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CNN in the Tank for Gay Marriage
Perhaps CNN stands for the Closeted News Network. No, that doesn't work. There's nothing closeted about CNN's clear advocacy for homosexual causes.
A Culture and Media Institute analysis of 239 programs aired on CNN from the period June 15 to July 15 revealed that CNN quoted or interviewed nearly four times the number of gay-agenda supporters as critics.
Nexis searches for the terms "gay," "homosexual," "LGBT," "same sex marriage," and "marriage equality" revealed that CNN quoted or interviewed 98 people who supported the gay agenda, 48 people who posited no opinion regarding gay issues, and 28 critics or defenders of traditional marriage.
And CNN's on-air personnel haven't been shy about their advocacy. Whether congratulating newly "married" gays, excoriating marriage traditionalists or citing skewed statistics from gay organizations, pro-gay groupthink is obvious at the network - and some even admit it.
Guest Selection
Given the contentiousness of the same-sex marriage debate, a news network would be expected to represent both sides in stories covering the issue. But in addition to that 4-to-1 ratio of guests, CNN aired 41 stories in that month that featured only gay advocates, leaving out critics altogether. Just nine stories featured only critics to the exclusion of gay advocates.
CNN also likes to give air-time to some of the most strident and purposely vile LGBT advocates. "Comedienne" Margaret Cho, a self-identified bisexual, infamously wrote of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008, "Even though I would never, ever vote for Palin, I am kind of obsessed with f***ing her." What followed was a graphic description of sex acts Cho wanted to perform with Palin.
Cho appeared three times on CNN from June 15 to July 15 to discuss gay issues.
Dan Savage is a gay sex columnist who infamously wished on live television that Republicans were "all f***ing dead," (which he apologized for) and also proclaimed that he wanted to "f*** the s**t out of [conservative presidential candidate] Rick Santorum." (He did not apologize for that.) Nor has Savage apologized for a campaign against Santorum, the result of which is that Googling "Santorum" returns a disgusting sexual definition. That's what you get for disagreeing with Dan Savage.
That didn't stop Joy Behar from inviting Savage onto her HLN show.
Hosts Voice Support
Three CNN hosts have ties to the homosexual community. CNN anchor Don Lemon is openly gay. Behar and Anderson Cooper have been honored with awards from, The Gay and Lesbian Award against Defamation (GLAAD).
(Imagine the outcry among liberals if any CNN anchor received an award from a pro-life or pro-traditional marriage group.)
Not surprisingly, the hosts sometimes show their sympathies on-air. On July 15, CNN anchor Ali Velshi argued in favor of the California gay history bill: "It's the idea that everybody's contribution should be counted. I've been getting a lot of tweets about this to suggest that somehow history is being displaced as a result of it. I think this is just a move toward inclusion."
Also that day, anchor Suzanne Malveux celebrated Atlanta's "gay population. Atlanta was named the 'Nation's Gayest City' last year by 'Advocate' magazine, a national gay and lesbian publication."
New York's legalization of same-sex marriage occasioned plenty of on-set happy talk. On June 24, CNN anchor Kyra Philips congratulated openly gay correspondent LZ Granderson on his engagement. The next day, Don Lemon congratulated a gay couple on the success of the gay marriage bill in New York: "I'm happy that you've been together for so long. Anyone, gay or straight, has been together as long as you guys, I say bravo."
On the July 14 Joy Behar said "About gays getting married now. It's very nice, it's lovely." Guest Margaret Cho, responded that it was "thrilling" and jokingly suggested Behar officiate at a gay wedding.
Behar is CNN's head cheerleader for the gay agenda. On June 23 she proclaimed of New York's annual gay pride parade, "To me, it's the most fun event of this season." Behar also bizarrely claimed on June 16 that "The only people I know who are having children are gay people."
Maybe in her world.
The network's choice of stories and how they report them also clearly illustrate its pro-gay stance.
On June 20, Anderson Cooper aired a segment in which homosexual teachers expressed their feelings about exposing their sexual identities to their students. The segment featured a homosexual male, a lesbian, and a spokesman for the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, with no counterbalancing voices to assess any potential impact on the students.
On June 19 and 20, an interview and fawning profile of a homosexual couple of 61 years was aired by three different anchors (Don Lemon, Suzanne Malveaux, and Fredricka Whitfield). CNN anchor Don Lemon teased the piece: "Imagine what it was like to be a gay couple 60 years ago fighting discrimination." The couple predictably weighed in on the gay marriage debate in New York, complaining that "It's terrible to be look down [sic] and considered a second-class citizen."
On June 28 and 29, anchors Suzanne Malveaux and Randi Kaye ran a story featuring a legally married lesbian couple about to be separated because one of them was an illegal immigrant (a fact which was not directly stated in the piece). Correspondent Soledad O'Brien ominously teased the piece: "Takako Ueda and Frances Herbert appear to be living the idyllic life of a newly married couple. But time is running out on their happiness." Cut to Frances Herbert weeping and claiming: "It will feel really, really criminal, just because we're two women."
Gay Agenda Opponents the Real Second-Class Citizens
Predictably, celebrities and advocates who favor the gay agenda get favorable notice on CNN.
On June 27, a Showbiz Tonight segment favorably quoted five celebrities who supported the Marriage Equality Act in New York, which legalized gay marriage. Host A.J. Hammer weighed in with his opinion in an interview with openly gay George Takei, stating that: "I've been hearing a lot of people today comparing New York's new gay marriage law to other major civil rights victories over the ages." Actor Tom Hanks and actress Charlize Theron were allowed to express their support for gay marriage without question or opposition.
The same can't be said for former New York Giant David Tyree, a public opponent of gay marriage. Tyree went through a hostile June 17 interview with Kyra Phillips in which she relentlessly demanded he justify his position. "There are women and women come together and raise a family as well and a man and a man come together and raise a family as well." When Tyree stated that he understood her views, Philips underscored her point by stating that "Oh, no, I'm not expressing my views. I'm just stating a fact."
Her facts, of course, came from citing a study by the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, which "advances sexual orientation law and public policy through rigorous, independent research and scholarship, and disseminates it to judges, legislators, policymakers, media and the public."
In other words, the Williams Institute is a gay advocacy think tank. In 2008 Williams bizarrely claimed that same-sex marriage was a remedy for California's budget deficit, raising "about $63.8 million in government tax and fee revenue over three years," and be boon to the state's economy. Simple arithmetic, however, showed that, even using The Williams' Institute's own numbers, gay marriage would ease the deficit by less than three tenths of a percent and add a little more than 1/100th of a percent to the economy.
When Marcus Bachmann, husband of GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, was 'exposed' for offering reparative therapy at his clinic (orchestrated by the homosexual activist group Truth Wins Out), ran the story of during seven different timeslots, and brought on numerous experts to challenge reparative therapy, which holds that homosexuality is a condition that can be cured.
When Southwest Airlines reinstated a foul mouthed pilot who insulted homosexuals, insulted old people, and complained about ugly flight attendants over an open microphone, CNN quoted the pilot's vulgar rant an incredible 19 times.
CNN admits its own Bias
Two CNN correspondents were honest enough to admit that the networks were biased in favor of gay rights.
