'Best of TBH Politoons'
PURPLE GENE'S WEIRD WORD OF THE WEEK
CATAGLOTTIST
"CATAGLOTTIST"
ON LINE DEFINITION: Deep kissing with the tongue...etc.
ON THE STREET: French kissing "Deep Throat" style.
IN A SENTENCE: Linda Lovelace ("Deep Throat") and Tom Cruise (Top Gun") are notorious "Catoglottists"
(Read BartCop Entertainment and learn a useless new word each Tuesday)
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Barbara Ehrenreich: Children Deserve Veterinary Care Too (Barbaraehrenreich.com; Posted on AlterNet.org)
If Bush vetoes the SCHIP bill that would expand state health insurance coverage for children, the fallback demand should be: Open up pet health insurance to all American children now!
Jim Hightower: REBRANDING BUSH'S WAR (jimhightower.com)
When corporations get caught doing something nasty, they don't really reform - they simply "rebrand." This involves hiring a bevy of PR consultants to paper over the mess with a new, fuzzy-feeling corporate image.
Marc D. Allan: With God on Their Side? (NUVO; Postaed on altweeklies.com)
Fundamentalist Muslims aren't the only ones who believe they have God on their side -- there are factions of Jews and Christians who do too. Christiane Amanpour talks to representatives of those three religions in her special report called God's Warriors.
Peter Hogan: All Tomorrow's Parties: The Warhol Years 1965-1967, Part One (popmatters.com )
In the first of two exclusive PopMatters book excerpts from The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground, Hogan details the energizing effect that meeting Andy Warhol had on the Velvet Underground's career.
How to lose the booze (guardian.co.uk)
Wines have been getting stronger over the past decade. But drinkers now want something with less punch. Victoria Moore reports on the trend for relatively low-alcohol wines.
Germaine Greer: Making pictures from strips of cloth isn't art at all - but it mocks art's pretentions to the core (guardian.co.uk)
The work of art is supposed to defy time but fabric is bound to fade and rot, even when it is kept in between layers of tissue paper and shut away from sight.
Roger Ebert: Defending Ingmar Bergman
I have long known and admired the Chicago Reader's film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum, but his New York Times op-ed attack on Ingmar Bergman ("Scenes from an Overrated Career," 8/4/07) is a bizarre departure from his usual sanity.
JONATHAN RIGGS: Miami Heat (frontierspublishing.com)
It all started, as so many things do, with a nude portrait of Bea Arthur. Searching eBay for Golden Girls DVDs, Lenora Claire came across an oil painting of the indomitable Bea in a flowy blue dress, baring her lovely, liver-spotted Arthurs.
Review of "Small Town Gay Bar" (afterelton.com)
Malcolm Ingram's acclaimed documentary provides a platform for rarely-heard queer voice.
Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire (youtube.com)
Kids on Ramones! (youtube.com)
This is what happens when you let kids listen to The Ramones!
Reader Suggestion
Double-Nosed Dog
A dog's dream come true, he can sniff TWO butts at one time
Reader Comment
RE: Vatican's Best Films
I clicked on your link and what do my wondering eyes behold but "The
Gospel According to St. Matthew" by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Not wanting to jump to conclusions I did some googling because back in
1975 0r 76 I had seen an Italian film with the same title.
When I saw the movie it was sub-titled "A Marxist Interpretation".
Amazing that the number one religious film in the Vatican's list is by
an atheist about a Jesus who rebelled against an authoritarian religion
which most Italian communists would have associated with the Vatican.
Irony never dies.
Buzzcook
Thanks, Buzzie!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Stinking hot.
Olympic Torch Genocide Tour
Darfur Campaign
Actress Mia Farrow and fellow campaigners have begun an Olympic-style torch relay through countries that have suffered genocide to press China to help end abuses in the Darfur region of its ally Sudan.
Farrow, a goodwill ambassador for U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF and outspoken critic of abuses in western Sudan, lit a torch just across the border in Chad almost exactly a year before the Beijing Olympics are due to open on August 8, 2008.
