Joe Bob Briggs: This Guy Really Needs a Lawyer So Let's Not Give Him One (Taki's Magzine)
If you asked any American in, say, 1963 what he thought of the right to legal counsel, you would have gotten a 99 percent response: Hell yes, everybody is entitled to a lawyer. The most popular courtroom drama on TV at the time was Perry Mason, the Raymond Burr series about a criminal defense attorney who almost always got his clients off. Perry Mason was a hero because he protected private citizens from the machinery of the state. How America has changed.
Alexandra Petri: Historical reenactors wish America had picked a nicer bit of history to repeat (Washington Post Satire)
"I do appreciate the authenticity they're bringing to this," Gruble added. "The chants, the faces, the signs. The finger pointing and hand wringing and non-disavowals from people who should be speaking up. The level of detail - people being shocked, but then not shocked, and then sort of … overwhelmed, but inured, but in a kind of denial - all very realistic, all quite compelling. But I just wish they'd asked us about what periods of the past we found fun and rewarding to occupy. Because I sure would not have said any of the ones they appear to be going for! It seems like they're drawing elements from several, but none of them are good!"
These 4 Lifestyle Changes Improve Heart Health, Sexual Health, and Alzheimer's Risk (Blue Zones)
Dean Ornish, M.D., is one of medicine's great pioneers of the last 40 years. His work has shown that a plant-based diet and healthy lifestyle can not only reverse heart disease but also actually lengthen telomeres, perhaps slowing the aging process. Dean and his wife Anne Ornish have written a breakthrough, evidence-based book that provides a clear guide for living a longer, better life.
Cath Pound: Why Cindy Sherman's photos are so mysterious (BBC)
A distraught woman leans against the wall of a shabby motel, the contents of her suitcase strewn across the bed. Another, elegantly dressed in a grey suit and neat straw hat, glances warily to her left as she edges past the skyscrapers that loom behind her; while a third sullenly gathers the groceries that have spilled across her kitchen floor. We think we know the characters that populate Cindy Sherman's groundbreaking Untitled Film Stills (1977-80) series. They seem to have sprung from the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the French New Wave and Italian neorealism and yet there is something we can't quite put our finger on.
The Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980, and discontinued the next year. What is the title of the only Best Disco Recording Grammy winner?
The official Oklahoma state meal is a state emblem of Oklahoma. While many U.S. states have one or more official foods, it is the only official state meal.
The meal was established by the 41st Oklahoma Legislature through House Concurrent Resolution 1083 in 1988. The menu selection process included input from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, the Oklahoma Restaurant Association, the Oklahoma Pork Council, the Oklahoma Beef Commission, the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, and some food-processing companies. April 19, 1988 was "Oklahoma Meal Day", and restaurants were encouraged to offer the meal.
The dishes are typical of Southern cuisine. Menu items include historic staple foods of the region and represent state agricultural production.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Oklahoma.
Randall wrote:
Oklahoma
Alan J answered:
Oklahoma.
Mac Mac said:
The official state meal of Oklahoma consists of fried okra, cornbread, barbecue pork, squash, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, strawberries (state fruit), chicken fried steak, pecan pie, and black-eyed peas.
Dave replied:
Oklahoma. I just learned the official heart unhealthy Okie meal consists of "fried okra (whatever okra is?), cornbread, BBQ pork, squash, sausage and gravy over biscuits, grits, corn, strawberries, chicken fried steak, black eyed peas, and pecan pie for dessert (if you are still hungry)." Some of that stuff I've never eaten and would never eat. Total calories for the meal: 2,700. Fat Grams: 125. Sodium Milligrams: 5250.
zorch responded:
Oklahoma, which was originally to be called Lahoma, but they had to OK it.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Oklahoma. Also, apparently, Louisiana which I bet is Gumbo.
Deborah said:
It's either Louisiana or Oklahoma, and it's bound to be a cholesterol-laden sugar and fat bomb.