Howard Kurtz, on his "Reliable Sources" show on July 3, acknowledged "the media's celebration - there really is no other word - of the gay marriage debate in New York."
On June 26, Kurtz asked CNN reporter Carl Crawford whether or not the "coverage has paid equal attention to both sides of the debate." Crawford replied that "I think the media has been kind of rallying behind the marriage equality movement. I think we're always prone to any civil rights movement. We like it. It's democratic to us, and that's just one of our soft spots."
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anderson poofer doesnt have a
Submitted by Infidelphia on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 1:06pm.
anderson poofer doesnt have a lisp!!!
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Infidelphia....Re: anderson poofer's lisp.
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 9:10pm.
" Not that there is anything wrong with that."
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"...a news network would be
Submitted by Satchmo on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 1:17pm.
"...a news network would be expected to represent both sides in stories covering the issue."
Why would they be expected to represent both sides?
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It's part of journalism 101.
Submitted by Bhaal on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 4:51pm.
It's part of journalism 101. Present opposing points of view of an issue. Very basic writing concept.
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Are you really serious?
Submitted by mandrake on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 1:29pm.
The US is on the brink of financial crisis and has three wars going on..and you care about this?
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Four wars. Yemen.
Submitted by Satchmo on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 1:40pm.
Four wars. Yemen.
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cluestick for mandrake
Submitted by MrShy on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 2:56pm.
This site is not a news and information delivery site. This site "cares" about one thing:
Exposing & Combating Liberal Media Bias
It's in the freakin' masthead. Smack-dab centered, at the top. On every page.
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Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 2:55pm.
Please don't bang your head against the wall/table/keyboard. Find a troll and bang it's head against the wall/table/keyboard. Take some aspirin and try to relax. It's only going to get worse until November 2012.
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Submitted by mandrake on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 4:38pm.
If I've managed to annoy someone today..then I've done my job. I'm done.
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Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 9:46pm.
A fly is qualified to do what you do. You don't think much of yourself do you?
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To be specific
Submitted by mandrake on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 7:53am.
I really don't care much about the 'mandrake' persona...it's just for fun. Check out the photo in my bio..you'll see.
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Skeevy Satchmo's brother strikes again.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 8:58am.
You go Frosty Blue Troll of the North. Let all those monkeypeople know they are turds in your troll world. Dried up turds laying on the ground that just need to be kicked. You are a troll and those stupid monkeymen should never forget it.
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Well I'm not going to stop
Submitted by mandrake on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 9:25am.
I'm not stopping until you let the rest of my fellow trolls out of your fridge.
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Group rights advocate
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 4:37pm.
This is because we in the United States care about something you think is stupid, old-fashioned, and idiotic. The United States still (for the moment) cares about individual rights. Your country (as Mark Steyn can attest) ONLY cares about group rights.
Besides, this isn't really about gays at all. It is about one or all of the following:
1) The guilt some people feel about missing a REAL civil rights movement (such as in the 1960s) by accident of birth,
2) The desire to have group rights trump individual rights at all times, and
3) The desperate need for some in the United States to poke organized religion in the eye. Leftists in this country HATE religion. If Leftists could get away with it, they would have the cops harass and intimidate churchgoers and clergymen. They can't (yet), so the best way for them to do it is to cram things like this down people's throats - things that are antithetical to everything in organized religion.
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I watched a movie today, went
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 9:39pm.
I watched a movie today, went for a walk, did some work in my yard, and read some articles old scientific articles today. All while the US is on the brink of financial crisis and has three wars going on. Image that !
Look, if a major news network is trying to portray you as a bigot for holding an honest opinion, you have a right to care about it ; the political implications after that are only second in importance. I don't see what's so hard to understand.
Of course, I doubt you'd ever ask the same thing of gay rights supporters. "Why are you supporting gay marriage, are you aware that there's a financial crisis and three wars going on?" Tell me if I'm wrong, but I think your problem isn't the time spent on the issue; its that you don't like really like social conservatives.
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Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 1:49pm.
MSNBC has a lock on Left-wing crazies, FOX has the Conservatives so perhaps CNN wants to be the Go-To channel for Gays. Niche marketing.
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Just "CNN in the Tank" is a sufficient heading. Adding
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 8:59pm.
"for Gay Marriage", "for Democrats", "for Abortion,"For Obama", "for Big Spending," "for Higher Taxes," "for More Redistribution," "for a New World Order," "for Class Warfare," "for a Completely Green Society," "for a Socialist/Communist Society," or any other of the Lefts chaotic and failed guiding principles is a given.
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Out-of-work Americans pining for a bright spot amid the still-bleak unemployment landscape should welcome news that the federal government is in need of new recruits. A lot of them.
The feds need to hire close to 273,000 people over the next three years to fill so-called "mission-critical" jobs across the U.S. and abroad, in part because more federal workers are inching closer to retirement age, a new survey of 35 federal agencies by think-tank Partnership for Public Service shows.
Perhaps not surprisingly, agencies in the public health and medical fields are in need of the most new bodies. A total of 54,114 people are in demand to fill positions in areas ranging from radiology to consumer safety, according to the study.
Job seekers should also look to the security, law enforcement, legal and administrative fields, all of which are projected to boom over the next few years.
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It's no secret that the economic downturn is having an impact on the careers of millions of Americans. Just ask Matthew Derra (pictured here), who found himself pursuing a degree in renewable energy after his job at American Axle disappeared.
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Police said the suspects pretended to be customers when they entered Public Storage at 10717 Hillwood Drive on Wednesday, Aug. 19. When an employee began to collect storage rental info for the men, one of the suspects ran behind the counter, pulled out a knife and demanded money before pulling the phone cord from the wall, police report.
The men ended up with money from the business and some of the worker's belongings, including a wallet, before tying the man's hands and feet and leaving. The employee was able to untie the bonds and call the police, who arrived just before 5 p.m. that day.
Police think the same men may have been behind the armed robbery of a Public Storage location in Laurel the same day, a crime that is being investigated by Prince George's County Police.
Now, police are releasing surveillance video of one of the suspects trying to use the victim's credit card at an ATM in hopes of identifying the men.
Detectives are asking anyone who may have information about these armed robberies or the suspects involved to call the Robbery Section at 240-773-5100. Anonymous callers contact Crime Solvers of Montgomery County at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477) or enter a tip online. Crime Solvers will pay a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information provided to them that leads to an arrest and/or indictment for this felony crime.


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William Bonin
William George Bonin
(January 8, 1947 February 23, 1996) was an American serial killer and a twice-paroled sex offender, also known as "the Freeway Killer", a nickname he shares with two other serial killers. Between 1979 and 1980, Bonin tortured, raped and killed a minimum of 21 boys and young men, and is suspected of committing a further fifteen murders. Bonin was convicted and eventually executed in 1996 for 14 of these murders.
Bonin was born in Connecticut in January, 1947, the second of three brothers. His father was a compulsive gambler and alcoholic, who beat his wife and sons. Bonin's mother, Alice, was also an alcoholic, who frequently left Bonin and his brothers in the care of their grandfather, a convicted child molester. Bonin and his brothers were neglected as children, and were often fed by neighbors.
In 1953, aged 6, Bonin was placed in an orphanage, where he remained until the age of 9.
