Almost all premiers.  V.  PBS has Pioneers of Television– Science Fiction.

You want to be a good archaeologist, you’ve got to get out of the library!

• ABC Family– Along Came Polly
• AMC– The Walking Dead marathon
• Bravo– Golden Globes repeat
• Comedy– Onion SportsDome (premier)
• Disney– Legally Blondes
• Discovery– Dirty Jobs (last week’s and new), Auction Kings (premier)
• ESPN– College Hoopies, Michigan State @ Illinois, Kentucky @ Alabama
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Colorado @ Nebraska, Australian Open
• Food– Cupcake Wars, Chopped (premiers)
• FX– Hancock, Lights Out x 3 (premier and Instapeats)
• National Geographic– Rome and the Middle Ages
• Oxygen– The Perfect Man
• Sci Fi– Next Gen marathon
• TBS– Family Guy marathon, Glory Daze (premier)
• Turner Classic– Screen Directors Playhouse marathon (premiers)
• TLC– What Not To Wear (premier)
• TNT– Transformers (again)
• Toon– Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins
• Travel– Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern (premier)
• USA– Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, White Collar (premier)
• Vs.– Canadiens @ Sabres

Later-

• Oxygen– Titanic

Dave hosts Betty White, Kardashians, and The Script.  Jon has Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Cornel West.  Conan hosts Jennifer Garner and Gabriel Iglesias.

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Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 Resignations rock Tunisia as thousands protest

by Dario Thuburn, AFP

59 mins ago

I don’t pretend to be a reporter, I’m a critic.  Gaius has scooped me twice.  Once with this-

Krugman: ‘Can Europe be saved?’

by Gaius Publius, Americablog

1/14/2011 02:34:00 PM

Enter Mr. Krugman, the facts, and his excellent article. It’s all there:

• The history of the formation of the European Union
• Its politicalgoals (make the next Franco-German war impossible) and its monetary ones
• The benefits of having a euro, and the traps
• How those traps were sprung
• Why the problem in Greece is different from Ireland, which is different from Latvia, and so on

And now with this-

‘Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer plans to hand over offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous to WikiLeaks’

by Gaius Publius, Americablog

1/17/2011 09:58:00 PM

Blum’s article is a review of a recent book about the “shadow elite” behind the current mortgage crisis, the interlocking network of players who’ve worked together from positions in banking, government and think tanks and who are “involved in each of the succeeding cycles of [mortgage] fraud.” The name Citibank comes up.

Wheeler’s last line: “It says something, I think, that the client of a guy who has gone to such lengths to expose the corrupt money running our world is going to Wikileaks.”

There’s more in all three places, and I recommend reading them in order – the Guardian story about tomorrow’s WikiLeak leak; Marcy Wheeler’s smart teasing of the implications; and Blum’s Huff Post piece.

This WikiLeaks thing is turning out rather well for us Littles, isn’t it. The Bigs are having a fit. It sure would be nice if someone backed that thing up. And I don’t mean back up the data; I mean back up the org.

“For the first time I can remember…”

But it’s not the first time I can remember because it’s a benefit of Stars Hollow that I could grow up as a kid with snow banks high enough to construct a proper waist high fort with plenty of reserve ammunition, a life size snow person (I dunno, isn’t three balls how we all look?), and a highly dangerous block long sled run through multiple yards and hedges.

Keep your arms inside the car and stop or bail out before you hit one.  Not that there’s much traffic, but you could have an evil look out.

When I was in upstate New York it snowed all the time and I plowed home with positrac more than once which was quite a contrast from the tropical confines of the heated pools where I worked.  One day I walked over 2 miles in sub zero temperatures because the Blue Shark (my car at the time) wouldn’t start.

My friends would cross country ski through the park across the street which I tried a couple of times but found the uphill parts fatiguing and the downhill parts terrifying so I soon gave that up (they were good losers at Flash Bowling though).

Other amusements were Pitch (also called Set Back) which we played at work whenever we had a break, and Wednesday night Season Pass to the local mountain to shiver on a lift and not sweat your way up a slope.  Quite the sight to see all those skis rusting at the side of the pool.

Then there was the year I snooted the last six pack of Knickerbocker (that vile) at the Universal Market which happened to be right next to my dorm.

The point is that while I can remember what I consider “normal” snow I haven’t seen it much recently.  It’s reminded me of the early springs when I used to crunch through patches of dirt frost on my way to the library and imagined I was on a terraformed Mars.  This is the warmest year ever.

The world our children will inherit will be deeper, steeper, warmer, and wetter (not in a good way) than ours.

A lot of premiers.

