Joe Bob Briggs: Travel by Luxury Donkey Cart (Taki's Magazine)
So thank you, David Lee Roth, for making personal-appearance riders a despised document, symbolic of entertainer excess. If I ever see you, I'm gonna fold you into a pretzel and stuff you into that little metal box with the sign that says "All carry-ons must fit in this space."
Greg Sargent: Defying White House, ambassador explains public service to a corrupt president (Washington Post)
"The harm will come when private interests circumvent professional diplomats for their own gain, not the public good. The harm will come when bad actors in countries beyond Ukraine see how easy it is to use fiction and innuendo to manipulate our system. In such circumstances, the only interests that will be served are those of our strategic adversaries, like Russia, that spread chaos and attack the institutions and norms that the U.S. helped create and which we have benefited from for the last 75 years." - Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine who testified Friday as part of the House's impeachment inquiry,
Alexandra Petri: You can't impeach the president! It's unconstitutional! (Washington Post Satire)
Meanwhile, Congress is acting like it has equal authority over the executive branch, as though that is in the Constitution somewhere, as though the Constitution provides for the legislative branch to act as a check or balance on the executive! MUST BE NEXT TO ALL THE PARTS ABOUT WITCHES AND KANGAROOS, HUH?
Jonathan Chait: The (Full) Case for Impeachment (NY Mag)
House Democrats have calculated that an impeachment focused narrowly on the Ukraine scandal will make the strongest legal case against President Trump. But that's not Trump's only impeachable offense. A full accounting would include a wide array of dangerous and authoritarian acts - 82, to be precise. His violations fall into seven broad categories of potentially impeachable misconduct that should be weighed, if not by the House, then at least by history.
The Basenji is a breed of hunting dog. It was bred from stock that originated in central Africa. Most of the major kennel clubs in the English-speaking world place the breed in the hound group-more specifically, in the sighthound type. The Fédération Cynologique Internationale places the breed in its group five (spitz and primitive types), and the United Kennel Club (US) places the breed in its Sighthound and pariah group.
The Basenji produces an unusual yodel-like sound (commonly called a "baroo"), due to its unusually shaped larynx. This trait also gives the Basenji the nickname "barkless dog".
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Basenji.
Randall wrote:
Basenji
We had a basenji when I was a kid in Shepherd, Montana . . .
his name was Bijou Master of the Rimrocks
I haven't thought about him in a long time
Mac Mac said:
Basenji
Alan J answered:
A Basenji.
Dave replied:
Basenji. I knew that because when I was a kid I heard about my Dad's uncle's dog. Uncle Court read that the Basenji breed didn't bark so, being kind of an idiot, he decided that was the ideal dog. They don't bark, but they are sight hounds with great speed, endless endurance, have a strong prey drive, are aloof like cats, and respond to boredom by chewing up the furniture. A Basenji must be trained by positive reinforcement only, and even when properly trained aren't very obedient. So, Uncle Court had to get rid of the dog after some period of time because it kept biting him and his wife.
mj responded:
An ancient breed
The basenji.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, wrote:
The Basenji doesn't bark. But it was probably a Dingo that ate your baby.
zorch said:
Basenji is the barkless dog.
Adam answered:
Basenji
I'm highly partial to dachshunds.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Basenji
Jon L responded:
Basenji, a hunting hound originating in Central Africa.
Deborah wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's the Basenji. I know a guy that has a pair of them; he lets them chase rabbits and run in open space; he says they have a lot of energy. I have not heard them "bark."
Rosemary in Columbus said:
Basenji
Daniel in The City answered:
Basenji
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Basenji
DJ Useo responded:
Basenji. My family had friends who bred doggies, so I'm familiar.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The Basengi from central Africa doesn't bark. "Don't worry, his cross between a chortle and a yodel is worse than his bite."
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BANDCAMP MUSIC YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER HEAR ON THE RADIO
Music: "Wanque Off Song" from the album WILD WOMEN NEVER DIE?.?.?.?THEY JUST DYE THEIR HAIR
Artist: Frightwig
Artist Location: San Francisco, California
Info:
Frightwig formed as an all-female American feminist punk band by Deanna Ashley and Mia Levin in San Francisco, California in 1982. After many line-up changes, Frightwig retired in 1994 to raise children and focus on other career paths. …
"When they first formed in 1982, Frightwig received a certain amount of attention for being female, including catcalls that made them feel it necessary to defend their "right" to be on stage with the men. On 'A Man's Gotta Do, What A Man's Gotta Do', Frightwig invited men onto the stage to strip as 'a sexist turnaround.' …
"Bands and performers who list Frightwig as influential include Hole, L7, Bikini Kill, and Faith No More."