At the age of 10, Bonin was arrested for stealing license plates and ended up in a juvenile detention center for other minor crimes where he was sexually abused by older boys. By his teens, back home with his mother, Bonin began molesting younger children.
After graduating from high school in 1965, Bonin became engaged to marry, and joined the U.S. Air Force. He served in the Vietnam War as an aerial gunner, logging over 700 hours of active duty and earning a Good Conduct Medal. While serving in Vietnam, Bonin risked his own life under fire to save the life of a fellow soldier, but also later admitted to sexually assaulting two fellow soldiers at gunpoint. Bonin was honorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force in October, 1968 and returned to Connecticut to live with his mother before moving to California.
On November 17, 1968, at age 21, Bonin committed a sexual assault on a youth. In late 1968 and early 1969, he kidnapped and assaulted four youths between the ages of 12 and 18. In 1969, he was indicted on five counts of kidnapping and four counts of sexual assault on five youths. He pled guilty to molestation and forced oral copulation and was sentenced to the Atascadero State Hospital as a mentally disordered sexual offender amenable to treatment. In 1971, he was sent to prison, declared unamenable for further treatment.
Bonin was released in May 1974 after doctors concluded he was "no longer a danger to others," but was back behind bars just 16 months later for raping a 14-year-old hitch-hiker named David McVicker at gunpoint and attempting to abduct another teenager, for which he was sentenced to between one and 15 years in prison at Orange County Jail.
In October 1978, Bonin was once again released, with 18 months probation. He took a job as a truck driver, rented an apartment in Downey and found a girlfriend. In 1979, he was again arrested for molesting a teenage boy. This parole violation meant that he should have been sent back to prison, but due to an administrative error he was released. A close friend who collected him from the Orange County police station later recalled that as he was driving Bonin home, Bonin told him: "No one's going to testify again. This is never going to happen to me again."
Bonin usually selected young male hitchhikers, schoolboys or, occasionally, male prostitutes as his victims. The victims, aged 12 to 19, were either enticed or forced into his Chevy van, overpowered, had their hands tied behind their back, were sexually assaulted, tortured and then usually killed by strangulation with their own T-shirts, although some were stabbed or battered to death. One victim, Darin Kendrick, was forced to drink hydrochloric acid, two victims had ice-picks driven into their ears and another victim, Mark Shelton, died of shock. The victims were usually killed inside Bonin's van and most were discarded alongside various freeways in southern California. In at least 13 of the murders Bonin was assisted by one of his four known accomplices.
The first murder for which Bonin was charged was that of a 13-year-old hitchhiker named Thomas Lundgren. The youth was kidnapped, assaulted and killed on the morning of May 28, 1979. Lundgren's body was found near a freeway in Agoura. An autopsy showed that Lundgren had been emasculated, bludgeoned, stabbed and strangled to death. Bonin carried out the crime with his primary accomplice, Vernon Butts, who is suspected of accompanying Bonin on at least nine of the murders.
Three months later, on August 4, 1979, Bonin and Butts abducted and killed a 17-year-old Westminster youth named Mark Shelton and the following day, again accompanied by Vernon Butts, a West German exchange student named Markus Grabs, who was stabbed more than 70 times and discarded alongside a Malibu freeway. On August 27, Bonin and Butts abducted and killed a 15-year-old Hollywood youth named Donald Hyden and discarded his body in a dumpster near the Ventura Freeway. Between September and December 1979, Bonin killed five more teenage boys, either operating alone or with the assistance of Butts or another accomplice, 19-year-old James Munro, who assisted Bonin in the November 30 murder of 17-year-old Frank Dennis Fox.
On January 1, 1980, Bonin brutalized and killed a 16-year-old named Michael McDonald; his body was found in San Bernardino County two days later. A month later, on February 3 in Hollywood, Bonin, assisted by a young man named Gregory Miley, abducted a 15-year-old hitchhiker named Charles Miranda. The victim was forced to hand his wallet to Bonin before he was overpowered, raped, assaulted with other objects then garroted. Miranda's nude corpse was dumped in an alleyway. Bonin then suggested to Miley: "I'm horny, let's go and do another one." A few hours later, in Huntington Beach, Bonin and Miley abducted, raped and killed James McCabe who, at age 12, was Bonin's youngest victim. They picked up McCabe while he was hitchhiking to Disneyland. According to Miley, the boy entered the rear of the van voluntarily as he drove, then he heard McCabe crying as Bonin beat and raped him. Bonin then strangled McCabe with a tire iron as Miley repeatedly jumped on his chest. His naked, beaten body was found three days later alongside a dumpster in the city of Walnut.
Bonin did not strike again until March 14, when he abducted and killed an 18-year-old Van Nuys youth named Ronald Gatlin, but by the end of the month he had killed a further three times. On April 10, Bonin killed twice on the same day: abducting a 16-year-old Bellflower youth named Steven Wood and discarding his nude body beside the Pacific Coast Highway, then, hours later, abducting and killing an 18-year-old acquaintance of his named Lawrence Sharp. Sharp was beaten, strangled and discarded behind a Westminster gas station. Three weeks later, on April 29 in Stanton, Bonin and Butts lured a 19-year-old supermarket employee named Darin Kendrick into Bonin's van while parked in the parking lot of the store where Kendrick worked. Kendrick was forced to drink hydrochloric acid by Bonin before Butts drove an ice pick into his ear. His body was discarded near the Artesia Freeway.
On May 19, Bonin again asked Butts to accompany him on a killing; however, Butts reportedly refused to accompany him. Operating alone, Bonin abducted a 14-year-old South Gate youth named Sean King from a bus stop in Downey and discarded his body in Yucaipa. Bonin then visited Butts' residence and bragged of the killing to his accomplice.
By early 1980, the murders committed by the Freeway Killer, as he was known in the press, were receiving considerable media attention. On May 29, one of Bonin's acquaintances, a teenager named Billy Pugh, serving a prison sentence for auto theft, heard the details of the murders on a local radio broadcast and suspected Bonin may be behind the killings. Pugh reported his suspicions to the police and, upon investigating Bonin's background and discovering he had a string of convictions for sexually assaulting teenage boys, the police decided to place him under surveillance starting June 2, 1980.
On June 2, the same day as police surveillance of Bonin began, Bonin killed his final victim, an 18-year-old print shop worker named Steven Wells, whom Bonin abducted from a bus stop on El Segundo Boulevard. Wells was killed in Bonin's own apartment, where he was raped, beaten then strangled with his own t-shirt. Bonin was assisted in this final murder by his lodger, James Munro, and in the disposal of the body by both Munro and Vernon Butts.
On June 11, after nine days of surveillance, police observed Bonin attempting to pick up five separate teenage boys, then succeed in luring a youth into his van. The police followed him until his van parked in a desolate parking lot, where they arrested him in the act of assaulting a 15-year-old identified as
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Bonin and his four known accomplices in murder were convicted of 14 murders committed between August 5, 1979, and June 2, 1980, although Bonin was also charged with two additional murders for which he was acquitted at his first trial in Los Angeles County. Of these murders for which Bonin was convicted, 10 were committed in the Los Angeles County and four in nearby Orange County, however, the "Freeway Killer" was suspected of committing at least 21 murders.
