Andrew Tobias: THREE GOOD THINGS ABOUT PAUL RYAN
In Paul Ryan the Republicans have chosen a man who co-sponsored the national personhood bill - a good thing if you believe a rape victim should be forced by the government to carry her rapist's child to term (and that common forms of contraception and should be banned) . . .
Sahil Kapur: "Obama's Medicare Reforms Expanded Benefits For Seniors" (Talking Points Memo)
The Romney campaign's new ad blitz reinforces its latest attack - that President Obama cut Medicare spending by $716 billion - with an ominous warning to seniors. But the Affordable Care Act's cuts and other Medicare reforms don't touch benefits, they target waste in provider payments.
David Weir: Author Joseph Lallo on the Keys to His SciFi and Epic Fantasy Success (Smashwords)
Indie author Joseph Lallo writes Epic Fantasy and Science Fiction. Like many successful self-published authors at Smashwords, his sales started off slow. He joined Smashwords in February, 2010, and for the entire year sold only four copies for earnings of about $15.00. Undeterred, he continued writing, made incremental improvements to his books, and experimented with pricing. In 2011, his sales started to pick up, and then in early 2012 he experienced a breakout. In his most recent quarter, he earned $15,600, led by strong US sales at Barnes & Noble, followed by solid international growth at the Apple iBookstore.
James Fanelli: MCA's Will Bans Companies From Using Beastie Boys Songs in Ads (DNAInfo)
The pioneering rapper, whose real name is Adam Yauch, instructed in his will that his image, music and any art he created could not be used for advertising, saving himself from the fate of other deceased musicians whose faces and songs have become corporate shills.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, thus initiating a major cultural and political shift. While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and across Europe, San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution, a melting pot of music, psychoactive drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
1967
BttbBob said:
Although for me it didn't occur until three years later in '70...
Here's something from the 'Way-back' machine to jog your memories. It did mine... Billboard Top 100 for 1967
mj replied:
I think
That would be 1969, the year I graduated from high school.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer
of 1967
Adam answered:
1969 or 1970? No...1967.
DanD wrotte:
You see, I have a problem here now ... I don't have any recollection
of being at Haight-Ashbury during this time of that Hippie-epitomy.
HOWEVER, I've also been assured by many people who were there that --
if you even remotely remember being there -- then actually, you really
weren't.
Hence, my dilemma, the only way anybody can (beyond all doubt) prove
that they were even alive during the 1960s is from
journalistically-oriented, technically-verified, decisive photographic
evidence. While I do have some grade-school pics that were produced
during that time frame, I ain't found nothing yet that puts me in San
Francisco.
Of course, I was only 10 years old in 1967, and MY voluntary
drug-addictions to nature's flower didn't really start untl the
mid-70s, so perhaps my memory is -- if not mildly skewed -- at least a
bit more accurate. So, while I indeed was there all throughout the
60s, I didn't morph into a long-haired, not quite Gothic
military-dependent freak until the following decade ~
Sally said:
The summer of 1967, Haight-Ashbury, SF CA, and I was there (for 10 days)!!
Yes, those were the days...
Just think, they are probably all Republicans today...
@B2BB. I love Chanel #5, and come the Equinox, I can usually be found frolicking, naked under the moonlight! Unfortunately, at my age, the latter drives the neighbors inside, shaking their heads and mumbling under their tongues... LOL!
PPS: Not really, but I would, if I could...
Dale of Humid Sticky Springs responded:
Of course the media has called 1967 "The Summer of Love" the truth is that the people that had started the hippie movement had moved on. I remember "The Death of the Hippie" march in October of the same year. All the real good times were had before the invasion that summer. But the music at the Fillmore, Avalon, and Winterland sure was great!!!! One of the good times I had that Summer was "The Monterrey Pop Festival" in June. By 1968 The Haight had turned into speedfreak and rip-off heaven. That's Jimi, Otis, Janis and Moby Grape (the best SF band that didn't make it).
Marian is in tourist-mode.
MAM wrote:
The "Summer of Love" took place in 1967. It was during that summer that an estimated 100,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to voice their views on politics and cultural happenings. The Summer of Love became a defining moment of the 1960s, as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
And, Joe S answered:
1967, I can almost remember it. I really miss those days. We almost had a revolution happen, but it fizzled. It's really hard to run a revolution when everyone is stoned out of their fuckin mind. But I miss those days.