It's heating up in NorCal; we may head to a dog-friendly beach this week for a break.
Daniel in The City replied:
Oklahoma
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• Opera singer Clara Doria once was seasick during a voyage and was unable to eat, but the wife of a clergyman declared that she was suffering from starvation, not from seasickness. The clergyman's wife recommended that she drink a gin cocktail with Angostura bitters, and when Ms. Doria did, her appetite immediately returned and her seasickness vanished. Ms. Doria told this story to her friends, and when she left on another sea voyage, many of her friends got her quart bottles of gin cocktail as a farewell gift. Some of her friends went separately to a man named Billy Pitcher to buy quarts of gin cocktail, telling him that they were gifts for Ms. Doria, and he was amazed and asked, "Good Lord, what sort of woman is Ms. Doria? Does she drink cocktail by the gallon, or does she take a bath in it?"
• Opera singer Kirsten Flagstad enjoyed drinking, but she didn't like to drink before noon. Therefore, she and her accompanist, Edwin McArthur, would sit and watch the clock slowly move its hands toward noon. However, during one of their train trips from New York to San Francisco, Mr. McArthur occasionally would get tired of waiting, so he would say, "Oh, for heaven's sake, in New York it's already nearly two - we can start." Then he would pour two glasses.
• The great tenor Enrico Caruso occasionally took a drink during the rigors of recording opera. He once disappeared for a few minutes while recording a duet from Madame Butterfly with Geraldine Farrar. When he returned and they started recording again, Ms. Farrar mischievously added these words to her part of the duet, "Oh, you've had a highball!" Mr. Caruso in turn sang these words: "No, I've had two highballs." The recording is now a collector's item.
• During a 1964 performance of The Magic Flute at the Glyndebourne Festival, two free-standing triangular pillars (and the stagehands inside them) on stage toppled and fell to the floor. The performers on stage, Heinz Blankenburg and Ragnar Ulfung, looked at each other, then walked backstage and righted the pillars, all the while ad-libbing in German about how effectively Guinness (an alcoholic beverage) builds strength. The audience cheered.
• Soprano Giulia Grisi (1811-1869) strongly believed in the restorative power of beer. While performing in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, she was required to fall on the stage and lie there, so she arranged for a glass of beer to be handed to her through a trapdoor in the floor of the stage. With her back to the audience and the glass hidden from the audience's sight, she guzzled the beer to gain strength to continue her performance.
Animals
• Ivan Jadan, the premier lyric tenor of the Bolshoi Opera from 1928-1941, lived in the Virgin Islands for the last part of his life. He swam nearly every day, and in 1957 he made a friend of a black angelfish with five gold bands. Often, he crushed a sea egg and fed it to the angelfish. One day, he discovered the angelfish in an old, abandoned fish trap. Mr. Jadan knew that the angelfish would die if it stayed there, so he crushed a sea egg in his hand, then put his hand into the trap's intricate opening. The angelfish swam to the food, Mr. Jadan moved his hand away, and the angelfish followed the hand and food to freedom. Mr. Jadan didn't name the angelfish until 1993, when he told his great-niece Anna about the pretty little angelfish and announced that its name was Anna Angelfish.
• Nineteenth-century impresario Colonel James H. Mapleson once needed tenor Luigi Ravelli to sing in Carmen, but Mr. Ravelli sent him word shortly before the opera began - much too late to change the opera - that he could not sing that night. Arriving at Mr. Ravelli's hotel, Colonel Mapleson was surprised to see that Mr. Ravelli appeared to be in good health, even though he was in bed. He tested Mr. Ravelli's voice at the piano, and discovered that Mr. Ravelli was in good voice. It appeared that Mr. Ravelli would sing that night after all, but unfortunately, Mr. Ravelli placed great trust in his favorite dog, Niagara. He asked the dog if he should sing, the dog growled, and Mr. Ravelli went back to bed.
