Josh Marshall: Gimme a Break (huffingtonpost.com)
In case it isn't obvious, those begging as they cling by their fingertips on the precipice are not in a position to be making any demands or calling any proposals "deal killer."
James Moore: A Nation of Village Idiots (huffingtonpost.com)
Don't let them tell you this economic meltdown is a complicated mess. It's not. Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy. But we are now witnessing them on a profound, monumental scale.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Football (athensnews.com)
University of Chicago football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg was scrupulously fair, and he meant it when he said, "I would rather lose every game on the schedule than win one by unfair means." In a game, a Chicago player stepped on the line as he ran for what the referees ruled was a touchdown. Mr. Stagg told the referees, "He had his foot outside the line. That score doesn't count."
Who made a guest appearance on an episode of "Father Knows Best," playing Chanthini, an exchange student from India who spends a weekend at the Anderson home with her college classmate Betty (Elinor Donahue)?
A: Barbara Eden
B: Sally Field
C: Annette Funicello
D: Rita Moreno
E: Natalie Wood
What comic strip was spun off when Beetle Bailey took a furlough to visit his sister?
A: Blondie
B: Family Circus
C: For Better Or For Worse
D: Funky Winkerbean
E: Hi And Lois
Source
Beetle's sister is Lois Flagston of the comic strip Hi and Lois, a spinoff that debuted in 1954.
mj was first, and correct, with:
Going through the process of elimination
A predates BB.
B and D started in my lifetime.
C is Candian and also of recent vintage.
I'm going E, becauset the artwork is similar.
Alan J responded:
E: Hi and Lois
Charlie replied:
That was
E: Hi And Lois
Jim from CA said:
I think that was Hi and Lois...
Adam in NoHo answered:
Ugh, E- Hi & Lois.
Since when did the comics page be the place where the family sitcom went
to die? I say by the time that Bil Watterson retired it was all over.
mikey wrote:
As any child of the 60¢s should know -Mort Walker was involved with both Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois.
Mort Walker wrote Hi & Lois but he did not draw it.
Marian the Teacher responded:
Hi and Lois
Tim B replied:
E: Hi And Lois
And, Joe S ("Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."
~ Mort Walker) said:
E: Hi and Lois
CBS starts the night with the SEASON PREMIERE'Old Christine', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Gary Unmarried', then the SEASON PREMIERE'Criminal Minds', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Sen. John McCain and Usain Bolt.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Michael Clarke Duncan, Shirley Manson, and Jamie Lidell.
NBC opens the night with SEASON PREMIERE'Knight Rider', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent', then the SEASON PREMIERE'Lipstick Jungle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Dr. Phil McGraw, Kevin Farley, and Plain White T's.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jamie Pressly, Little Britain, and Lenka.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly is Lester Holt.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by the FRESH'David Blaine: Dive Of Death'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Sandra Oh, the first "Dancing with the Stars" castoff, and Foals.
The CW offers a FRESH'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN'90210'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Til Death', then a FRESH'Do Not Disturb'.
MY has 'Twilight Zone', another 'Twilight Zone', 'Whacked Out Videos', and another 'Whacked Out Videos'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', still another 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', yet another 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', and a FRESH'Criss Angel Mindfreak'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Last Samurai', followed by the movie 'The Karate Kid', then the movie 'The Karate Kid, Part II'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 1
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 29 Newark 64
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 30 Ardingly 65
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 Walnut Tree
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] The Human Camera
[9:00 PM] Should I Really Give Up Flying?
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] The Human Camera
[12:00 AM] Should I Really Give Up Flying?
[1:00 AM] The Human Camera
[2:00 AM] Should I Really Give Up Flying?
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 12 Joan Collins and Jason Donovan
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 17 Ardingly 68
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 18 Newark 62
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 8 Tredwen
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 9 Posner
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', followed by a FRESH'Project Runway', and a FRESH'Top Design'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Lewis Black's Root Of All Evil'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Aaron Eckhart.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Dr. Cornel West.
