Jimmy Fallon 'Drunk on Christmas' with John Rich
David Letterman's Farewell To Larry
Jay Leno's 12 Days of Christmas
Craig Ferguson's Christmas Present from Jimmy
Jimmy Fallon's Christmas Present from Craig
Conan's Got A Christmas Kitty, Too
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Movies
Romantic Comedy: "How Do You Know"
Sci-Fi Adventure: "Tron Legacy"
3-D Cartoon Classic: "Yogi Bear"
Sci-Fi Adventure: "Tron Legacy"
3-D Cartoon Classic: "Yogi Bear"
Friday, December 17, 2010
Rage Test Results Are In
 | Cue the Maury Povich impersonator Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 12/16/10, Host: Robin Young. |
Example...
Video: Newsy.com
Happy New Components
A Recycling Wreath From Reddit
Alexi's Mistletoe Mania
O Holy Crap!
Caution: Jeweled Christmas trees may ruin visions of sugarplums.
Alexi's Mistletoe Mania
O Holy Crap!
Caution: Jeweled Christmas trees may ruin visions of sugarplums.
Nissan Leaf Drops In NW
Never Gassed Up, Ready To Go
After its U.S. debut in San Francisco on Saturday 12/11/10, Nissan's Leaf continues its 2010 West Coast tour... 100 miles at a time.
Congress Turns Up The Car Noise
 | Wednesday in Portland, Today in Seattle Audio Embed: Puget Sound Public Radio 12/16/10, Reporter: Tom Banse |
Congress Turns Up The Car Noise
Farewell To The King
Larry King Live: Belated old-age retirement, hello.
Videos: CBS, CNN & MSNBC
CNN's Shake-up
Apparently replacing Larry King with Piers Morgan was just the start.
Videos: CBS, CNN & MSNBC
CNN's Shake-up
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Fall of the House of Blitzer | ||||
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Apparently replacing Larry King with Piers Morgan was just the start.
Nothing But Foam
King of Beers dethroned in internationally orchestrated coup. The set indicates the interview was recorded near the election. Either they saved the story as a Larry King tie-in, or the hangover was a killer.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Rock On
Neil Diamond and Alice Cooper lead the latest group of inductees, but as always groups that didn't make the cut are getting buzz, too.
Analysis by Newsy.com
Music video by John Mellencamp from 1985... The latest year a nominee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame could have debuted.
Analysis by Newsy.com
Music video by John Mellencamp from 1985... The latest year a nominee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame could have debuted.
Death Tax
The fact is that taxes take a slice any time money changes hands, but the phrase "Death Tax" was pre-tested for its capacity to provoke rage in those who don't know any better... Most of the time you don't have Columbia University economist Jefferey Sachs to correct the distortion when Joe Scarborough slips from political analyst to Republican activist with talking points about families in Farmville.
A Powerful Progressive Proponent
As the House of Representatives questions inclusion of estate taxes in the Obama/McConnell compromise, a look at its history, dating back to when progressives were Republicans... With Michael Graetz, co-author of the book Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth.
The old saying goes, "The only two certainties in life are death and taxes." So it might have been inevitable that they'd meet.
Ezra Klein, An Estate Tax Primer -- Washington Post, 12/15/10:
“We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy,
but we can’t have both.”
-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (1856- 1941)
A Powerful Progressive Proponent
 | A Stand Against Inherited Oligarchy Audio Embed: Morning Edition 12/15/10, Host: Don Gonyea. |
Ezra Klein, An Estate Tax Primer -- Washington Post, 12/15/10:
In a report called "Spending Millions to Save Billions," Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy estimated that a handful of the country's richest families had spent more than $400 million lobbying for the tax's repeal -- and if they were successful, they stood to save more than $70 billion.
Person of the Year
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the world he had been selected as TIME's Person of the Year for 2010 early Wednesday by updating his status.
