Arthur C. Brooks: Love People, Not Pleasure (NY Times)
This search for fame, the lust for material things and the objectification of others - that is, the cycle of grasping and craving - follows a formula that is elegant, simple and deadly: Love things, use people. […]But you know in your heart that it is morally disordered and a likely road to misery. You want to be free of the sticky cravings of unhappiness and find a formula for happiness instead. How? Simply invert the deadly formula and render it virtuous: Love people, use things.
Andrew Tobias: Happiness
To me, it's a matter of (a) genetics (I inherited the happy gene); (b) having love in your life (obviously) and (c) direction - not amount. I've long argued that if you had two families - one earning $25,000 a year but somehow knowing it was headed up to $75,000, the other earning $400,000 a year but somehow knowing it was heading down to $175,000 - the family earning $25,000 would likely be happier than the one earning $400,000 . . . even though it will never be nearly as affluent. Why? Because things are looking up!
J.F. Sargent, John Brooks: 5 Terrifying Things I Learned as a Drug-Addicted Nurse (Cracked)
I was a registered nurse for two years, and during that time, I was a hopeless drug addict who not only stole drugs from the hospital, but frequently used them during my shifts. And I'm not alone: RNs abuse drugs at roughly twice the rate of everybody else in the country -- as many as 1 in 5 may be addicts, according to studies.
In the lyrics of "Mellow Yellow" Donovan mentions an "electrical banana". According to The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, what item did Donovan identify as the "electical banana"?
"Mellow Yellow" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer/songwriter Donovan. It reached No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 and No. 8 in the UK in early 1967.
The song was rumoured to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of bananas has since been debunked. According to Donovan's notes accompanying the album Donovan's Greatest Hits, the rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. According to The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, he admitted later the song made reference to a vibrator; an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics.This definition was re-affirmed in an interview with NME magazine: "it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene - which were ladies' vibrators."
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Deborah said:
I was 11 when the song was released; my friends & I sang it all the time, and had no idea that "Mellow Yellow" referred to a women's vibrator.
The things you learn...
Adam answered:
No surprise I guess- marijuana.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
the song made reference to a vibrator
Marian responded:
a vibrator
Dirtness Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, said:
After scraping banana peels, baking in the oven and smoking to no effect, I seemed to think that a banana with a motor would be a good vibrator. Or can you say "Butt Plug", "Butt Plug", "Butt Plug". Banana squash dildo.
Michelle…thanks for the link to the hardest working man in show business…James Brown…Bootsy is Funk….Saw them at the Bezerkeley Community Theatre in 1969…tore it up and funked it out like a Sex Machine!!!!!
DJ Useo answered:
I like Donovan's music, & I already knew he was referring to an
ergonomic erogenous zone stimulator.
That must've been very scandalous back when he released that tune.
Nowadays, it amounts to a throwaway joke from the tv series 2 & a Half Men. lol.
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MAM wrote:
Refers to yellow vibrators which came into vogue during the 1960s. In his autobiography Donovan explained that the phrase "electrical banana" was a reference to a "yellow-coloured vibrator".
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Ricky Gervais, Taylor Schilling, and Eli Young Band.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Regis Philbin, Irina Shayk, and Switchfoot.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Food Fighters', followed by a RERUN'American's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Dwayne Johnson, Mel B, and Chronixx.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Kate Hudson and David Remnick.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/1/14) are John Turturro, OFF!, Katie Crown, and Midlake.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Extreme Weight Loss', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Wife Swap'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are John Stamos, Todd Glass, and OK Go.
The CW offers a RERUN'Arrow', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 2/10/14) are Gabrielle Union, Richard Roundtree, Margaret Avery, Richard Brooks, Lisa Vidal, Michael Rapaport, and Rico Love.