There’s no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

• ABC Family– Pretty Little Liars, Greek
• AMC– Chronicles of Riddick x 2
• Bravo– Real Housewives marathon
• Comedy– Scary Movie 3, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia marathon (all new to Comedy)
• Disney– The Suite Life on Deck (All 3 Twister repeats)
• Discovery– Sr. v. Jr (premier)
• ESPN– College Hoopies, Syracuse @ Pittsburgh, Kansas @ Baylor
• ESPN2– Women’s College Basketball, Connecticut @ North Carolina, Australian Open
• Food– Triple D (premier)
• FX– Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer x 2
• History– Pawn Stars x 2, American Pickers (premiers)
• Lifetime– Anywhere but Here, The Greatest
• Nick– Victorious x 2 (premiers), Supah Ninjas (Series Premier)
• Sci Fi– Underworld: Evolution, Being Human x 3 (Series Premier and Instapeats)
• Spike– A Bronx Tale
• TBS– Family Guy marathon
• Turner Classic– A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Camelot
• TLC– Cake Boss (last week’s and new)
• TNT– Hoopies, Magic @ Celtics, Thunder @ Lakers
• Toon– Regular Show, Robotomy (premiers)
• Vs.– Kings @ Stars

Later-

• AMC– Airplane
• Sci Fi– Ghost Ship
• Spike– Goodfellas
• Turner Classic– Prince Valiant
• Travel– Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations marathon

Dave hosts Jack Hanna and Steven Tyler.  Jon has Peter Bergen, Stephen Sherry Turkle.  Alton does Crackers and Dutch Ovens.  Conan hosts Cameron Diaz, Dax Shepard, and My Chemical Romance.

After awhile, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crime. It was more like Henry was enterprising, and that he and the guys were making a few bucks hustling, while all the other guys were sitting on their asses, waiting for handouts. Our husbands weren’t brain surgeons, they were blue-collar guys. The only way they could make extra money, real extra money, was to go out and cut a few corners.

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Evening Edition is an Open Thread

Now with 50 Top Stories.

1 Whistleblower hands Assange offshore bank secrets

by Robin Millard, AFP

1 hr 45 mins ago

Monday Business Edition

I can of course only speculate (unless you want to give me some), but returning to the theme of last week’s Gold diaries, including 2 by Translator– Popular Culture and Pique the question always is can you eat it?

Gold is easily digestible, since it is non reactive, but it has no nutritional value.  It’s eating dirt, like the Haitians.

Oil is more dirt eating, only it goes up in the air to kill us and is quickly disappearing.  A real economist would expect the value of Gold v. Oil to decline due to supply and demand, but what do I know?

The real utility of Money is not as a store of value, but as a medium of exchange.  By turning over the ability to create money to private enterprises with little regulation through leverage we’ve encouraged a series of financial inflations in the speculative value of assets that will never be realized in a free market.

Even the most Randian will admit there will be winners and losers, their problem is that compared to their exposure to loss there is literally not enough money in the world to cover their bets.

Eventually it’s this shadow economy that’s going to have to take a hair cut and a devaluation.

Why?

Because that’s where the money is.

If you are leveraging 30 : 1 (that is, betting 30 for every 1 you actually have) where is the bigger number?

Business News below.

Premiers all over.  60 Minutes because of the ball game.  Animation Domination.  PBS counter programs with Downton Abbey.  68th Golden Globes.

I do want to thank you for offering such a powerful piece of manpower as Virgil Tibbs.

• ABC Family– Matilda, Bruce Almighty
• AMC– Chronicles of Riddick x 2
• Bravo– Real Housewives marathon (with premier)
• Disney– Part 3 of The Suite Life on Deck Twister Trilogy, Good Luck Charlie (premiers)
• Discovery– Animals Attack!
• ESPN– Hoopies, Nuggets @ Spurs
• ESPN2– Breakneck, Australian Open
• Food– Worst (premier)
• FX– Iron Man
• – Ax Men (last week’s and new), [Top Gear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T… (premier)
• Lifetime– Soul Food, Beauty Shop
• Oxygen– Titanic
• Sci Fi– Underworld, Underworld: Evolution
• Style– The Dish (premier)
• TBS– Meet the Fockers x 2
• Turner Classic– In the Heat of the Night, The Liberation of L.B. Jones
• TNT– Transformers x 2 (in case you didn’t get enough last night)
• Toon– Young Justice League (Part 2 of the Series Premier repeat), Clone Wars (Part 2 of the Nightsisters Trilogy repeat)
• USA– NCIS marathon
• Vs.– Bullriding and Snowboarding

Orpheus! I am known to men as Dr. Orpheus! And mine is to perceive and control the delicate arrangement of the cosmos!

They give out Ph.Ds for that?

Junior college upstate, communication major, minor in women’s studies. But I assure you, sir, the doctor title was bestowed upon me by a higher power than a mere college professor!

The Venture Brothers– Eeney, Meeney, Miney… Magic, Ghosts of the Sargasso

Oh, ya’ think, genius. What was it that tipped ya’ off, brainiac? Was it the rubber mask; maybe the huge zipper? But you had to go and kill ‘im anyway. If you’d a played by the rules, the Ghost Pirate rules, none of this would have happened! But, no, you had to go and kill a guy.

Later-

• AMC– Pitch Black
• FX– Lights Out (Series Premier repeat), Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• Lifetime– Bond of Silence
• Oxygen– The Other Boleyn Girl
• Sci Fi– Skinwalkers, BloodRayne 2: Deliverance
• TBS– Fun With Dick & Jane (not the good 1977 version)
• Turner Classic– Dekigokoro (shhhhh)
• TNT– I Am Legend (why remake a Charlton Heston movie?)
• Toon– Childrens Hospital, Robot Chicken (premier), Moral Orel Charity (Episode 4)
• USA– Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, The Big Bounce

Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 Battles in Tunis as new government takes shape

by Dario Thuburn, AFP

52 mins ago