Is it true that the Smothers brothers got tossed off network TV for not being "fair and balanced ?
What does the expression "Up Creek Alley without a paddle mean?
Back in the Sixties the oldies stations played Big Band music. Now, do the oldies stations feature Sixties music?
Yikes! As mortgages go upside down has the Generation Gap returned with the hippies now playing on the old fogies team?
Is Joey Heatherton still the hottest go-go dancer you'll ever see?
Why didn't kids say that Keith Ledger was playing the role made famous by Burgess Meredith?
Will Harry Harrison be able to reassure me that New York City is the greatest city in the world?
There is one intriguing question that remains to be answered about a revival of the draft and a massive surge in Afghanistan: If Fox News supported Bush's efforts to start the war in Afghanistan, why will they ridicule President Obama for trying to continue it? Won't that indicate a contradictory attitude about the war, the current occupant in the White House, and bring up questions about the sanity of their contradictory stances on the same war as conducted by different Presidents?
So, if President Obama, this week, announces a surge in troop levels for the War in Afghanistan, this columnist expects to endure a massive case of dà jà vu and will need to hear repeated playings of certain record albums.
The young people who seem oblivious to the dangers of an eternal war that can't be won might learn something if they talked to some hippies about war and peace and how America's latest wars got started.
[Note: while this column was going through its final polish (at a coffee house in Venice CA) a bunch of younger people were furiously pounding out key stokes as a group mutual support exorcise for the National Novel Writing Month contest. When their half hour burst is over we'll ask them about the clock that always says 12:30. The second youngest one knew it was from a Mama and Papas song.]
Che is quoted online as having said: " "If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. Sounds like he was a hippie.
Now, the disk jockey will play the Snoop-Dog and Willie Neslson duet song, titled "Superman as well as "Eve of Destruction, and "Fixin' to Die Rag, maybe even throw in Joan Baez's "Hello in there. It's time for us to go splitsville. Have a "Hey, Hey, LBJ type week.
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