'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
Re: Edgar Allan Poe
Does anyone with a working brain really believe that Edgar Allan Poe would SUPPORT DUMBya's illegal war?
Say what you want about the French but they can't be that bad if they told BushCo. where to get off!
Terry C in NJ
Thanks, Terry!
I'm quite fond of 'Old Europe,' too.
It seems the next generation carrying on this Poe 'tradition' hasn't read Poe's work, or exhibits the ability to think critically.
Maybe, like cognac, the tradition-bearer will mellow with age.
And maybe I can be a virgin again.
Reader Comment
Spookiest Thing In 2003
The spookiest thing that happened in 2003 -
The RELIGIOUS RIGHT!
As the Republican Party of Texas began to dominate Texas politics through
the 1990's, the Religious Right made inroads and eventually took control of
the Party, pushing it even farther right.
LISTEN TO THIS - 7 minutes.
It's from this page if the link doesn't work:
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"Texas Firmly in GOP Hands
NPR's Wade Goodwyn chronicles the dramatic political change that has occurred in Texas. After nurturing such powerful Democrats as Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn, Texas today is dominated by Republicans. The party runs the legislature in Austin, and it counts Rep. Tom DeLay as a powerful ally in Washington. Many expect that the state's newly adopted redistricting plan will help the GOP increase its influence even more. "
~ Dooley
Thanks, Dooley!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
Observation
Re: Disinfotainment
I hit a link on Disinfotainment . It is "The Perfect American Holiday", re: MLK . It seemed racist and anti-semetic. Yes, the first amendment is grand, but I don't expect to find crap like this on your page.
Marla G
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Weather is holding, but rain may be in the future.
Dear old Dad called to comment on Chimpy's performance - he wasn't impressed.
Getting a lot of funny mail, so if you send something & it bounces, try again in a couple of hours.
The grocery strike is in its 4th month. The sticking point is the grocers refuse to compromise on any issue. Oh well, CostCo likes my money just fine & they manage to pay a living wage with health benefits.
I try to be a good little Dem, but, jeez, somebody needs to mention the horrible botox job on Nancy Pelosi. Her teeth moved more than her eyebrows.
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS begins the night with '60 Minutes II', followed by a RERUN 'King Of Queens', then a
FRESH 'Becker', followed by '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Kristin Davis and Bruce McCall.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers it's TBA.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Apprentice', followed by a RERUN 'West Wing' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour), then a
RERUN 'Law & Order' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Jennifer Aniston and Clay Aiken.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Donald Trump and Jeff Garlin.
Scheduled on a FRESH Daly are Ice Cube, Sarah Clarke, and the Star Spangles.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a FRESH 'It's All Relative', then a
FRESH 'Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH 'Celebrity Mole: Yucatan'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Meredith Phillips and David Boreanaz, with this week's guest co-host Super Dave Osborne.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Angel'.
Faux has a FRESH 'American Idol', followed by a FRESH 'The O.C.'.
UPN has a FRESH 'Enterprise', followed by a RERUN of last night's 'America's Next Top Model'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Aileen Wuornos), 'American Justice', and 'City Confidential'.
AMC offers the movie 'Diamonds Are Forever', followed by the movie 'The Terminator', then the movie 'Live And Let Die'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Posner;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Bournville;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Blackpool;
[8pm] 'The Life Laundry' - Oxford;
[8:30pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 2;
[9pm] 'My Hero' - Girlfriend;
[9:40pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[10:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6'The Life Laundry' - Oxford;
[11:30pm] 'House Doctor' - Episode 2;
[12am] 'My Hero' - Girlfriend;
[12:40am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[1:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Bournville;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Blackpool;
[3am] 'My Hero' - Girlfriend;
[3:40am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 5;
[4:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;
[5am] 'The Life Laundry' - Oxford;
[5:30am] 'House Doctor' - Episode 2; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', the movie 'Places In The Heart', and 'West Wing'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Insomnica', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH 'Chappelle's Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Sen. John McCain.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Hitler & Stalin', 'Horrors Of Hussein', and 'Biography: Osama'.