• Soprano Geraldine Farrar once held a live goose while taking a curtain call after a performance in Engelbert Humperdinck's Die Koenigskinder. The goose honked, and the audience applauded. Tenor Leo Slezak noticed all the attention Ms. Farrar was getting, so he said that he would carry a swan with him for his curtain call after his next performance of Lohengrin. "Go ahead," she said, laughing, "but you can pinch your swan all you want - he won't squawk because he is stuffed."
• Maria Jeritza appeared with Enrico Caruso in Carmen. Often animals are used in the production of operas, and often the animals are not house broken. A horse once befouled - and befouled - the stage during a performance, and when the climatic moment came when Mr. Caruso "stabbed" Ms. Jeritza, she refused to die. Under his breath, a shocked Mr. Caruso said, "Die! Fall, will you?" Ms. Jeritza whispered back, "I'll die if you can find me a clean place."
• Sir Peter Ustinov introduced his young daughter to opera by way of a performance of Aida. Unfortunately, late in the opera, several animals (including horses, camels, and elephants) began to relieve themselves on stage. Mr. Ustinov's daughter - a polite young lady - tapped his shoulder and asked, "Daddy, is it all right if I laugh?"
• Animals are occasionally used onstage during operas. Once, Sir Thomas Beecham was conducting the Triumphal Scene from Verdi's Aidawhen a horse relieved itself on stage. Sir Thomas told the audience, "A distressing spectacle, ladies and gentlemen, but what a critic!"
• Franco Corelli's dog was well trained. While Mr. Corelli was on stage singing, his dog was in Mr. Corelli's dressing room. If anyone entered the dressing room and reached for Mr. Corelli's paycheck, the dog bit him.
Need to find some more jigsaw puzzles for dear old dad.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Love Island', followed by a RERUN'NCIS', then a FRESH'Blood & Treasure'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Julián Castro, Tony Hale, and Nilüfer Yanya.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Eva Longoria and Thomas Lennon.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Bring The Funny'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Octavia Spencer, Fred Armisen, and YBN Cordae featuring Anderson .Paak.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Beto O'Rourke and Hunter Schafer.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/5/18) are Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Amen Dunes, and Lana Condor.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'The Conners', followed by a RERUN'American Housewife', then a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by a RERUN'black-ish', then a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by a RERUN'black-ish'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Casey Affleck, Jack Quaid, and Burna Boy.
The CW offers a FRESH'Pandora', followed by a FRESH'The 100'.
Faux has a FRESH'USA Champions: The Story Of The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup', followed by a RERUN'9-1-1'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Cast Away', followed by the movie 'Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian', then the movie 'Mrs. Doubtfire'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 6-Inside Man
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 7-Body and Soul
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 8-Nightingale
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 9-Flesh and Blood, Pt. 1
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 10-Flesh and Blood, Pt. 2
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 11-Shattered
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 12-Lineage
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 13-Repentance
[2:00PM] THE MATRIX RELOADED (2003)
[5:00PM] THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (2003)
[8:00PM] X2: X-MEN UNITED (2003)
[11:00PM] X2: X-MEN UNITED (2003)
[2:00AM] THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (2003)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 23-Distant Origin (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', another 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'The Office', followed by a FRESH'Drunk History', then a FRESH'Alternatino With Arturo Castro'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is David Spade.
FX has the movie 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', followed by the movie 'Guardians Of The Galaxy', then a FRESH'Pose'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', and another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Admission
[8:30A] Blues Brothers 2000
[11:15A] The Blues Brothers
[2:15P] Stripes
[4:45P] Transporter 3
[7:00P] Saving Private Ryan
[11:00P] Saving Private Ryan
[3:00A] Blues Brothers 2000
[5:45A] Night Flight-The Who and the Damned (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:45am] Aliens
[12:45pm] The Running Man
[3:00pm] Terminator 2: Judgment Day
[6:00pm] Face/Off
[9:00pm] Space Cowboys
[12:00am] The Right Stuff
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Blade', followed by the movie 'Blade II', then the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 5/22/19) is Lisa Kudrow.
