Justin quiring
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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But Untrue
Strangely Believable
Yesterday's Fact: 2/1/05
A recent FOIA filing by the National Enquirer failed to produce a valid birth certificate for President George W. Bush.
~Jeff Crook
Jeff Crook is the Ceci Connolly of the Left. ~ J. Howard Tuft
Strangely Believable but Untrue is now available online at the Untrue Fact of the Day web calendar. Help spread disinformation and misunderstanding by sharing this with your friends and enemies.
A casual stroll through a mental asylum shows that faith proves nothing. --- Friedrich Nietzche
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FALLING, IN ITSELF,
IS AN ACT OF LETTING GO
CASCADING KARMA
Zen Man
(in the FLOW)
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
James Roosevelt Jr.: Don't use FDR to undermine Social Security (Boston Globe)
Paul Krugman: Many Unhappy Returns
(Click on "Columns," then on "Many Unhappy Returns.")
Jen Schomburg Kanke: Her commitment to LGBT causes traces back to a favorite uncle who died tragically (The Athens News)
David Bruce: Wise Up: Music (The Athens News)
Jim Emerson: 'Million Dollar Baby': Asking some hard questions (RogerEbert.com) -- Spoiler Alert
ROGER EBERT: Critics have no right to play spoiler
The Power of Nightmares: Video
An Archive of Classic Poetry
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Official Beer of Groundhog Day
Groundhog Brew
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Reader Suggestion
SOTUs Past
Hey Marty-
This site breaks down the previous State of The Union addresses quite nicely -
American Progress Takes a Look Back at Bush's 2002, 2003 and 2004 speeches
Thanks, claudia!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & pleasant.
My voice sounds like I'm channeling Andy Devine.
Tonight, Wedneday:
CBS on the East Coast has '60 Minutes', then the cheerleader-in-chief.
On the left coast, the evening starts early for the prevarication festival, followed by '60 Minutes', then 2 hours of local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Patricia Heaton, John Witherspoon, and the Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensembles.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig Stan Lee and Emma 'Baby Spice' Bunton.
NBC on the East coast has a FRESH 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search', followed by 2 hours of compassionate conservatism.
On the left coast, the night starts early with the national blow job, followed by the FRESH 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search', then 2 hours of local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay Leno are Cate Blanchett, Jon Heder, and Ashanti.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Donald Trump and Mekhi Phifer.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Michael Rosenbaum, Jim Gaffigan, and Duran Duran.
ABC on the East Coast has a RERUN 'Lost', followed by Halliburton's handmaid's speechifying.
On the left coast, the night starts early with the bloviating chimp, followed by a RERUN 'Lost', an hour of local crap, and then a RERUN 'Wife Swap'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Will Arnett and the Features.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Jack & Bobby'.
Faux has a FRESH 'American Idol', followed by a RERUN 'Malcolm', then a RERUN 'Simpsons'.
UPN has a FRESH 'The Road To Stardom With Missy Elliott', followed by a RERUN 'Kevin Hill'.
A&E has 'American Justice', another 'American Justice', 'San Francisco Vice', and the made-for-cable movie 'See Arnold Run'.
AMC offers the movie 'Death Wish 3', followed by the movie 'Easy Rider', then the movie 'Joe Kidd'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 5;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - A Bliss Girl;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 7;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - Legacy For the Saint;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 2;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - May;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 22;
[7:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 24;
[8pm] 'My Family' - Imperfect Strangers;
[8:40pm] 'Worst Week of My Life' - Episode 5;
[9:20pm] 'Coupling' - Faithless;
[10pm] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Boy George;
[10:40pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 5;
[11pm] 'My Family' - Imperfect Strangers;
[12:20am] 'Coupling' - Faithless;
[1am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Boy George;
[1:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 5;
[2am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 22;
[2:30am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 24;
[3am] 'My Family' - Imperfect Strangers;
[3:40am] 'Worst Week of My Life' - Episode 5;
[4:20am] 'Coupling' - Faithless;
[5am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Boy George;
[5:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 5;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', and 'Queer Eye - Girl'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Reno 911!', followed by a FRESH 'Crank Yankers', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Drawn Together'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Anderson Cooper.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH 'Full Throttle', and yet another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Blood Simple' (1984);
[7:45AM] Short: 'Beancake' (2000);
[8AM] 'Johnny Stecchino' (1991);
[9:45AM] 'IFC In Theaters' (2004);
[10AM] 'A Chef In Love' (1997);
[11:45AM] 'Mr. Jealousy' (1997);
[1:30PM] 'IFC Short Film Collection I' (2003);
[3:30PM] 'Ulee's Gold' (1997);
[5:30PM] 'A Chef In Love' (1997);
[7:15PM] 'Mr. Jealousy' (1997);
[9PM] 'The Limey' (1999);
[10:30PM] 'Independent Spirit Awards Nomination Show' (2004);
[11PM] 'Telling Lies In America' (1997);
[12:45AM] 'The Limey' (1999);
[2:15AM] 'Chuck & Buck' (2000);
[4AM] 'Telling Lies In America' (1997);
[5:45AM] 'IFC In Theaters' (2004). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction?', 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not', another 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not', and 'Ghost Hunters'.
