Comments on: The second time as farce, or worse

By: Artex

Artex — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:23:32 +0000

Speaking of hippies, who recently said: “We want friendship — friendship to all. We love all nations and all human beings. Anyone who is killed, we are against it.”

This guy: http://tinyurl.com/yo9zuc

By: Artex

Artex — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:51:56 +0000

Here’s a Boomer Doomsday Watch:
http://dieboomerdie.blogspot.com/
Jack, you’re far from the only one waiting for this generation to “leave the scene.”

By: MarkD

MarkD — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:26:39 +0000

The boomers are often clowns, cowards, and fakes. I’m a boomer and I have nothing in common with these narcissistic fools. I despised the disruption on campus in the late 60s and early 70s and joined the Marines. When I finished my degree, I avoided the Social Sciences like the plague.

These people can’t make a reasoned argument for their beliefs, which is why they are so vicious in attacking holders of differing opinions. Heaven forbid that Summers observations of fact should interfere with their dogma. He can’t be answered, he has to be destroyed.

By: Mark Martin

Mark Martin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:14:00 +0000

My left-leaning friends and associates have the disturbing habit of saying “We deserve whatever we get” for Bush’s crimes. And saying it loud and clear in public and on the WWW. My cousin is actually pleased that his anti-Bush flash animation was picked up off the web and used on Iranian TV.

Go figure. I have explained to one friend that it’s probably not a good idea to encourage terrorists’ view that we are Evil, but he is so passionate about the Truth and so appalled that people can sit passively by while BushCo murders untold millions that he can’t shut up about it.

And yes, Irwin, he votes far left and bitches about the rich, but so far I have not seen him open up his cellar as a homeless shelter.

By: Irwin Chusid

Irwin Chusid — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:48:13 +0000

As an Apostate Boomer (age 56), I applaud your candor. The “fellow traveler” quota for the 60s was high (if you’ll pardon the term). I was part of it. All it took was some vague concept of “justice” and a strong hedonistic streak, and you were an eager recruit. Too many of my generation retain their “progressive” politics because to do otherwise is considered heresy and/or requires too much reevaluation. They retain the same post-adolescent political fantasies and paranoias they had as 20-year-olds. They characterize this as “sticking to their convictions.” I see it as a failure to mature. Ironically, many of these aging hippies live what could arguably be termed “conservative” lifestyles. They vote left, but crave domestic stability, job security, and familiar routines. Their voting patterns are the only thing “radical” about them. I evolved politically (towards libertarianism) because I dropped out of college early (1971) and never went back. The leftist dogma I’d absorbed through my sophomore year didn’t stick when I went out into the Real World. I was allowed to rethink my perspectives independently before the brainwashing had time to set. Consequently, I often feel ill at ease with people my own age — I don’t share what seems to be the default political view. And I’m tried of arguing with them about it. Fuckin’ hippies.

By: Steve Bodio

Steve Bodio — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:23:12 +0000

Remember though– Kesey was a pretty good novelist (think Sometimes a Great Notion rather than Cuckoo’s Nest) who ended up a small “c” Christian farmer and wrestling coach in rural Oregon.

Unlike many of his friends, to say the least.

By: Assistant Village Idiot

Assistant Village Idiot — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:01:48 +0000

“This is a symbolic invitation and a symbolic measure…” says much more than she knows. The academy’s critics complain of symbolism replacing substance. Ms. Stanton seeks to prove that, I guess.