Kirkus Review: RUNNING AGAINST THE DEVIL
… Political campaign consultant Wilson (Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, 2018) intensifies his strident excoriation of Trump with a hard-hitting assessment of Democrats' chances of winning the next presidential election-a victory that is crucial for saving the country. The author decries Trump as "a flawed, awful shitbird of the worst order" and a "political and moral monster" who will go down in history "for endemic corruption, outrageous stupidity, egregious cruelty, and inhumanity" and who has spread "moral and political contagion" and caused the collapse "of a once-great party." Trump needs to go, but Wilson fears that Democrats will hand him reelection unless …
Joe Bob Briggs: Photoshop Me, Please(Taki's Magazine)
… the 24-year-old Swiss model Celine Centino was bullied in school for being ugly and flat-chested, so she saved all her money from a hairdressing job, then spent $50,000 to completely transform her body and face, shaping her breasts to resemble those of her childhood idol Pamela Anderson. She made the mistake, though, of blogging about how great she felt after all that surgery and of posting frequently on Instagram, where she racked up 43,000 followers. She was eventually targeted by one of the "exposure" websites-they didn't have to look far for information, she had already posted all the "before" pictures and blogged about what she had done-and so many trolls showed up to make fun of her that her account had to be suspended.
Andrew Tobias: But Does It Rise … Part 2
Congress's job is to make Americans' lives better. So far in 2019, the Democratic House has passed bills that would lower prescription drug prices, raise wages, fight government corruption, require universal background checks, provide for paper ballot backups, reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, prevent citizens from being fired for being gay, assure equal pay for equal work, fight climate change, restore net neutrality - and more. That's their job and they've done it. Those bills are among the 250 that the Republican Senate refuses to consider.
Andrew Tobias: Wolves
An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me, it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil - he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego. "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. "This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." - From Sara Softness (thanks!)
Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.: 10 Most Intelligent Animals (thoughtco.com)
Animal intelligence is hard to pin down because "intelligence" takes different forms. Examples of types of intelligence include language comprehension, self-recognition, cooperation, altruism, problem-solving, and mathematics skills. It's easy to recognize intelligence in other primates, but there are many other species that may be smarter than you think. Here are some of the most intelligent.
Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey; 2 May 1936) is an English pop singer. Humperdinck has been described as "one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around." His singles "Release Me" and "The Last Waltz" both topped the UK music charts in 1967, and sold more than a million copies each. In North America, he also had chart successes with "After the Lovin'" (1976) and "This Moment in Time" (1979). He has sold more than 140 million records worldwide.
Arnold George Dorsey was born in Madras, British India (present-day Chennai, India) in 1936, one of ten children to British Army NCO Mervyn Dorsey, who was of Welsh descent, and his wife Olive, who according to Dorsey was of German descent. Various sources say that he is of Anglo-Indian descent. His family moved to Leicester, England, when he was ten. He soon showed an interest in music and began learning the saxophone. By the early 1950s, he was playing saxophone in nightclubs, but he is believed not to have tried singing until he was seventeen, when friends coaxed him into entering a pub contest. His impression of Jerry Lewis prompted friends to begin calling him "Gerry Dorsey", a name that he worked under for almost a decade.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Engelbert Humperdinck.
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Englebert Humperdinck
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Alan J answered:
Engelbert Humperdinck.
Dave responded:
Engelbert Humperdinck. I thought he was a pop singer who was more or less interchangeable with Tom Jones. His big hit "Release Me (and Let Me Love Again)" (1967) topped the UK charts and was also a top 10 hit in the U.S. The tall, dark and handsome Dorsey had a friendly stage presence and attracted many loyal female fans. In the U.S., Dorsey was a common guest on the many TV music variety shows, and hosted his own ABC series (1969-1970), "The Engelbert Humperdinck Show." Like Frank Sinatra and other singers, Dorsey didn't write his own songs but used professional songwriters, or recorded covers of other peoples' hits. At age 83 Dorsey is still an active performer. Dorsey is a devoutly Catholic family man and has been married to his first wife for the last 55 years. Unlike many pop singers, Dorsey didn't squander his early money and his investments in real estate in the U.S. and Mexico paid off. His estimated net worth is $150 million.
Photos: Dorsey on a TV show singing with Tom Jones | Dorsey posing with Elvis Pressley | CD compilation of his Decca vinyl albums.
