Joe Bob Briggs: It's Not Your Grandfather's Party Doll (Taki's Magazine)
So we have all these guys who believe that (a) all women are gold-digging whores, (b) they won't sleep with me because I'm ugly, and (c) I want one of the gold-digging whores to be my girlfriend forever. I don't think I'm exaggerating the twisted logic to say that all three parts of this are true, and I would even add a fourth one: (d) women I consider ugly-in other words, female incels-are not welcome. Then there's another layer of emotion underneath all this, and it goes something like this: "That guy the beautiful girl is dating"-they call them Chads-"that Chad the beautiful girl is dating is an obnoxious creep, and she should dump him and love me because I would treat her better."
Andrew Tobias: Tony Blair on Brexit
I would argue that Putin - definitely not Jesus - is winning. Among his goals: destabilizing our democracy, weakening NATO, weakening the European Union, weakening the U.K. He's making big progress on all those fronts.
Matthew Dessen: Ric Ocasek, Lead Singer for The Cars, Dead at 75 (Slate)
Ric Ocasek, the lead singer for legendary new wave band The Cars, died Sunday afternoon at the age of 75, New York's WNBC reports. Police, responding to a report of an unconscious male at a Manhattan townhouse, pronounced Ocasek dead at the scene. No cause of death has been announced.
Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory in Greek mythology. "Mnemosyne" is derived from the same source as the word mnemonic, that being the Greek word mneme, which means "remembrance, memory".
Mnemosyne is the mother of the nine Muses.
A Titanide, or Titaness, Mnemosyne was the daughter of the Titans Uranus and Gaia. Mnemosyne was the mother of the nine Muses, fathered by her nephew, Zeus:
Dave wrote:
The Younger Muses. Mnemosyne was a Titan goddess, but unlike the male Titans who were banished to the underworld by the revolt of the Olympian gods, the female Titans were not involved in opposing the Olympians and were left alone. Zeus had a habit of seducing both goddesses and mortals, so Zeus took the from of a mortal shepherd, had his way with his aunt Mnemosyne, and she bore him nine daughters.
Alan J answered:
The Muses.
Jon L replied:
We're they the Furies?
zorch responded:
Collectively they are the Nine Muses.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
She is the mother of the Muses
Deborah responded:
Was it The Muses?
Cool, overcast, even a few sprinkles. I'm so ready for this.
mj replied:
Nine beauties
Inspiring the humanities, the Muses.
Daniel in The City said:
The Muses
DJ Useo wrote:
Calliope, Thalia, Terpsichore, Ourania, Clio, Erato, Melpomeni, Polymnia, & Euterpe were known as "The Nine Muses".
I bet they got some killer harmony going on back then. ;)
Yeah, I notice a lot of net interference with all my politics reading in general.
This page, or at least the pictures regularly load blank for me, although on my mac the reload function brings it back.
I've been noticing lots of dirty tricks posting all over the place, just like the last presidential "election".
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, answered:
The Muses.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The daughters of Mnemosyne, fathered by Zeus, are known as the Nine Muses.
Cal in Vermont responded:
The (Nine) Muses who had to do with the various Arts. Without them there would be no rock and roll. Or country music which Ken Burns will soon examine for us all. There would only be the watching of paint dry for inspiration and excitement. So even country music is better than that.
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• The Dutch band the Ex makes odd music. They chose their name because it could be easily written on walls, and they drew straws to determine which band member would play which instrument. In 1983, they made four 7-inch singles about a closed factory in the area where the band formed: the Amsterdam suburb of Wormer. The band does have a sense of humor: For a year, it ran a 7-inch singles club, but the last single they sent out was 12 inches, so it would not fit in the box that held the 7-inch singles. The band is also capable of doing good deeds: It toured Ethiopia, giving free concerts in places where hardly any musicians, including Ethiopian musicians, went. The band members took along amplifiers and generators, but they left them behind for Ethiopian musicians to use. In addition, they gave away many free cassette tapes. Guitarist Andy Moor says, "Everyone still uses cassettes there. We went back to pressing up cassettes, giving them out to taxi drivers all over the place. So at least theyknow what we sound like."
