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Through a bong, darkly
A new book argues that the '60s counterculture achieved nothing of lasting importance. So why does the era continue to fascinate us?
By Gary Kamiya [2008-04-09]

  • And just what have the fucking historians accomplished besides killing off a number of perfectly fine oxygen producing trees for the pulp wood they print their books on??

    Will anyone who gives a shit what some history professor from the University of St. Andrews says please raise his/her hand??

    If nothing else . . . the 60's were fun. Gerard de Groot . . . not so much fun.

    At some time in the future, our best pal the Sun will run out of fuel. He will then swell into a red giant . . . expanding past the orbit of Mars. The earth will be a charred cinder. All of human history will have produced nothing of lasting importance.

    Oh, well, thanks very much for harshing our mellow, Prof. de Groot.

    -- robert lewis
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    Tuesday, April 8, 2008 07:15 PM
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