In nine murders; those of Lundgren, Shelton, Grabs, Hyden, Murillo, Wirostek, Kendrick, Wells and a John Doe found in Kern County in November 1979, Bonin was assisted by his primary accomplice, Vernon Butts, a 22-year-old factory worker who, according to Bonin, was an extremely active accomplice. Butts, who had met Bonin at a party in 1978, was a part-time magician who hired out his talents to private parties. Butts also boasted of being a wizard and slept in a coffin.
Bonin was assisted by 19-year-old Gregory Matthews Miley in the February 3 murders of Miranda and McCabe. Miley then returned to his native Houston in March 1980.
James Michael Munro, Bonin's lodger and coworker, accompanied Bonin on two murders: those of Frank Dennis Fox and Steven Wells. The day after Bonin was arrested, Munro fled to his native Michigan.
Following Bonin's arrest, police discovered through Bonin's friends that 18-year-old William "Billy" Pugh, Bonin's acquaintance who had informed them Bonin may be the Freeway Killer, knew Bonin better than he had initially divulged; police later discovered that Pugh had actually accompanied Bonin on one of his killings, that of Harry Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from Lancaster, who was killed on March 20, 1980.
Bonin was not brought to trial for the murders of Mark Shelton, Robert Wirostek, John Kilpatrick, Michael McDonald or a 'John Doe' whose body was found in a Kern County reservoir in November 1979 because police did not find sufficient evidence upon any of the victims' bodies which could conclusively link Bonin alone to the crimes: police did charge Bonin and Butts with the murder of the John Doe, and those of hitchhiker Mark Duane Shelton and grocery clerk Robert Christopher Wirostek (alongside that of Darin Kendrick) in October 1980. Shelton had been linked to the manhunt for the freeway killer upon his body being found in August 1979, as had both the John Doe and Darin Lee Kendrick. Wirostek, who vanished en route to his job on September 17, 1979, was not confirmed as a Freeway Killer victim until his body was found and identified in July 1980.
Three months after all charges had been filed against each defendant, Vernon Butts committed suicide, rendering his recorded testimony in these three cases inadmissible as evidence. Police therefore chose not to charge Bonin with any of these three crimes, although sufficient physical evidence was nonetheless still present in the case of Darin Kendrick a murder for which Bonin was subsequently convicted.
On August 5, 1980, a body previously identified as a 'John Doe' which had been linked to the Freeway Killer was identified as that of John Frederick Kilpatrick, a 15-year-old Long Beach youth who disappeared December 10, 1979, and was found strangled December 13 in Rialto. Neither Bonin nor any of his accomplices were ever charged with the murder of Kilpatrick, although Bonin never disputed the youth as being a victim of his.
Bonin was charged with, but subsequently cleared of, the murders of Sean King and Thomas Lundgren. However, Bonin did confess to both murders.
In custody, Bonin confessed to abducting, raping, and killing 21 boys and young men, naming Butts as his primary accomplice. Police also suspect Bonin to be responsible for approximately fifteen other murders. Between July 26 and July 29, Bonin was charged with 16 of the murders to which he confessed and upon which the prosecution believed they had sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction. He expressed no remorse and told one reporter who asked Bonin what he would do if he were still at large:
"I'd still be killing, I couldn't stop killing. It got easier each time."
Based on Bonin's confession, police arrested Vernon Butts on July 25, and charged him with accompanying Bonin on five of the murders. He was later charged with four other murders committed between August 5, 1979 and April 29, 1980. On July 31, Munro was arrested in Michigan and charged with the murder of Steven Wells and on August 22, Miley was arrested in Texas and charged with the murders of Charles Miranda and James McCabe. Butts, Miley and Munro all agreed to testify against Bonin in exchange for being spared the death penalty.
Bonin was brought to trial in Los Angeles County, charged with the murder of 12 of his victims whose bodies had been found within this constituency, on November 5, 1981. Deputy District Attorney Stirling Norris, who prosecuted Bonin, sought the death penalty for each count of murder for which Bonin was tried, stating in his opening speech to the jury:
"We will prove he is the Freeway Killer, as he has bragged to a number of witnesses. We will show you that he enjoyed the killings. Not only did he enjoy it, and plan to enjoy it, he had an insatiable demand, an insatiable appetite - not only for sodomy, but for killing."
Bonin was physically linked to many of the murders by blood and semen stains, hair and carpet fibers. Medical evidence showed that six of the murders for which Bonin was charged were committed by a unique "windlass" strangulation method, which was referred to by Norris as
"a signature, a trademark."
Both Miley and Munro testified against Bonin at this trial, describing in graphic detail the murders in which they had accompanied Bonin. Munro testified that after the murder of Stephen Wells, he, Bonin and Butts drove to a McDonald's restaurant and purchased burgers with money taken from Wells' wallet. As the trio ate, Bonin laughed and mused:
"Thanks, Steve, wherever you are."
Miley testified to his participation in the murders of Miranda and McCabe; describing in graphic detail how both youths were beaten and tortured with a crowbar before their murders and how he heard a
"bunch of bones cracking"
as one of the youths was strangled by Bonin.
The trial lasted until January 5, 1982. After six days of deliberation, the jury convicted Bonin of 10 of the murders, but cleared him of the murders of Thomas Lundgren and Sean King. Bonin was sentenced to death for the 10 murders of which he was convicted.
Bonin was cleared of the murder of Sean King because he had led police to the body of the victim in December, 1980, with the agreement that his leading police to King's body could not be used against him in court. He was cleared of Thomas Lundgren's murder because he chose to deny this particular killing at his trial.
In March, 1983, Bonin was tried in neighboring Orange County, charged with the murder of four further victims who had been found murdered between November 1979 and April 1980. On August 26, 1983, Bonin was convicted on all four counts of murder.
Bonin spent 14 years on California's Death Row, awaiting execution in the gas chamber. He filed numerous appeals against his conviction while incarcerated, all unsuccessful. His final submission to the United States Court of Appeals was submitted in October 1994; this appeal was rejected on June 28, 1995.
In 1992, following the execution of Robert Alton Harris, the State of California opted to use lethal injection as an alternate method of execution to the gas chamber, branding the gas chamber a "cruel and unusual" method of execution.
William Bonin was executed February 23, 1996, 16 years after his arrest, by lethal injection inside the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison. Bonin was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the history of California.
In a final interview given to a local radio station less than 24 hours before he was executed, Bonin claimed he had
"made peace"
with the fact he was about to die. When asked whether there was anything he had to say to the families of his victims, Bonin simply stated:
"They feel my death will bring closure, but that's not the case. They're going to find out."
At 6 p.m. on the day he was executed, Bonin was moved from his cell to a death watch cell, where he ordered his last meal: two large pizzas, three pints of ice cream and three six-packs of Coke. In his last statement, given to the warden one hour prior to his scheduled execution at midnight, Bonin again expressed no remorse for his crimes and left a note that stated:
'I feel the death penalty is not an answer to the problems at hand. I feel it sends the wrong message to the people of this country. Young people act as they see other people acting instead of as people tell them to act. I would advise that when a person has a thought of doing anything serious against the law, that before they did, they should go to a quiet place and think about it seriously.'
William Bonin was 49 at the time of his execution.