• Music photographer Jim Marshall could be abrasive, but he had many, many friends. In 1983, Steve Goodman was playing with Johnny Cash in Eugene, Oregon. Mr. Goodman, who is famous for writing the song "The City of New Orleans," a hit sung by Arlo Guthrie, was suffering from leukemia, had lost his hair, and knew that he had little time left to live. Mr. Marshall avoided photographing his friend because of his lack of hair, figuring that his friend would not want his photograph taken, but after the concert, Mr. Goodman said to him, "Hey, Jimmy, I know that you're not taking pictures of me because of the way I look, but it's OK, man. I'd like to be in your book someday." Mr. Marshall promised him that he would be in the book, and a photograph that Mr. Marshall took appears in his first major book, Not Fade Away: The Rock & Roll Photography of Jim Marshall. Mr. Marshall writes about Mr. Goodman, "He was one of the real good guys and a good friend."
• Taylor Swift learned how to play a 12-string guitar in part because of a bad deed and a good deed - and because of her own desire and determination. Here she explains the bad deed: "I actually learned [to play guitar] on a 12-string because some guy told me that I would never be able to play it, that my fingers were too small. Anytime somebody tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more." A good deed helped her learn how to play. She explains that a computer repairman at her house helped her get started: "In this magical twist of fate, the guy who my parents had hired to come fix my computer [taught me]. I'm doing my homework and he looks round and sees the guitar in the corner and he looks [at me] and says, 'Do you know how to play guitar?' I was like, 'Ah, no.' He said, 'Do you want me to teach you a few chords?' After that, I was relentless. I wanted to play all the time."
• Pianist Van Cliburn, who did not smoke or drink, did many good deeds in his life, including many before he became wealthy. Once, when his life savings amounted to a little more than $1,000, he donated that money to help buy a much-needed piano for the church he attended in New York City. He also gave up a $500 engagement - when $500 was a small fortune to him - to perform for free at a church banquet. After visiting Russia, he carried back to the United States a lilac bush that a Russian fan of Sergei Rachmaninoff had asked him to plant at the head of Rachmaninoff's grave in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.
• For many years, Doc Severinsen and his band provided the house music for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Mr. Carson stood up for his band. On one show Ray Charles performed, and on air he yelled to the drummer of Doc's band, "Pick up the pace!" After the show was over, Mr. Carson went to Mr. Charles' dressing room and said, "Ray, there's a drummer in Doc's band who needs an apology." Mr. Charles, a man of class, agreed that he had behaved unprofessionally: He apologized to the entire band.
• When opera singer Helen Traubel's aunt and uncle suffered severe financial losses, she used to put $10 on her uncle's dresser each day - unasked - so he wouldn't be embarrassed by asking her for money.
Took the computer into the shop hoping they'd be able to fix it today.
Silly me.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinlad, and Susan Olsen.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Angela Bassett and Jim Gaffigan.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Bring The Funny'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Sarah Paulson, Michelle Dockery, and the Lumineers.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are John Goodman, Michael C. Hall, Midland, and Yesod Williams.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Kenan Thompson.
ABC fills the night with FRESH'Bachelor In Paradise'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Chance the Rapper and Sen. Cory Booker.
The CW offers a FRESH'Pandora', followed by a FRESH'Mysteries Decoded'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Resident', followed by a RERUN'9-1-1'.
MY reycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48: Dog Days', then a FRESH'Digital Addiction', followed by a FRESH'60 Days In: Narcoland'.
