Paul Krugman's Column: The President Surrenders (New York Times)
It will damage an already depressed economy; it will probably make America's long-run deficit problem worse, not better; and most important, by demonstrating that raw extortion works and carries no political cost, it will take America a long way down the road to banana-republic status.
Paul Krugman's Blog: When People Pay You To Take Their Money (New York Times)
Negative rates at 5 and 7 years; all of 0.38 percent on 10 years. Borrowing to spend on useful infrastructure, or even just to put people to work in ways that enhance revenue down the road, would almost surely improve the long-run fiscal picture. Conversely, austerity now almost surely hurts the budget as well as the economy.
Jim Hightower: A right wing jobs program for America
Attention, jobless Americans! If you're among the millions of longterm unemployed people searching in vain for a job, here's a hot tip: They are hiring in Wisconsin. There is one little catch, though, you have to be a Wisconsin jailbird to get one of these dandy positions. But that's no hill for a climber - I'm sure America has plenty of out-of-work folks who're enterprising enough to move to the Badger State, steal a six pack from a 7-Eleven, go to jail, and become eligible. I should mention, though, that you won't get paid.
Daphne Oz: We Pay Eventually (Creators Syndicate)
On July 23, Mark Bittman put out an incredibly moving and impossibly simple plea to the public in a column for The New York Times, titled "Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables." His premise is obvious: We Americans are getting unhealthier by the day, and we are not taking the right steps to stem the obesity epidemic, which is making us the world leader in lifestyle-related disease.
17 brilliant 404 pages and why they are cool (pingdom.com)
When you end up following a dead or incorrect link or mistype a URL, you are likely to end up on a 404 error page. It doesn't have to be a bad experience, though. We have prowled the web for funny and original takes on this classic error page. Here are 17 of the best. Let yourself be inspired!
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."
After attending the Sylvia Herpolscheimer Academy for Performance Arts, what actor first found work as a mailman, then taught mathematics at a Roman Catholic elementary school?
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti, the son of two first-generation immigrants from Italy. In 1924 he moved to California, changed his name - already shortened from "DeCorti" to "Corti" - to Cody, and started working as an actor, presenting himself as a Native American. He married an Indian woman, Bertha Parker, and together they adopted two Indian sons. Iron Eyes Cody lived and worked as an Indian for all his adult life; he labored for decades to promote Native American causes, and was honored by Hollywood's Native American community in 1995 for his efforts.
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Sally said:
Happy Ramadan to all readers celebrating! (Ramadan is a time when Muslims concentrate on celebrating their faith, family, and friends.)
And, Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti on 3 April 1904...
PS: I'm feelin' it for all of the readers from the Midwest (and Texas) who are suffering from that excessive, above 100 degree heat! While our temps are in the 90's, I can assure you, that between 91 and 103 degrees, there is a world of difference! One thing that I found to help, is freezing water bottles (three quarters full) and placing one in back of your neck and others under your armpits, helps to bring down your body temp. It is relevantly inexpensive, and really helps. Good for kids, especially if you need to get their temp down fast... Hang tough guys, and think snow! :)
Charlie responded:
Iron Eyes Cody
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Iron Eyes Cody
Adam answered:
Iron Eyes Cody was born as Espera Oscar de Corti in Kaplan, Louisiana, a second son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily, Italy.
And, Joe S answered:
Iron Eyes Cody (Wannabee Tribe)
Born Espera Oscar DeCorti on 3 April 1907 in Gueydan, Louisiana, USA, While maintaining his whole life that he was part Cree and part Cherokee, actor Iron Eyes Cody was in fact born Espera DeCorti, a second generation Italian-American. He started out as a Wild-West-show performer, like his father before him.
Looks Italian to me.
More and more it seems to me the monkeys are running the zoo.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Ricky Gervais, Cat Deeley, and Explosions in the Sky.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kristen Bell, Eddie Izzard, and Jean Reno.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'It's Worth What?', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Katie Holmes, Novak Djokovic, and Mat Kearney.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Danny McBride, Dianna Agron, and Sergio Mendes.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/5/11) are Dave Zirin, Dan Harmon, and Mini Mansions.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Take The Money & Run', then a FRESH'Combat Hospital'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Hank Azaria, Jim Sturgess, and the Lonely Forest.
The CW offers a RERUN'90210', followed by a RERUN'Shedding For The Wedding'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'MasterChef'.
MY here has LIVE'MLB Baseball', with the Twins visiting the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels.
