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2004-05-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-19 07:20|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The good news is someone that fat aint gonna last to long.

Posted by Phil B 2004-05-19 7:25:18 AM|| 2004-05-19 7:25:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I always enjoy saying to my LLL friends that I that I think Michael Moore is a good representative of the Dems these days. Now they've given me Jerry Springer.

Sadly, I think Kerry might win this one. It's not cool to support Bush and the left has the monopoly on making the wimpy feel scared to show their Bush support. I want to get a bumper sticker that says something like:

Bush 2004
Because cool people can't rule, they can only ridicule.

or something like that....I'll work on it.

Posted by B 2004-05-19 8:06:58 AM|| 2004-05-19 8:06:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Great big pigs earthquake, but mainly they oink."

--Leo Kottke, "Bumble Party"

Posted by Mike 2004-05-19 8:28:51 AM|| 2004-05-19 8:28:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 B, see The Conquest of Cool
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism by Thomas Frank
This could be the most important book of the past 10 years.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-05-19 8:30:57 AM|| 2004-05-19 8:30:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I was born in 1973. I often ask my parents about the sixties as they lived through the Detroit riots and other crap going on at the time for their take on it. My (God bless her) outspoken mother claims that the flower children were just a bunch of lazy derelicts looking for a reason to get high and something to whine about. My dad got back from a stint in 'Nam in the early 60s before things got hot, he was even sent to Ole Miss when they had to enforce the integration ruling. His take was that aside from the civil rights movement for blacks the rest of the 60s culture was an overhyped sham. My folks are very blue-collar, I guess conservative-democrats would best describe them - fairly conservative socially and fiscally but pro-union. AC> I'll have to check out that book, thanx.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-05-19 8:49:25 AM|| 2004-05-19 8:49:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 AC - thanks!. I have so much to say about it, but I don't know where to start.

Thanks for the insight. The bottom line to me is that we, as a culture, have to somehow find a way to allow our youth to rebel and then make it OK for them to grow up.

To take the article one step further...as it was spot on....it shows that advertising capitalizes on the age of rebellion. The age of rebellion is the age of leaving the nest and thus is where advertising must be aimed. because it is where new consumers establish their brand loyalties.

I don't know...it would take too many words to make my point here, but to cut to the chase, I believe that if our society can not somehow refocus on the benefits of wisdom, rather than youth, Darwin will prove to us once again that nature is cruel.

Posted by B 2004-05-19 9:23:31 AM|| 2004-05-19 9:23:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 the picture of Moore makes me wonder how he made it to Cannes. Possible by cargo ship and placed by a forklift.

Posted by mhw 2004-05-19 10:09:53 AM|| 2004-05-19 10:09:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Jarhead: I agree with your folks. I grew up in the 50's and 60's near Selma, Alabama. The Civil Rights movement was genuine and need to happen. The rest of the garbage (flower power, free love, turn on, tune in , and drop out, etc.) was just that, garbage.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-05-19 12:06:28 PM|| 2004-05-19 12:06:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Deacon Blues you still live in LA?

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-19 12:26:56 PM|| 2004-05-19 12:26:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Michael Moore is a big fat idiot.

Posted by Chris W. 2004-05-19 12:58:33 PM|| 2004-05-19 12:58:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Shipman: No, I live an work in East Tennessee. I lived three miles from where Viola Liuzo (sp?) was murdered and still have vivid memories of the Klan violence. Everyone was terrified of the Klan. I still and always will have no use whatsoever for the Klan. For those of you who don't know, LA is Lower Alabama.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-05-19 2:52:07 PM|| 2004-05-19 2:52:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Check out Rachel Lucas' link again. It has been appropriately updated by Lagmonkey. A shot in Moore's big fat mouth on the range target scores a "10".

Posted by GK 2004-05-19 5:37:19 PM|| 2004-05-19 5:37:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Nice picture. What's going on? Some homeless guy hit the Powerball?

Posted by tu3031 2004-05-19 8:02:50 PM|| 2004-05-19 8:02:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Deacon, that's what I always thought to, other then abolishing jimmy crow the rest of it was what I call the big fake social consience to condone excess. If people want to copulate like rabbits, smoke keys of thai weed, and drop acid, I don't really care - but let's just call it as it is - irresponible stupid behavior. I think that's why I'm pretty prejudiced toward the hippie/deadhead pseudo-counter culture, it's a farce and false pretext to act like a douchebag. There have been times when I've been home on leave and have seen the retro-60s wannabe flowerlosers walking around and I always get that little aligator part of my id telling me to start choking them out, luckily I have the discipline to take a deep breath and just keep on walking.

BTW-This is the first time I've heard of Rachel Lucas, I am quickly becoming a fan of her ;)

Posted by Jarhead 2004-05-19 8:27:22 PM|| 2004-05-19 8:27:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Just remember that Michael Moore provides a never ending bounty of humorous material.

Posted by Libbo 2004-05-19 9:38:57 PM|| [http://www.lagmonkey.com] 2004-05-19 9:38:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Neat range target Libbo.

Posted by GK 2004-05-19 10:58:36 PM|| 2004-05-19 10:58:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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