Bonin's main accomplice, Vernon Butts, accused of accompanying Bonin on at least nine of the murders, hanged himself with a towel on January 11, 1981, while awaiting trial. Butts had told police the killing spree had been
"a good little nightmare."
Gregory Miley, a 19-year-old casual labourer from Texas, was given a sentence of 25 years to life for the February 1980 murder of 15-year-old Charles Miranda.
James Michael Munro was sentenced to 15 years to life for the murder of Steven Wells. Munro has repeatedly appealed his sentence, claiming that he had been tricked into accepting a plea bargain.
Bonin's fourth accomplice, Billy Pugh, aged 18, who had been present at the murder of 15-year-old Harry Turner in March 1980, was given a six-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
In July 1977, three years prior to Bonin's arrest, Patrick Kearney, who also selected young men as victims from the freeways of Southern California, was arrested. He had also discarded many of his victims alongside freeways; many of whom were dismembered and discarded in trash bags.
Following Bonin's arrest, police continued to discover bodies of young men and teenagers along the freeways of Southern California, leading some to theorize that Bonin had other accomplices who were still active. However, these later murders were committed by a Long Beach IT specialist named Randy Steven Kraft, who was arrested in May 1983. Kraft acted separately from Bonin, but did happen to have a similar disposal modus operandi. In addition, many of Kraft's victims were United States Marines who were drugged before they were killed.
Collectively, Bonin, Kraft and Kearney may have claimed up to 130 victims.
1. Thomas Lundgren (13) May 28, 1979
2. Mark Shelton (17) August 4, 1979
3. Markus Grabs (17) August 5, 1979
4. Donald Hyden (15) August 27, 1979
5. David Murillo (17) September 9, 1979
6. Robert Wirostek (18) September 17, 1979
7. John Doe (19-25) November 28, 1979
8. Frank Dennis Fox (17) November 30, 1979
9. John Kilpatrick (15) December 10, 1979
10. Michael McDonald (16) January 1, 1980
11. Charles Miranda (15) February 3, 1980
12. James McCabe (12) February 3, 1980
13. Ronald Gatlin (18) March 14, 1980
14. Harry Todd Turner (15) March 20, 1980
15. Glen Barker (14) March 21, 1980
16. Russell Rugh (15) March 22, 1980
17. Steven Wood (16) April 10, 1980
18. Lawrence Sharp (18) April 10, 1980
19. Darin Lee Kendrick (19) April 29, 1980
20. Sean King (14) May 19, 1980
21. Steven Wells (18) June 2, 1980
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Jeff Roberts is the Robert J. Appel Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He obtained his Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1970 and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England from 1970-71. He returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows in 1971 before joining the Cornell faculty in 1974.
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We study DNA transcription by the enzyme RNA polymerase, and particularly the elongation process, which is regulated to synchronize the appearance of RNA with its utilization by the cell. Our major focus is on transcription antiterminators, genetic regulatory proteins that interfere with the ability of RNA polymerase to recognize stop signals that otherwise prevent downstream genes from being expressed. Antiterminators exemplify a class of regulatory proteins associated with RNA polymerase that affect stages in the maturation of messenger RNA molecules in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, through modification of the basic enzymatic properties of RNA polymerase. The system we use is that of the bacteriophage lambda late gene regulator Q, whose activity in a purified transcription system is revealing in detail fundamental aspects of the processes of elongation and termination, and of the interaction of transcription proteins with DNA.
B.Z. Ring, W.S. Yarnell, and J.W. Roberts (1996). Function of E. coli RNA Polymerase Sigma Factor s70 in Promoter-Proximal Pausing. Cell, 86, 485-493.
C.W. Roberts and J.W. Roberts (1996). Base Specific Recognition of the Nontemplate Strand of Promoter DNA by E. coli RNA Polymerase. Cell 86, 495-501 (1996)
M.T. Marr and J.W. Roberts (1997). "Promoter Recognition As Measured by Binding of Polymerase to Nontemplate Strand Oligonucleotide." Science, 276, 1258-1260.
Ko, D.C., Marr, M.T., Guo, J., and Roberts, J.W. (1998). A Surface of E. coli s70 Required for Promoter Function and Antitermination by Phage Lambda Q Protein. Genes and Development 12, 3276-3285.
Roberts, J.W., Yarnell, W., Bartlett, E., Guo, J., Marr, M., Ko, D., Sun, H., and Roberts, C.W. (1999). Antitermination by Phage l Q Protein. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 63, 319-325.
Yarnell, W.S., and Roberts, J.W. (1999). Mechanism of Intrinsic Transcription Termination and Antitermination. Science 284, 611-615.
Marr, M.T., & J.W. Roberts (2000). "Function of Transcription Factors GreA and GreB at a Regulatory Pause Site", Molecular Cell, 6, 1275-1285
Marr, M.T., Saul A. Datwyler, Claude F. Meares, & Jeffrey W. Roberts (2001). "Restructuring of an RNA polymerase holoenzyme elongation complex by lambdoid phage Q proteins" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 98, 8972-8978
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Santangelo, T.J. and Roberts, J.W., (2004). "Forward Translocation Is the Natural Pathway of RNA Release at an Intrinsic Terminator". Mol. Cell 14, 117-126.
Park, J.-S. & J.W. Roberts (2006). "Role of DNA Bubble Rewinding in Enzymatic Transcription Termination" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 4870-4875
Nickels, B.E., Roberts, C.W., Roberts, J.W., and Hochschild, A. (2006). "RNA-Mediated Destabilization of the s70 Region 4/b Flap Interaction Facilitates Engagement of RNA Polymerase by the Q Antiterminator" Mol. Cell. 24, 457-468
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Update: RAB Goes To Washington Drink Up 6/16/2012By
Hi all … a blog post from me is a rarity, but a blog post about getting together for drinks should make total sense.
As mentioned prior to the season, we here at RAB HQ are heading to the lovely land of taxation without representation next weekend, Washington D.C. The Yankees will be in town to the play the Nationals, and the plan right now is to enjoy some baseball and hang out with some of you great people after the game. If you like beer, and I know I do, you'll love The Big Hunt. It's a great bar right in Dupont Circle, which is centrally located in the greater D.C. area and about 15 minutes from the ballpark.
Interested? Let us know. We'll do it up real nice and try to meet up after the game on Saturday, June 16, 2012.
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Whatever happened to the ordering of a block of tickets? I imagine this is off the table now.
Where are people staying? What hotels? Is anyone going to be around before any of the games? Big Hunt is a brillaint pub. Let me know please.
Im heading down for Friday and Saturday's game.
YE. Big Hunt is a great spot.
blogger mean
Got 5 of us that will be there
Some cool bars around there so you can always just hop around.
FYI, there is a Shake Shack down the street from The Big Hunt.
Went to school in DC. Big Hunt was probably my favorite bar. Me and my friends still speak fondly of it.
Tonight is my first night at my new apartment in D.C.! I am going to the Friday game, not Saturday, but I'd be down to meet up for drink after anyways.
Also, I have an extra ticket for the Friday game thanks to unforeseen circumstances, if anyone is interested.
Goimg to be at Fridays game. Would love to meet up. Lived off metro in southern md for two years off green line. RFD is a great place as well. That is off gallery place / Chinatown stop. Never been to big hunt.