Sundance -
[6:05AM] 'The Last Just Man' (Documentary);
[7:25AM] 'Wings Of Desire' (Feature);
[9:35AM] 'The Swell Life' (Documentary);
[10AM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: The Door in the Floor' (Original Production);
[10:30AM] 'Keepintime: A Live Recording' (Documentary);
[11:20AM] 'Frank Film' (Feature);
[11:30AM] 'Bartleby' (Feature);
[1PM] 'Shorts Program 102' (Short);
[2PM] 'Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story' (Documentary);
[3PM] 'Wings Of Desire' (Feature);
[5:15PM] 'Diamonds and Rust' (Documentary);
[6:30PM] 'Tyler Brule: My Life' (Documentary);
[7:30PM] 'Bartleby' (Feature);
[9PM] 'The Battle Of Algiers' (Feature);
[11:05PM] 'Hope And Glory' (Feature);
[1AM] 'The Crying Game' (Feature);
[2:55AM] 'The Gift' (Documentary);
[4AM] 'The Battle Of Algiers' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'Love Affair' (1939);
[7:30am] 'Key Largo' (1948);
[9:15am] 'Jezebel' (1938);
[11am] 'The Spiral Staircase' (1945);
[12:30pm] 'Since You Went Away' (1944);
[3:30pm] 'Stella Dallas' (1937);
[5:30pm] 'I Remember Mama' (1948);
[8pm] 'Imitation Of Life' (1959);
[10:15pm] 'Parenthood' (1989);
[12:30am] 'Absence of Malice' (1981);
[2:30am] 'L.A. Confidential' (1997);
[5am] 'Dragon Seed' (1944). (ALL TIMES EST)
Thursday - 02/03
TCM:
[7:30am] 'All This, And Heaven Too' (1940);
[10am] 'These Three' (1936);
[11:45am] 'Singin' In The Rain' (1952);
[1:30pm] 'The Little Foxes' (1941);
[3:30pm] 'The Paradine Case' (1947);
[5:30pm] 'Duel In The Sun' (1946);
[8pm] 'Hondo' (1953);
[9:30pm] 'Sergeant York' (1941);
[12am] 'Nixon' (1995);
[3:15am] 'The Great Lie' (1941);
[5:15am] 'Four Daughters' (1938). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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U.S. actor Dustin Hoffman kisses a statue during a photo call in Berlin on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005. Hoffman is in Berlin to promote his new film 'Meet the Fockers' starting later the week in German cinemas.
Photo by Jan Bauer
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Attending State of Union
Dana Reeve
Christopher Reeve's widow, Dana Reeve, is going to resident Bush's State of the Union address in hopes of hearing him propose additional support for medical research.
Reeve, who is attending Wednesday night as the guest of Rep. James Langevin, D-R.I., has been a vocal advocate of embryonic stem cell research. And Langevin said Tuesday that, "it is my hope that having Dana present at the State of the Union will help refocus the nation's attention and the president's attention on stem cell research and the need for more funding."
Langevin has been confined to a wheelchair since he was accidentally shot at age 16.
Dana Reeve
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Don't Hate Mary Cheney
21 Stations - So Far
Several PBS stations will air an episode of the children's show "Postcards From Buster" despite the network's decision not to distribute it nationwide because two lesbian couples were depicted in it.
So far, 21 stations have said they will air it and another six have indicated they probably will, Jeanne Hopkins, spokeswoman for Boston's WGBH-TV, said Tuesday. The station produced the series.
PBS said last week it would not distribute the episode to its 349 stations around the country. The show features an animated character, Buster, visiting farms in Vermont where maple sugar is produced, and includes two lesbian couples that work on the farms.
The decision came after newly appointed Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings complained about public money being used to promote alternative lifestyles. PBS gets funding for the series through the federal Ready-To-Learn program, aimed at helping young people learn through television.
21 Stations - So Far
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Anna Kournikova, right, talks with her doubles partner Dr. Phil McGraw before their exhibition match during the Serving for Tsunami Relief charity event to help raise money for the Bush-Clinton Relief Fund on Monday, Jan. 31, 2005, in Houston. The charity event to help raise money for the victims of last month's tsunami also included Jim Courier, Chris Evert, John McEnroe and Andy Roddick.
