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Treasure Island (Enriched Classics), by Robert Louis Stevenson: A review by Doug Brown
'Treasure Island' is a really fun book. Maybe I feel that way partly because I read it immediately after Dante's 'Inferno,' which is not a really fun book. But, I don't think so. Stevenson's tale is just as entertaining today as in 1883. Mysterious plots, mutinies, treasure maps, sailing ships, and pirates: it's all here. ?
BadtotheboneBob replied:
Glenn Beck-elzebub...
...and may weasels rip his flesh...
~ Tony in Philly answered:
Ha! Glenn Beck.
Sally said:
Author Stephen King, once called Glenn Beck, "Satan's mentally challenged younger brother."
ROTFLMAO!
PS: Thanks, Marty, you sure have provided your readers with some fascinating scientific info via your series of caterpillar photos. I wonder if the butterfly's will stay in your yard, of fly away never to be seen again... Let us know!
Charlie responded:
Giving Satan a bad name?
Glenn Beck.
"Finally, a guy who says what people who aren't thinking are thinking."
-Jon Stewart
"The comfort of today's mythical homespun aw-shucks-TV-totalitarian-Lonesome-Rhodes Glenn Beck is that everyday he gives away the essential truth that he is an idiot."
--Keith Olbermann
Even the leather-winged shouting heads at Fox News look like intellectual giants next to this bleating, benighted Cassandra. It's like someone found a manic, doom-prophesying hobo in a sandwich board, shaved him, shot him full of Zoloft and gave him a show."
--Buffalo Beast
I can't stand searching for Beck pictures, and I can't vouch for the accuracy of this, but...
Ed in Laguna replied:
Glenn Beck
MAM wrote:
Glen Beck . . . last Friday King called him "an "urban nut cake, a crazy person". I just can't put Glen Beck's picture on this site, so have used Stephen King's instead.
Stephen King
And, Joe S answered:
Glen Beck, professional Asshat
"O-L-I-G-A-R-H-Y."
--Misspelling "oligarchy" on his chalk board while claiming he had deciphered a secret code that he said was proof President Obama was trying to create an "Oligarhy," Aug. 27, 2009
"I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, 'Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore,' and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, 'Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death.' And you know, well, I'm not sure."
--Responding to the question "What would people do for $50 million?", May 17, 2005
Why isn't this sonovabitch in jail?
Another lovely, but very unseasonal, marine layer.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'The Good Wife'.
On a RERUNDave (from 7/22/10) are Joan Rivers and Steve Winwood.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are David Duchovny and Dave Barry.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Minute To Win It', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Anna Kendrick, Eli Roth, and Meat Loaf.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Dylan McDermott, Perez Hilton, and Slayer.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/2/10) are Greta Gerwig, Lance Briggs, and Surfer Blood.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Shaq Vs.', then 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Sofia Vergara, Gordon Ramsay, and Christian Scott.
The CW offers a RERUN'Plain Jane', followed by '18 To LIfe', and another '18 To Life'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader', followed by another old 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader', then an old 'Deal Or No Deal', followed by another old 'Deal Or No Deal'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', still another 'Gene Simmons', yet another 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH'Growing Up Twisted', and another 'Growing Up Twisted'.
AMC offers the movie 'Michael Clayton', followed by the movie 'Assassins', then the movie 'Fallen'.
BBC -
[11:00 AM] Primeval - Episode 7
[12:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 8
[1:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 9
[2:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 10
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 11 Cafe 36
[4:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Chris Rock, Joshua Jackson, Diana Vickers
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (2005)
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 19 Captain's Holiday
[9:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 3
[10:00 PM] Demons - Episode 6
[11:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 19 Captain's Holiday
[12:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 3
[1:00 AM] Demons - Episode 6
[2:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 3
[3:00 AM] Demons - Episode 6
[4:00 AM] BBC World News
[4:30 AM] BBC World News
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Flipping Out', another 'Flipping Out', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Out', then a FRESH'The Rachel Zoe Project'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Jason Bateman.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Dylan Ratigan.
FX has the movie 'Click', followed by the movie 'The Rundown', then a FRESH'Rescue Me'.
History has 'MonsterQuest', another 'MonsterQuest', still another 'MonsterQuest', and 'Top Shot'.
IFC -
[12:00AM] Sherrybaby
[1:40AM] La Perra
[2:00AM] The Three Stooges
[2:20AM] The Three Stooges
[2:30AM] Speed Grapher
[3:00AM] Choose Me
[5:05AM] Benny & Joon
[6:45AM] Girl With a Pearl Earring
[8:30AM] Benny & Joon
[10:15AM] The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
[12:00PM] Harlan County, U.S.A.