SciFi has the movie 'House Of Frankenstein 1997', followed by the movie 'The Exorcist III'.
TCM pays tribute to the sublime Barbara Stanwyck all day,
and celebrates a young Katharine Hepburn all night.
[6am] 'The Gay Sisters' (1942);
[8am] 'My Reputation' (1946);
[9:45am] 'The Two Mrs. Carrolls' (1947);
[11:30am] 'To Please A Lady' (1950);
[1:15pm] 'The Man With A Cloak' (1951);
[2:45pm] 'Jeopardy' (1953);
[4pm] 'Executive Suite' (1954);
[6:00 pm] 'These Wilder Years' (1956);
[8pm] 'The Philadelphia Story' (1940);
[10pm] 'Holiday' (1938);
[12am] 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938);
[1:45am] 'Sylvia Scarlett' (1936);
[3:30am] 'Undercurrent' (1946);
[5:30am] 'Song Of Love' (1947). (ALL TIMES EST)
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Finally Honored
Paul Robeson
A U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring athlete, performer and social activist Paul Robeson was scheduled to go on sale Tuesday in the town where he was born 106 years ago.
The Postal Service plans to launch the stamp during a ceremony at Princeton University, just a few blocks from Robeson's birthplace and boyhood home.
"I am very gratified," Robeson's son Paul Robeson Jr. told The Times of Trenton. "To say the least, the family and I are very pleased."
The elder Robeson was a football All-American and valedictorian at Rutgers University at a time when few blacks attended college. He later became an actor, singer and activist for racial justice and international peace.
The younger Robeson has been waiting for the Postal Service to issue a stamp on his father ever since it began its "Black Heritage" series of stamps in 1978.
"If you named 10 black historical figures from the beginning of the republic, my father would have to be one of them," Robeson said. "I've always felt that it was an inevitable occurrence since they began the series."
Paul Robeson
Kicks Off Vote Initiative
Russell Simmons
Hip-Hop mogul Russell Simmons and artists including LL Cool J, Rev. Run and Jadakiss kicked off an initiative to register millions of young people to vote.
The "One Mind. One Vote" campaign aims to register 2 million voters between the ages of 18 and 34 by the November presidential election and a total of 20 million voters over the next five years.
The nonpartisan campaign plans to reach out to hip-hop fans through the syndicated radio show hosted by Doug Banks and through voter registration booths set up on the 2004 Doug Banks Jam Session concert tour.
Russell Simmons
Hip-Hop Summit Action Network
Actor Mario Van Peebles (L) star of the drama film 'Baadassss!' poses with his father Melving in Park City, Utah, January 19, 2004. Van Peebles has a film at the festival which features the debut of Van Peeble's 13 year old son Mario, with the film being an ode to his father's achievements. The film is in competition at the festival which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Tribute to Premiere In Slippery Rock
Fred Rogers
A university orchestra and choir will perform the world premiere next month of an 11-movement composition that will serve as a tribute to the late Fred Rogers, known to millions as Mister Rogers.
Slippery Rock University's 25-piece orchestra and 65-member choir will present "In Memoriam: A Requiem for Mr. Rogers," a one-hour piece that includes English, Hebrew and Latin lyrics, poetry and dramatic readings.
Luke Mayernik, 21, the music director at St. Justin Church in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh, began to write the composition a few months after Rogers died of stomach cancer at age 74 on Feb. 27. He did so at the urging of St. Justin parishioner Maggie Stewart, who played "Mayor Maggie" on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
The tribute to Rogers will debut Feb. 29 at St. Justin Church, followed by a performance March 2 at Butler County Community College.
Fred Rogers
Talk of the TV Confab
Steve Harvey & Larry Elder
The buzz on the floor at the TV industry's NATPE confab Monday revolved around prospective syndicated talk shows featuring comedian Steve Harvey and radio commentator Larry Elder.
Both are being eyed for launch this year by Warner Bros.