It's an appropriate venue... Not only because of his position, but also because the proposed update of the American Psychiatric Association’s official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders would eliminate narcissistic personality disorder from the field’s holy book of billable hours.
Self-absorption is so widespread it's the new normal in a world of reality TV, plus "social media" with virtual "friends" and "followers" you've never met... Like technology made it possible for everybody to have their own "Al Franken decade."
Mark Zuckerberg illustrates anyone can make it... In every sense.
| Stop Me Before I Facebook Again Audio Embed: All Things Considered 12/13/10, Reporter: Vanessa Romo |
Are They F@#kin' Crazy?
From the "Sugar-Tooth Steelyard McDan Tour" (2006)
Further Idenitity Crisis
Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is a brain disorder in which the person affected is unable to recognize faces. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the syndrome and two suprising people who have it.
Read more at CBS News. See a previous post with author interview.
Read more at CBS News. See a previous post with author interview.
Hazmat In Our Heads?
 | An Inside The Mouth Job Audio Embed: CBS Radio's Osgood File 12/15/10. Movie still: Sir Laurence Olivier as Szell in Marathon Man (1976) |
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Lame Duck Clusterf@#k
A few Republican senators find comfort and advantage in invoking the heroes of 9/11 but refuse to give them health care.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains why the Obama-GOP tax cut deal has already rattled the world financial markets.
Counterproductive Senate filibuster rules have legislators frantic as the term ends. Senator Tom Udall has a rules change fix in mind for the one day a simple majority can rule.
Can anything happen before time runs out?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Lame-as-F@#k Congress | ||||
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Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains why the Obama-GOP tax cut deal has already rattled the world financial markets.
Counterproductive Senate filibuster rules have legislators frantic as the term ends. Senator Tom Udall has a rules change fix in mind for the one day a simple majority can rule.
Can anything happen before time runs out?
Birth of New Bipartisanship?
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| Moderates... 3rd Party Animals? Audio Embed: Morning Edition 12/14/10, Reporter: Robert Smith |
There are some hot shot political pros starting this movement against "hyper-partisanship." But exactly what they stand for isn't clear yet.
Video: Newsy.com
Reception/Wishful Thinking
Seriously. It's like "The View."
Phallus Versus Phallus
Anyone Lose A Moon?
| My Saturn Needs A Ring Job Audio Embed: CBS Radio's Osgood File 12/14/10. Icy ring fragments painted by Don Dixon |
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
Richard C. Holbrooke 1941-2010
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
-- "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha (1972)
| Last Words... Sage Advice Audio Embed: Dave Ross, KIRO-FM/Seattle, 12/14/10. |
Farewell To The King
Conan O'Brien guests on the final live week of CNN's Larry King Live and recalls meeting the all-time King of Late Night, Johnny Carson.
Ongoing Anger Issues
A Life Sentence
Billy Joel's (2006) Tokyo performance of (1976) Turnstiles classic.
Rage Against The Bad Gene
Scientists have identified a gene on the X-chromosome they call “the Warrior Gene.”
But they don't mean it in the spiritual or enlightened sense of the word. If malfunctioning or non functioning, it makes people more prone to anger, aggression, hostility, a hair-trigger temper and violent behavior.
It's recessive, and can occur in both sexes, but women (with two X-chromosomes) have a greater chance of overcoming that part of their makeup, while men have only one X inherited from their mothers.
Punk rock legend Henry Rollins, of Black Flag fame, hosts a television show that investigates the possible origins of the short fuse, in which a diverse group of men agree to be genetically tested.
“Born To Rage” airs at 9pm ET, Tonight 12/14/10, on NatGeo.
Can't Fight The Seether
The Louise Post/Nina Gordon lineup from American Thighs (1994)
Billy Joel's (2006) Tokyo performance of (1976) Turnstiles classic.
Rage Against The Bad Gene
But they don't mean it in the spiritual or enlightened sense of the word. If malfunctioning or non functioning, it makes people more prone to anger, aggression, hostility, a hair-trigger temper and violent behavior.
