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We used to work with Bucks County Courier Times columnist J.D. Mullane, albiet only half-knowing him as a summer intern, and we always thought his best quality as a columnist was his unabashed ability to bash whatever the heck he thought needed bashing.
When I was there, he was bashing the rash — there were a ton, really — of local teachers allowing their students to throw pies at their faces if they got certain grades.
And now, he’s turned to that oh-so-topical rant about the 60s:
Let’s examine the holy sacraments of the “progressive” counterculture: sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.
Sex. Uptight middle America was appalled at reports from the 1969 Woodstock concert that young people were tripping and dancing about naked. They were shocked when a reporter recounted seeing two nude strangers meet, copulate, and go separate ways while hardly uttering a word.
Today, this is commonly called “hooking up.”
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Rock music was the hippie counterculture’s soundtrack, larded with sex and drug references often too oblique for middle class nerds to “get.”
But nothing the Woodstock generation belted out touches the nihilistic vulgarity that oozes from Kanye West, Ludacris and Lil’ Kim, whose albums sell millions.
Yep, Country Joe and the Fish, you’re responsible for out-of-wedlock kids and carjackings. For shame.
Sixties shifted standards [BCCT]
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