'Best of TBH Politoons'
Reader Comment
Re: TBH Cartoon
Oh lordy! Let me stop laughing long enough to get up off the floor! Skanks! How many times have I thought that of all those "women"?!
Thank you, Tim!!! That is most excellent. And Marty, thanks for featuring that one! What a hoot.
Linda >^..^<
Thanks, Linda!
Tim's the BEST!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Stephen Pizzo: It's Obstruction Time (News for Real. Posted on alternet.org)
First-term Damage Report
* They blew the Clinton $5.6 trillion surplus
* Cut taxes by nearly $2 trillion benefiting mostly wealthy earners
* Ran up national debt to over $8 trillion -- and growing $3.5 billion a day
* Created record high energy prices and record high earnings for energy companies
* Started a war on false pretenses
* Global warming is on a tear (just ask the folks in Florida and Louisiana.)
* Treats real scientists the same way the Catholic Church treated Galileo.
Frank Rich: 'We Do Not Torture' and Other Funny Stories (The New York Times; posted at topplebush.com)
IF it weren't tragic it would be a New Yorker cartoon. The president of the United States, in the final stop of his forlorn Latin America tour last week, told the world, "We do not torture." Even as he spoke, the administration's flagrant embrace of torture was as hard to escape as publicity for Anderson Cooper.
Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Laura Schlessinger (campusprogress.org)
Married at the age of 25, Dr. Laura has an unusually sordid marital history for someone who berates her callers and listeners for what she sees as unacceptable moral failings in their own personal lives. After a rocky marriage, and several extramarital affairs, Dr. Laura relocated to Los Angeles, where she became a licensed marriage, family, and child counselor at the University of Southern California. While still married to her first husband, Dr. Laura apparently began a nine-year affair with Lewis G. Bishop, a professor of neuro-physiology and married father of three ....
Harry Shearer: Tony Blair's Defeat, and White Phosphorus (huffingtonpost.com)
What to think? Whom to believe? In an ideal universe, of course, this would be a big enough story--accusations of the US Army using chemical weapons against Iraqis--that major American news media would do some, pardon the expression, actual reporting on it. But, like white phosphorus itself, the news media aren't being used so much for illumination these days.
Vince Darcangelo: You can't spell "funeral" without F-U-N (boulderweekly.com)
In "Stiff," Roach took an alternative and scientific look at death, not at the process itself but at what purpose cadavers serve after death-for example, finding employment as crash test dummies. "Spook" picks up where "Stiff" left off, but forgoing the existential for the paranormal. While these two books are connected, Roach says she has no plans to turn this into a trilogy.
New Survey Report Reveals Truth Behind Credit Card Debt Explosion in the United States
Key survey findings from The Plastic Safety Net:
- $8,650 is the average credit card debt of a low- and middle-income indebted household in America
Sembler's Straight Program
Hubert's Poetry Corner
BROTHER PAT'S ODD JIHAD
BROTHER PAT IS SO UNLIKE THE ALL KNOWING, ALL POWERFUL zEN mAN!
Reader Humor
Re: Joke
Hey Marty...
Here's a deer hunting joke fer yer Dear Old Dad
I hope he hasn't heard this one... What's the difference between Beer Nuts and deer nuts? Beer Nuts are about $1.49 a bag. Deer nuts are under a buck! Hahahahahaha!
BadtotheboneBob
Thanks, BTTBob!
Nothing like fresh material for the regular phone call - especially during hunting season...
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Santa Ana's blowing hot, dry air.
No new flags.
Wins Thurber Prize for Humor
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart, David Javerbaum and Ben Karlin won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor for their book, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction."
The runners-up were Andy Borowitz for "The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers" and Firoozeh Dumas for "Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America."
The award is named for James Thurber, an author, humorist and New Yorker magazine cartoonist who delighted readers for decades with his sharp wit and literary flair before his death in 1961.
Jon Stewart
Ex-CPB Chairman Broke Law
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson
The former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting broke federal law by interfering with PBS programming and appearing to use political tests in recruiting the corporation's new president, internal investigators said Tuesday.
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, a Republican, also sought to withhold funding from PBS unless the taxpayer-supported network brought in more conservative voices to balance its programming, said the report by CPB inspector general Kenneth A. Konz.
Specifically, the report said Tomlinson violated the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 and ethical standards by dealing directly with one of the creators of the conservative-leaning "Journal Editorial Report," hosted by the editor of The Wall Street Journal editorial page.
There was evidence, the report said, to suggest that "political tests" or qualifications were used as a major factor in the hiring of new CPB President Patricia S. Harrison (R-Borg), in violation of federal rules. Harrison, who was backed by Tomlinson, is a former co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
The report also faulted Tomlinson for hiring a consultant to review program content on PBS shows such as "Now With Bill Moyers." The IG said Tomlinson didn't obtain the proper authorization from the board for the consultant's $20,000 contract. The consultant kept track of whether guests on the shows were "anti or pro-Bush," and "anti or pro-Tom DeLay."