Two young Hippies who would not be able to get served at 7 11. No shirts, no shoes, no service.
I miss those days.
I would like to thank National Geographic (of which I'm a member) for this wonderful photo montage. I've always been fascinated by other peoples and cultures and appreciate photos such as these in no small measure. Oh, the photo of the Turkish sailor has him wearing a hat 'tally band' indicating he's a crewman of the 'TCG Giresun'. That ship is the former US Navy frigate USS Antrim which was transferred to the Turkish Navy in 1997 and has been involved in a NATO task force combating piracy in the Indian Ocean...
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football'. followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'"Stars" Earn Stripes (& A Paycheck)'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Jason Segel hosting, music by Florence + The Machine.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Nikita', followed by another RERUN'Nikita'.
Faux has 'Cops', 'Cops', and a RERUN'Mobbed'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
AMC offers the movie 'Broken Trail', followed by the movie 'Jeremiah Johnson', then the movie 'Wyatt Earp'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 4-Ep 7 - Kingston Cafe
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 2-Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - SEASON 4-Ep 2 - Piccolo Teatro
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - SEASON 2-Ep 1 - Lanterna
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 3-Ep 2 - PJ's Steakhouse
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - SEASON 1-Ep 1 - Glasshouse
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 4-Ep 2 - Classic American
[1:00PM] COPPER: BEHIND THE BADGE-Copper: Behind the Badge
[1:30PM] TOP GEAR SEASON 15 SPECIAL-Top Gear Season 15 Special
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 13-Episode 4
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 13-Episode 5
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 10
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3-Ep 22 - The Most Toys
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3-Ep 23 - Sarek
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3-Ep 24 - Menage a Troi
[9:00PM] THE TIMEY-WIMEY OF DOCTOR WHO NEW
[10:00PM] THE NERDIST-Tribute to Time Travel NEW
[11:00PM] THE WOMEN OF DOCTOR WHO
[12:00AM] THE TIMEY-WIMEY OF DOCTOR WHO
[1:00AM] THE NERDIST-Tribute to Time Trave
[l2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 1-Ep 9 - The Empty Child
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 1-Ep 10 - The Doctor Dances
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 1-Ep 11 - Boom Town
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 1-Ep 12 - Bad Wolf (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Mr. Deeds', followed by the movie 'Joe Dirt', and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Roseanne Barr'.
FX has the movie '2012', followed by the movie 'Armageddon'.
History has 'Hatfields & McCoys' (part 2), 'Hatfields & McCoys' (part 3), 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Reform School Girl
[7:30AM] The Skeptic
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Booty and the Beast
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Bubble TroubleTVG
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Fling in the Ring
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Goof on the Roof
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Income-Tax Sappy
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Knutzy Knights
[12:00PM] The Day the World Ended
[1:45PM] Reform School Girl
[3:15PM] Trail of the Screaming Forehead
[5:00PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Much Funnier Second Episode
[6:15PM] Home Movie
[8:00PM] The Descent
[10:00PM] George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
[12:00AM] The Descent
[2:00AM] Night of the Living Dead
[4:00AM] George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] One Week
[7:35A] Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More To Life
[8:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - So-Called Angels (Episode 15, Season 1)
[9:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Resolutions (Episode 16, Season 1)
[10:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Betrayal (Episode 17, Season 1)
[11:00A] GET TO WORK - Walking That Beam (Episode 1, Season 1)
[12:00P] Life In Flight
[1:20P] Rains
[1:30P] Freezing
[3:00P] One Week
[4:35P] Life In Flight
[6:00P] Love Lust & the Bikini
[7:00P] GET TO WORK - Walking That Beam (Episode 1, Season 1)
[8:00P] I Hate Valentine's Day
[9:30P] I Am a Sex Addict
[11:10P] Nights and Weekends
[12:30A] Autoerotic
[1:45A] I Am a Sex Addict
[3:30A] Nights and Weekends
[4:50A] This Way Up
[5:00A] GET TO WORK - Walking That Beam (Episode 1, Season 1) (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Dawn Of The Dead', followed by the movie 'Daybreakers'.