Harvey has a long history with network sibling, the WB Network, where he starred for 5-1/2 years in the sitcom "The Steve Harvey Show" and now serves as host of the WB's freshman variety series "Steve Harvey's Big Time." He also hosts a highly rated morning drive-time show on KKBT-FM Los Angeles.
Elder, known as a "firebrand libertarian" who hosts a weekday four-hour talk radio block on KABC-AM Los Angeles.
Steve Harvey & Larry Elder
UPDATED FOR 2004!
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Acts Added
Super Bowl Lineup
Country stars Willie Nelson and Toby Keith and chart-topping vocalist Josh Groban have joined the performance lineup for the Super Bowl XXXVIII pre-game show on Feb. 1.
Aerosmith will headline the "Welcome to Houston-The Spirit of Texas" -themed event.
Also on board for the festivities at Houston's Reliant Stadium are Houston-based Latin artists Walter Suhr and Mango Punch! The National Anthem will be sung by Beyonce Knowles prior to the game, while the MTV-produced halftime show will star Janet Jackson, P. Diddy, Kid Rock and Nelly.
Super Bowl Lineup
A March 27, 2003 photo from files of 'Mendips', the childhood home of former Beatle John Lennon in Liverpool, England. The National Trust is seeking a new custodian for the home, which has attracted more than 7,000 visitors since it opened last year after it was donated by the Beatle's widow Yoko Ono. Lennon lived at the semi-detached house in Menlove Avenue, Liverpool, with his Aunt Mimi from the age of five.
Photo by Phil Noble
Booked for Coachella Festival
The Cure
The Cure will headline the second night of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on May 2 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif., according to a post on the group's official Web site (http://www.thecure.com).
Flaming Lips has been added to the event lineup, which will also feature Radiohead, Kraftwerk and the reunion of the Pixies, as well as Air, Prefuse 73, the Thrills, Electric Six and LCD Soundsystem, among many others yet to be confirmed.
Coachella tickets will cost $75 for one day and $140 for both days.
The Cure
Mixed Messages
Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond is steamed at Viacom for taking "Pyramid" off its stations in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Boston. "Pyramid," now in its second season, is syndicated by Viacom's rival, Sony Television. Osmond has made his feelings known in an open letter to the show's fans that he posted on the Internet at donny.com.
"Viacom owns CBS TV, UPN TV as well as Paramount Pictures . . . Paramount produces television shows, so it is safe to assume that Viacom is probably making room for one of its own programs," Osmond writes. "This, unfortunately, is just the nature of the television business.
"The dirty part is that they waited until just before this NATPE convention in Las Vegas to announce this, presumably to pull the rug from beneath our feet by giving us very little time to respond or to replace the Viacom stations that currently air our show."
Osmond implores the show's fans to call or e-mail their local stations. "It could make a difference," he writes. Osmond's manager, Jill Willis, says Osmond is receiving "mixed messages" on the show's future from various distributors. "Nothing has been decided from Sony TV but he's getting lots of unsolocited 'condolences' from various industry players," she says.
Donny Osmond
Settles with Fox
Scott O'Grady
A U.S. pilot who emerged as a hero after escaping from Bosnia has settled out of court with entertainment companies he claimed tried to falsely give the impression that he endorsed the movie "Behind Enemy Line," lawyers said on Tuesday.
Former U.S. Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady brought suit against Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., a division of News Corp . and Discovery Communications Inc. in federal district court in Texarkana, Texas. Terms of the deal were not released.
The movie was promoted on the Discovery Chanel when the cable network broadcast a British Broadcasting Corp. documentary about O'Grady's ordeal at about the time of the movie's release. O'Grady's lawyers claimed this promotion gave the false impression that the pilot endorsed the movie, when he did not.
A 10-person federal jury in Texarkana, Texas was picked and ready to hear the case.
Scott O'Grady
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Wore Royal Serbian Medal
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was sporting a royal Serbian medal around his neck when he entered a not-guilty plea at his hearing on child molestation charges last week in California, a Czech historian said.
"It was the Order of the White Eagle which hung around his neck from a red and white ribbon," said Pavel Simunek, who specializes in honour badges at the Czech army's Historical Institute.