[1:45PM] Che
[4:05PM] Che
[6:30PM] The Good German
[8:25PM] Mad Max
[10:00PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[10:30PM] The IT Crowd
[11:00PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:30PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[7:00 AM] Manufactured Landscapes
[8:30 AM] The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes
[10:15 AM] LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD - Michael Buble, Temper Trap, Little Boots (Episode 12, Season 3)
[11:15 AM] I Love Your Work
[1:15 PM] Manufactured Landscapes
[2:45 PM] Toyland
[3:00 PM] The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes
[4:45 PM] I Love Your Work
[6:45 PM] One Last Thing
[8:30 PM] Approaching Union Square
[10:00 PM] Police, Adjective
[12:00 AM] Nick Nolte: No Exit
[1:15 AM] Approaching Union Square
[2:45 AM] Police, Adjective
[4:45 AM] Nick Nolte: No Exit
[6:00 AM] The Secret Of The Grain (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Warehouse 13', another 'Warehouse 13', followed by a FRESHWarehouse 13', then a FRESH'WWE NXT'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Anna Paquin, Randy "The Viper" Orton, and R-Truth.
Actresses Sandra Bullock, left, and Betty White dance on stage at the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 in Universal City, Calif.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Mankind's only chance of long-term survival lies in colonising space, as humans drain Earth of resources and face a terrifying array of new threats, warned British scientist Stephen Hawking on Monday.
"The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet," the renowned astrophysicist told the website Big Think, a forum which airs ideas on many subjects from experts.
"Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space," he added.
He warned that the human race was likely to face an increased number of events that threaten its very existence, as the Cuban missile crisis did in 1962.
A frame grab shows actress Mia Farrow testifying at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor at the U.N. Special Court for SierraLeone in Leidschendam August 9, 2010. Farrow told the court on Monday that she had heard supermodel Naomi Campbell say that she had been given a "huge diamond" by Taylor when he was Liberia's president.
Mean machines and burly bikers didn't draw Amanda White to the world's largest motorcycle rally. She had her sights set on a bow-tied nerd in an ill-fitting grey plaid suit: Pee-wee Herman.
Actor Paul Reubens is reintroducing Pee-wee - his alter ego and 1980s cult character - to fans at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, which is expected to draw more than 500,000 people this week.
"I call it my Pee-wee pilgrimage," said White, a 29-year-old Minneapolis school teacher who drove 10 hours to the rally and had Reubens autograph her bicycle seat. "I'm a huge Pee-wee fan."
White is not alone. Plenty of Pee-wee fans have flocked to the Buffalo Chip campground outside Sturgis to see Reubens' character perform at a venue also hosting Ozzy Osbourne, Kid Rock, ZZ Top and Bob Dylan.
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres' spouse Portia de Rossi has filed a legal request to change her name to "Portia Lee James DeGeneres," according to a court document.
The request was filed on August 6 in Los Angeles, but the document, which was posted on the Internet by E! Online, shows that de Rossi signed it in late March.
The couple were married in California in August 2008, during a time when same-sex marriage licenses were being issued. A subsequent law passed by California voters banned gay marriage in the state, but just last week, a federal judge in California declared that ban unconstitutional. The judge's decision is being appealed in a higher court.
De Rossi, who has starred in TV shows such as "Nip/Tuck" and "Arrested Development," previously changed her name, at age 15, from Amanda Lee Rogers to her current De Rossi.
Former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson will be a contestant on the reality television show "Survivor" this season.
CBS announced Monday the 67-year-old Johnson will be one of 20 castaways sent to Nicaragua. The premiere will air Sept. 15.
Johnson will be part of a team of 10 contestants over the age of 40 who will compete against a group aged 30 and under.
Johnson won a college national championship at the University of Miami, then won two Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys. He also coached the Miami Dolphins. Johnson is now an NFL commentator for Fox.
Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the actress has developed an infection that will keep the 93-year-old hospitalized indefinitely as she recovers from a broken hip.
Doctors had hoped to release Gabor on Monday, but Gabor's publicist John Blanchette says an infection changed those plans. He had no further details.
Gabor has been hospitalized at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center since she broke her hip July 17 while trying to get into her wheelchair. The Hungarian-born actress' condition began to deteriorate after hip-replacement surgery days later.
Verizon Communications Inc and Google Inc on Monday proposed principles for policing Web traffic, but stopped short of saying they should apply to wireless devices.
The proposal came after the Federal Communications Commission failed to broker an agreement among Internet service providers and Web companies on "net neutrality."
Net neutrality is a term that means high-speed Internet providers should not block or slow information or charge Web sites to pay for a fast lane to reach users more quickly.
Google's and Verizon's chief executives said on a call with reporters that the proposal does not represent a business arrangement between them, and that they hope the proposal could be used as a model for possible congressional legislation.
This undated image released by Julien's Auctions shows a black lace and satin underwire bra, size 36C, from the estate of Marilyn Monroe. This item ispart of Julien's Auctions 'Legends' scheduled to take place Saturday Oct. 9, 2010, in Macau, China.
Levi Johnston's manager Tank Jones confirms a report in Variety magazine that Johnston is planning to run for city office in his hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, as part of a TV reality show.
Wasilla is where Sarah Palin (R-Quitter) got her start in politics, moving up from City Council to mayor before winning election as Alaska's governor in 2006.
Jones says Johnston is serious about a run, either for mayor or City Council.
Asked whether he believes people will take the run seriously, with TV cameras rolling, Jones said: "People questioned Jesus Christ, so I definitely don't care about these mere mortals questioning Levi Johnston."
