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Hey Fellow Baby Boomers, Have We Become The People We Said Never To Trust?

April 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Home and Family

Anyone who has spent all or part of their teen or growing-up years in the sixties will surely remember the famous slogan delivered from under protest banners flying high or tacked up in seedy apartments and dorm rooms decorated with day-glow posters of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.
Remember what it was? Come-on, sure you do. Here’s a hint - it was one of the catch phrases of the hippies - the ‘Love’ generation. It went right along with, “Make Love Not War”. And it was usually drawn with magic markers on rumpled ‘used-to- be white’, dorm room sheets.
Still nothing? Hey man you’re not trying.
OK, last clue. What could the most ironic thing that millions of settled, responsible movers and shakers of today’s society (us) could have said all those years ago to make us squirm now in our CEO chairs or heated leather Lexus seats?
No guesses? Really?
OK, well everyone who thinks they know the answer, jot it down on an old ‘zigzag’ joint paper and stuff it into the back pocket of those jeans, (despite the fact that they’re three sizes larger than they were in 1968, and now fit a whole lot tighter) And even worse, you’re not wearing them tight in the butt any more to be sexy! Then send it off to me in your old college laundry bag. Winners will be chosen completely at random by the judge (me) whose thoughts are likewise completely random (me again) and…. Oh forget it. You give up?

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The Dixie Chicks In Retrospect

March 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized

Introduction

The Dixie Chicks had everything going for them. They were the best selling female band of all time, with many adoring fans. Their fame was well deserved. The music of the Dixie Chicks is definitely first rate. However the adulation they were receiving was about to change.

On March 10, 2003 they were performing a concert in London at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire Theater. During the concert, lead singer Natalie Maines, in opposition to the coming invasion of Iraq, made her now infamous statement.

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