A&E has 'Billy The Exterminator', another 'Billy The Exterminator', still another 'Billy The Exterminator', yet another 'Billy The Extermnator', followed by a FRESH'Billy The Exterminator', then another FRESH'Billy The Exterminator', another 'Billy The Exterminator', and still another 'Billy The Exterminator'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the movie 'The Godfather, Part II'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Juliette Lewis, Isabella Rossellini, Alistair McGowen
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 4 Bonapartes
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Seascape
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Age Of Steel
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 J Willy's
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 11 The Hunted
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 4 The Sontaran Strategem
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 The Poison Sky
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[9:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape - Episode 4
[10:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Giuseppi's
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo
[12:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape - Episode 4
[1:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Giuseppi's
[2:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo
[3:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Sebastian's
[4:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Giuseppi's
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Out', and 'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futuama', 'South Park', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', and yet antoher 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Jason Bateman.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Al Hunt.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Planet Of The Apes', then the movie 'Planet Of The Apes', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', and yet one more 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Undeclared - The Day After
[6:30AM] Away From Her
[9:00AM] Daltry Calhoun
[11:00AM] Last Summer in the Hamptons
[1:15PM] Away From Her
[3:45PM] Nosebleed
[3:55PM] The Making Of: Transformation
[4:00PM] Daltry Calhoun
[6:00PM] Arrested DevelopmentIn God We Trust
[6:30PM] Arrested DevelopmentStorming the Castle
[7:00PM] Rhett & Link: Commercial KingsHealing
[7:30PM] Young Broke and BeautifulDetroit
[8:00PM] Apocalypto
[11:00PM] Apocalypto
[2:00AM] The Making Of: Transformation
[2:05AM] Rhett & Link: Commercial KingsHealing
[2:35AM] Young Broke and BeautifulDetroit
[3:05AM] The Larry Sanders ShowPutting the Gay Back in Litigation
[3:40AM] The Larry Sanders ShowFlip
[4:15AM] The Larry Sanders ShowThe Garden Weasel
[4:50AM] Arrested DevelopmentIn God We Trust
[5:20AM] Arrested DevelopmentStorming the Castle
[5:50AM] Nosebleed (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Category 6: Day Of Destruction' (part 1), followed by the movie 'Category 6: Day Of Destruction' (part 2)..
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Shaquille O'Neal, Brian Posehn, and Seether.
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Kathy Griffin, Tom Felton, Lavell Crawford, and 2cellos.
Maya Rudolph, a cast member in the television series "Up All Night," takes part in a panel discussion on the show at the NBC Universal summer press tour, Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Animal activist Bob Barker has gone to bat for dogs, cats, whales, pigeons, elephants and all kinds of other animals. Five chimpanzees are the beneficiaries of his latest donation.
Chimp Haven in Keithville, La., said his donation of $230,000 last month will pay to expand the 200-acre habitat to make room for the five chimps and care for them for one year.
Barker said the chimps came from a Texas research laboratory that went bankrupt.
Barker, who lives in Los Angeles, says the chimps have spent their whole lives on concrete in cages but now they will live in the forest and because they are curious and smart, they are expected to adapt well.
Actress Sissy Spacek, center, and actor Bill Paxton, left, react as director David Lynch polishes her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
It turns out a nearly 200-year-old letter donated to a New Jersey museum wasn't written by English Romantic poet Lord Byron.
The National Historical Park in Morristown received the letter more than 50 years ago from a banker and collector.
The letter's authenticity came into doubt when Drew University began planning a large Byron exhibit. The park's chief of cultural resources Jude Pfister offered the letter.
The Star-Ledger of Newark reports the university shared the letter with an expert at the New York Public Library. She found problems with the salutation, signature and content.
The museum is considering an exhibit on forged documents.
Landing the cover of Rolling Stone is usually confirmation of superstar status. The Sheepdogs - winners of the magazine's first contest to be on the cover - aren't there yet, but they may be on their way.
The Canadian rock band beat out 15 other competitors in "Do You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star?" to land on the cover. The winner was announced Monday.
The magazine hits newsstands Friday.
The previously unsigned act is also getting a deal with Atlantic Records, and on Tuesday they'll release a digital EP "Five Easy Pieces" and perform on NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."
A man performs the traditional "El Torito" dance at the Rabin Ajau National Folkloric Festival and Indian beauty contest in Coban, Guatemala, Saturday July 30, 2011. Unlike traditional beauty contests, the panel of judges not only value the participants' leadership skills, but their commitment to the rescue and maintenance of Mayan values. The Rabin Ajau, or Queen Daughter, contestants, whose ages range from 14-26 years, go through numerous rounds of competition, including a speech that must be given in their native dialect and Spanish.
Photo by Rodrigo Abd
Some car enthusiasts prefer black - some red. But a buyer at a Michigan auction Saturday got a truly one-of-a-kind color -- transparent.
The 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six "Ghost Car," first displayed at the New York World's Fair and later at the Smithsonian Institution, was sold Saturday for $308,000.
Originally built for $25,000, the car with a Plexiglas body was the first transparent car built in America. Another was built the following year, but its whereabouts are unknown.
The Ghost Car was first displayed at the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair, Squindo said. It toured a number of dealerships, and then was at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. for a number of years.
An academic freedom group has rallied to the defense of a long-time Louisiana State University professor who alleges he was fired for maintaining that the Army Corps of Engineers was at fault for the devastating flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck the city in 2005.