Faux has a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a RERUN'New Girl', followed by a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Shipping Wars', then another FRESH'Shipping Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Space Cowboys', followed by the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Planet of the Ood
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 4 - The Sontaran Strategem
[10:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 12
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 21 - The Perfect Mate
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 22 - Imaginary Friend
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 5 - Ep 2 - The Dovecote
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 4 - Black Pearl
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 11 - Fleming
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 1 - From Pole To Pole
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 2 - Mountains
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 3 - Fresh Water
[9:00PM] NATURE'S WEIRDEST - Episode 1 NEW
[10:00PM] NATURE'S WEIRDEST - Episode 2 NEW
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 3 - Fresh Water
[12:00AM] NATURE'S WEIRDEST - Episode 1
[1:00AM] NATURE'S WEIRDEST - Episode 2
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 1 - From Pole To Pole
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 2 - Mountains
[4:00AM] 24 HOURS ON EARTH - Ep 1 - Day
[5:00AM] 24 HOURS ON EARTH - Ep 2 - Night (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', and another 'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Drunk History', then a FRESH'Nathan For You'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Richard Linklater.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Julia Ioffe.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Taken', then 'Tyrant'.
History has 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', yet another 'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH'Counting Cars', then another FRESH'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH'Biker Battleground Phoenix'.
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[6:15AM] THE THREE STOOGES-IDLE ROOMERS
[6:40AM] THE THREE STOOGES-IF A BODY MEETS A BODY
[7:05AM] THE THREE STOOGES-LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD
[7:30AM] BATMAN-I'LL BE A MUMMY'S UNCLE!
[8:00AM] BATMAN-THE JOKER'S FLYING SAUCER
[8:30AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-BABY
[9:00AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-BABY
[9:30AM] HUDSON HAWK
[11:45AM] CRY-BABY
[1:30PM] HUDSON HAWK
[3:45PM] BATMAN-THE RING OF WAX
[4:15PM] BATMAN-GIVE 'EM THE AXE
[4:45PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-BABY
[5:15PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-BABY
[5:45PM] EASTERN PROMISES
[8:00PM] THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
[11:00PM] THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
[2:00AM] EASTERN PROMISES
[4:15AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-PAYCHECKS!
[4:45AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-GOOFY ROOFERS
[5:15AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-CATCHING UP ON SHOWS
[5:45AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Little Black Dress
[6:15AM] Wimbledon
[8:15AM] Barcelona
[10:30AM] Out of Africa
[2:00PM] The Mission
[4:45PM] Vanishing Point
[7:00PM] Born on the Fourth of July
[10:00PM] Born on the Fourth of July
[1:00AM] Layer Cake
[3:15AM] The Long Good Friday
[5:45AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Bikini (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'The Wil Wheaton Project', and another 'The Wil Wheaton Project'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Gary Oldman, Gabriel Iglesias, and the Hold Steady.
Singer and activist Harry Belafonte speaks during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in New York, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Seeger died at age 94 in January.
Photo by Kathy Willens
The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record in June. That's after the world broke a record in May.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month's average global temperature was 61.2 degrees, which is 1.3 degrees higher than the 20th century average. It beat 2010's old record by one-twentieth of a degree.
While one-twentieth of a degree doesn't sound like much, in temperature records it's like winning a horse race by several lengths, said NOAA climate monitoring chief Derek Arndt.
And that's only part of it. The world's oceans not only broke a monthly heat record at 62.7 degrees, but it was the hottest the oceans have been on record no matter what the month, Arndt said.
"We are living in the steroid era of the climate system," Arndt said.
Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Tom Chapin greets the audience during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in New York, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Seeger died at age 94 in January.
Photo by Kathy Willens
NASA honored one of its most famous astronauts Monday by renaming a historic building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It now bears the name of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon when the Apollo 11 mission landed there 45 years ago.
Armstrong, who died in 2012, was remembered at a ceremony as not only an astronaut, but also as an aerospace engineer, a test pilot and university professor. Michael Collins, who orbited the moon as Armstrong took his historic steps on July 20, 1969, said he had a "powerful combination of curiosity and intelligence" along with an intuitive grasp of the complexities of flight machinery.
"Neil probably liked hangars better than office buildings, but he was certainly good in either venue," Collins said.
