I graduated from Berkeley High School in 1968 - need I say more? :)

I'm afraid that much of the excess of the sixties was a revolt and a reaction against a culture that had allowed the killers of our beloved President John Kennedy get away unscathed. Lest we forget, there was a vast consensus building across the nation for economic and social justice and to end the war in Vietnam (closing supply lines of heroin from the golden triangle).

The powers that be were very nervous. Robert Kennedy would have been our next president. Dr. King could have easily beaten Obama to the Oval Office as the first black president by thirty years ... but they were killed and the same forces were behind their deaths ... and Richard Nixon, mob-friendly Darth Vader of 20th century American politics was promptly installed into the presidency.

The mafia? Wall street? Texas and Louisiana oilmen? Jimmy Hoffa? Sam Giancana? The military-industrial complex President Eisenhower warned our country about? All of the above?

Do you think that karma doesn't apply to countries as well as people? That what is sown is what is reaped? You wonder why the dollar is worth 43 cents? That our country is so far in the crapper thanks to the policies of the thieves and moneymen and their republican power-fellators that we may never get out?

It's easy to slam the sixties. Of course we didn't accomplish anything. We were just kids.

I wrote a song about. You can buy it online soon, it is the title song of my cd, Pop Down The Years. I know, I love quoting myself. Here:

So they told the tale of the golden sun
And the shining girl who lived within
So pretty
I'll go now
I know now
Just where to find her
So the story goes we wore the clothes
To make it seem all possible
The hope it was
All gone now
So long now
But not forgotten

Chorus:

We tried so hard to make it come true
A perfect dream, sun bouncing, sky blue
Pop down the years, still shining on you
Translucent songs that made the world new

Those summer days, your sweet perfume
Just filled the air with magic
A symphony
So bright now
All light now
They watched us dancing.
A slip of time, a ray of sun
A floating song from a perfect world
And endless love
How softly
How sadly
Young hearts were broken

We tried so hard to make it come true
A perfect dream, sun bouncing, sky blue
Pop down the years, still shining on you
Translucent songs that made our love new

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There was nothing wrong with our naive idealism. It just never stood a chance against the cold men and their money and their guns.

I've been around this town for a long time (I used to walk up Telegraph from Willard Jr. High School to watch the Free Speech Sit-In) - and I've watched the so-called progressives stick their heads further up their own asses with each passing decade. I consider myself an old-school liberal with an abiding commitment to racial equality and environmental issues. I believe, also, that feminism, with its focus on a lot of materialistic concerns, trivializes the true importance and power of women in many instances.

The problem for feminists of my generation is that, on some deep level, they know they've been had. But denial runs strong, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to admit this.

But if Hillary becomes president, they will have won some battle that justifies the tragic delusion. So she must. Hence Salon's twisted perspective of Obama.

It's not that Hillary is a woman that I don't like her. I used to really like her, and Bill Clinton as well.

But they are part of the same old crew that has been consolidating media, money, and power, and has turned us into Russia (without the internet, we'd be China minus the economic growth) in terms of the destruction of the middle class and massive transfer of wealth - with the aid of the new media which are now just corporate house organs - that has happened in this country over the past 30 years.

And Salon? Trivializing itself with its myopia and growing irrelevance.

I don't care if Hillary is a man, woman, hermaphrodite, pre-op tranny, drag queen, gay, straight, lesbian, whatever ...

People don't like her, don't like what she stands for anymore, don't like the way she's run her campaign ... but most of all ...

Don't like the fact that she is just more of the same old bullshit ... the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the country ...

As I've said, I used to like them both - the Clintons. Now I know too much, seen too much.

People want CHANGE and they want it now.

Obama can win, easily, if Diebold doesn't steal the election for the Repubes again.

And Salon really really really sucks for running this article. I may have to stop reading Salon - it has been my home page for ten or eleven years.

Way to go, Joanie!!!

is miser.

These people can experience no joy, no happiness, no enjoyment of the moment: a good meal, a conversation, music, art ...

Lose this guy now. He will never change. Money will always be more important to him than anything, including LW.

All the misers I've known had lots of money. They were just as miserable as this jerk.

I remember reading a book, "The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues." It had a great chapter about those who never allowed themselves any pleasure, for fear it would be snatched away. Kind of sums up the miser mentality.

And, as a rich, non-miser female friend of mine once said,"Cheap guys are lousy in bed."