Actress Cicely Tyson arrives at the premiere of "Sparkle" starring Jordin Sparks and the late Whitney Houston in Hollywood, California August 16, 2012.
Photo by Fred Prouser
A group of black journalists says it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates.
The National Association of Black Journalists said Friday that the Commission on Presidential Debates needed to stop treating black reporters as if they were unqualified, invisible or both. The group said diversity was important in a year in which as much as a quarter of the electorate is expected to be non-white.
Candy Crowley of CNN, Jim Lehrer of PBS and Bob Schieffer of CBS News were selected to moderate the three debates between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney this fall. Martha Raddatz of ABC News will moderate the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican candidate Paul Ryan.
Earlier this week, the president of the Spanish-speaking television network Univision criticized the lack of Latino representation among the moderators and suggested a separate forum hosted by two Univision personalities.
In response, the commission noted that a number of groups and individuals wanted to be included, but it was impossible to accommodate everyone. The commission said that the journalists selected see their assignment as representing all Americans.
Police detain former world chess champion and opposition leader Garry Kasparov (C) during the trial of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" outside a court building in Moscow, August 17, 2012. A Russian judge found three women from the punk band Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred on Friday for staging an anti-Kremlin protest on the altar of Moscow's main Russian Orthodox church.
Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva
Three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail on Friday for their protest in a church against President Vladimir Putin, an outcome supporters described as the Kremlin leader's "personal revenge".
The group's backers burst into chants of "Shame" outside the Moscow courthouse and said the case showed Putin's refusal to tolerate dissent in his new six-year term as president. Dozens were detained as tensions rose and scuffles broke out.
The United States and the European Union condemned the sentence as disproportionate and asked for it to be reviewed, although state prosecutors had demanded a three-year jail term and the maximum sentence possible was seven years.
"The girls' actions were sacrilegious, blasphemous and broke the church's rules," Judge Marina Syrova told the court as she spent three hours reading the verdict while the women stood watching in handcuffs inside a glass courtroom cage.
Children's book author Lemony Snicket released a sneering statement today aimed at Lauren Conrad, the former MTV star of "The Hill" and "The O.C.," based on a video she created showing how to cut up Snicket's books for home decorations.
In the "Crafty Creations" video, Conrad slices the covers and bindings off Snicket's books, and then glues the covers to a box to create a storage unit. She discards the pages.
After the video sparked scorn from book-lovers around the Internet, Conrad pulled the video from her website.
In response, Snicket - the pen name for Daniel Handler - released a statement to ABC News calling Conrad a "lost soul."
"It has always been my belief that people who spend too much time with my work end up as lost souls, drained of reason, who lead lives of raving emptiness and occasional lunatic violence. What a relief it is to see this documented," the statement read.
Singer Mary Wilson, a founding member of the Motown female singing group The Supremes, arrives as a guest at the premiere of the new film "Sparkle" starring Jordin Sparks and the late Whitney Houston in Hollywood August 16, 2012.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Amazon.com on Friday announced that "The Hunger Games" trilogy has replaced the "Harry Potter" saga as the online retail giant's best-selling series of books.
"Since debuting in 2008, Katniss Everdeen and the Hunger Games have taken the world by storm, much as Harry Potter did a decade before," said Amazon.com books and Kindle editorial director Sara Nelson.
The trilogy by Suzanne Collins about children forced to fight for their lives in a Roman circus-style televised blood sport in a dystopian world has outsold "Potter" even though J.K. Rowling wrote seven books about a boy wizard.
"To achieve this result in just four years is a great testament to both the popularity of the work and, we think, the growth in reading digitally during that time," Nelson said.
A former assistant attorney general who refused to apologize to a gay student leader at the University of Michigan whom he defamed and harassed online and on campus must now pay him $4.5 million, a jury decided.
The "Chris Armstrong Watch" blog, created by former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell, 32, accused openly gay University of Michigan ex-student body president Christopher Armstrong of enticing minors with alcohol and recruiting people to become homosexual.
Michigan alum Shirvell blogged that Armstrong, who graduated in 2011, was "a radical homosexual activist, racist, elitist and liar."