The outspoken homophobes of Westboro Baptist Church protested Panic! at the Disco's Sunday night concert in Kansas City, Missouri. But the glam-rock band harnessed that hatemongering into a platform for a good cause: "Today @WBCSays is going to picket us. For every member of WBC that actually shows up we will donate $20 to @HRC [the Human Right Campaign]," the band wrote before the show on Twitter, using the hashtag #pride2014. Westboro responded, claiming that, besides the "myriads of angels" there in spirit, they managed to corral 13 protestors - but Panic deemed those results "weak" and decided to raise their donation amount to "an even $1,000." (They also donated 5 percent of their merch sales from that show to HRC.)
But, unsurprisingly, the exchange wasn't over for WBC, who continued to send hateful messages to the band after the show. A series of tweets included a Vine video of a woman driving her car on the street as protestors picket on a sidewalk. ".@PanicAtTheDisco $1000-pretty lame," wrote the group. "How about you donate the ticket price of all your fans who cheered the woman who tried to run us over?" The group followed that up Monday morning with another message: "What is this @PanicAtTheDisco tripe? There'll be panic at the second coming of Christ! (Rev. 6:16)," along with a picture of Panic frontman Brendon Urie wielding a microphone and text that reads "Repent! or Perish."
The Panic/Westboro back-and-forth started last Thursday, when the church released a parody song called "You Love Sin What a Tragedy," a send-up of the band's 2006 single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." The original tune from the Vegas band defended a bride against wedding day accusations of being a "whore," but Westboro Baptist Church twisted it into a condemnation of gay marriage, with lyrics such as, "Oh! You all say it's okay to be gay/ The way to fag marriage has been paved/ Well this calls for some truth, now/ You're all insane."
Panic! at the Disco released their fourth studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, last year.
In this photo taken Sunday, July 20, 2014, American singer and producer George Clinton performs with Parliament and Funkadelic at the Five Continents Jazz Festival, in Marseille, southern France.
Photo by Claude Paris
Illinois children and adults with epilepsy will soon be allowed to use marijuana to ease their symptoms under a law signed on Sunday by Democratic Governor Pat Quinn, the latest in a series of measures loosening restrictions on cannabis by U.S. states.
The move to add epilepsy and other seizure disorders to the list of conditions legal to treat with marijuana or its extracts comes as numerous states have made medical use of the drug legal. Two states, Colorado and Washington, have legalized its recreational use.
The Illinois law, which takes effect in January, would allow children who experience seizures to be treated with non-smokable forms of cannabis, as long as they have permission from a parent.
"I have a 14-year-old constituent by the name of Hugh who lives with epilepsy," said Republican state lawmaker Jim Durkin, who co-sponsored the new law. "His parents, Bob and Kelly, want to provide their son with as much relief as possible. Unfortunately, traditional medications and methods have not worked."
Campaigners at the world AIDS conference are taking aim at countries with anti-gay laws, accusing them of creating conditions that allow the spread of HIV.
Powerfully mixing concerns over human rights and health, the issue threatens to divide western donor countries where gay equality is making strides from poor beneficiary nations where anti-gay laws persist or have been newly passed, say some.
Nobel laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who co-discovered HIV and co-chairs the six-day conference, seized Sunday's opening ceremony to lay down a barrage of criticism at laws targeting minorities who bear a disproportionate share of the global pandemic.
Experts point to bitterly-won experience in the war on AIDS, which has claimed 39 million lives in 33 years: HIV spreads stealthily from stigmatised minorities and into the mainstream population, where it then can spread like wildfire.
If gays or bisexuals are jailed or persecuted, this discourages them from taking an HIV test or seeking treatment if they are infected. It creates a toxic atmosphere of silence and fear -- a perfect breeding ground for HIV.
Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow of the 1960's era musical trio "Peter Paul and Mary" claps and encourages the audience to sing along during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in New York, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Seeger died at age 94 in January.
Photo by Kathy Willens
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are joining in a northern Idaho's woman appeal over the National Security Agency's collection of cellphone information.