Cal in Vermont replied:
Engelbert Humperdinck. If I had a name like Engelbert Humperdinck I'd change it to Arnie Dorsey pretty quick.
zorch said:
He's better known as Engelbert Humperdinck.
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Guessing that's Boy George? Reminds me of an old (possibly offensive)
joke: What did they find when looking up Boy George's Dress? Michael
Jackson's other glove.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Engelbert Humperdinck
Micki replied:
Engelbert Humperdinck
George M. wrote:
Marty, I had to check around a bit - and this one's going out to all the ladies in the house: Arnold George Dorsey is better known today as Englebert Humperdinck!
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• Some comedians take a drink to steady their nerves before performing. George Gobel once had Garry Moore as a guest on The George Gobel Show. Mr. Moore visited Mr. Gobel in his dressing room before the live TV show started, and Mr. Gobel motioned to a bottle of whiskey and said, "Have a drink." However, Mr. Moore replied, "Thanks, but I don't believe I'll have anything before the show. I'll be happy to join you for a drink after the show." Mr. Gobel could hardly believe what he was hearing: "Garry, do you mean to say you go out there all alone?"
• Comedian Bill Hicks used to do a lot of drugs, especially alcohol. Fortunately, after going on a late-night drug binge, then doing a radio show at 7 in the morning - during which he was funny although his heart was pounding instead of beating - he decided that he needed help. Mr. Hicks asked a friend who was currently peaceful although he had formerly been wild and crazy, "Are you going to one of those AA meetings today?" The friend replied, "I've been waiting three years for you to say that. There's a meeting in 15 minutes. Let's go."
• While the movie The Captain Hates the Sea was being filmed on location, the atmosphere was that of a party, and expenses mounted quickly. Columbia studio head Harry Cohn wired the director, Lewis Milestone: "HURRY UP! THE COST IS STAGGERING!" Mr. Milestone sent back this telegram: "SO IS THE CAST."
• In his home, W.C. Fields kept a chalkboard on which he listed his appointments. When comic writer H. Allen Smith visited him, Mr. Fields had listed, "Stay home and meditate on the follies of humankind. P.S. Get stiff."
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• As a small boy, Wally Cox owned a cat that was smarter than he was and smarter than the adult humans in his household. For example, like all house pets, this cat would sometimes be accidentally shut in a room with all the doors and windows closed. When that happened, the cat would meow, then wait. If that didn't bring a human running to let the cat out of the room, then the cat would knock something small off a shelf or table onto the floor, then wait. If that didn't bring a human running to let the cat out of the room, then the cat would knock something large off a shelf or table onto the floor, then wait. The bigger items made lots of noise, and soon a human would come running to let the cat out of the room. Once the cat was shut in the basement with lots of canning jars. This time, however, the humans thought that they would train the cat. No matter how many jars of canned goods the cat knocked onto the floor, the humans would NOT come running to let the cat out of the basement. The cat knocked a canning jar onto the floor, then another, and then another - until 32 canning jars were on the floor. The humans remained resolute, and did not come running to let the cat out of the basement. Then a truly major racket exploded in the basement, and the humans came running and opened the door to the basement. The cat came out of the basement - objective achieved - and walked haughtily away. This is what had happened. An ironing board was at the top of the basement stairs, and the cat had managed to knock it over so that it crashed down the basement stairs. After that experience, the humans were properly trained. Whenever the cat needed to be let out of a room or the basement, the humans came running - quickly.
• When Margaret Cho was in Tibet, she visited a dog monastery, which she describes as a temple for reincarnated monks - that is, monks who went astray during their human lives and who have come back as dogs. Ms. Cho remembers that the temple is quiet: The dogs do not bark, howl, or fight, and at the temple the major activity of both monks and dogs is quiet meditation. Visitors can feed the dogs pieces of dough, and the dogs wait in line for their turn to eat! Ms. Cho says, "When I think of Tibet, I remember the politeness of the dogs, pulling back their dog lips and ever so gently taking the food from my hand with their open teeth, not wanting to bite my hand accidentally, and then looking warmly into my eyes with a silent thanks."
Julie Jackson of Subversive Cross Stitch has charted George Kent's quote about pissing off corrupt people! She has it available in kit form or as pdf file:
OMG - have you seen the new LifeLock commmercials with Jay Leno?
