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March 23, 2007 at 23:22:51

Are You Doing It More?

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I can't figure out if we're doing it more or doing it
less. It's costing taxpayers more, so I hope they aren't
getting any less. I suspect things have slowed down out
there. But I'm not "out there."

Back in the day, it was "free love," an hour before it
was "free sex!," which turned into love-ins, be-ins, sit-ins
and groovy Sunday afternoons in Griffith Park with peanut
butter and jelly on white bread in one hand, and the soft fingers
of some long-haired stranger lacing hers into yours with the other hand.

Mmm, hippy girl. In a granny dress listening to Donovan while down the line a stranger is screaming, "don't Bogart the joint." Free drugs! Of course, we didn't inhale.

We gave you Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Neil Young and Rock N' Roll. What else do you want?

I'll admit, we were bra-less, topless and careless. We didn't rap and we didn't wrap it. When we had a "rave" there was sometimes 100,000 gathered; I don't know anybody who was packing, not even Hell's Angels or Satan's Slaves.

No Columbines. No drive-byes. Philadelphia wasn't, yet, the murder capital of the USA. There were gangs - but no gang-bangers. Tough
kids "rumbled" after school in their leather jackets, with a cigarette tucked behind his ear. Some wore paisley and P-coats. Wejuns and wing-tips. We gave you Pink Floyd, didn't we?

The reason it's good things have slowed down is sad and obvious: Too many unwed moms, unwanted babies, and too many deaths from STDs and HIV. We've had a tough time collecting child support, but that's not nearly as important as latch-key-one-parent kids - lonely and all.

Ecstasy and today's designer drugs aren't even wild moments in American history. Trust me, Girlfriend, or talk to my hand. One thing hasn't changed: If you want to go to grad school and make some real bread you better not start messing with the stuff. Did I tell you, we never inhaled?

Life's key rules: Don't be judgmental. Respect your elders. Be good to your father! (Be great to Daddy!)

Now, go do your homework and remember who gave you the Stones, the Who, Hendrix and your allowance.

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My career in journalism began as a stringer at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner before making my way east to write at the Washington Star. I toiled for more than a decade as a columnist for Gannett, the world's largest newspaper chain. As executive-producer and host of "Dusty Nathan's Winner's Circle," heard on a Philadelphia 50,000-watt radio station, and a CBS affiliate, I covered the worlds of sports and entertainment. I was proud to have several exclusives - most notably, one of Johnny Cash's last appearances, and also world-famous jockey Eddie Arcaro. Eagles head coach Ray Rhodes often played co-host on the show. My words have appeared in Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, and New York's Village Voice, as well. Many of my short stories and poems are published in anthologies. Recently, some have been selected and published internationally in university literary journals.

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Mar

Be Good To Your MOTHER!

Thousands of years of father worship and mother hatred are precisely what has brought us to:

"...but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction." Barry McGuire

Saying unwed moms and unwanted babies are the problem, that uncollected child support is less important than latch-key-one-parent kids nicely erases male responsibility. Women don't impregnate themselves. They are forced to have unwanted babies because their bodies are still considered state/church property. They get diseases from promiscuous boys who refuse to practice safe sex. They are kept economically disadvantaged so that they can't afford child care.

It is no unfathomable mystery why a majority of women say they have no intention of marrying, that 5l% of the women in this country have chosen to live apart from men. These women do not hate men. They're just sick to death of their willfull ignorance and refusal to grow up.

by Mar (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 155 comments) on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 1:10:22 PM

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