Anna Smith of Coeur d'Alene sued the NSA last year, contending that the agency's collection of the data amounts to an illegal search and seizure, prohibited under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
In June, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill said Smith had the right to sue but that she wouldn't prevail under current court precedent. As a result, Winmill dismissed the lawsuit, but he also noted that the issue may end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Smith has appealed her case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The national ACLU, the ACLU of Idaho and the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced last week that they were joining in Smith's case. Both the ACLU and Electronic Frontier have been part of lawsuits over the same issue in other states.
Smith, a nurse, is being represented by state Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d'Alene, and Smith's husband, Peter J. Smith IV. She assumed she was being monitored because she had a Verizon cellphone and because the calls of vast numbers of Americans were collected, Malek said earlier this year.
(L-R) John Landgraf, CEO, FX Networks & FX Productions, Chuck Saftler, President of Program Strategy & COO, FX Networks, Al Jean, Executive Producer of The Simpsons and Stephanie Gibbons, President, Marketing & On-Air Promotions, FX Networks, participate in a panel discussion of "The Simpson" during FX Networks' portion of the 2014 Television Critics Association Cable Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California July 21, 2014.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Some tribal elders in a city in northwest Pakistan have decreed that families fleeing a military offensive should not allow women to collect food aid, an elder said on Monday after Reuters saw him attacking women.
"If any woman comes to the ration distribution area, she will be punished," said Malik Kaleemullah, an elder from the Malik tribe. The decision was taken by more than 40 elders on Sunday in the city of Bannu, he said, where most of the families fleeing the fighting are staying.
On Monday, a Reuters journalist saw Kaleemullah slap several women queuing for food at the main stadium in Bannu, the dusty northwestern city where most aid is being distributed.
Hundreds of others saw him, including members of the security forces and local journalists. No one intervened and the women who were struck, along with a dozen others in line, left quickly.
There was no suggestion how widows or women unaccompanied by their husbands might secure aid. Humanitarian agencies say three-quarters of those who have fled are women and children.
Norm Crosby performs as master of ceremony at the Starkey Hearing Foundation's "So the World May Hear" Awards Gala on Sunday, July 20, 2014 in St. Paul, Minn.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
The 20-year-old son of rock star John Mellencamp faces an underage drinking charge while awaiting resolution of charges that he and his brother seriously injured a man in a fight.
Monroe County court records show Hud Mellencamp of Bloomington was charged July 10 with a misdemeanour count of illegal alcohol consumption. Details about the case weren't immediately available.
Defence attorney Jennifer Lukemeyer did not immediately return a message from The Associated Press seeking comment Monday on the new charge and the request from prosecutors that Mellencamp's bond be revoked from his 2013 arrest.
In that case, Hud Mellencamp and his younger brother, Speck, face felony battery charges that they punched and kicked a 19-year-old man who they believed had hit Speck Mellencamp earlier that night.
People watch whirling dervishes perform a traditional Sufi dance during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in the Ottoman-era Tekkiye Suleimaniye mosque complex in Damascus July 21, 2014.
Photo by Omar Sanadiki
Authorities in Washington state were looking for a person who donated three human skulls to a thrift store last month, and said on Monday their pleas for information had instead prompted the handover of yet more human remains.
The Seattle and King County Medical Examiner said they were hoping to speak with the person who left behind the three skulls at a Goodwill store in Bellevue in the hopes of learning the origin of the remains.
One of the skulls was more than 100 years old and appears to be the fragile remains of a Native American child, said medical examiner spokesman Keith Seinfeld. The two others were adult specimens used in a medical clinic or for instruction, officials said.
Though there has been no breakthrough on the source of the Goodwill donations, the public information campaign has netted calls from three other individuals wanting to hand over human skulls in their possession, Seinfeld said.
In this Sunday, July 20, 2014 photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, Kecil, a 6-month-old orangutan, is seen at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill., with his surrogate mother named Maggie, a 53-year-old Bornean orangutan and has had experience serving as a surrogate in the past. Kecil, who was born at Toledo Zoo in January, was recently brought to Brookfield to be introduced to Maggie. The two are currently off exhibit bonding and it will be several months before they are on exhibit in the zoo's Tropic World: Asia exhibit.
Photo by Jim Schulz
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