"MEDIA CREATED THE HIPPIE WITH YOUR HUNGRY CONSENT" On Oct. 6, 1967, Haight-Ashbury's countercultural equivalent to a neighborhood "business association""the San Francisco Oracle, Ron Thelin's Psychedelic Shop, the Switchboard"held a sunrise service at Buena Vista Park to ...
I"m just finding out that Roland Emmerich is gay. Wow, does that ever put his orgasmic famous-landmark explosions in Independence Day, White House Down, and The Day After Tomorrow in a whole new CGI light! Emmerich is best known for those and other such disaster movies, but according to some ...
What if you got arrested for violating a restraining order taken out in 1989 against somebody else? So now you"re in jail again for, among other things, causing a disturbance and blocking a sidewalk, even though"since you weigh considerably less than 900 pounds and hadn"t raised your ...
"What kind of Buddhism is this, Otto?" In A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Kevin Kline's felonious "Otto""as stupid as he is sexy"preps for yet another soon-to-be-bungled illegality by performing a "tantric meditation technique" he claims "the monks used to do before ...
As you read this, far too many young Americans are getting ready for their first day (back) at college, the most expensive mistake of their lives (unless they are male, get married, and end up divorced.) I presume all these students, whatever their major, are forced to take at least one class ...
Remember the good old days when people used to kill themselves? Maybe I"ve seen too many movies"okay, no "maybe""but didn"t disgraced individuals take their lives more frequently once upon a time? I don"t mean the Japanese, who are so weird it's hard to distinguish ...
Maybe the world is waiting for another Clinton to move back into the White House, but whatever the reason, the "90s revival is stalled. Since the end of the Second World War, North American"and, especially, English"kids have compulsively salvaged the clothing and music of the teenagers ...
"Can"t go to a movie the first week it opens. Why? Because niggers are shooting at the screen." "Chris Rock, 1997 Still wondering if Marco Rubio should get to sit behind that Resolute desk? Wonder no more! I"m indebted to Michelle Malkin for finding this @marcorubio tweet, ...
Everyone pities Prometheus, but what about that poor eagle, sentenced to pluck out the same guy's liver every damn morning? Did it ever think, "Jeez, just once can I get maybe a kidney or something?"? That myth makes me think of St. Peter's proverb "A dog returns to its vomit," ...
But I will tell you that in a prison they crucified a cat before ourselves. They beat nails in the feet of the cat and the cat was hanging with the head down, and can you imagine how this cat screamed and the prisoners, mad, bead [sic] on the door, "Free the cat, free the cat, free the ...
