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Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese
A serious question to you and other right wing fans.... Have you ever taken LSD?
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I have but I can't read when I do, so...
Just kidding. Oh, and nothing below is directed at you, Cheese, rather the judgemental that know nothing of HST or the time.
I am always surprised at the binary judgements here: Being a fiscal conservative doesn't impact my understanding of differing political points of view, in fact, improves it.
I have written many time here that I am as socially liberal as any Liberal here: Not Progressive, Liberal. I'll take anyone on a political tit-for-tat walk.
So, in 1971 when the Rolling Stone issue above came out, I was 15, soon to be 16. I had two older sisters, the oldest 20 and a whip smart liberal in college in California.
I had a ring-side seat to the whole thing and loved the expression of opinions from both sides...I read Brautigan, Wolfe, the genius Heller, Carlos Castaneda, Updike, Salinger, Bellow, Roth and so many more. I even snuck a few H Robbins books into the mix.
Talent can be read and enjoyed regardless of politics, polemics cannot.