Photo by David Moir
Kevin Costner's fame is the only reason fellow Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin and another person sued Costner over their investments in an oil cleanup device tried out after BP's spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Costner's attorney said as trial opened in the multimillion-dollar business dispute.
Baldwin and friend Spyridon Contogouris claim Costner and business partner Patrick Smith duped them of their shares of an $18 million deal for BP to buy oil-separating centrifuges after the April 2010 oil spill.
Costner's attorney, Wayne Lee, said his client played no role in Baldwin and Contogouris' decision to sell their shares in a company that marketed the centrifuges to the energy company for $1.4 million and $500,000, respectively.
Plaintiffs' attorney James Cobb accused Costner and Smith of spinning a web of lies that cheated his clients out of millions of dollars, telling the eight jurors that the case is about deception "fueled by power and greed."
Baldwin and Contogouris are seeking more than $21 million in damages. Costner and other defendants also are seeking damages in counterclaims.
Paris Hilton is trying to make peace in her legal battle in New York City with an Italian lingerie maker.
The socialite appeared in federal court in Manhattan on Monday for closed-door settlement talks in a lawsuit brought by Le Bonitas.
The company sued Hilton in 2010 over a licensing agreement for a line of lingerie. It claims she hurt business by not signing off on its designs quickly enough.
In a countersuit, Hilton accused the company of trying to avoid paying $1.5 million it owes her.
Conservative talk radio host Neal Boortz is retiring after four decades at the microphone and being replaced by former GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain.
Boortz said during his show Monday his last day will be Jan. 21, 2013, the day of the presidential inauguration.
The 67-year-old Boortz said he is in good health and plans to enjoy retirement by traveling with his wife. They plan to spend eight months on the road after his retirement.
A private bus driver in Ohio who claimed she was punched by Matthew Fox has withdrawn her lawsuit against the actor.
Heather Bormann sued the former star of TV's "Lost" in November, seeking $75,000 in damages. Fox countersued, claiming the Cleveland woman assaulted and slandered him. Court records show both suits were dropped Thursday.
Bormann had alleged Fox struck her in the breast, groin, arm and legs after she stopped him from boarding a chartered party bus on Aug. 28, 2011, in Cleveland. She says she hit him in self-defense. Fox was in town making a movie and wasn't charged.
Bormann's former attorney says the woman could not afford to continue the case.
Police searched on Friday for clues to the suspected theft of a rare, first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon, valued at $100,000, that was reported stolen from a suburban Phoenix bookstore over the Memorial Day weekend.
The authorities said they were in the early stages of an investigation into the disappearance of the 1830 leather-bound volume, which its owner said has became a must-see artifact for young Mormons worldwide before embarking on church missions.
The Book of Mormon is a foundational, holy text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 588-page book missing since Monday is one of only 5,000 copies ever printed, said its owner, bookstore owner and proprietor Helen Schlie.
Schlie, who bought the first-edition print in the late 1960s, told Reuters that she discovered the book was missing when she went to retrieve it for two missionaries visiting from Asia. The women wanted to take a picture with it.
Schlie, a convert to the Mormon faith whose store is a block away from a large Mormon temple in downtown Mesa, sparked controversy in 2005 when she started to sell framed pages out of the book for between $2,500 and $4,000.
Jamaican singer Grace Jones performs during the Diamond Jubilee concert in front of Buckingham Palace in London June 4, 2012. Large crowds gathered on the grand red road leading to Queen Elizabeth's sumptuous London palace on Monday for the pop concert on the third day of her Diamond Jubilee to celebrate her 60 years on the throne.
Photo by David Moir
Police say a TV weatherman in Tennessee was wounded by a bolt from a crossbow during a break-in at his home by a man he once lived with who has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
The Johnson City Press reports that police say 53-year-old Gerald D. Taylor was arrested in the Monday morning attack on Rob Williams, a weatherman at WJHL-TV.
Williams told police he ran from his Johnson City home after the 4 a.m. attack and said Taylor also fired a pistol at him, but missed.
Police said they found Taylor at a boat dock near Williams' house with a pistol in his hand and arrested him.
Married Hindu women devotees are seen through the sacred threads being tied around a banyan tree (a divine wishing tree) in a ceremony considered to bring good luck during the Hindu religious festival of Vata Savitri Purnima in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad June 4, 2012. During the festival, married women fast for the whole day to pray for the betterment of their husbands, family and society.
Photo by Amit Dave
Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about which has the best college football team, whose oil fields produce better crude, even where the state border should run. But in a hot, sticky dispute that no one wants to win, Oklahoma just reclaimed its crown.
After recalculating data from last year, the nation's climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year - not Texas as initially announced last fall.
In the new tally by the National Climatic Data Center, Oklahoma's average temperature last summer was 86.9 degrees, while Texas finished with 86.7 degrees. The previous record for the hottest summer was 85.2 degrees set in 1934 - in Oklahoma.
"I'm from Oklahoma, and when you talk about the summer of 1934, there are a lot of connotations that go with that," said Deke Arndt, chief of the NCDC's climate monitoring branch in Asheville, N.C. "That whole climate episode - the Dust Bowl - that is a point in our state's history that we still look back to as transformative."
Yet the summer of 2011, "was warmer than all those summers that they experienced during the Dust Bowl," Arndt said.
Eduard Khil was a beloved Soviet crooner who won sudden international stardom two years ago when a 1976 video of him singing "trololo" instead of the song's censored words became a global Internet hit.
Khil, best known as Mr. Trololo, died Monday at age 77.
He had been hospitalized in St. Petersburg since a stroke in early April that left him with severe brain damage. The stroke was the cause of his death, said Tatyana Mamedova of Petersburg-Kontsert, which organized Khil's concerts.
Khil was a top Soviet performer during the 1960s and the 1970s, but his star faded in the 1980s as musical tastes changed and the Soviet Union opened up to the West.
The music was written by well-known Soviet composer Arkady Ostrovsky, but the original lyrics were about a cowboy riding across a prairie while his sweetheart knitted stockings for him, a sentimental view of America that didn't sit well with Soviet censors during the Cold War.
Khil said in an interview that he was told to change the words if he wanted to perform the song, so he sang a vocalized version that came out sounding like "trololo." It was an original approach that did not seem to attract much attention at the time or inspire others to follow his example.
The crooner recalled that it was his grandson who first told him about his new international fame: "Grandad, your song has become a hit again, I saw it on the Internet!"
After Khil won over YouTube viewers with his rich baritone, eccentric delivery and radiant smile, his new international fans petitioned to get him on a world tour. Khil never pursued the idea and said that although he was flattered by the attention, he was puzzled that his song had become popular three decades after it had been released.
Mikhail Sadchikov, a St. Petersburg journalist and musical critic who knew Khil personally, said the singer reacted to his sudden fame with irony.
"From his grandson he learned that T-shirts and mugs with his image had become available in the West, and he joked that he never earned a kopeck from them," Sadchikov said Monday. "He was also very optimistic, positive and ironic at the same time."
Khil himself said he was amused by the parodies that others did of his song, once saying that he liked Oscar-winning Austrian actor Christoph Waltz's performance most.
The international fame also helped raise his profile in Russia during the final years of his life, lifting him from virtual oblivion to a series of TV appearances, interviews and concerts.
He will be buried at the Smolenkskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg. The time of the burial has not been set.
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