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Paul Krugman: The Legacy of Destructive Austerity (NY Times Column)
A decade ago, the world was living in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Financial markets had stabilized, but the real economy was still in terrible shape, with around 40 million European and North American workers unemployed.
Helaine Olen: The decade of the billionaire victim (Washington Post)
In 2010, banks foreclosed on a more than a million homes. The jobless rate for the year hovered just under 10 percent. But billionaire investor Stephen Schwarzman knew who the real injured party was: the wealthy. When the Obama administration proposed closing the carried interest loophole, a tax break exploited by those in private equity, Schwarzman couldn't contain himself any longer. "It's like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939," he claimed at a New York City gathering.
Lizzo Manno: Hear Frank Zappa Talk About American Stupidity in 1978 (Paste)
Frank Zappa was one of rock 'n' roll's greatest class clowns. His music was challenging and progressive, but he never took himself too seriously. His playful mischief mixed with staggering musicianship resulted in a long successful career consisting of over 50 albums. It's hard to imagine goofy artists like Weird Al Yankovic, Devo or even Insane Clown Posse without Zappa proving the viability of absurdity in music.
Kristina Headrick: Five Zappa Songs For People Who Don't Get Zappa (Paste)
The highly quoted composer can be controversial, countercultural, and contradictory-sometimes all at the same time. What's most problematic in separating the man from the music is coming to terms with his frequent sleaze and misogyny. […] But when separating the man from the music, the cultishness from the catalogue, reasons for Zappa's longevity and intrigue remain. From repeated stylistic elements to incomprehensible guitar solos, these five songs should serve as introductory tracks for people who just don't get Zappa.
"Nel blu, dipinto di blu" was Billboard's number-one single for 1958, and subsequently became the first Grammy winner for Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in May, 1959. By what title is this song more popularly known?
Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. It is based on the British sitcom Man About the House.
The story revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt), Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Somers), and Jack Tripper (John Ritter), who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California apartment complex owned by Stanley Roper (Norman Fell) and Helen Roper (Audra Lindley).
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Christmas Noelle "Chrissy" Snow was portrayed by Suzanne Somers.
Chrissy was born in Fresno, the eldest child of Reverend Luther Snow (Peter Mark Richman) and his wife (Priscilla Morrill). In one episode, she explains that she was named "Christmas" because her father was a big fan of Bing Crosby (whose song "White Christmas" became a signature song of his). In another episode, she states that her name is Christmas due to having been born in December. However, in the episode "Roper's Niece", Janet states that Chrissy's birth was "not until January." Yet, in the season-four episode "Chrissy's Hospitality", Chrissy falls and hits her head, ending up in the hospital as a result. She explains to the nurse that her father named her Christmas because "she was the best present he ever got."
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"Psychic Lemon return with their third studio album, Freak Mammal. This is the band's second release in the space of six months, after their live album Live at the Smokehouse sold out on vinyl within 48 hours in April. Freak Mammal is being released on Drone Rock Records, alongside a repress of their sought-after self-titled first album. "
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• While Anton Dolin was still unknown, and thus before he became a world-famous ballet dancer, he danced a benefit at the Albert Hall in 1923. An astute critic, Monica Ewer, was in the audience. After heaping praise on his performance, she wrote, "When I am old I hope to say condescendingly: 'The great Dolin? I saw him dance when he was an unknown lad!'"
• Photography pioneer Edward Steichen once took a photograph of famed portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife outside against a background of magnolia blossoms. Mrs. Karsh complained, "What a pity it is not a beautiful day." Mr. Steichen gently touched her arm, then said, "Every day of life is a beautiful day."
• Early in her career, soprano Francis Alda sang the part of the Princess in Maroufat the Metropolitan Opera. When someone asked why Ms. Alda should be given the part of the Princess, James Huneker replied, "There are two excellent reasons why Alda should sing the role. Her right and left legs."
• A man hired American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler to paint his portrait, but when the portrait was finished, the man disliked it and called it "a bad work of art." Mr. Whistler replied that he had done the best he could, but unfortunately the man was "a bad work of nature."