FX has the movie 'Fantastic Four', followed by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', then a FRESH'Sons Of Anarchy'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'MonsterQuest', followed by a FRESH'MonsterQuest', and 'Jurassic Fight Club'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] Spring Forward
[8:05 AM] Town & Country
[10:00 AM] Second Best
[11:35 AM] IFC News Election Special
[12:05 PM] Dinner Rush
[1:50 PM] Spring Forward
[3:45 PM] Town & Country
[5:35 PM] Second Best
[7:15 PM] Our Song
[9:00 PM] Havoc
[10:30 PM] Elephant
[12:00 AM] Havoc
[1:30 AM] Elephant
[3:00 AM] Our Song
[4:45 AM] Second Best (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters', and a FRESH'Destination Truth'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] The Origins of AIDS
[06:45 AM] Mr. Reliable
[09:00 AM] Slings & Arrows - Season 1: Episode 4: Outrageous Fortune
[10:00 AM] East of Havana
[11:30 AM] Multiply by Six Million: Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors
[12:00 PM] The Flower of My Secret (1995)
[01:45 PM] In Between Days
[03:15 PM] The Tiger and the Snow
[05:15 PM] Colma: The Musical
[07:00 PM] Yves St. Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
[08:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 5
[09:00 PM] Architecture School: Episode 6
[09:30 PM] On the Road in America: Episode 5 - Montana
[10:00 PM] My Summer of Love
[11:30 PM] Be Quiet
[12:00 AM] The Staircase: Chapter 8. The verdict
[01:00 AM] Architecture School: Episode 6
[01:30 AM] Multiply by Six Million: Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors
[02:00 AM] Yves St. Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
[03:30 AM] Be Quiet
[04:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 1: Dr. John, LeAnn Rimes & Massive Attack
[05:00 AM] Colma: The Musical (ALL TIMES EST)
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones arrive at the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity awards dinner in New York September 22, 2008.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
The war in Iraq may seem like it's mostly out of the headlines these days, but it was on the minds of the voters Monday night at the News and Documentary Emmys.
Stories that were honored centered on wounded veterans and their plight back home, a Marine veteran who videotaped the war in Iraq, family members from an infantry unit of the Iowa National Guard and the battle to get body armor on more troops. A "Bill Moyers Journal" installment about how the Iraq war was marketed and the annual "Iraq: Where Things Stand" on ABC News also won awards.
PBS won 10 awards, including best documentary for the Independent Lens production "Billy Strahorn: Lush Life." CBS took home five, including three for "60 Minutes" and two for "Sunday Morning." ABC News won four, including two for "20/20" and two for "World News With Charles Gibson." National Geographic won three, and Freep.com, Free Press, History Channel and NBC News' "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" each won two. One award each went to CFR.org , Discovery Channel, HBO/Cinemax, HDNet/Dan Rather Reports, MercuryNews.com and Smithsonian Channel.
Receiving lifetime achievement awards were CBS News veteran Bob Schieffer and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, as well as the late Tim Russert.
Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, are the latest celebrity donors to the fight against California's November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
Spielberg and Capshaw have donated $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, they announced in a statement Monday.
"By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation," the statement said. "Such discrimination has NO place in California's constitution, or any other."
Brad Pitt gave the same amount to the cause last week.
Michael J. Fox arrives with Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jeanne Shaheen at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H., Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.
Photo by Jim Cole
Filmmaker Michael Moore released his latest documentary for free on the Internet on Tuesday, marking a first for the maverick director who aims to encourage young people to vote -- preferably for Democrats -- in November's U.S. presidential election.
"Slacker Uprising," a feature-length film documenting Moore's tour of swing states during the 2004 presidential election year, was made available for a free download instead of being released in movie theaters.
The maker of the award-winning anti-Iraq war blockbuster "Fahrenheit 9/11," said in a statement the gesture was "entirely as a gift to my fans."
Although "Slacker Uprising" chronicles the director's efforts to get young people on either side of the political spectrum to vote, he said the documentary was also a "tribute to the young voters who are going to save this country from four more years of Republican rule."
Filmmakers have named big-screen classic The Godfather their favourite movie of all time.
Directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Sam Mendes, Mike Leigh, Guillermo Del Toro, Cameron Crowe and Pedro Almodovar took part in the survey for Empire magazine.
Raging Bull came second, one of two Martin Scorsese films starring Robert De Niro in the top ten.
Taxi Driver, the 1976 movie also featuring Jodie Foster, was fifth in the poll of 31 filmmakers.
Gene Kelly's Singin' In The Rain (1952) was third, followed by Stanley Kubrick's 1963 film Dr Strangelove.
Clay Aiken is finally confirming what many people already knew: He's gay.
The cover of the latest People magazine shows Aiken holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken, with the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay." The cover also has the quote: "I cannot raise a child to lie or hide things."
Aiken, who gained fame as the runner-up on "American Idol" in 2003, rarely addressed the frequent rumors about his sexuality. In an interview with The Associated Press two years ago, he said: "I don't really feel like I have anybody to answer to but myself and God and the people I love."
Little Anthony and the Imperials, from left, Ernest Wright, Clarence Collins, Anthony Gourdine and Harold Jenkins perform on the Grandstand Stage on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, as the headline act at the 154th Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg, Pa. The state's largest fair runs through Saturday.
Photo by Jimmy May
Actress Sharon Stone has lost another round of custody proceedings over her oldest son.
A San Francisco judge denied her request for primary custody of 8-year-old Roan, who's been living with his father, newspaper executive Phil Bronstein. The couple divorced in 2004 after six years of marriage.
