[crushkerry]

Pat's freeper screen name is Kerry Crusher. He is on leave from his job as a campaign consultant from a national GOP campaign firm, and is currently in charge of media and message development for the CATO Institute's Social Security Project.

He is also the proprietor of AnkleBitingPundits.com

[basil]

This is an enjoyable article. I love it when blue begins to turn to red!

[Red Badger]

In the recent interview of Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone(?) he said that he hated those hippie types. His farm was inundated with the freeloaders trying to commune with him. He quote,"wanted to set these people on fire!".......

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I'm a folkie, myself. Some of those old protest songs work just as well on the leftist elites as anyone they were aimed at.


I was once on a political forum with people from all political stripes. One of the leftists got furious, when several of the conservatives mentioned liking Dylan. Apparently conservatives aren't supposed to like music that leftists like.

As for me, I like some of Dylan's songs, but I'd just as soon hear other people sing them. I mean, I'm really glad he wrote "Restless Farewell" -- one of my favorites -- but Dylan has no business singing a song with an octave jump in it, even if he is the writer.

"Neighborhood Bully," OTOH, is one of the most pro-Israel songs out there.

BTW, you do know that "The Big lake they call Gitche Gumee" is from Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," not Dylan.

[SamAdams76]

The Democrats are as much "the establishment" today as the Republicans were in the 1960s. In fact, more and insufferably so. Any "hippie" from the 60s who sports a Kerry button today has no credibility with me. They are a hypocrite. A sell-out.

All true hippies are either unaffiliated with a political party or maybe Libertarian.

[LonePalm]

Very nice.

You would both probably like my parody.

The Times It Ain't A-Changing

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[sdpatriot]

that story made me homesick! i grew up on a farm in Northern Minnesota. my observations are the same.. the young people there are voting for conservatives more and more. they grew up with the fruits of the welfare state, gun control, etc and didn't like it (i'm an example of that). maybe there's hope for this country and even for the birthplace of the socialist Farmer - Labor Movement, Minnesota.

[TASMANIANRED]

bump

[Bigg Red]

... "the times, they are a-changin'."

**
Indeed. I love it.

I have seen change this in my own huge extended family, which overwhelmingly leans Republican. After 9/11, those who changed ran right, and no one turned left. There are a few young people who oppose the war, but they are not strident Bush haters, and I have a feeling that the coming years will bring them wisdom.

[Bigg Red]

Well done, sir.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

"the big lake they call Gitche Gumee"

Where do I sign up for the "Absolutely Any Reference Whatsoever, Even If the Figure '26,000 tons' Is Brought Up In a Completely Unrelated Reference, To the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Ping List"?

[Congressman Billybob]

What a fine article. It cleansed the mouth from having listened to the Prairie Home Companion. LOL. I' too, have a weakness for Woodie Guthrie, and still recall seeing Pete Seger perform at college.

But, like the author, I can take all that musical nostalgia of the left as a good listen and a symbol of a past that perhaps never really was, with no application to understanding politics and diplomacy today.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Say It Isn't So, Dickie Boy"

[grellis]

True blue counties, which can be counted on one hand, stand out against a sea (or, perhaps a Great Lake) of red.

Holy cow, Michigan and Minnesota really are Great Lakes brethren!

[Alkhin]

Excellent article - and its even funnier that the once rebellious folk are now on the other side of the moon, and they refuse to see it.

Alkhin aka 'esgaroth' at Tributaries

[Alkhin]

That was supposed to link there:

Tributaries

[uncitizen]

Did you get to see the Martin Scorcese documentary about Dylan that played on PBS in two parts, yesterday and Monday?

I didn't get to see Part One on Monday, but saw Part Two yesterday. It was terrific.

Dylan never comes right out and says he never was a liberal hippie type. But it comes thru pretty clear imo. Especially, when Joan Baez chimes in with her opinions. She very thinly veils her insults toward Dylan and her disappointment in him. That tells me volumes about Dylan.

[airborne]

Excellent post of a wonderful story!

Oh, the times, they really are a'changin'!