• The German painter Adolph Menzel did not appreciate the work of the Impressionists. Looking at a collection of Impressionist paintings (which are now worth many millions of dollars), he turned to their collector and asked, "Have you actually spent money on this stuff?"
• Architect Frank Lloyd Wright knew what he liked - and what he didn't like. The Internationalist movement in architecture led to buildings with exposed gas pipes and exposed heating ducts. Mr. Wright called such ugliness "indecent exposure."
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• Vaslav Nijinsky's Le Sacred de Printemps was, in the words of critic Cyril W. Beaumont, "an attempt to show the birth of human emotion in a primitive age." It was very difficult to execute, and when it was unveiled for the first time, it required 120 rehearsals, although only six performances were given. By the way, Mr. Nijinsky used to bow to the audience by simply crossing his arms on his chest and nodding to the audience. According to critic Cyril W. Beaumont, "He never gave the impression that he accepted or demanded applause as his due. He appeared to bow out of politeness to the audience." Also by the way, when Mr. Nijinsky's mental illness first descended on him during a tour in South America, he became paranoid and hired a detective to protect him. One of the detective's jobs was to search each stage for booby traps and for broken glass before Mr. Nijinsky performed.
• The Kirov Ballet of Leningrad once performed a satiric Creation of the World. The angels try to tidy up chaos, but the devils keep interfering. God and his cherubim play with the world, which is represented by an inflatable ball. God creates light by using a cigarette lighter to set the sun on fire, and he creates fish by throwing a can of sardines into the ocean. By the way, critics sometimes don't want a black dancer to portray Satan, as Namron did in a 1975 revival of Ninette de Valois' Job. However, black dancers also sometimes portray Jesus, as William Louther did in Barry Moreland's Kontakion. Also by the way, in 1964, choreographer Kenneth MacMillan had the character God display a Union Jack on his shirt. Why? He explains that God is an Englishman, as everyone knows.
• Anyone who dances the roles of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake must be an expert ballerina. In Act 3, the ballerina playing Odile does 32 fouettés - for one fouetté, she makes a complete rotation on her left toe while her right leg kicks in and out at waist height. Cynthia Gregory danced Odette/Odile for 20 years and never missed one of the 32 fouettés she had to dance each time. By the way, at the height of her career as a professional ballerina, Ms. Gregory estimated that she had sewn the ribbons on more than 4,000 pairs of pointe shoes. Also by the way, while dancing solos, the ballerina sets the tempo of the music. In opera and symphonic music, the conductor sets the tempo.
Local fireworks gave the kitties a major case of the vapors.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS fills the night with RERUNs of 'Evil'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 11/20/19) are John Heilemann and Alex Wagner.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 10/10/19) are Aaron Paul, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Brittany Howard.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Fire', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Med', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 11/4/19) are Chris Evans, Naomi Scott, and Earthgang.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 11/18/19) are Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, and Jacqueline Woodson.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 9/30/19) are Barbie Ferreira and Alexa Demie.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN'Schooled', then a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by a RERUN'Single Parents', then a RERUN'Stumptown'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 12/10/19) are Dwayne Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and She & Him.
The CW fills the night with a RERUN'The Rose Parade'.
Faux has a FRESH'Flirty Dancing', followed by a FRESH'Almost Family'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Alaska PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Home Alone 2: Lost In NY', followed by the movie 'Home Alone', then the movie 'Home Alone 2: Lost In NY'.
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[6:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 2-The Beast Below
[7:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: RESOLUTION - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 1-Doctor Who: Resolution
[8:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 2-The Ghost Monument
[9:35AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 3-Rosa
[10:40AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 4-Arachnids in the UK
[11:45AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 5-The Tsuranga Conundrum
[12:50PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 6-Demons of the Punjab
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 7-Kerblam!
[3:10PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 8-The Witchfinders
[4:15PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 9-It Takes You Away
[5:25PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 10-The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
[6:35PM] DOCTOR WHO: RESOLUTION - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 1-Doctor Who: Resolution
[9:26PM] DOCTOR WHO: RESOLUTION - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 1-Doctor Who: Resolution
[10:55PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 2-The Ghost Monument
[12:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 3-Rosa
[1:05AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 4-Arachnids in the UK
[2:10AM] DOCTOR WHO: RESOLUTION - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 1
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 18-Cause and Effect (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', and 'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight', followed by the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight', again.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Vikings'.