Country radio host Blair Garner describes himself as "not a political guy," but when Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg reached out and asked for an interview on his show, "The Blair Garner Show," the host agreed and invited him to his studio in Nashville where they spoke for twenty minutes. But when Garner wanted to air the interview, Cumulus Media, which nationally syndicates Garner's show, blocked it from being broadcast at all.
Garner, unhappy with Cumulus's decision, posted a Soundcloud link to the interview on Twitter and composed an Instagram post explaining why he spoke with Buttigieg and why he thinks a free public discourse is important. "The best way to a reasoned, thoughtful position on any topic, is to hear from both sides," Garner said.
Garner added that he was initially surprised Buttigieg wanted to appear on the show, "since country music tends to lean in a conservative direction," but said he was "extremely flattered" at the offer.
"One of the few truly viable candidates in the race raised his hand and asked for a place at the table. I was willing to give him that seat," Garner said. "I would have also given a seat to any other viable candidate, from both sides. The only condition? They must also value and appreciate our listeners, and never treat them as pawns."
Since Garner posted the interview on Soundcloud on Friday, listeners have played it more than 4,000 times. In the interview, Buttigieg said he was intentionally seeking out traditionally right media to reach an untapped audience and said the Democratic Party should do the same.
"Easy come, easy go" - that's a phrase that has never applied to "Bohemian Rhapsody," one of the most enduring recordings of the 20th century. The Queen classic just set a record by becoming the first music video released in the 1970s, or any time prior to the '90s, to cross the billion-views mark on YouTube.
To commemorate the milestone, the two remaining original members of the group, Brian May and Roger Taylor, have teamed up with Universal Music and YouTube/Google for some fresh iterations of the 44-year old single and video. One is a newly digitally remastered version of the original clip, which premiered on "Top of the Pops" in England in November 1975.
That vintage video polish job is being supplemented by the promise of three new "user-generated" videos to be made for three different Queen tracks, to be collated from submissions at the YouAreTheChampions.com website.
"We are honoured that 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has just hit one billion views on YouTube," Brian May and Roger Taylor said as part of the announcement. "We want to thank you all and celebrate with our amazing fans all around the world by creating three new music videos to our songs, all featuring you! Whether you are a musician, singer, dancer, visual artist or you just want to have some fun. Go to www.youarethechampions.com to find out more and we'll see you on the road somewhere." (Queen + Adam Lambert are on a long world tour that just included stops at the Forum in L.A.)
Film From Acquired Studio Beats Film From Acquired Studio
Disney
Avengers: Endgame, a movie about a bunch of beautiful superheroes being sad and breaking the timeline, is now the most financially successful movie of all time. It's been a long road, but we have finally reached the endgame: and really, the winner all along has been Mickey Mouse.
After one theatrical re-release and months at the box office, Avengers: Endgame has officially earned $2.79 billion worldwide, making it the most lucrative theatrical release ever. (At least, if you're not adjusting for inflation. If you are, it ranks at 16, according to Box Office Mojo, but, still.)
This means that the film, the culmination of a decade of Marvel Studios filmmaking and hype, has edged out Avatar-a franchise that Disney now also owns after its acquisition of Fox earlier this year-from its decade-long reign as the top-grossing film, with $2.789 billion.
This is obviously a huge deal for Marvel-it's a validation of their dominance of the cultural sphere, a monument to what you can do with the resources of one of the largest media monopolies ever behind you. It's also, frankly, a handy receipt that more than lets you get away with managing to bring down Hall H at Comic-Con with the announcement that Angelina Jolie will play an obscure Jack Kirby character basically created as a riff of other obscure characters Kirby created for Marvel's comics rival, DC Comics. It also seems to be a big deal to fans, for reasons I don't quite understand, as many have been rooting excitedly for this to happen for a while. Brand loyalty is a hell of a drug, I suppose.