"You could read the year 1882 on the back of the medal Jackson wore because he had it on backwards," the historian said.
Michael Jackson
An iceberg is locked in the frozen Portage Lake up against the Chugach Mountains at the end of Portage Valley in the Portage Glacier Recreation Area in Chugach National Forest, about 50 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska Jan. 6, 2004. Byron Peak is seen to the right.
Photo by Al Grillo
Did Not Endorse Gibson Film
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II's longtime secretary denied Tuesday that the pontiff ever offered his endorsement of Mel Gibson's controversial biblical epic "The Passion of the Christ," disputing reports attributed to the producers.
John Paul was said to have given his approval after a screening in his apartment in early December by saying, "It is as it was." The quote received widespread publication around the world.
Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, secretary to John Paul throughout his 25-year papacy, confirmed the pope had seen the film.
"But I told the producers the Holy Father did not make any judgment, because he does not make judgments of that kind," Dziwisz told The Associated Press. "He said nothing of the kind."
The papal secretary rarely speaks to the press; his remarks were an apparent indication of concern over alleged papal endorsement of a film that has stirred controversy for months before it has been viewed by the general public.
Pope John Paul II
Doesn't Like Sara Lee
Jimmy Dean
Legendary country crooner Jimmy Dean says the Sara Lee Corp. has dropped him as spokesman for the sausage company he founded more than three decades ago.
In a statement Monday, the 75-year-old multimillionaire says the Chicago-based maker of food, apparel and household products told him last year he no longer meets the company's marketing needs.
"The company told me that they were trying to attract the younger housewife, and they didn't think I was the one to do that," Dean said in an interview. "I think it's the dumbest thing. But you know, what do I know?"
Jimmy Dean
Republicans In Action
Piestewa Peak
Tribal leaders urged Arizona legislators Tuesday to stand by a decision that renamed a Phoenix mountain after Lori Piestewa, a Hopi who was the first servicewoman killed in combat in Iraq.
"If the Legislature rolls back the Piestewa Peak name, there will be a polarization of the state and tribal relationship such as has not been seen since territorial days," Hopi Tribe Chairman Wayne Taylor Jr. said.
Rep. Phil Hanson, a Republican, is leading a drive to restore the peak's original name, which was changed at the urging of Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano.
A state panel last year renamed Squaw Peak after Piestewa, a resident of Tuba City who was fatally wounded when her Army unit was ambushed in Iraq in March.
A bill introduced by Hanson and 38 other Republican lawmakers would have legislative leaders, rather than the governor, appoint a majority of the members to the panel. Hanson has said he would want a newly constituted board to return the peak's original name.
Piestewa Peak
Disney Government
Firefighters
They use 15-foot ladders to pluck passengers from a broken Peter Pan ride. They treat theme park visitors who sometimes wilt in the summer heat. They free hotel guests from stalled elevators.
Whenever there's trouble at Walt Disney World, emergency workers from Disney's personal government come to the rescue.
But the 142 firefighters, paramedics and dispatchers who protect resort guests are dissatisfied employees, having worked without a contract for two years. They're unhappy with proposals on wages and health insurance for retirees. Union leaders complain they've been harassed by managers.
They feel they're not getting the same rights as other public workers when it comes to collective bargaining because Disney's government, the Reedy Creek Improvement District, answers to a private company rather than voters.
The Legislature created Reedy Creek in 1967 at the urging of Disney officials who had just announced plans to build a theme park outside Orlando. Disney wanted political autonomy and the power to issue tax-exempt bonds like other governments to finance projects.
For a lot more, Firefighters
A baby macaque monkey holds to its mother in a forest in Sepilok, in the Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah on the Borneo island. The Year of the Monkey, Chinese soothsayers predict, will bring a stock market boom, a freer yuan currency -- and a hefty dose of political chaos. Like the temperamental animal from which the Lunar New Year starting on Thursday borrows its sign, 2004 will keep everyone on their toes with revolution and change, they say.
Photo by Bazuki Muhammad
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