Since many of the political pundits with national audiences have pointed out that the Republican Party seems to be simultaneously alienating women, Chicanos, labor, abortion rightists, pacifists, and the advocates of legalized pot; it seems that there is only one possible strategy available to the Republicans to win the contest.
Brad Friedman, the leading Internet voice for criticism (Google hint: Bradblog) of the electronic voting machines, with no verifiable results, has been labeled a conspiracy theorist, and so the only response to the aforementioned challenge may require a reference to the W. C. Fields quote: "If a thing's worth having; it's worth cheating for."
Stoned munchies? Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley?) are finding that there is a noticeable increase in the sales of Girl Scout cookies at the locations that are in close proximity to the dispensaries for medicinal marijuana.
[Note from the Photo Editor: A portrait of a fellow who is trying hard to cope with the new hard times will be used to illustrate this column. Isn't a poor attempt to imitate the photojournalism of Dorothea Lange, better than none at all?]
In "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (on page 67), Hunter S. Thompson wrote: "History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."
Now the disk jockey will play Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man," and the Searchers' "Needles and pins." We have to go look for a news story about the new Tonight Show host, Jimmy Falon, which mentions that one of his predecessors was Al "Jazzbo" Collins. Have a "we don't gotta show you no stinkin' badges" type week.
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