What this means going forward is probably a lot more Marvel movies, with as much money and talent behind them as Disney can muster. It also probably means that, somewhere, today, James Cameron is probably working on one of several Avatar sequels, feeling just a teeny little bit annoyed. Maybe you'll get 'em next time, James. For now, the Avatar twitter decided to be a bit more diplomatic, sharing a message including the bizarre imagery of Iron Man being fondled by Pandoran fauna:
Seven artists have asked New York City's Whitney Museum to remove their work from its biennial showcase of American art over a museum board member's ties to the sale of law enforcement supplies including tear gas.
The artists are protesting Warren Kanders' role as vice chairman of the Whitney's board. Kanders is the owner of the Safariland Group, which sells body armor for police officers as well as tear gas. Critics of Safariland say the tear gas has been used against migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The Museum's inertia has turned the screw, and we refuse further complicity with Kanders and his technologies of violence," four of the artists said in a letter the showcase's curators published in Artforum on Friday.
Three additional artists said Saturday that they were withdrawing their work in solidarity. Spinello Projects, a gallery that represents two of the artists, said on Facebook that Safariland "manufactures tear gas and other weapons of repression."
Artists and the Whitney's own staff members have been speaking out against Kanders' presence on the board since November, when more than 100 staff signed a letter calling for his resignation.
It was the controversial campaign promise that Don-Old Trump (R-Crooked) built his 2016 electoral success on: to build what he called a "big beautiful wall" on the US border with Mexico.
But, two and half years after he took office, supporters - who were so enamoured by the idea, they regularly chanted in favour of the structure - may be forgiven for wondering where exactly it is.
Now, it has emerged that not a single new stretch of border wall has been built since Mr Trump took office in January 2017.
A statement released by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency confirmed the 51 miles of fencing completed since Mr Trump took power has simply replaced barriers that already existed.
That is despite the fact that a total of 205 miles of both new and replacement wall and fencing has already been budgeted for since Mr Trump took office - including via the Treasury Forfeiture Fund which the president redirected through controversial executive action in February.
U.S. President Don-Old Trump (R-Churl) on Monday told the Pentagon to find better ways to procure a rare earth magnet used in specialty motors, warning that the nation's defense would suffer without adequate stockpiles.
Attention is growing on rare earths, an obscure grouping of 17 minerals used to build weapons, consumer electronics and a range of other goods. There are no known substitutes.
Trump said that the United States did not have enough capacity to make samarium cobalt rare earth permanent magnets, which can withstand high temperatures and are resistant to corrosion. They are commonly found in precision-guided missiles, smart bombs and military jets.
The United States used to be the world leader in production of rare earths and rare earth magnets, though China now dominates the industry and is using that to its advantage in the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries.
China produces nearly two-thirds of the world's samarium cobalt rare earth magnets, according to U.S. government estimates.
The best preserved shipwreck ever found from the age of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama has been discovered - at the bottom of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Estonia.
The newly discovered Baltic Mary Celeste is also at the heart of a 500 year old maritime mystery.
Virtually pristine condition, the vessel has been located by archaeologists at a depth of around more than 120 metres some 100 miles South East of Stockholm.
Some 99 percent of the ship is intact - with the masts still standing tall and its two swivel guns in their firing positions.
Although the ship is by far the best preserved vessel ever found from Europe's Age of Discovery, it is of a Northern European rather than southern European design.
"Even in our deep sadness, we are comforted by the memory of our wonderful father," his daughters Alexandra and Serena said in a statement. "He loved us all dearly and expressed that love every day. He was adored by so many, all of whom benefited from his warm and generous heart. Our dad brought joy and humor wherever he went and did so with great style."
Hedison played scientist Andre Delambre who turned into an insect in the 1958 film "The Fly." He played CIA agent Felix Leiter in Bond films "To Live and Let Die" and "License to Kill."
The Providence, Rhode Island-native began his career under the name Al Hedison. In 1959, he took his middle name David after signing a contract with Twentieth Century Fox.
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