Monday, July 09, 2012
Sunday, July 08, 2012
Ostrow: Andy Griffith's Denver-based daughter Dixie reflects on life with Dad - The Denver Post - People always ask Dixie Nann Griffith, daughter of the late, beloved actor Andy Griffith, whether her father was like Sheriff Andy Taylor.
Mike Huckabee Likes Romney. Really. - NYTimes.com - Interview by ANDREW GOLDMAN --During the Republican primary debates, audience members booed a question from an active serviceman who was gay and shouted, “Let him die,” about a hypothetical gravely ill patient without insurance. Is this different from the party that you know and love? -- Very much. It’s one of the reasons that I did not think this was a good time to run. The atmosphere was so toxic that it would not be an atmosphere in which I would breathe well. There is almost a hyperorthodoxy that is gripping the party that you have to go out and prove that you can be tougher, meaner, more hard-line than anybody else on the stage. It may lead to effective campaigning if the goal is to be the most ideological puritan on the platform, but the ultimate goal is more of what I’d call a true Reagan model. Not the Reagan model that has been invoked — but Ronald Reagan who understood that governing is an art.
The Stones on the Stones: Half a century after their first gig, the most famous band in the world tell their amazing rock 'n' roll story | Mail Online - On July 12, 1962, former school mates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, along with their friend Brian Jones, started a remarkable chapter in the history of rock - with the first ever gig by a group called The Rolling Stones at the legendary Marquee Club in London. - Here, on the eve of their 50th anniversary, broadcaster Paul Sexton presents the never-before-published recollections of the stars themselves - on the mayhem, the madness, the girls, the drug busts and, of course, the five epic decades of music that changed the world for ever . . .
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