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson
'Peace Mom' Resuming Protest
Cindy Sheehan
The fallen soldier's mother who drew thousands to her 26-day war protest near President Bush's Crawford ranch this summer plans to return for Thanksgiving next week, despite new county ordinances banning roadside camping.
Cindy Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif., and at least a dozen supporters are prepared to be arrested as they return to the makeshift campsite along the road leading to Bush's ranch, where he is expected to spend the holiday.
Sheehan's group also plans to hold activities next week - including a Thanksgiving meal of Iraqi food - on the same 1-acre lot that a sympathetic landowner let protesters use this summer as a second camp. The group plans an anti-war rally in a downtown Crawford park the weekend after Thanksgiving.
Cindy Sheehan
List of Winners
CMA Awards
Winners at Tuesday's 39th annual CMA Awards:
Entertainer of the Year: Keith Urban
Single: "I May Hate Myself in the Morning," Lee Ann Womack
Album: "There's More Where That Came From," Lee Ann Womack
Song: "Whiskey Lullaby," Bill Anderson/ Jon Randall
Female Vocalist: Gretchen Wilson
Male Vocalist: Keith Urban
Vocal Group: Rascal Flatts
Vocal Duo: Brooks & Dunn
Musical Event: George Strait (duet with Lee Ann Womack); "Good News, Bad News"
Musician: Jerry Douglas, dobro
Music Video: Toby Keith, "As Good As I Once Was"
Horizon Award: Dierks Bentley
CMA Awards
World AIDS Day
LIFEbeat
LIFEbeat - the Music Industry Fights AIDS will honor World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with an Internet auction featuring some 1,000 items from stars in music, film, theater and television.
The "Bid 2 Beat AIDS" auction on eBay will include a signed bottle of officially licensed, limited-edition Lindsay Lohan Heinz ketchup, a diamond watch donated by Lil' Kim and a signed jogging suit worn by Jennifer Lopez, it was announced Monday.
Other items include a 2006 Vespa LX-50 signed by Kanye West and other stars; the podium from the 2005 MTV Movie Awards signed by Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Nicole Kidman; and signed guitars from Tim McGraw, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Wynonna Judd.
Also up for bid will be hundreds of CDs, posters, DVDs, photos, toys, and magazines signed by stars such as Mariah Carey, Eminem, Usher, Britney Spears, Jamie Foxx, Justin Timberlake, Shakira, Diddy, Beyonce, Orlando Bloom and Melissa Etheridge.
LIFEbeat
Declared in Chicago
'Julie Andrews Day'
Mary Poppins dropped by City Hall. Julie Andrews, who won an Oscar for her title role in the 1964 film, is in Chicago with the national tour of the musical comedy "The Boy Friend."
Mayor Richard Daley proclaimed Tuesday "Julie Andrews Day" in the city, calling the 70-year-old actress-singer an "entertainment legend."
She is directing this version of "The Boy Friend," which is scheduled to run through Saturday at the Chicago Theatre. But in 1954, it was the show that first brought her to Broadway from England. She turned 19 the day after her Broadway debut.
'Julie Andrews Day'
Hospital News
Brooke Burns
Actress Brooke Burns was hospitalized after diving into her backyard pool and hitting her head, her agent said Monday.
Burns broke a bone in her neck and required "minor surgery," said Paradigm spokeswoman Jennifer Glassman.
The former "Baywatch" star and host of "Dog Eat Dog" has been hospitalized since Friday, Glassman said. She is expected to be released Tuesday.
Brooke Burns
Attending Anti-Execution Rally
Snoop Dogg
Rapper Snoop Dogg will attend a rally Saturday outside San Quentin State Prison to support a former gang leader scheduled to be executed next month, according to an advocacy group.
The former Crips member turned musician will be among thousands expected to protest the Dec. 13 execution of Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, who was sentenced to death in 1981 for killing four people in two Los Angeles robberies.
The rapper wanted to visit Williams, but his application for entry to the prison was denied, according to San Quentin spokesman Vernell Crittendon.
More than a dozen other rallies around the state are scheduled in the next few weeks supporting Williams, whose prison teachings have earned him several Nobel Prize nominations. The rallies include a documentary film screening about Williams in San Francisco, hosted by actor Danny Glover; a discussion led by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael; and a round-the-clock vigil outside the prison from Dec. 4 until the execution, when people from across the country are expected to demonstrate.
Snoop Dogg
Settles Suit Against Surgeon
Sharon Stone
A settlement was reached in a lawsuit filed by Sharon Stone claiming a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon implied he had performed a face-lift on the actress, an attorney said Tuesday.