For RFD you wouldn't have to change lines. Just take green line to gallery place
I was going to say the 15 minutes timeline is kinda short considering the lines to get on the metro from the ballpark.
I'll just assume the drunkest bastard in the pics will be jjyank.
Wearing my Cano jersey. You won't be able to miss me.
I work work right next door. Great bar. Note that it will take a little more than 15 minutes to get to the ballpark. More 30ish give a little walk, changing metro lines, etc.
Also note that the southern entrance to the Dupont stop (the one near the bar) is closed. You have to use the north one.
I'll bet at the Sat and Sun games so I'll stop by after Saturday's game.
A friend and I will be there for the Saturday game, so we will stop by after…
Heading down from Jersey for the saturday game with mom, grampa and my sisters – see ya after for celebratory beverages
Big Hunt! I brought some Rwandan accountants there once. They thought it was too loud, no kidding. Love that place. Wife is having a baby any second otherwise I'd be there. Go Yanks.
I'll be at the games Friday and Saturday (reserving Sunday for touristy stuff). Will try to steer our small group of five NYY fans to Big Hunt for postgame. Thanks for putting this out there.
I will be down all weekend as well. Have tix for Friday night and Sunday games. Will stop by the Big Hunt for a couple…Thanks!
I will be down all weekend as well. Have tix for Friday night and Sunday games. Will stop by the Big Hunt for a couple. Thanks!
There for all 3 games. Definitely plan on stopping by post-game saturday. group of 4 fans. looking forward to it.


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In early 2009, Congress directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to develop a National Broadband Plan (NBP) to ensure that every American has "access to broadband capability." The NBP noted the significant individual and societal costs of "digital exclusion" and warned that absent action, these costs would grow.
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This Week in Blue Raider BaseballOctober 4, 2006 · MT Media Relations
Sophomore Brett Smalley will start on the mound along with sophomore Chad Edwards in Thursday's Blue-White World Series opener at Reese Smith Field at 3 p.m. (Joe Imel)
RENICK HEADED TO JAPAN WITH INDEPENDENT TEAM: Former Middle Tennessee All-American Josh Renick will play five games in the next 10 days with his independent league team, the St. Paul (MN) Saints, on a tour of Japan. It is believed to be the first time a United States-based minor league baseball team will play games in Japan.
"It should be a great baseball experience and a great cultural experience," said St. Paul manager George Tsamis. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
The team's entire coaching staff, clubhouse manager Brock Simon and a group of 19 players are expected to make the trip that runs from October 3-13. In addition to the players and staff, others accompanying the team are: Derek Sharrer, Saints' Vice President/General Manager; Tom Whaley, Vice President/Business Development and Seigo Masubuchi , the club's Director for International Development. Tyler Tumminia, Public Relations Director for the Goldklang Group, will serve as the media contact for the trip. Mudonna, the team's two-legged mascot, and Andy Crowley, the team's organist, are also accompanying the team to Japan.
After arriving in Miyazaki City on October 4, the team will head to Kobayashi City to work out for two days. The first game is set for Saturday, October 7, against the Miyazaki Golden Golds, a team owned and managed by Kinichi Hagimoto, a renowned entertainer and comedian. Known as "Kinchan," Hagimoto is a household name whose team regularly plays to sold-out crowds. The next day sees St. Paul travel to Saga to face the Saga Spirit.
ST. PAUL SAINTS' SCHEDULE IN JAPAN October 4 Arrive in Miyazaki City October 5-6 Work in Kobayashi City October 7 Game vs. Miyazaki Golden Golds in Kobayashi October 8 Game vs. Saga Spirit in Saga October 9 Game vs. Fukuoka Blossom in Nagasaki October 10 Stay in Nagasaki to part in baseball and cultural activities October 11-12 Games vs. Shikoku Island League All-Stars in Tokushima October 13 Return to United States
The club will then play games on October 11-12 at Kuramoto Stadium in Tokushima on the island on Shikoku against an all-star team from the Shikoku Island League. The independent league recently completed its second season.
The trip was organized by Tetsuro Jitozono, a Nagasaki entrepreneur, and American businessman Guy Healy, whose firm has operated exchange programs between the two countries for more than two decades.
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Before each game coach Charlie Weis studies the opponent learning how its roster plays. But his focus on personnel may have backfired last Saturday.
Weis gives a report on his opponents to kickoff his weekly press conference each Tuesday. But last week nothing was said about Iowa State quarterback Sam Richardson. At some point, after studying the Cyclones depth chart, Weis diverted his efforts from spending time on their third-string, redshirt freshman.
"We knew all about the kid," Weis said of Richardson on Monday's teleconference call. "We just didn't think he was going to be someone who factored into the game."
Twenty-three completed passes, 250 yards and four touchdowns later, Weis may be rethinking his evaluation process.
"Give the kid credit he had a heck of a game," Weis said, "But at the same time you usually get ready for the guys that are listed one and two on the depth chart and he wasn't in that mix."
At one and two on ISU's depth chart were Steele Jantz,who started against Kansas, and Jared Barnett. Both had been shaky as the Cyclones lost four of their last five games before coming to Lawrence.
Appropriately, Weis prepared for either quarterback to enter on Saturday. He spent time working on disrupting ISU's schemes and getting ready to be the team with tricks up its sleeves. He wasn't prepared for everything to backfire. Instead of running the more complex offenses Weis was prepared to defend, ISU ran basic plays to simplify the game for Richardson.
"They did more base stuff than they've been running," Weis said. "We didn't spend a big portion of the week working on the base offense."
What Weis said didn't backfire was the fan support. After offering to buy tickets to the game for any student that didn't have one, Weis helped pack 41,608 into Memorial Stadium. They didn't stay long.
In what has become typical fashion for the student section, the patrons who Weis had convinced to come watch a then 1-9 team were gone by halftime, when the score was 38-17.
"There were a lot more people who were at the game than would have been at the game if I didn't," Weis said, of buying the tickets. "The game didn't get away from us because of the fan base. The fans were there and they were loud and they were into the game."
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'No thanks. I got Linux'
Windows 8 will be unleashed, Kraken-like, on an awaiting public on Oct. 26, which is this Friday. For US$79.99 — let's just round that up to US$80 — one can get the latest version of the Windows operating system which, by many reports, is not ideal yet not as bad a some of the other products Redmond has forced upon the public in the past.
A CrunchBang user with the handle merelyjim posted this thread on the CrunchBang forum under the title, "No thanks. I got Linux" where he thinks that this $80 can be better spent elsewhere — like on your current distro or your favorite FOSS program.
I urge you to read the full text on the link or read merelyjim's original blog item, but I'll let merelyjim drive here:
"It's hard to express what Linux has done for me. I've learned more with Linux than I ever did with Windows. I've been part of dynamic communities that have engaged in passionate arguments, clever discussions, and crazy flame wars. Like family, you take the crazy (um… that would be me) with the funny. Instead of just allowing me to 'try and make things work' on my own, there were those who tried to nudge me along the right path, even when I didn't want to see it. I have undying gratitude for those who were willing to share their time and experience with me, even though I never knew them in real life.
"So, on October 26th, 2012, instead of giving Microsoft $79.99 for Windows 8 upgrade, I'm going to donate the same amount to the Linux-distro I use the most.