Ivor von Heerden had worked as an associate professor without tenure and a hurricane expert in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at LSU when he laid out his case against the Corps. In media interviews and in congressional testimony, he argued that the levees constructed around New Orleans were flawed, leading to the massive flooding and suffering the city endured Katrina's wake.
"The administration decided not to retain Professor van Heerden largely in retaliation for his continuing dissent from the prevailing LSU position on the failed levees and the New Orleans flooding, thereby violating his academic freedom," the American Association of University Professors said in its report on the subject .
A year after the disaster, the Army Corps of Engineers accepted responsibility for the levee failures. "This is the first time that the Corps has had to stand up and say, 'We've had a catastrophic failure,' " Corps Chief Lt. Gen. Carl Strock said in 2006. But when von Heerden first began his criticism in 2005, the Corps argued that the force of the storm was so great it broke the levees through no fault of the levees' design.
Internal memos from administrators show that lawmakers and federal agency employees expressed their displeasure with von Heerden's comments and asked LSU to rein him in, the report said.
Locals are seen dressed up in renaissance garb for the annual jousting festival (Giostra Cavalleresca) in Sulmona, Italy July 30, 2011. Months of hard work go into preparing robes for hundreds of ordinary folk who dress up as 16th-century nobles, soldiers, pages and musicians for parades which begin and end each day's tournament and other events throughout the week.
Photo by Adam Tanner
"And the right to broadcast the Golden Globe Awards goes to..."
A federal judge may complete that proclamation this week - no ripping of a secret envelope required - possibly altering the future of one of Hollywood's major award shows.
For months, attorneys for the show's organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and its longtime producers, dick clark productions, have argued over who can legally negotiate the broadcast rights for the award's gala.
While the 2012 Globes show is not in jeopardy, tens of millions of dollars are at stake along with bragging rights to a show that attracts millions of viewers each January at the height of Hollywood's awards season.
NBC has aired the show since 1998 and has a disputed deal with dick clark productions to air it through 2018.
The San Francisco woman charged with breaking into the hotel room of "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of burglary and possession of stolen property.
Lucinda Moyers entered her plea Monday in San Francisco Superior Court. The judge kept the 56-year-old's bail at $625,000. She is scheduled back in court on Aug. 15 to set a preliminary hearing date.
Authorities say Moyers stole cash, a bracelet and other items from the San Francisco hotel room on July 26 where Trebek was staying with his wife, Jean. All of the items except the cash and bracelet were recovered.
Trebek, 71, says he chased Moyers out of his room at the Marriot Marquis. He ruptured his Achilles tendon and is on crutches.
When the "enemy" is different, an outsider, it's easier to draw quick conclusions, to develop stereotypes. It's simply human nature: There is "us," and there is "them." But what happens when the enemy looks like us - from the same tradition and belief system?
That is the conundrum in the case of Norway and Anders Behring Brevik, who is being called a "Christian extremist" or "Christian terrorist."
As westerners wrestle with such characterizations of the Oslo mass murder suspect, the question arises: Nearly a decade after 9/11 created a widespread suspicion of Muslims based on the actions of a fanatical few, is this what it's like to walk a mile in the shoes of stereotype?
"Absolutely," said Mark Kelly Tyler, pastor of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. "It clearly puts us in a position where we can't simply say that extreme and violent behavior associated with a religious belief is somehow restricted to Muslim extremists."
For Christians who think of their faith as preaching peace, how to explain the faith-sanctioned killing of the Crusades? For Muslims, what about the thousands of jihadists now following violent interpretations of Islam?
Sounds like Lightning McQueen is more than just a cheap knock-off.
A federal judge has sided with the Walt Disney Company and Pixar, finding that the studios did not steal the ideas for their hit films "Cars" and "Cars 2" from British screenwriter Jake Mandeville-Anthony.
Mandeville-Anthony claimed last spring that he had submitted a script with character art to the studio in the mid-'90s that closely resembled the anthropomorphic autos in the two animated films. At the time, he sought an injunction to prevent the June release of "Cars 2."
Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank disagreed, dismissing the complaint.
Judge Fairbank also found that Mandeville-Anthony's breach of contract claims fall outside of the two-year statute of limitations.
Sam Norkin, a caricaturist and illustrator who created more than 4,000 published drawings that captured moments in theater, dance, opera, jazz, pop and classical music over seven decades, has died. He was 94.
Publicist Lester Schecter says Norkin died Saturday in New York.
From 1940 to 1956, Norkin's illustrations were featured in the New York Herald Tribune. During the next 26 years, he covered performing arts for the New York Daily News.
His art appeared in newspapers in cities where shows made their debuts, including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Toronto Star.
He also was a member of the Drama Desk Board for more than 40 years and served as its president. An annual special award has been named in his memory.
A baby giraffe walks under his mother "Diamant" in their enclosure at Planckendael's zoo near Mechelen August 1, 2011. The male baby giraffe was born on July 31, 2011. Picture taken through a window.
Photo by Francois Lenoir
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