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Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Helena Bonham Carter, Lady Antebellum, Lucy Lawless, and Bret McKenzie.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Josh Gad, Anna Camp, and Adam Lambert.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us', then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Chadwick Boseman, Evan Rachel Wood, David Byrne, and a performance by the Broadway cast of "David Byrne's American Utopia".
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Robert Pattinson, Al Gore, Nicole Rucker, and Jon Theodore.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Rainn Wilson and Matteo Lane.
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 Michael Douglas, Victoria Beckham, and DJ Shadow featuring De La Soul.
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 'GoodFellas', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Identity', then the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 9-Force of Nature
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 10-Inheritance
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 11-Parallels
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 12-The Pegasus
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 13-Homeward
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 14-Sub Rosa
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 15-Lower Decks
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 16-Thine Own Self
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 17-Masks
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 18-Eye of the Beholder
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 19-Genesis
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 20-Journey's End
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 21-Firstborn
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 22-Bloodlines
[8:00PM] THE DEPARTED (2006)
[11:30PM] CONTACT (1997)
[3:00AM] OUTBREAK (1995) (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', 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 Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Ray Romano, Ron Funches and Nikki Glaser.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by the movie 'Fast & Furious 6'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'Kings Of Pain'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Night Flight - Addicted
[6:15A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - The Cowboy and the Cowntess
[6:45A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Stolen Apples
[7:15A] Big Momma's House
[9:30A] Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
[11:30A] Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation
[1:30P] Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
[3:30P] Revenge of the Nerds
[5:30P] I Love You, Man
[8:00P] Knocked Up
[11:00P] Ferris Bueller's Day Off
[1:30A] Drillbit Taylor
[4:00A] Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] M*A*S*H
[6:30am] M*A*S*H
[7:00am] M*A*S*H
[7:30am] M*A*S*H
[8:00am] M*A*S*H
[8:30am] M*A*S*H
[9:00am] The Green Berets
[12:00pm] Heartbreak Ridge
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] Friday the 13th - Part III
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:35am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'RIPD', followed by the movie 'The Green Mile'.
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Scheduled on a FRESHConan is Thomas Middleditch.
"What is the GOAT, Alex?" The three top money winners in Jeopardy! history are set to face off in a million-dollar ABC primetime throwdown hosted by Alex Trebek.
Sony Pictures Television said Monday that the appropriately named Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time will feature last season's phenom James Holzhauer going up against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter for a $1 million prize. The also-rans in the multiple-night event starting January 7 will bank a cool quarter-mil apiece.
The fan favorites will compete in a series of matches; the first to win three receives $1 million. Longtime EP/showrunner Harry Friedman, who is set to reture next year, will executive produce.
"Based on their previous performances, these three are already the 'greatest,' " Trebek, said. "But you can't help wondering: Who is the best of the best?"
This past weekend Michelle Obama was spotted wearing a gorgeous gown that left many people smiling.
During the 2019 American Portrait Gala, she sported a yellow dress topped with a sparkling corset-style overlay. Obama also stunned with soft sultry wavy hair to complete the look.
She wore it to present Lin-Manuel Miranda with the Portrait of a Nation Prize, and posted a photo of them together on Instagram.
Obama's dress was designed by Paris-based label Schiaparelli and custom made for her.
The Justice Department will ask a federal court to eliminate the Paramount consent decrees, the 71-year-old restrictions on major distributors' control of the exhibition pipeline.
The elimination of the decrees could alter the dynamics of the business, and perhaps lead to further consolidation. But the DOJ, which has been looking to eliminate the decrees since last year, believes that they are from an outdated time, before multiplexes, on-demand movies and streaming.
"We have determined that the decrees, as they are, no longer serve the public interest, because the horizontal conspiracy - the original violation animating the decrees - has been stopped," Makan Delrahim, the chief of the antitrust division, said in a speech to the American Bar Association on Monday.
A 1948 Supreme Court decision in favor of the government compelled studios to sell their theater chains. The landmark decision led to the crumbling of the studio system, in which the seven major studios of the time held tight control over all aspects of production, distribution and exhibition.
The Baltimore Museum of Art will add only artwork created by women to its permanent collection in 2020.
Museum director Christopher Bedford announced the policy Thursday, saying something radical must be done to rectify centuries of imbalance. The Maryland museum acquired its first work by a female artist in 1916, two years after it was founded and three years before women gained the right to vote in the U.S. Today, only 4% of the 95,000 pieces in its permanent collection were created by women.