- From Wikipedia
Price: $1 (USA) for song; $7 (USA) for album
If you are OK with paying for it, you can use PAYPAL or CREDIT CARD
• Al Capp, the creator of the comic strip Li'l Abner, was born in 1909 and lost his left leg in a trolley car accident when he was nine years old. At this time, replacements for lost legs were made of wood - since then, they have much improved. As an adult, Mr. Capp was able to joke about the loss of his leg. He told people with two legs that he was only half as likely as they to catch athlete's foot. He also pointed out that he saved money buying socks. He used to buy six pairs of socks at one time, nail one sock to his wooden leg, and take turns wearing the other 11 socks on his one remaining foot. And, of course, he was able to make millions of comic strip readers laugh with Li'l Abner.
• One of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's masterpieces is the painting Madam Charpentier and Her Children. He dined often with the Charpentier family and even called himself the Charpentiers' "artist-in-waiting." Once, he showed up to dine but had forgotten to wear a jacket, which was the conventional clothing of the time. So that Mr. Renoir would not feel embarrassed, Georges Charpentier had the other male guests take off their jackets.
• Artist Edna Hibel simply didn't care about clothing, preferring to wear her old, comfortable dresses. When she did buy a new dress, she let it hang in her closet for a year or two until she was used to it.
• Surrealist Salvador Dali once was invited to a party where everyone was to dress up in costumes representing their dreams - he attended dressed as a decomposing corpse.
Collections and Collectors
• Sergei Shchukin collected the paintings of Henri Matisse and other then-controversial artists such as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh when they were not popular. Even Mr. Shchukin had to take some time to get used to their new styles of painting. Mr. Shchukin visited Matisse's studio and liked a still life, but he told Matisse that he would have to take it and live with it for a number of days, "and if I can bear it and remain interested in it, I'll keep it." Other people could not bear the then-new styles of art. A visitor to Mr. Shchukin's house wrote - directly on a canvas by Monet! - some indignant words. Mr. Shchukin commissioned Matisse to create Dance II and Music for his house. After they had been created, Mr. Shchukin wrote Matisse, "I am beginning to enjoy looking at your panel the Dance, and as for Music, that will come in time." Mr. Shchukin was a champion of the controversial new art, and he - a stutterer - once showed a Gauguin he had bought to a visitor and said, "A ma-ma-madman painted it, and a ma-ma-madman bought it." However, Mr. Shchukin truly did appreciate this art. About Matisse's Moroccan Café, he wrote Matisse that he contemplated this painting - his favorite - not less than one hour each day.
• Wilson Mizner once married a rich society lady; unfortunately, she was tight with her money, and Mr. Mizner was very loose with money - his own and other people's. Their house was filled with Old World art masterpieces, which Mr. Mizner longed to convert into cash, but they were officially the property of New York City - a gift to New York from Mrs. Mizner's former husband. Therefore, knowing that many New Yorkers like a bargain, and knowing that many New Yorkers think that anything "hot" is a bargain, Mr. Mizner hired some impoverished artists to make copies of the paintings, then he opened an art studio on Fifth Avenue, and spread the word that bargains in Old World masterpieces could be had at the art studio, provided that you didn't mind that the masterpieces were stolen property. Mr. Mizner never actually told anyone that the paintings were the genuine article - he merely hinted in his actions, such as furtively looking out the window at regular intervals, that they were genuine Old World masterpieces.
• In her old age, Mrs. Georges Kars, the widow of a Jewish painter who committed suicide while the Nazis were occupying Paris, owned a valuable - both artistically and financially - art collection. Some people wondered what would happen to her art collection when or before she died, and an art dealer upset her one day by insensitively asking, "Well, Mrs. Kars, now that you will soon have to prepare yourself for the long, long journey, what are the plans for your collection?"