AMC offers 3 hours of old '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Contagion'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 19-Rise
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 20-Favorite Son
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 21-Before and After
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 22-Real Life
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 23-Distant Origin
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 24-Displaced
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 25-Worst Case Scenario
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 26-Scorpion, Pt. 1
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-Scorpion, Pt. 2
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 2-The Gift
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 3-Day of Honor
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 4-Nemesis
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 5-Revulsion
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 6-The Raven
[8:00PM] ESCAPE PLAN (2013)
[10:30PM] ESCAPE PLAN (2013)
[1:00AM] ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012) -
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 1-The Woman Who Fell to Earth (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Flipping Exes', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has old 'The Office', another old 'The Office', and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Alec Baldwin', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Jim Jefferies Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show are Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Brad Williams, Jen Kirkman, and Rob Schneider.
FX has the movie 'World War Z', followed by the movie 'The Mummy', the a FRESH'Mayans MC'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Up in Daisy's Penthouse
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Three Lone Wolves
[6:40A] The Three Stooges - Three Pests in a Mess
[7:05A] The Three Stooges - Three Smart Saps
[7:30A] Silent House
[9:30A] Mama
[11:45A] The Mist
[2:30P] Into the Storm
[4:30P] Pulp Fiction
[8:00P] The Shawshank Redemption
[11:00P] The Shawshank Redemption
[2:00A] Pulp Fiction
[5:30A] Sherman's Showcase - Ray J's Showcase (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] Days of Thunder
[10:30am] Alien
[1:00pm] Aliens
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Sleepwalkers
[3:00am] Alien 3
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Red', followed by the movie 'Red 2'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Seann William Scott and Jena Friedman.
"Saturday Night Live" is officially cutting ties with Shane Gillis.
"After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining 'SNL,'" an "SNL" spokesperson on behalf of Lorne Michaels said in a statement. "We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as comedian and his impressive audition for SNL. We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days. The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard."
Gillis posted his own statement on Twitter regarding NBC's decision on Monday. It reads, "It feels ridiculous for comedians to be making serious public statements but here we are. I'm a comedian who was funny enough to get SNL. That can't be taken away. Of course I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction. I respect the decision they made. I'm honestly grateful for the opportunity. I was always a mad tv [sic] guy anyway."
Gillis was one of three new cast members announced last week for the long-running NBC sketch comedy show's upcoming 45th season. But shortly thereafter, clips began circulating from Gillis' podcasts and other media in which he repeatedly used racist, homophobic, and misogynistic language. In a widely-shared clip from "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast," Gillis and co-host Matt McClusker are discussing New York's Chinatown when Gillis says, "Let the f-ing ch-nks live there." He later recalls a restaurant being "full of f-ing Chinee [sic] in there."
In a new interview with French newspaper Journal du Dimanche, the Ad Astra actor - who also owns a French vineyard with ex Angelina Jolie - was asked his feelings about a tariff Trump has publicly considered imposing on French wine.
"I do not know," Pitt said, noting that he didn't "know enough" about the issue. "I think we will always drink rosé in the United States," he said, adding that ultimately, whether or not Trump does impose tariffs on French wine, there are much bigger issues at stake.
"Unfortunately, it's almost anecdotal. Trump represents a much bigger threat on such more serious issues," he said.
"Man, I never thought that [Brexit] would happen. Same way I can't bring myself to think that Trump will be in charge. In the simplest terms, what brings us together is good, and what separates us is bad," he said in a 2016 interview with the New York Times magazine, T.
"Most Americans don't have time to watch CNN, Fox and Al Jazeera," he added. "They're trying to make the rent, get the kids fed, they're tired when they get home and they want to forget about everything. And so suddenly when this voice comes in - and it doesn't have to be a voice of substance - saying he's fed up with all of this, that's the part that hooks into the DNA."
Dan Aykroyd is suiting up to return to the most iconic franchise of his career.
The actor, 67, recently confirmed he'll star in Jason Reitman's anticipated Ghostbusters sequel, which will serve as a follow-up to the 1984 original, directed by his father Ivan Reitman.
Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience, Aykroyd said: "Ivan Reitman's son Jason has written a new movie, called - well, it's gonna be Ghostbusters, the third movie.