News outlets report each of the museum's exhibits will be strongly tied to women. Nineteen will showcase art solely by women, including at least one transgender artist. Bedford says the museum is working to "correct our own canon" and address historical blind spots.
A California appeals court appeared strongly inclined Monday to give new life to lawsuits filed by two men who accuse Michael Jackson of repeatedly molesting them when they were boys.
Three judges from the 2nd District Court of Appeal said in a tentative ruling that lawsuits from James Safechuck and Wade Robson against two corporate entities that Jackson owned should be reconsidered by the trial court that dismissed them in 2017.
Robson, 37, and Safechuck, 41, who became known to a broad audience when they aired their accusations earlier this year in the Emmy-winning HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland," sat together in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom during Monday's brief hearing.
The suits filed in 2013 that were dismissed because statutes of limitations had expired can be revived because of new state law signed last month by Gov. Gavin Newsom that gives those who say they were sexually abused until age 40, up from age 26, to file lawsuits. It also gives victims of all ages a three-year window to sue, starting Jan. 1.
The tentative decision does not revive the actual Jackson estate as a defendant. A 2015 decision throwing out that part of the lawsuit will stand. The remaining defendants are the two corporate entities, MJJ Productions, Inc., and MJJ Ventures, Inc.
A crude oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in eastern North Dakota has turned out to have affected almost 10 times the amount of land as first reported, a state regulator said Monday.
North Dakota environmental scientist Bill Suess said the leak reported on Oct. 29 is now estimated by state regulators to have affected about 209,100 square feet (19,426 square meters) of land near Edinburg. State regulators had said the leak affected about 22,500 square feet (2,090 square meters) of land.
Calgary, Alberta-based TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, estimated its pipeline leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) of oil. Suess said that estimate has not changed.
The cause of the spill is still unknown. An affected portion of the pipe has been sent to a third-party laboratory for inspection, as required by federal regulators.
The company reported late Sunday that it had recovered about 337,550 gallons (1.2 million liters) of oil, along with 141,834 gallons (536,900 liters) of oily water, Suess said.
Two infants were buried some 2,100 years ago wearing "helmets" made from the skulls of other children, archaeologists have discovered.
The remains of the two infants were found with nine other burials at a site called Salango, on the coast of central Ecuador. The archaeologists who excavated the burials between 2014 and 2016 recently published the details of their findings in the journal Latin American Antiquity.
The team says this is the only known case in which children's skulls were used as helmets for infants being buried. The scientists don't know what killed the infants and children.
The helmets were placed tightly over the infants' heads, the archaeologists found. It's likely that the older children's skulls still had flesh on them when they were turned into helmets, because without flesh, the helmets likely would not have held together, the archaeologists noted.
The archaeologists are not certain why helmets made from children's skulls were placed on the infants' heads. It "may represent an attempt to ensure the protection of these 'presocial and wild' souls," the archaeologists wrote. Near the infants, the archaeological team also discovered ancestor figurines, which depict ancestors, made of stone. This finding supports this protection idea, as their presence indicates a "concern with protecting and further empowering the heads," the archaeologists wrote.
California is home to 91 of the most expensive zip codes in the US for home sales this year, with median sale prices in one Silicon Valley suburb topping $7m, according to an annual ranking by the real estate website PropertyShark.
Fifty-five of the priciest zip codes were in the Bay Area, in Silicon Valley and beyond, with median prices soaring up to $3.5m in some locations. Twenty-one of the priciest zip codes were in Los Angeles county, some with median prices of more than $4m. The ranking sought to consider the country's top 100 zip codes, but because of ties ended up with 125 ranked.
San Francisco alone had 13 of the most expensive zip codes, earning the title of most expensive city. This is a substantial increase from previous years - in 2016, the city had seven of the priciest zip codes, and in 2018, it had nine. The city entered the rankings at No 38, with median sales prices ranging between $1.4m and $2m.
The rankings come as the state grapples with a housing crisis in which it has constructed less than half the new homes needed to keep up with population growth. Hundreds of thousands are unable to afford housing in job centers. In the Bay Area alone, more than 200,000 people a day are forced to commute up to hundreds of miles from locations where housing is more affordable, like the Central Valley and Sacramento. Some Uber and Lyft drivers are forced to sleep in their cars, while homelessness has reached crisis levels.
After California, New York has the most pricey zip codes, with 18.
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