It's recessive, and can occur in both sexes, but women (with two X-chromosomes) have a greater chance of overcoming that part of their makeup, while men have only one X inherited from their mothers.
Punk rock legend Henry Rollins, of Black Flag fame, hosts a television show that investigates the possible origins of the short fuse, in which a diverse group of men agree to be genetically tested.
“Born To Rage” airs at 9pm ET, Tonight 12/14/10, on NatGeo.
| It's Mom's Fault Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 12/13/10, Host: Robin Young. |
Can't Fight The Seether
The Louise Post/Nina Gordon lineup from American Thighs (1994)
Pre-Packaged, Neatly Labeled
| Thinking Outside The Box Audio Embed: Dave Ross, KIRO-FM/Seattle, 12/10/10. |
Pete Seeger's (1963) version of Malvina Reynolds' suburban satire.
Side Bet Secrets
The Takeaway tried to untangle the nature of financial "derivatives" and the markets that monopolize exotic trades with the author of the NY Times article and a fuel oil dealer who tries to hedge prices... They lost me, except to think that selling these blind and opaquely priced side bets gives Wall Street even greater incentives to manipulate commodity prices and trading in futures markets.
 | Faulty Financial Formulas Audio Embed: The Takeaway 12/13/10, Hosts: John Hockenberry & Celeste Headlee. |
Heavy Bread
A similar investigation by public radio in Washington found welfare debit card withdrawals at out–of–state liquor stores, smoke shops and even strip clubs.
That probably wouldn't have been a problem on the Pacific Island of Yap, where natives didn't have any of those destinations and built an economy without their money ever moving.
| Everybody Must Get Stoned Audio Embed: Morning Edition 12/10/10, Reporters: Jacob Goldstein and David Kestenbaum |
Monday, December 13, 2010
Paperless
An Online Local (AOL) Alternative
It isn't replacing all the displaced journalists who've lost jobs with the rapid decline of the newspaper, but where it exists, AOL's "Patch" is bringing the local news online. Russ Mitchell reports on the new service that's putting at least some of those reporters back to work.
Currently Patch publishes coverage in fewer than 20 states, but it is accepting both applications and suggestions about where to expand.
It isn't replacing all the displaced journalists who've lost jobs with the rapid decline of the newspaper, but where it exists, AOL's "Patch" is bringing the local news online. Russ Mitchell reports on the new service that's putting at least some of those reporters back to work.
Currently Patch publishes coverage in fewer than 20 states, but it is accepting both applications and suggestions about where to expand.
Atheist, Agnostic, Absolute
| Atheists, Agnostics & Absolutes Audio Embed: Weekend Edition Saturday 12/11/10, Host: Scott Simon with author Michael Krasny. |
Fill In The Map Gap
Da Plane, Da Plane!
| Lost With All Scams Audio Embed: CBS Radio's Osgood File 12/10/10. |
Can You Say Apple II?
The real thing from 1979...
For a guy who could pick his own title, Steve chose wisely... There's no other CEO of his stature with a bigger impact on product design.
And His Partner In Crime, The Other Steve
The hardcore engineer in the original Apple partnership duo.
And His Partner In Crime, The Other Steve
| The Wizard of Woz Audio Embed: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 12/10/10, Host: Peter Sagal; Judge & Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell Panelists: Maz Jobrani, Amy Dickinson and Roy Blount, Jr. |
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Christmas Food Court Chorale
An apparent flash mob (really the Chorus Niagara) broke into George Frideric Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" at the Welland (ON) Seaway Mall.
They Were Waiting For This?
 | The Hasselhoffs! Yeah baby!!! Audio Embed: Berger & Prescott, podcast via Facebook. |
After only a one night run in which two episodes aired on A&E TV,
the network pulled the Hasselhoff’s horrible new reality TV series...
As yet no word on executive firings.
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