The embedded video clip here of Pompeo being interviewed by a Nashville reporter is a HOOT. Starts pleasant; gets ugly very quickly! I sure hope Pompeo never plays poker--it's so apparent when he's lying through his teeth. And his anger is seething to the point that someone asked the reporter if she felt safe or feared he might hit her:
The kittens favorite new toy is the shower curtain. Sigh.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 9/23/19) is Paul McCartney.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 9/9/19) are Sean Hayes, Kate Bosworth, and Charlotte Day Wilson.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us', then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 9/24/19) are Demi Moore, Justin Hartley, and Mark Ronson featuring Yebba.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/10/19) are John McEnroe, Toni Collette, the Hold Steady, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 9/30/19) are Barbie Ferreira and Alexa Demie.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'Bless This Mess', then a FRESH'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'Emergence'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Elton John, Taika Waititi, and Thom Yorke.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'Arrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Empire'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Exorcist', followed by the movie 'Carrie', then the movie 'Carrie', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 15-Power Play
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 16-Ethics
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 17-The Outcast
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 18-Cause and Effect
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 19-The First Duty
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 20-Think Tank
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 21-Juggernaut
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 22-Someone to Watch Over Me
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 23-11:59
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 24-Relativity
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 25-Warhead
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 26-Equinox, Pt. 1
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 1-Equinox, Pt. 2
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 2-Survival Instinct
[8:00PM] BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1982)
[10:30PM] INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES (1994)
[12:30AM] BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1982)
[3:00AM] INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES (1994)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-A Matter of Honor (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'In A Man's World', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', an hour of old 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Jim Jefferies Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Alex Wagner.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Moshe Kashe, Lara Beitz, and Bella Thorne.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by a FRESH'Mayans MC'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Dutiful but Dumb
[6:25A] The Three Stooges - False Alarms
[6:50A] The Three Stooges - Flat Foot Stooges
[7:15A] Night Flight - Pop Poetry
[7:30A] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[10:00A] From Dusk Till Dawn
[12:30P] Behind Enemy Lines
[3:00P] First Blood
[5:00P] Transporter 3
[7:15P] Walking Tall
[9:00P] Taken
[11:00P] Tropic Thunder
[1:30A] Walking Tall
[3:15A] Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
[5:15A] Beneath the Planet of the Apes (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] M*A*S*H
[6:30am] M*A*S*H
[7:00am] M*A*S*H
[7:30am] Planes, Trains and Automobiles
[9:30am] 48 HRS.
[11:30am] Summer Rental
[1:30pm] Troop Beverly Hills
[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] Law & Order
[2:00am] The Judge
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:35am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Saw: The Final Chapter', followed by a FRESH'The Purge', and another 'The Purge'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 9/17/19) are Seann William Scott and Jena Friedman.
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize on Monday, after the judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy.
Chairman Peter Florence said the five judges simply couldn't choose between Atwood's dystopian thriller "The Testaments" and Evaristo's kaleidoscope of black women's stories, "Girl, Woman, Other."
Partly inspired by the environmental protesters of Extinction Rebellion, who were demonstrating near the prize ceremony's venue in London's financial district, Florence said the judges refused to back down when told the rules prohibit more than one winner.
"Our consensus was that it was our decision to flout the rules," he said. "I think laws are inviolable and rules are adaptable to the circumstance."
Florence said both of the winning books "address the world today and give us insights into it and create characters that resonate with us."
The company behind a controversial police interrogation technique filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Netflix and director Ava DuVernay, claiming that it was defamed in DuVernay's miniseries on the Central Park jogger case.
John E. Reid and Associates developed the Reid Technique in the late 1940s, and it has continued to offer training materials and courses to law enforcement since then. According to the company, it is the most widely used interrogation method by police agencies worldwide. But critics have alleged that its approach can result in false confessions.
The technique is mentioned in the fourth episode of "When They See Us," the dramatized series on the Central Park Five case released by Netflix in May. A character confronts NYPD detective Michael Sheehan with allegations that he coerced a confession out of the five original defendants, who were later exonerated.
The suit alleges that the series has damaged the company's reputation, and seeks actual and punitive damages. The suit also seeks an injunction barring Netflix from distributing the series in its current form, and a disgorgement of Netflix's profits from the show.
John E. Reid, a former Chicago police officer, wrote a textbook on police interrogation. He died in 1982, but his company continues to offer training in the Reid Technique. The company also licensed its method to Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, a firm run by two former John E. Reid and Associates employees. For decades, Wicklander-Zulawski offered a competing version of the Reid Technique, but in 2017 the firm announced that it had abandoned the method, citing the risk of false confessions arising from the misuse of the approach.
Sarah Silverman is returning to HBO with a new stand-up comedy special and late-night series pilot order.
Silverman describes her proposed late-night series as "weighing in on the mishigas of the week and taking live video calls."
"I'm as passionate talking about my face-washing routine as I am talking about why billionaires cost us money," says Silverman. "Nothing's off the table and nothing's too high or low brow for me. I mean - look at my face - I'm literally all brow."
Silverman, Judd Apatow and Amy Zvi serve as executive producers on the pilot. Additional credits for the pilot and the stand-up special will be announced soon.
The deal with HBO follows Silverman's most recent gig as creator, executive producer and host of the Emmy-nominated Hulu talk series I Love You, America. She is currently in production on the Universal comedy Marry Me, and also adapting her best-selling memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, into a musical that will debut in 2020. Her latest standup-comedy special, A Speck of Dust, received two Emmy nominations and a Grammy nomination.
Vietnam has pulled DreamWorks' animated film "Abominable" from cinemas over a scene featuring a map which shows China's unilaterally declared "nine-dash line" in the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday.
