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Wolfe could portray the Republican as the embodiment of the spirit of America's restless young voters of today just as he catapulted a bus full of beatniks to fame back when he wrote about riding along on the bus going from San Francisco to the 1964 New York World's Fair.

 

It could be an insider's look at the boys on the bus on the road convincing Iowa voters that Global Warming was just a frat-boy prank to fool them.   Maybe they could call a book about that hypothetical journey "The Eclectic Kool Aid Global Warming Test," eh?

Thus they would be equating the Democratic Party voters who swallow the scientists' ghost story of Global Warming as being "cool-aid-drinking-dopes" with bumper stickers asking:   "Are you experienced enough to doubt scientists?"?

 

We were still wondering about the feasibility of such a literary project on Thursday, while on a walkabout in Berkeley CA.   Do young folks these days still hold the same philosophy as the wandering beatniks in the past did?  

 

Would kids grok to the idea that if he were still alive today, Jack Kerouac might (hypothetical example alert!) be assigned by "Sixty Minutes" to take a film crew and go on the Road in Mitt Romney's campaign bus traveling in New Hampshire?   Kerouac (or Hunter S. Thompson?) could compare and contrast Romney's anti-establishment philosophy with his own in the Fifties when he was gathering material for his literary "Fear and Loathing in Bourgeoisie America" project.

 

Do young folks still go on the road these days like the Beatniks and Republican Presidential Candidates?  

 

Our question was answered when we met the artists from Madison Wisconsin who are traveling around the USA in a bus called 7 cees   After finding them parked on a side street in Berkeley CA, they invited the World's Laziest Journalist aboard the modern phenomenon for an inspection tour.   We were glad to see that the Kerouac Quest is still a viable option for young people.  

 

It turned out that while we were doing our fact checking with the 7 cees bus crew (their clearance is 13'3" and they had contended with a 13'6" challenge that very day), some of the Protesters for Occupy Oakland were trying to restate their case inside the Oakland City Hall.   Should we have been down in Oakland covering that Occupy Movement update?

 

The threat of subversive Communist activity in the Fifties was a "game changer" for the Republicans.   Perhaps, if the Occupy Movement were portrayed as the new Communist threat, the Republicans can use it to their advantage in the November elections?

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BP graduated from college in the mid sixties (at the bottom of the class?) He told his draft board that Vietnam could be won without his participation. He is still appologizing for that mistake. He received his fist photo lesson from a future (more...)
 

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