"I invite you to join me in doing this.
"I don't really care which distro; we're all family. If you'd prefer, donate to a specific Open Source project, instead. As long as you give something that lets Paypal, Amazon, of Flattr know that something's going on that day. If you can't give monetarily, at least spread the word.
"I want the Linux community to show Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle that we matter, we care for each other, and there are a lot more of us than they think. If you contribute, I hope you'll e-mail or tweet whomever manufactured your machines so they'll know you use their hardware running a Linux kernel."
Amen to that, merelyjim.
There are a wide variety of projects you can donate to in the FOSS realm. Start with your distro of choice. Use a particular FOSS program often and find it useful? Most programs have donation links. There are even some projects that are not software related that deserve special mention: REGLUE, formerly the HeliOS Project, provides Linux-based computers to underprivileged kids in the Austin, Texas, area; Partimus puts Linux-based computers in schools in the San Francisco Bay Area; and one project that I find important is Beth Lynn Eicher's effort to bring Edubuntu-based computers to schools in Ghana.
For those who do not have money to donate — been there, done that — you can always donate time, which in many cases can be more valuable than currency. If you program, there are places where you can pitch in on distros and FOSS programs across the board. Don't program? Don't worry — many projects have needs beyond the 0′s and 1′s that include things like documentation (for the writers out there), design (for the artists), translation (for the multilingual) . . . the list goes on. If you have a special skill set, programming or non-programming, there's something for you to do.
Got some ideas on where to donate? Post them in the comments.
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(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
A very quick look at Windows 8
OK, so with most of the rest of the curious digirati, I tried Windows 8 beta developer yadda yadda whatever version that was available yesterday from our, ahem, friends in Redmond.
I never thought I'd see a desktop that would make me appreciate Unity.
Windows 8 is the desktop equivalent of the old guy wearing a striped shirt with his plaid Bermuda shorts and white socks with his sandals.
To quote Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ When it comes to surprises, the Country Music Association Awards usually don't have much to offer.
But even the staid CMA is good for the occasional twist or two, and this year's best bet might be Vince Gill, who's nominated for album of the year for his ambitious four-disc set, "These Days."
The awards are scheduled for Wednesday night in Nashville; ABC is to broadcast them live.
Gill wrote or co-wrote all the albums' 43 tracks, co-produced them, sang, played guitars and assembled a dream team of guests including Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
"These Days" earned Gill rave reviews and will certainly go down as a creative peak in his career, but it sold modestly and received scant radio airplay compared to its competitors: Brad Paisley "5th Gear," George Strait's "It Just Comes Natural," Keith Urban's "Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing" and Dierks Bentley's "Long Trip Alone."
Even though it's been a while since Gill has been a country hitmaker, he's well-respected in the industry and could surprise. A single from the album, "The Reason Why," a duet with Krauss, is also nominated for musical event of the year.
"That's not the type of music that you can mass-produce. It's very thoughtful and appealing on a number of levels and deserves to be awarded for that," said Wade Jessen, director of country charts for Billboard magazine, of the album.
Other categories to watch are female vocalist where reigning country queen Carrie Underwood and upstart Miranda Lambert are up against stalwarts Reba McEntire, Martina McBride and Alison Krauss; and vocal duo, where perennial favorites Brooks & Dunn have stiff competition from Big & Rich, Montgomery Gentry, Sugarland and the Wreckers.
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Sometimes you love a show so much it can do weird things to your head. I've gone out on a limb with Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time" by deeming it a groundbreaking form of cartoon storytelling that fuses several eras of animation into a delightfully surreal and yet oddly familiar experience. I also wondered if the entire show was one big metaphor for sex. I stand by the former and wince a little when contemplating the latter as anything other than one more manifestation of the fun possibilities involved in reading into a show that has a deceptively simple surface and tangibly dark interiors. But after last night's wonderful flashback special episode, "Simon and Marcy," I'm convinced of one thing: "Adventure Time" is the best science fiction show on television right now.
"Simon and Marcy" picked up a thread initially introduced last season with the finest entry in the series' history, "I Remember You," which was also the name of a show-stopping tune unveiled in the episode's climactic moments. In a touching moment of musical narrative, the song revealed that the moody goth Marceline the Vampire Queen had a history with the nutty Ice King, whose role on the show up until this point was merely as a comically inept foil to the usual protagonists, Jake the Dog and Finn the Human.
It turned out that the Ice King, originally an archeologist named Simon Petrikov, gradually lost his mind after discovering an ancient crown with magical powers in Scandinavia. When the apocalypse hit -- a period of time in the world of the show deemed The Great Mushroom War -- Simon discovered young Marceline on her own and took on a fatherly role as the two wandered through a desolate landscape.
"Simon and Marcy" detailed the evolution of that relationship while fleshing out a few other murky areas of the show's mythology. It starts innocuously enough, with modern day Marceline playing a game of basketball with the loony Ice King along with Finn and Jake, who ask Marceline why she has invited their enemy to join them. "Because I love him very much," she replies, then launches into a survival story set precisely 996 years in the past.
Up until this point, we've only had select peeks at the volume of destruction that wrecked the planet before its came together as the Land of Ooo, where the show's current colorful inhabitants live. Last season's "The Lich" showed an alternative tale of destruction and hinted at a nuclear-fueled massacre, but "Simon and Marcy" revealed a wasteland of junk barely populated by anyone other than the two characters' of the episode's title. In fact, after Simon puts on his crown and freezes a deer the duo comes across in the woods, Marceline wonders if its appearance indicates that other things live around them in the wilderness. This brief aside indicates the sheer emptiness of their environment, which epitomizes the show's ongoing ironic contrast between giddy playtime sensibilities and the dark feelings of solitude lurking beneath the surface.
But "Simon and Marcy" goes several steps further, not only elaborating on that idea but deepening the world in all kinds of morbidly fascinating ways. Simon and Marcy survive amid a grotesque, dangerous terrain, while Simon makes repeated attempts to look on the bright side. He jokes about a dead rat they find in a dumpster and pretends to "watch" a VHS tape they find on the ground before discarding it ("the book was better"). At night, munching on deer innards, Simon reenacts an episode of "Cheers" for his pal, somehow transforming their experience into a good time -- and a way for him to maintain a grip on his lapsing sanity.
The show is filled with this ongoing tension between extreme survival measures and curiously funny bits. A slapstick moment finds the duo attempting to ride a discarded motorbike into town and losing control of it; it crashes and bursts into flames below. That wry application of violent humor is matched by the next scene, when they come across a grocery store and burst through the window. "Vandalism is wrong, Marcy," Simon says, making a desperate stab at good parenting even in these dire circumstances.
From there, "Simon and Marcy" further realizes the iconography of the post-apocalyptic survival narrative to which it belongs. Up until now, the characters' placement in the scenario echoed the situation facing the man and boy in Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," but whereas that story contained demented people, this one ventures much further into the sci-fi playbook by pitting its characters against oozing green mutants who chase Simon and Marcy from every direction. Simon's conundrum is a powerful one: He has promised Marcy not to wear the crown any longer, but it's essentially the only way he can keep her safe. There's a bracing moment in which Simon nearly betrays his promise as a mutant bears down on him only to figure out an alternative plan at the last moment.