"This flame represents and honors all those who have been lost, and all those who still suffer," said Farrow as she held the symbolic torch in Oure Cassoni refugee camp, 3 miles from Chad's border with Sudan.
"This flame celebrates the courage of those who survived and represents the hope we all share for an end to the violence, and a safe return home," she said.
Darfur Campaign
Named American Music Legend
Fats Domino
Reproductions of 20 of Fats Domino's gold records lost or destroyed during Hurricane Katrina were presented to the 79-year-old Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer at a French Quarter nightclub Monday.
Domino was all smiles, saying repeatedly "thank you, thank you" to a crowd of about 100 friends and family. Also present were some of the city's most noted musicians, including Irma Thomas, Charmaine Neville and guitarist and singer Deacon John.
Among the gold-plated records Domino lost when Katrina flooded his 9th Ward home two summers ago were "Going to the River," "Blue Monday," "Valley of Tears," "Blueberry Hill," "Whole Lotta Loving" and "I Want to Walk You Home."
Domino also was recognized Monday by the Recording Industry Association of America with its "American Music Legend" award, making him only the second artist to receive the honor - the first being Johnny Cash about a decade ago.
Fats Domino
Hacked With Anti-War Post
U.N. Web Site
Computer hackers posted an anti-war message on the U.N.'s official Web site, claiming that U.S. and Israeli policies in the Middle East were taking innocent lives, the United Nations said.
The first attack on a U.N. Web page reserved for statements from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon occurred at about 9 a.m. Sunday morning, U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said. The Web site of the U.N. Department of Public Information was then attacked as was the U.N. Cyberschoolbus site for teachers and students and the U.N. Economic and Social Council's site.
"We are very concerned that this happened," Montas said. "It lasted a few minutes, but we managed to get them off and change that. We also had to change our archives and rebuild the whole site."
The hackers, who identified themselves as kerem125, MOsted, and Gsy, left a message criticizing U.S. and Israeli policy in the Middle East and saying "Peace for ever No war."
U.N. Web Site
New Stamp Honors Pride Of Indiana, PA
Jimmy Stewart
A stamp honoring Jimmy Stewart will be released Friday by the U.S. Postal Service at ceremonies in Indiana, Pa., and Hollywood, Calif.
The photo on the stamp is based on a portrait of Stewart as he appeared in a publicity photo for 1949's "The Stratton Story."
Stewart, who died in 1997, starred in more than 80 movies including "It's a Wonderful Life," "Rear Window" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." He won an Oscar in 1941 for "The Philadelphia Story."
The Pennsylvania ceremony will be held at the Jimmy Stewart Museum in Indiana, the actor's hometown. The other will be held at Universal Studios in Hollywood.
Jimmy Stewart
Reports On Vote-Count Fiascos
Dan Rather
With the 2008 election season heating up, familiar scapegoats continue to take the hit for past hang-ups at the polls. Those include bad graphic design (Florida's confusing "butterfly ballot" in 2000) and software glitches in certain voting machines.
But this week's edition of "Dan Rather Reports" explores other culprits: the very paper from which punch-card ballots were made, and glaring shortcuts in how certain touch-screen voting machines were produced.
"Our story is not that the election would have turned out differently in 2000 if certain things hadn't happened. No one can know that," Rather said Monday. But his eight-month investigation has "dug down vertically as deep as we were capable of doing" to probe the brewing problems - including on-camera interviews with workers who had a front-row seat.
The hourlong news program premieres Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT on cable's HDNet channel, with subsequent re-airings and streaming online video.
Dan Rather
Finds New Cable TV Outlet
Miss America
Barely five months after she was jilted, Miss America is hooking up with a new cable TV outlet.
TLC, best known for reality shows such as "Trading Spaces" and "What Not to Wear," has agreed to air the pageant for the next three years.
As part of the deal, TLC, which is owned by Discovery Communications, announced a reality show about Miss America, culminating with the finals on Jan. 26 in Las Vegas.
