2010 National Book Awards Winners Announced

[Michael Bailey]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> forget the nostalgic hippie punk lefty inherent vice bullshit
> better read about international
> finance/banking/terrorism-counterinsurgency if you want to know
> something worth knowing so you know who yr enemies are, folks
>

if reading about that stuff could make it go away, I'd do it...

Otherwise, I feel like I've got to spend at least some of my limited
time trying to keep the nostalgic hippie flame alive - or actually,
even more nostalgic for some of the straight people and phenomena of
the 60s and 70s, Clean for Gene, the civil rights movement, MLK's
non-violence, teach-ins, the notion of "jobs for life", actual
welfare, labor unions with clout, a world where Nixon - a Republican -
could bring the EPA into being and propose a minimum annual income for
all...


-- 
"Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respects a
violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural
liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all
governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical." -
Adam Smith