IFC -
[7:04A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Salad Days
[7:48A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Whither Canada?
[8:32A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
[9:15A] National Lampoon's Vacation
[11:30A] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[1:30P] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[3:45P] Vegas Vacation
[5:45P] National Lampoon's Vacation
[8:00P] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[10:15P] Vegas Vacation
[12:15A] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[2:16A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Spam
[2:59A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
[3:42A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Salad Days
[4:25A] The Three Stooges - Hoi Polloi
[4:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Accidental Playhouse
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Camping Out
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Something to Do (ALL TIMES EST)
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[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] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] Blazing Saddles
[10:30am] Addams Family Values
[12:30pm] Coming to America
[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] The Andy Griffith Show
[3:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:55am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
Robert De Niro doesn't hide his feelings when it comes to Donald Trump (R-Grifter), and now he doesn't hide his dreams about the president either. During a recent appearance on podcast Rumble With Michael Moore, De Niro delivered a lengthy rant about Trump, at one point saying he'd like to hit him in the face with "a bag of shit".
The hour-long episode happened to be De Niro's first-ever podcast interview, which makes his use of the time on it all the more momentous. The Irishman star kicked things off by explaining how and why Trump needs to be humiliated on camera. By De Niro's logic, being caught in a non-disputable embarrassing moment and put on public display would take Trump down a few notches. After all, if words and insults were enough to tear Trump down, then De Niro's well-aimed f-bombs on cable news and awards shows would have done the job by now.
"I'd like to see a bag of shit right in his face - hit him right in the face like that and let the picture go all over the world. And that would be the most humiliating thing because he needs to be humiliated," said De Niro. "He needs to be confronted and humiliated by whoever his opponent is, his political opponent. They have to stand up to him. They don't have to do it in an obvious physical way, but they have to have the formidability to confront him and to put him in his place, because the people have to see that, to see him be humiliated."
De Niro served up several other insults in the interview, too, but made sure not to drag others down in the process. "I always say 'low life' because he's a low life. He's not a pig," said De Niro. "I used to call him a pig, but pigs have dignity. He has no dignity, no nothing. He's a disgrace to the human race, if you will."
A Texas judge ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $100,000 in another court setback over the Infowars host using his show to promote falsehoods that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
Jones is being sued for defamation in Austin, Texas, by the parents of a 6-year-old who was among the 26 people killed in the Newtown, Connecticut, attack.
State District Judge Scott Jenkins ruled on Dec. 20 that Jones and his defense team "intentionally disregarded" an earlier order to provide witnesses to attorneys representing a Sandy Hook father who brought the lawsuit, Neil Heslin. Jenkins also denied Jones' request to dismiss the lawsuit.
Jones operates Infowars in Texas. He is fighting similar lawsuits in Connecticut brought by other families of Sandy Hook victims for promoting a theory that the shooting was a hoax. A 20-year-old gunman killed 20 first-graders, six educators and himself at the school, after having killed his mother at their Newtown home.
Jones has since acknowledged that the Sandy Hook killings occurred. His attorneys have defended his speech in court as "rhetorical hyperbole" and deny it was defamation.
A top UN official has accused the British and US governments of "torture" over their detention of whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, who between them embarrassed the West over its military operations in Iraq.
Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, said Ms Manning, who is being held in a jail in Virginia after refusing to testify about Mr Assange, was being being subjected to an "open-ended, progressively severe measure of coercion fulfilling all the constitutive elements of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
He added: "The practice of coercive detention appears to be incompatible with the international human rights obligations of the United States."
In regard to Britain's treatment of Mr Assange, who is being held in London's Belmarsh prison, where supporters say his health is fading, he said: "Mr Assange's continued exposure to severe mental and emotional suffering which, in light of the circumstances, clearly amounts to psychological torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
The condemnation of the governments' treatment of the two prisoners was made in separate letters, that Mr Melzer, 49, made public after he said he received no response to concerns he raised with US and British authorities.
A man is accused of attacking a Picasso painting worth $26 million at Tate Modern in London on Saturday, according to the The Associated Press.