But eventually they're trapped and the crown must go on. It's here that "Adventure Time" once again shows a flair for original storytelling. Perhaps as a means of staying in touch with reality, Simon begins to sing an off-key rendition of "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," the theme song from "Cheers," while donning the crown and blasting their assailants with waves of snow. The moment is simultaneously unsettling and absurd, a tangible balance that this show walks so well.
It was only a matter of time before music left a dent in this episode: "Simon and Marcy" marked the final installment co-written and storyboarded by Rebecca Sugar, who composed that heartbreaking song in "I Remember You" and has since left "Adventure Time" to work on a show of her own creation entitled "Steven Universe" (she's now the first female cartoon creator in Cartoon Network's history, according to the "Adventure Time" wiki). Though "Simon and Marcy" contained no original compositions, its use of a cheesy pop song in a gloomy situation spoke volumes about the tragedy of Simon's transition into the Ice King, a clear-cut metaphor for the onset of senility. By applying imaginary circumstances to such credible human conundrums, "Adventure Time" gets at the essence of great science fiction, which tends to imagine alternative worlds grounded in a credibility of their own making.
By the end of the episode, the fates of Simon, Marcy and the rest of the world remain uncertain. A series of quick events that, like ABC's "Lost" in its heyday, establish more questions than answers: Simon spots a pink ooze with a creepy smile that suggests a primitive version of the show's Princess Bubblegum, hinting at her mutant origins. Simon discovers the chicken soup he's been desperate to find the under-the-weather Marcy and happily feeds it to her. The whole episode he's been worried that she has come down with a fever, but is it possible that he's getting colder?
"Adventure Time" may or may not address some or all of these questions further down the line, but its willingness to contemplate them at all while sticking to its unique combination of silliness and haunting beauty routinely transforms the show into a wondrous genre experiment. More than anything else, the show illustrates the power of imagination in making dreary prospects into a challenge worth tackling time and again.
Michael | February 27, 2014 11:52 AM
It's interesting to see an 11 minute animation show slowly become so complicated with a rich back story.
I'm writing this almost a full year after this post so I've seen even more, although Pendelton does enjoy stringing us along by giving us many questions but just a little bit of back story at a time. In this way he's made the show a lot like Lost.
I get the feeling that the crown has everything to do with everything. I think it's the reason for the bubblegum becoming sentient and growing into Princess Bubblegum. Did anyone see that Simon had a Scientific Parasite? It looked mostly like a pen at the beginning of Simon and Marcy, by the end of the episode it was looking much more like a parasites. The bubblegum wasn't in the dead end ally when Simon and Marcy arrived in it. I think it was following them after it came into contact with the Ice King Crown which gave it sentience.
So where did this crown come from? We know the area on earth where it was found, but not it's origin. I think we may see it become a circular object, one in which the crown is created in the land of OOO then sent back to have it's terrible effect on human history. It not only created the land of Ooo, but is a creation of the land of Ooo, or someone in the land of Ooo.
We've already seen the impact of the crown when Simon forestalled the explosion of the mutagenic bomb. Can Simon be saved by Betty? Will she find a loophole in the crown? Or will her arrival make things worse, like when Finn wished the Lich never existed.
Mike | May 10, 2013 3:49 AM
honestly, I think Pendleton Ward's other work, Bravest Warriors, is an even better sci-fi show. check it out! all 11 episodes are legally on youtube
Andre | April 15, 2013 9:38 PM
AT is a common word in my household, My kids and I have speculated that Ice King and Marceline definitely had history since the "memory of a memory" ep: I was touched by the "Simon and Marcy" ep. Reading this article confirmed my belief that non linear, non commercial writing can thrive in the biz of cartoons. .... thanks for keeping the faith.
( Rebecca Sugar left??? What's gonna happen to the music?)
Izzy | April 4, 2013 10:29 AM
You've got a brilliant article here my friend. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise. I'm proud to say I enjoyed reading it, and I'm glad I'm not the only person in the world that can watch a great story, and love it for what it's worth. Without having to question or comment or vilify the series as a whole just "because I can." Unlike several of the comments I've seen under this article.
Anyone who doesn't appreciate the immense amount of planning and dedication put into this series, has no reason to be commenting negatively. If you can't enjoy it? Then simply walk away.
Alas, it is not to be. However, despite it all. I'd still like to say thanks. For bringing a bit of light, to a great story. Maybe you've inspired someone to pick up the episodes and watch them? Who knows. Fact is, you did right by me, and by the fans of this series. Kudos.
Matt | March 29, 2013 2:28 PM
The Ice King's crown is a metaphor for drugs, I'm nearly certain of it.
Robert | March 29, 2013 1:58 AM
Love this Eric. Good Stuff.
Also, the word "idiot" does belong in the previous poster's name.
YoureAllIdiots | March 29, 2013 12:29 AM
"I Remember You" was show-stopping? No, it was the usual dreadful music they write for this over-rated show. Marceline's dreadful, forced "meaningful" voice, lyrics running over bar breaks, weak melody generally....
Also, it was hinted much earlier who the Ice King was, in a much more satisfying fashion that being beaten around the head with it. No wonder Adventure Time is getting so awful with retards like you watching it.
memebag | March 28, 2013 11:59 PM
Simon sings the "Cheers" theme because making his way in the world today is taking everything he's got. And he wants to go where everybody knows his name, because he can feel himself forgetting it.
And the Mushroom War wasn't just nuclear, it was full of mutagenic chemical weapons. That's why the Land of Ooo is so ... colorful.
Me | March 28, 2013 9:00 PM
Adventure time is my life
Dann | March 28, 2013 3:08 PM
I think the real reason Simon was singing the Cheers theme in that final battle was to anchor himself to reality and remember Marceline and that moment they shared while the crown ate away at his sanity. The fact that it was goofy to sing that during the battle is just gravy.
Sannna | March 28, 2013 2:45 PM
I continue to be amazed by the places Adventure Time goes and incidentally all of my favorite episodes were written by Rebecca Sugar. This back story adds more too, to the relationship between Marceline and Bubblegum. Even though Sugar has moved on I hope they revisit the past for Marceline, the Ice King and Finn and Jake.
RaeRae | March 28, 2013 12:04 PM
OK, first of all, seriously guys, get rid of the spammers. All it takes is for you to click delete by the comment.
Second, I love this show. I just got into it within the last year. Seriously obsessed.
Princess Bubblegum ooze was cognizant, it GAVE the soup to the ice king. Or do you think it was just hanging out there conveniently?
They haven't just "hinted" at nuclear war. When they show shots of Earth, there's a huge chunk blown out of it. And in the intro, you can see shells half buried in the earth. And I think "mushroom war" is pretty clear about what it means.
The background episodes are the best parts of the show. Finn unable to discover his human origins, seeing as he was found in the woods. We believe that there are no other humans, until Susan Strong episode #2 where she lets Finn know she's not one of the fish people she lives with. It's heartbreaking to know that the Ice King lost his mind defending Marcelene, even though we have no idea where she came from out of the ooze, even though she has a father.
There are just so many good things about this show.
Abraham | March 27, 2013 7:28 AM
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Just discovered this show. It is beautifully strange. I have a thing for Princess Bubblegum. ;-)
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