The U-shaped line is a feature used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over vast expanses of the resource-rich South China Sea, including large swathes of what Vietnam regards as its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions.
Last week, sports network ESPN faced criticism of its coverage of a row between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and China after using a map that featured the line.
China and Vietnam have been locked in a standoff since China dispatched a vessel to conduct an energy survey in waters controlled by Vietnam in early July.
The film, which was being marketed in Vietnam as "Everest: The Little Yeti" was removed from cinemas on Sunday after images of the scene with the offending map were shared widely on social media.
About 18 months before a violent video of a fake President Don-Old Trump (R-Fascist) superimposed on a violent action movie became national news Monday, a video creator who goes by TheGeekzTeam uploaded a similar video to a rabid pro-Trump community on Reddit, the discussion website.
The video was an edited clip in which Trump's face is superimposed onto the face of the lead in the 2015 Swedish martial arts action comedy short, "Kung Fury," with Trump shooting at and fighting off Democratic politicians. The video description sums up Trump's battle: "With the help of Alex Jones and friends, they destroy the evil Hitlery Clinton and her army of fake news!"
It quickly went viral among Trump's internet fans on Reddit, with calls for more videos and even offers of financial support.
Over the next few months, TheGeekzTeam would create an account on Patreon, a popular fundraising website for artists, so they could accept donations, promising to make more videos if the account hit 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. It did. The team then created 20 more videos, almost all of them variations on the same theme of Trump disposing of his media and political foes with lethal violence: Trump as The Punisher, Trump as John Wick, Trump as Thanos. The video creator even took requests, like Trump in the anime Dragon Ball Z.
Now, the creator of those videos - whose identity is not known publicly - is at the center of growing criticism of the Trump administration's embrace of fringe political internet content that can veer into overt displays of violence. Last weekend, a video created by The GeekzTeam played in a "meme exhibit" at a pro-Trump event that featured the president's face superimposed onto a character from the movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service." It was played at a Florida golf resort owned by Trump.
Antarctic ice shelves are being destabilised by hidden, upside-down 'rivers' of warm water that course below the shelves and melt them from underneath, new research shows.
Scientists have known about these basal channels in ice shelves for a number of years now, but the circumstances behind their formation weren't well understood. Now, we've discovered more about the phenomenon, and scientists say it's something we need to take into account when modelling sea-level rise.
Ice shelves are an outwardly floating extension of the land ice that makes up continental ice sheets. In the case of Antarctica, about three-quarters of the continent is surrounded by floating ice shelves, which act like a natural barrier to help prevent glaciers on ice sheets from flowing into the ocean.
That natural barrier effect only works, though, if ice shelves themselves contain enough icy mass to buttress the seaward flow of grounded ice - and as we're starting to find, Antarctic barriers are weakening.
In the new study, the researchers found basal channels were more likely to form along the margins of these weakened, fast-flowing ice stretches - a consequence of warm flows of buoyant water rising above cooler water below, and inducing melting in the most vulnerable sections in the ice shelves.
At Qesem Cave in Israel, Neanderthals or early Homo sapiens appear to have stored marrow-rich deer bones for several weeks, relying on the bones and their outer layer of dried skin and flesh to keep the marrow relatively fresh-like storing leftovers in Pleistocene Tupperware.
Based on the cut marks on the bones, people extracted the marrow after a few weeks, when the bones and their covering of skin and tendons had had time to dry out. That suggests the people who lived at Qesem were planning ahead for their future needs-which is one more piece of evidence that Neanderthals and the earliest members of our own species were smarter than we've often given them credit for.
People of various groups have lived at Qesem Cave off and on for hundreds of thousands of years. Archaeologists haven't found hominin fossils at the site so far, but in the oldest layers of artifacts, they've unearthed oval and pear-shaped handaxes in the Acheulian style-a stone calling card of Homo erectus or their descendants, Homo heidelbergensis. In layers dating from 300,000 to 200,000 years old, the stone blades and scrapers belong to a set of stone tool cultures called the Acheulo-Yabrudian, which has turned up at Neanderthal and early Homo sapiens sites.
Deer bones from those layers-especially the metapodials (the long bones of the feet), which are rich in bone marrow-showed the telltale signs of people cracking them open to get at the marrow inside. Most of the metapodials at Qesem were broken into fragments, and many were pitted and flaked as if they'd been hit with a hammerstone. Many also bore cut marks, probably from when ancient people cut away the skin and tendons to get to the bone underneath.
To better understand exactly what Pleistocene people at Qesem were doing with the deer bones, Tel Aviv University archaeologist Ruth Blasco and her colleagues tried a little Stone Age meat processing of their own. They gathered up a set of fallow deer metapodials and stored them for a few weeks in conditions similar to those at Qesem. Every week, the archaeologists skinned and cracked open a few of the bones.
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