Two years ago, the pageant lost its broadcast deal with ABC and ran off to Las Vegas. In 2006 and this year, the pageant was telecast on Country Music Television. But in March, the Nashville-based cable channel dumped the competition even though it had broadcast rights until 2011.
Miss America
The Pride Of Coudersport, PA
Rigas Family
John and Timothy Rigas lived a high life on the tab of Adelphia Communications: more than a dozen company cars, a hundred pairs of bedroom slippers for Tim and thousands of acres of timberland bought only to preserve the view outside John's Pennsylvania home.
The price for looting one of the nation's largest cable television companies is: Years at a low-security federal prison in North Carolina, living hundred of miles from home in a dormitory, working seven hours a day in the prison kitchen, warehouse or outside as a groundskeeper.
After fighting one of the nation's largest corporate fraud cases, Adelphia founder John Rigas and his son Tim, the company's former chief financial officer, turned themselves in Monday at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex, located about 45 minutes northwest of Raleigh.
John Rigas, 82, was sentenced to 15 years and Timothy Rigas, 51, to 20 years for their role in the collapse of Adelphia. They were convicted in 2004 on multiple charges of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud.
Rigas Family
Book To Be Published
O.J. Simpson
A literary agent for the family of stabbing victim Ronald Goldman has made a deal to repackage and publish O.J. Simpson's canceled "If I Did It" book about the slayings of Goldman and Simpson's ex-wife, a spokesman for the agent said Monday.
Details of the agreement, including the name of the New York publishing house, will be released Tuesday, said Michael Wright, a spokesman for Los Angeles-based literary agent Sharlene Martin of Martin Literary Management.
"The family and publisher have pledged to leave Simpson's manuscript entirely intact, but they will also add key commentary," Wright said in a prepared statement. "The Goldmans, the publisher and Sharlene Martin will all contribute portions of sales proceeds to the Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice."
O.J. Simpson
Slaps Photographer
Brad Garrett
Brad Garrett, who stars in the Fox sitcom "'Til Death," is shown slapping away a camera in a video posted online Monday.
The camera belonged to a photographer working for TMZ.com, which posted the video, TMZ Managing Editor Harvey Levin said Monday.
The 47-year-old actor was leaving a restaurant Sunday night, according to TMZ, when he was surrounded by paparazzi. He's seen chatting amiably with them as he walks to his car, when one begins shouting insults.
He looks into the video camera of a TMZ photographer, says, "Excuse me," and slaps the lens.
Brad Garrett
Very Asymmetrical Face
Abraham Lincoln
Artists, sculptors and photographers knew Abraham Lincoln's face had a good side. Now it's confirmed by science.
Laser scans of two life masks, made from plaster casts of Lincoln's face, reveal the 16th president's unusual degree of facial asymmetry, according to a new study.
The left side of Lincoln's face was much smaller than the right, an aberration called cranial facial microsomia. The defect joins a long list of ailments - including smallpox, heart illness and depression - that modern doctors have diagnosed in Lincoln.
Lincoln's contemporaries noted his left eye at times drifted upward independently of his right eye, a condition now termed strabismus. Lincoln's smaller left eye socket may have displaced a muscle controlling vertical movement, said Dr. Ronald Fishman, who led the study published in the August issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.
Abraham Lincoln
Che's Daughter Becomes Argentine Citizen
Celia Guevara March
Celia Guevara March, the Cuban-born daughter of legendary communist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, became a citizen of Argentina, the daily Clarin newspaper reported Sunday.
Guevara, who was four years old when her Argentine-born father was killed in Bolivia in 1967, took her oath at the Argentine consulate in Havana, the daily said.
A veterinarian in charge of animal health at Havana's National Aquarium, Celia Guevara chose her father's nationality under an Argentine law that grants citizenship rights to children of Argentine nationals regardless of their place of birth.
Celia Guevara, who told Argentine officials that she has no plans to leave Cuba, began the nationalization process in January. The paperwork was approved and is on its way to Cuba, according to Clarin.
Celia Guevara March
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