The judge ruled Sept. 12 that Bronstein's home is more stable and structured, reaffirming a 2007 court order that the executive vice president of the San Francisco Chronicle has permanent sole custody of Roan.
A New York City judge says news anchor Dan Rather can proceed with his $70 million lawsuit accusing CBS of violating its contract with him when the network fired him.
Judicial Hearing Officer Ira Gammerman dismissed a fraud complaint against CBS Corp. on Monday and a business interference complaint against CBS and former parent company Viacom Inc. No causes of action remain in the lawsuit against Viacom.
The judge also let Rather's breach of fiduciary duty complaint against CBS continue.
Hundreds of stuffed Tiggers occupy the seats in Rangos Hall on the Carnegie Mellon University campus in preparation for a memorial Monday, Sept. 22, 2008 in Pittsburgh for professor Randy Pausch. Pausch whose 'last lecture' became an Internet sensation has been remembered for urging people to do more than they thought they could and to have fun doing it. He died of cancer in July, 10 months after giving the lecture that touched millions of people worldwide. During his last lecture, Pausch said, 'You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore. I think I'm clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate. Never lose the childlike wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us.'
Photo by Gene J. Puskar
Ed McMahon's lawsuit against a hospital and doctors he claims failed to properly diagnose and repair his broken neck has passed a key legal hurdle.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled last week that McMahon's lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and two physicians lays out adequate legal ground to pursue claims that include negligence, elder abuse, battery, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
According to his lawsuit, doctors at Cedars-Sinai failed to perform an X-ray and determine that he had a broken neck when he was brought into the emergency room. The suit also claims that a doctor at the hospital's spinal-care center improperly performed two surgeries.
McMahon is seeking a jury trial; a date has not yet been set.
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there's no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country.
The ingredient, perchlorate, has been found in at least 395 sites in 35 states at levels high enough to interfere with thyroid function and pose developmental health risks, particularly for babies and fetuses, according to some scientists.
The EPA document says that mandating a clean-up level for perchlorate would not result in a "meaningful opportunity for health risk reduction for persons served by public-water systems."
The conclusion, which caps years of dispute over the issue, was denounced by Democrats and environmentalists who accused EPA of caving to pressure from the Pentagon.
In this photo released by Sotheby's shows Edvard Munch's 'Vampire'. A dark, brooding painting of a woman with cascading red hair kissing a man's neck, the painting may set a new record for the Norwegian artist when it goes on the auction block this fall.
If anyone thought the Rolling Stones were beginning to get on in years, another British band are proving age is not an issue when it comes to rock 'n' roll.
The Zimmers, whose lead singer is 91, has just celebrated the launch of its 14-song debut album "Lust for Life" in a Berlin shopping center, a rock show that made the front page of many German newspapers at the weekend.
Their new CD features cover versions of songs by Eric Clapton, The Beatles and Frank Sinatra. Also included is their now famous rendition of The Who's "My Generation," which The Zimmers recorded in 2007 when their average age was 78.
Their manager, Dave Palmer, said his group, whose average age is over 80, chose Germany for the launch of its new album because the audience in Germany often show more respect for the elderly than at home in Britain.
Prime-Time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Sept. 15-21. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (7) "NBC Sunday Night Football (Dallas vs. Green Bay)," NBC, 22.23 million viewers.
2. (9) "House," Fox, 14.77 million viewers.
3. (20) "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.59 million viewers.
4. (30) "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kickoff," NBC, 14.02 million viewers.
5. (--) "Fringe," Fox, 13.27 million viewers.
6. (X) "Primetime Emmy Awards," ABC, 12.34 million viewers.
7. (24) "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 12.24 million viewers.
8. (64) "Football Night in America Part 3," NBC, 10.92 million viewers.
9. (10) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 10.19 million viewers.
10. (X) "America's Got Talent" (Thursday), NBC, 10.03 million viewers.
11. (16) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 9.98 million viewers.
12. (56) "Bones," Fox, 9.84 million viewers.
13. (14) "NCIS," CBS, 9.7 million viewers.
14. (72) "Flashpoint," CBS, 9.67 million viewers.
15. (--) "Fox NFL Sunday Post-Game Show," Fox, 9.59 million viewers.
16. (20) "Deal Or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 8.87 million viewers.
17. (24) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 8.72 million viewers.
18. (35) "CSI: NY," CBS, 8.1 million viewers.
19. (X) "Cold Case Special," CBS, 8.04 million viewers.
20. (X) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Special," CBS, 7.96 million viewers.
A butterfly rests on a flower petal at the Nehru Zoological Park's butterfly park in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Sept., 23, 2008.
Photo by Mahesh Kumar A.
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