"It became plain to all parties that the lawsuit was the result of a misunderstanding," said Kevin Leichter, an attorney representing Dr. Renato Calabria. "Dr. Calabria did not perform plastic surgery on Ms. Stone."
Stone, 47, accepted an offer by Calabria to perform several charity surgeries for underprivileged kids involved in Stone's philanthropic efforts, Leichter said.
Sharon Stone
File FEC Complaint Against Diddy
Hypocrites
A conservative organization has filed a complaint against Sean "Diddy" Combs, contending the hip-hop mogul violated election law in his 2004 "Vote or Die" campaign by promoting Democrat John Kerry and opposing resident Bush.
The National Legal and Policy Center, which filed the complaint, said Tuesday that the Federal Election Commission informed the group in a letter that it would review the complaint.
Combs, through his organization, Citizen Change, traveled to several cities last year urging people to sign up and vote. He declined to endorse either candidate during his push to register new voters.
Hypocrites
Revamping Morning Lineup
CNBC
CGOP is revamping its morning lineup, including a worldwide business news program with anchors in New York, London and Singapore.
"Squawk Box" will expand to four hours, although popular anchor Mark Haines is being cut back to one hour on the air.
CNBC now has more potential viewers overseas than in the United States, where it' seen in 86 million of the more than 200 million homes that carry it worldwide. The new global business show, which doesn't have a name yet, will air 4 to 6 a.m. EST in the United States.
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera will get the early morning wake-up call in New York, Ross Westgate will anchor in London and Christine Tan in Singapore. The timing is to coincide with the close of markets in Asia and midday in London, said Mark Hoffman, CNBC president.
Gets the Most Downloads on Ipods
'Lost'
"Desperate Housewives" may be ABC's most popular show on the small screen, but "Lost" is the winner on the REALLY small screen.
After one month of offering downloads of ABC's two favorite shows for viewing on iPods, "Lost" has sold the most, said Stephen McPherson, ABC entertainment president. He had no sales figures, but Apple has already said it has sold more than a million copies of ABC shows.
Contrary to the fears of some ABC affiliates, McPherson said he believed selling iPod downloads drives more viewers to the shows on ABC because it gives fans who may miss episodes a chance to keep up with intricate plotlines.
'Lost'
Beer May Be Healthy
Hops
Hops used to brew beer may have some health benefits but researchers warn against expecting any significant effect by drinking a few cold ones.
Scientists at Oregon State University's Linus Pauling Institute have found a class of compounds called flavonids neutralize "free radicals" - rogue oxygen molecules that can damage cells.
One of those flavonids, a compound called xanthohumol, is found only in hops. It may help prevent some forms of cancer, researchers say.
Hops
Ashes to Be Launched Next Year
James Doohan
When James Doohan's ashes head for orbit next year, his fans can send their best wishes along for the ride.
Some of Doohan's ashes will be launched some time in February or March from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, said Susan Schonfeld, a spokeswoman for Houston-based Space Services Inc., which has been arranging memorial space flights for several years.
Details will be posted online at www.spaceservicesinc.com - where Scotty's fans can also post a few words of tribute that will be digitized and sent up as part of the Falcon 1 rocket's payload.
James Doohan
Tortoise Turns 175
Harriet
One of the world's oldest living animals, Harriet the tortoise, celebrated her 175th birthday on Tuesday -- with a pink hibiscus flower cake at her retirement home in northern Australia.
Australia Zoo, where Harriet has spent the past 17 years, says the Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise was collected by scientist Charles Darwin in 1835, although some historians have disputed this.
There is no doubt however over the age of Harriet -- who for more than a century was thought to be a male and named Harry -- and she is recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living chelonian, or reptile with a shell of bony plates.
Harriet
Prime-Time Nielsen
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Nov. 7-13. 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. (1) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 29.5 million viewers.
2. (2) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 25.9 million viewers.
3. (8) "NFL Monday Night Football: Indianapolis at New England," ABC, 21.9 million viewers.
4. (3) "Without a Trace," CBS, 20.8 million viewers.
5. (6) "Lost," ABC, 20 million viewers.
6. (4) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 19.7 million viewers.
7. (12) "CSI: NY," CBS, 19.2 million viewers.
8. (9) "Survivor: Guatemala," CBS, 19 million viewers.
9. (5) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 18.4 million viewers.
10. (7) "NCIS," CBS, 17.8 million viewers.
11. (13) "Cold Case," CBS, 17.4 million viewers.
12. (16) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 16.7 million viewers.
13. (20) "NFL Monday Showcase," ABC, 16.3 million viewers.
14. (14) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 16.2 million viewers.
15. (11) "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 15.8 million viewers.
16. (17) "ER," NBC, 15.4 million viewers.
17. (19) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 15.1 million viewers.
18. (10) "Commander in Chief," ABC, 14.8 million viewers.
19. (15) "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.5 million viewers.
20. (21) "House," Fox, 14.2 million viewers.
Ratings
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