Photo by David J. Phillip
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Thousands Gather in Ethiopia For Tribute
Bob Marley
Thousands of Bob Marley fans and Rastafarians gathered in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday for the start of weeks of festivities to mark the 60th anniversary of the reggae icon's birthday.
Organizers say up to 300,000 people are expected to converge on the city's Meskal square on Sunday for a birthday tribute to Marley, known for anthems such as "No Woman No Cry" and "Get Up Stand Up."
The musical extravaganza will feature artists including reggae rapper Shaggy, Benin's Angelique Kidjo and soul singer India.Arie as well as members of the Marley family.
Bob Marley
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Can't Refuse Video Game Offer
James Caan & Robert Duvall
James Caan and Robert Duvall have joined the late Marlon Brando in providing voice acting and likenesses for Electronic Arts' "The Godfather" video game.
Caan and Duvall, who reprise their respective roles as Sonny Corleone and consigliere Tom Hagen from the film, also were involved in the development of the game and are scheduled to attend its premiere unveiling of the game in New York's Little Italy on Feb. 10.
The video game, which draws inspiration from both Mario Puzo's book and Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 movie, is scheduled for release in the fall.
James Caan & Robert Duvall
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Take On US Super Heroes
Manga Comics
The Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man are confronting new rivals in the US comic book world, as young Americans are devouring Japan's "manga" comics depicting wandering samurais and cheeky Tokyo schoolchildren.
Manga, literally "random sketches" is the term for the genre of narrative comic strips, often series, read by millions of Japanese. Thousands of new titles on themes ranging from samurai, golf, yakuza gangsters, fantasy superheroes, sex and social satire are published each year.
The best-selling manga in 2004 was "Rurouni Kenshin," which depicts the religious and war rituals of 19th century samurais.
American girls have helped make mangas successful in this country, representing between 50 to 60 percent of the readership.
Manga Comics
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'Tonight' Guest Books Auctioned
Johnny Carson
Guest books signed by Johnny Carson's famous visitors to "The Tonight Show" and rescued from the trash in the 1960s may turn into treasure for their owner.
The three books, containing signatures of Groucho Marx, Paul Newman, William Saroyan, Arnold Palmer and other celebrities, are being auctioned online by Steve North, whose father, Jules, worked for NBC's "Tonight" show.
From 1963-65, the books contain more than 400 signatures and notes and drawings some visitors made for Carson, North said. The book-signing tradition fell off in the third season.
The eBay auction, which had drawn 28 bids as of midday Tuesday, ends 8 p.m. EST Sunday, North said.
Johnny Carson
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Documentary filmmaker who calls himself Salam Pax is seen in this undated image released by Rotterdam Film Festival, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005. 'Baghdad Blogger/Salam Pax - Video Reports from Iraq,' was directed by Iraqi web log author Pax whose witty descriptions of life in Baghdad during the U.S. invasion were read by hundreds of thousands of Internet users. For the movie, Pax crisscrossed his country to capture its rapidly changing landscape with a hand-held digital video camera.
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Missing Guitar Found on EBay
Peter Yarrow
A handmade Larrivee acoustic guitar owned by Peter Yarrow disappeared on a flight from Washington to Fort Lauderdale in December 2000. It looked like it was gone for good until something like it surfaced on an eBay auction.
Browsers recognized the six-string guitar and notified eBay and Yarrow. The online auction company canceled the auction and e-mailed law enforcement. Within an hour Monday, FBI spokeswoman Judy Orijuela said agents found the guitar in the Miami suburb of Sunny Isles Beach.
The guitar, made in 1973, was in a case bearing Yarrow's name when it disappeared. A $500 reward for its recovery went unclaimed all this time. Larrivee's custom guitars sell for $10,000 and up.
At his request, no criminal charges will be filed. The man auctioning the guitar told agents that he was "doing a favor for a friend of a friend of a friend" and gave the names of everyone involved, Orijuela said.
Peter Yarrow
Thanks, Ed!
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Sues Over 'Yogasms' in Ad
Yogi Berra
Former New York Yankee great Yogi Berra, whose comments can confound a listener, is speaking very clearly these days -- he says a cable network showing "Sex and the City" reruns is damaging his reputation and he wants $10 million.
Famed for such sayings as "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" and "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded," Berra is not known for matinee-idol good looks or sex appeal.
So he says his rights are being violated and he is being held up to ridicule by the Turner Broadcasting System, which is using his name in outdoor ads without his permission to promote reruns of HBO hit "Sex and the City."
At issue are "'Yogasms." The ads ask for a definition of a "Yogasm" with the following possible answers: a) a type of yo-yo trick, b) sex with Yogi Berra and c) what Samantha (a character on the program) has with a guy from yoga class."
Yogi Berra
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A statue of pharaoh made of chocolate with a 0.1-carat diamond on its left nipple is displayed by a confectionery company for upcoming Valentine's Day at Hyundai Department Store in Seoul, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005. It goes on sale with the price of one million won (US$990).
