Really, who didn’t what to blow up stuff in the 60’s? There were a lot of us, and we were young. The government was obviously corrupt, we were in a war which saw thousands of people our age being killed weekly that no revisionist history was ever going to make right. They had the guns, but we had the numbers. We still do. Really, who didn’t want to be Bernadette Dorns bitch? I still remember when I realized that I was no longer collecting baseball cards to store in the attic for my old age but was, rather, using them to separate the stems and seeds from my pot to keep my joints from exploding. And now these things of our youth, like tuna, clean air and Taiwan, are coming back to haunt us. All the high school squares and chuckles are in charge, and they are grinding out their frustration and resentment on our elderly best and brightest. In the 20’s, all except the lost, were communists – it was fashionable and sensible – like good shoes. The fact that people tend to work f...
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