"It'll be all or most of the original people. And then young stars […] It's gonna be great. I'm so excited about it, and it's just wonderful to be able to [go] back and revisit that. I don't do the pictures anymore much, and I'm in that one."
Sigourney Weaver previously shared she would also be appearing, and teased the return of Bill Murray.
Christie Brinkley will not be making her Dancing With the Stars debut Monday night after all.
Just hours after sharing a photo of herself in costume and saying she was "so excited" for the premiere, it was announced that the 65-year-old supermodel had broken her arm during rehearsal and won't be competing. However, she tapped one of her daughters, model Sailor Brinkley Cook, to replace her on the ABC competition show at the eleventh hour.
The announcement was made on Monday's Good Morning America - and confirmed soon after in a post on Brinkley's Instagram. She "shattered" her arm on Thursday and has already undergone surgery - requiring a plate and screws - to repair both her arm and wrist. She's currently recovering.
Brinkley said she broke her "arm into a 1000 pieces" and called the accident a "crushing disappointment" as "I was having a blast."
While it was a "disappointing turn of events," Brinkley said that something "very special" has come out of it by having her younger daughter replace her. She said that Brinkley Cook - a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model and student - has had to overcome "stage fright" over the last few days, so it's been a personal accomplishment for her. (Brinkley said her older daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, a singer, wouldn't have been able to replace her due to work commitments.)
The Trump administration scrapped three border wall projects that it said it intended to build using money found from cost savings in constructing other portions of the barrier along the southern border.
In a court filing Friday, the administration said it had determined the savings weren't sufficient to pay for the additional 20 miles (32 kilometers) of wall in Arizona and California.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court in July allowed the administration to start using disputed Pentagon funds to construct more than 100 miles of fencing along the border, letting the president take his biggest step yet toward erecting his long-promised wall.
The case is Center for Biological Diversity v. Trump, 19-cv-408, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).
Thousands of Indonesian firefighters are locked in an around-the-clock game of Whack-a-Mole as they battle to extinguish an invisible enemy -- underground fires that aggravate global warming.
Vast blazes are ripping across the archipelago's rainforests, unleashing a toxic haze over Southeast Asia that has triggered health fears and sent diplomatic tensions with Indonesia's neighbours soaring.
Jakarta deployed more than 9,000 personnel to battle fires turning land into charred landscapes and consuming forests in hard-hit Sumatra and Borneo island.
But many of the blazes smoulder deep underground in once-swampy areas known as peatlands, where they can last for months and release eye-watering amounts of thick, acrid smoke.
Some of the most serious fires happen in carbon-rich peatlands -- topped with layers of decomposed plant material several metres thick -- which become highly combustible when they're drained of water to be converted into plantations.
An undergraduate student has discovered a secret message in John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost."
The hidden message is an acrostic, meaning a missive spelled out by the first letters in each line of the poem. It reads "FFAALL" and "FALL" - an appropriate triple-use of the word "fall," as the poem's subject is the Biblical story of the decline of Satan, as well as the banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
Milton published "Paradise Lost" in 1667 in 10 books; a follow-up edition was released in 1674 in 12 books. The newly discovered acrostic appears in book 9 of 12, in lines that describe a debate between Eve and Adam over whether they should stick together in the face of Satan's temptations or split up to face the devil's snares separately.
Acrostics aren't unusual in epic poetry. Milton - who was blind when he authored most of the poem via dictation - also spells out "SATAN" in Book 9, in a verse describing the serpent who approaches Eve in the Garden of Eden and tempts her to taste fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Milton pulled this technique from other epic poets such as Virgil, who used an acrostic to spell out "MARS" in a verse of "The Aeneid" in which the god of war is poised to act. His method was overlooked for many years, Milton's SATAN acrostic wasn't discovered until 1977.
The new acrostic was found by Miranda Phaal, a Tufts University senior. In August, Phaal published an article about her discovery in the journal Milton Quarterly.
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