Photo by Lee Jin-man
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Pleads Not Guilty
Lynn Anderson
Lynn Anderson has been accused of shoplifting a "Harry Potter" DVD from a Taos supermarket and punching a police officer.
Anderson's lawyer entered pleas of not guilty on behalf of the 57-year-old country singer to charges of battery on a police officer, resisting a police officer and shoplifting.
According to a statement filed by Taos police officer Virgil Vigil, Anderson asked him, "Do you know who I am?" when refusing to sign a citation after supermarket employees had accused her of taking the DVD.
Lynn Anderson
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A group of school children observe an untitled work made of pure intense ultramarine pigment, part of the exhibition of French artist Yves 'Monochrome' Klein, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, northern Spain, February 1, 2005. The exhibition, a retrospective of the brief but intense career of the influential French artist, began Tuesday and runs until May 2nd.
Photo by Vincent West
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Arrested for DUI
Lex Luger
Wrestling star Lex Luger has been arrested for DUI and other charges. The wrestler - whose real name is Lawrence Pfohl - was seen by a Cobb County police officer stopped on the side of Interstate 575 on Monday morning.
Pfohl was arrested and charged with DUI, driving on an expired tag, alteration of tag, no proof of insurance and open container, Ebbeskotte said.
Pfohl's girlfriend, wrestling icon "Miss Elizabeth" Hulette, died at the home they shared in April 2003 from an overdose of pills and alcohol. Pfohl was arrested then on drug charges.
Lex Luger
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El Paso, Texas
Mystery Rocks
Wrapped in plastic bubble sheets and kept out of harm's way, plain-looking gray rocks continue to perplex Stanton James, a Northeast man who came across them more than three years ago.
Once the lights are out, the muffin-shaped rocks can show what makes them special. A flashlight held up to one end will make the rocks light up like small lamps. A black light reveals spots on them that glow green and then fade slowly after the light is turned off.
He approached professors at the University of Texas at El Paso last spring to get their opinions on his specimens. They ran a test that determined the rocks were made of silica.
James bought the rocks for $5 about about three years ago from a man in Chaparral, N.M., but James doesn't know where the man got them, nor does he know where the man lives. He said that at this point he is fairly sure the rocks are not organic in origin.
Mystery Rocks
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Former model Russell Christoff, center, is shown with his attorneys Eric Stockel, left, and Colin Claxon, right, with a sampling of Taster's Choice packages using a photo of Christoff at a news conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005. A jury has awarded $15.6 million to Christoff, whose image was used for years without his permission on Taster's Choice coffee labels. Christoff, a former model from Northern California, posed for a two-hour Nestle photo shoot in 1986 but figured it was a bust until he stumbled across his likeness on a coffee jar while shopping at a drug store in 2002.
Photo by Jeff Chiu
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Sued by Woman Who Claims Assault
Snoop Dogg
An Emmy-winning makeup artist has sued rapper Snoop Dogg, the ABC network and its "Jimmy Kimmel Live" show for $25 million, claiming she was drugged and raped backstage at the show by the hip-hop star and his associates.
The legal complaint came about two months after the rapper, born Calvin Broadus, brought his own preemptive suit claiming he was the victim of an extortion plot by the woman, Kylie Bell, and her lawyer, although Broadus did not then refer to her by name.
Bell's suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday and made public this week on www.thesmokinggun.com, said she was sexually assaulted on Jan. 31, 2003, in the rap star's dressing room after Broadus finished taping a segment of Kimmel's show as his guest co-host.
Kimmel was not named as a defendant in the suit. But his show was named, along with ABC, corporate parent the Walt Disney Co., and an ABC investment subsidiary that according to the suit began paying Bell's expenses after she initially came forward with her complaint in May 2003.
Snoop Dogg
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Tiny Pest Decimating Colonies
Honeybees
A tiny pest is decimating honeybee colonies across the country, worrying beekeepers and farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops.
Pollinating almond orchards is the immediate worry in California's agriculture industry, but the mites' devastation of the honeybee supply is causing concern across the country. Honeybees pollinate about one-third of the human diet and dozens of agricultural crops.
California produces 80 percent of the world's almond supply. A $1 billion-a-year crop, the nuts have become the state's top agricultural export, ahead of wine and cotton.
Because almonds are the first crop to flower, the state's growers are the first to suffer from the bee shortage. Bees are used to pollinate the orchards from mid-February to early March.
Honeybees
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Swans swim and feed with bread left by people, in a lake with water clear of ice, near the village of Zhdanovichi on the outskirts of Minsk, February 1, 2005. Severe winter conditions have created problems for swans to find open water to swim in Belarus.
Photo by Vasily Fedosenko
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