One professor at Berkeley has done a remarkable job of collecting information about the history of what the WPA did during the Great Depression (Please do not call it the Republican Depression!). We've mentioned, in a previous column, that he is trying to promote the idea of a brick and mortar location for a New Deal Museum. Perhaps if we do an entire column devoted to that topic then the feature assignment editor at the New York Times might give the effort some national publicity? His scholarship can be seen on the livingnewdeal dot org web site.
Some of the peaceniks in Berkeley think that Bradley Manning should have been commended for following the moral advice delivered to the German war criminals in the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials but they conveniently overlook the fact that Manning isn't in the German Army!
More than fifty years ago, Berkeley resident Philip K. Dick was writing novels predicting a fictional government spying on its own citizens.
As of 10 a.m. PDT on Friday August 2, 2013, the Occupy the Berkeley Post Office steps protest was still protesting the proposed sale of the property.
[Note from the photo editor: For a photographer, who was told "it's a great picture but it generates too much sympathy for the anti-war crowd" when AP passed on the chance to buy a Vietnam War protest photo in December of 1966, the potential of taking some career making protest photos in 2013 only evokes a strong dà ©j- vu reaction.]
St. Ronald Reagan is reported to have said: "A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."
Now, since the theme of nostalgia has been recurring in this column, the disk jockey will play some songs that get automatic memory associations from the World's Laziest Journalist. Hearing Kylie Minogue's "Can't get you outta my head" will always make us feel like we are back in Australia. The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the city" always takes us back to NYC in the summer of 1966. Then he will play Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay." We have to go see the Peter Stackpole photo exhibition at the California Museum in Oakland. Have a "Temps perdu" type week.
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