Deborah Gordon, the attorney representing Armstrong, said Shirvell also blogged that Armstrong participated in a number of sordid activities, including engaging in sex acts on a children's playground, inside a church and that he hosted orgies.
Shirvell would find out via Facebook about events Armstrong planned to attend in Ann Arbor, Mich., turn up and try to blend in with the crowd, Gordon said. He showed up at Armstrong's house several times and at one point called the police to report a party Armstrong was attending; he then blogged that "Ann Arbor police raided out of control gay party," she said.
Pussy Riot punk group supporters place masks on a monument to WWII heroes to resemble Pussy Riot members, at an underground station in Moscow on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Three group members who were jailed in March following a guerrilla performance denouncing President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral have unwillingly emerged as vivid - and very different - characters. They await a verdict Friday on charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
Photo by Yevgeny Feldman
Former adult film star Jenna Jameson (R-Experienced) has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence when she struck a light pole in Southern California.
Jameson was sentenced Thursday to three years of informal probation and ordered to pay $340 in fines and participate in a Mothers Against Drunk Driving "victims' impact panel."
A misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid driver's license was dismissed.
Jameson was arrested on May 25 after her Range Rover struck the pole in Westminster, resulting in minor injuries. Prosecutors in Orange County say tests showed her blood-alcohol level was .05 percent above the state legal limit.
Workers push a cart with a wax figure of late actress Marilyn Monroe down Hollywood Boulevard as they return the figure to Madame Tussauds wax museum in Hollywood August 16, 2012.
Photo by Fred Prouser.
CBS dropped its lawsuit Friday against ABC over its reality series "The Glass House," citing the show's low viewership numbers as a reason it is no longer interested in the case.
The CBS network said it will continue to pursue its claims that top producers on the new series violated confidentiality agreements from when they worked on CBS' hit series "Big Brother." Those efforts will continue in private arbitration, not a federal courtroom where the rival networks have handled the case since it was filed in May.
A judge refused to grant CBS' request to block the show's broadcast, saying the unpredictable nature of reality television meant that the two shows were likely to be very different, despite some similarities in their format.
The season finale of "Glass House" is scheduled to air on Monday. Only 1.6 million viewers tuned in to the Aug. 6 episode.
Tibetan Buddhists and tourists view a huge Thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying the Buddha portrait, during the Shoton Festival at Zhaibung Monastery in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region August 17, 2012.
A relative of the late author Margaret Mitchell is giving the Archdiocese of Atlanta a 50 percent stake in the literary rights to her best-selling novel, "Gone With the Wind."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the gift includes a 50 percent stake in the trademark to the book and items that belonged to Mitchell.
The bequest was made by Joseph Mitchell, nephew of the late author. Joseph Mitchell, who died in October, was a longtime member of the Cathedral of Christ the King.
Steve Swope, a deacon in the archdiocese who is overseeing the gift, says royalties could be in the "hundreds of thousands" of dollars annually from usage of the book just for productions like ballets and plays.
An activist from women's rights group Femen uses a chainsaw to cut down a Christian cross, erected in memory of victims of political repressions under the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin regime, near the Oktyabrsky Palace in central Kiev, August 17, 2012. Activists organized the demonstration to support jailed members of the female punk band Pussy Riot, according to participants.
Photo by Anatolii Stepanov
A man who shares the same name with television's most noted meth dealer is wanted by authorities in Alabama for allegedly violating his probation for a past meth conviction.
The Tuscaloosa News reported Thursday that 55-year-old Walter White was placed on probation after a 2008 conviction for making methamphetamine. The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office recently placed White on its most-wanted list after his arrest on similar charges in Bibb County this year.
On TV, Walter White has so far evaded capture. The character played by Bryan Cranston in AMC's "Breaking Bad" is a high school chemistry teacher who turns to cooking meth to help support his family after he's diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
The show is in its fifth and final season. Cranston has won three consecutive Emmys
A Panamanian Golden frog is seen on top of the hand of biologist Heidi Ross during the Golden Frog Day in the Nispero Zoo at the Valle de Anton August 14, 2012. The Golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) is one of Panama's national symbols. There are only ten frogs in the breeding program at the zoo and it is in danger of extinction in the country, according to biologist Edgardo Griffith.
Photo by Carlos Jasso
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