Lawyers for Casey Affleck and one of the women suing him for sexual harassment during the shoot of his Joaquin Phoenix documentary have filed court papers extending a key deadline in the case by a month. Could that mean the parties are talking settlement?
Affleck attorney Marty Singer said Friday that no settlement negotiations are under way. And Brian Procel, the lawyer who represents producer Amanda White and cinematographer Magdalena Gorka, declined to comment.
But White, the first to sue Affleck for $2 million on July 23, was scheduled to submit her opposition brief on Monday to Affleck's motion to move the case from Los Angeles Superior Court to private arbitration. That deadline has now been pushed back a month to September 9. No reason was given in the stipulation.
Extensions in heated litigation are often negotiated to provide time to work out differences and settle a case. But just as often, attorneys seek extra time merely because they need it to prepare a brief.
Boys stroll on the beach with the backdrop of the 8-meter (26 foot 3 inch)-tall 'Hello Kitty' balloon floating in the waters together with other popularcharacter-featured balls in Tokyo, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. A summer event kicks off to raise fund for a tree-planting campaign in Tokyo, supported by Japan's gift and mascot products maker Sanrio Co., which produces Hello Kitty.
Photo by Junji Kurokawa
John Lennon's killer will seek his freedom this week for a sixth time.
A parole hearing for Mark David Chapman, 55, is scheduled at Attica Correctional Facility, the upstate New York prison where he has been held for nearly 30 years.
Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, said last week she continues to oppose Chapman's release because he remains a potential threat.
Chapman has been denied parole five times, appearing before the board every two years since 2000. His next interview could take place as early as Tuesday, Division of Parole spokesman Marc Violette said. He could not be more specific, he said, because Chapman is one of dozens of parolees with interviews scheduled for this week and it is unknown when the two-member panel will get to his.
A former British army captain became on Monday the first known person to walk from the origin of the Amazon river to its mouth, after enduring "50,000" mosquito bites, attacks by hostile Indians and tropical disease in his nearly 2-1/2 year odyssey.
Ed Stafford, a 34-year-old from Leicestershire, England, dived into the Atlantic Ocean after taking 859 days to walk the length of the world's second-longest river, starting at the peak of Mount Mismi in Peru in April 2008.
"It's just phenomenal to be here at the end of the journey after 2-1/2 years slogging our way through the jungle," he told Reuters after arriving at the beach about 90 miles (150 km) northeast of the Brazilian city of Belem.
Stafford briefly collapsed from exhaustion with only 52 miles (85 km) of the 6,000-mile (9,650 km) journey to go, passing out by the roadside after breaking out in a rash.
Fernando Dudka (L) and Masha Terentieva, acrobats from 'Soap, The Show', pose for photographers over a bathtub during a media viewing for theirperformances in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland August 9, 2010.
Photo by David Moir
Police have arrested a pastor in Georgia for protesting outside a high school against its demon mascot.
Police spokeswoman Tabitha Pugh said 36-year-old Donald Crosby was arrested Monday in the central Georgia city of Warner Robins.
Crosby and supporters picked the opening day of classes to protest against the pitchfork-wielding mascot. Crosby, of Kingdom Builders Church of Jesus Christ, says his son attends the school and he doesn't want him exposed to the name's devilish connotations.
School officials say the mascot honors a World War II fighter squadron nicknamed the "Screamin' Demons."
The owner of an Ohio strip club and some of his dancers have been protesting at a church that has done the same to them for four years. Women in bikinis sat in camp chairs Sunday outside the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw, about 60 miles northeast of Columbus.
Tommy George owns the Foxhole strip club in nearby Newcastle. He says he and his employees decided to start coming to the church because they were fed up.
George says the church's pastor, Bill Dunfee, and his congregation have bothered the club's weekend patrons. He says they come armed with bullhorns, signs and video cameras for posting customers' license plate numbers online.
Dunfee calls George a "parasite" and says seeing the protesters outside the church has strengthened the resolve of his flock.
British jazz drummer Jack Parnell, who served as bandleader on "The Muppet Show," has died aged 87, his family said Monday.
Parnell was born in 1923, the son of a showbiz family - his father was a music hall performer and his uncle ran a string of theaters - and began drumming professionally as a teenager. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force and performed in a band at the headquarters of Bomber Command.
Later, Parnell joined the renowned Ted Heath jazz band before leading his own ensembles.
In 1976, ATV began producing "The Muppet Show," a musical variety show with a cast of Jim Henson puppets and celebrity human guest stars.
Parnell conducted the orchestra for the whole of the series' five-year run, although the ostensible bandleader was the pop-eyed Muppet conductor, Nigel.
Parnell retired from ATV in 1982 but continued to perform with bands near his home well into his 80s.
He is survived by his wife, Veronica, two daughters and three sons - two of them drummers.
A month-old Pygmy Hippopotamus calf known as "Kambiri" stands under her mother "Petre" as they explore their enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney August 5, 2010. Zoo officials say Kambiri is the first Pygmy Hippo calf reared at the zoo in 20 years.
Photo by Tim Wimborne
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