The 1944 oil painting "Bust of a Woman" was taken off display while the damage is being assessed, the BBC reported. The BBC said the painting was ripped.
The suspect, Shakeel Massey, 20, from north London, is being held until a pretrial hearing on Jan. 30 and has indicated that he will deny the charge, according to the AP.
"Bust of a Woman" depicts Picasso's lover Dora Maar, who was a principal model for some of his portraits, in a semi-abstract style, wearing a hat and green clothing while sitting on a black metal chair, according to the Tate Modern. It was painted in Paris on May 5, 1944, during the final months of the Nazi occupation.
A panel of scientific advisers, including several appointed by President Donald Trump (R-Inept), says some rollbacks of clean-air and vehicle rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency are based on weak scientific analysis and should be revised, according to draft reports published on Tuesday.
The EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB), which is tasked with providing independent input for agency policy, published four draft reports on the last day of the year analyzing the scientific underpinnings to the agency's proposed changes to clean-water, mercury, vehicle fuel-efficiency and scientific transparency regulations.
In the case of the EPA's proposed changes to mercury and air toxics regulations for power plants, the advisers told the EPA to "instigate a new risk assessment" of the scientific basis of its 2018 proposal that includes "all relevant health outcomes for neonates, children and adults" and widens its study of consumption of fish affected by mercury.
In a separate report, the advisers proposed several recommendations aimed at strengthening the agency's vehicle emission regulation, which would reduce the Obama administration's vehicle emissions standards for cars and trucks for models up to 2026. The EPA said the changes would reduce vehicle costs and boost safety.
In another report analyzing the agency's changes to the Waters of the United States rule, which defines which waterways can be federally regulated, the board said the agency's new definition was "not fully consistent with established EPA recognized science" ... "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters."
As 2019 winds to a close, the journey towards fully realised quantum computing continues: physicists have been able to demonstrate quantum teleportation between two computer chips for the first time.
Put simply, this breakthrough means that information was passed between the chips not by physical electronic connections, but through quantum entanglement - by linking two particles across a gap using the principles of quantum physics.
We don't yet understand everything about quantum entanglement (it's the same phenomenon Albert Einstein famously called "spooky action"), but being able to use it to send information between computer chips is significant, even if so far we're confined to a tightly controlled lab environment.
Hypothetically, quantum entanglement can work over any distance. Two particles get inextricably linked together, which means looking at one tells us something about the other, wherever it is (in this case, on a separate computer chip).
To achieve their result, the team generated pairs of entangled photons, encoding quantum information in a way that ensured low levels of interference and high levels of accuracy. Up to four qubits - the quantum equivalent of classical computing bits - were linked together.
Researchers working in the Outer Hebrides island chain off the west coast of Scotland have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown rock monument located within a stone's throw of the iconic Calanais Standing Stones.
The newly discovered monument featured standing stones that were arranged in a circular pattern around a spot bearing the distinctive traces of a powerful lightning strike. Intriguingly, the new research indicates that the structure itself may have been deliberately built to attract lightning.
The discovery, made by researchers from the Calanais Virtual Reconstruction Project, suggests the stone monuments were somehow connected to, and possibly inspired by, powerful forces of nature. Lightning, it would appear, made quite the impression on the Neolithic people who lived at the time. Details of the discovery were recently published to the science journal Remote Sensing.
Archaeologist Richard Bates from the University of St. Andrews and his colleagues were looking for evidence of unknown rock circles buried beneath the ground near the Standing Stones of Calanais-a megalithic structure built some 5,000 years ago during the Neolithic period-on the Isle of Lewis. More than a dozen spots had previously been flagged as possible locations of "satellite circles" to the main monument.
These sites are now obscured by peat bogs that cover significant portions of the area. The researchers used multiple non-invasive remote sensing techniques, such as electromagnetic surface mapping and electrical resistivity tomography, to explore what was under the bogs. They uncovered evidence of a single standing stone at Calanais Site XI, or Airigh na Beinne Bige, which is located on a hill that overlooks the Calanais Great Circle. Geophysical analysis of the site shows that the lone stone was once part of a circle of standing stones.
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