"Coming out of the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Mackey, a vegetarian, a former long-haired and bearded commune resident, a student of ecology, yoga and eastern philosophy..."
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He used to be a hippie; then he grew up.
Except for the ones cloistered away from reality in government, universities, or the entertainment industry, they mostly all did.
Any man who is under 30 and is not a Liberal has no heart;
any man who is over 30 and not a Conservative has no brains.
~Winston Churchill
It's too damn bad that all of us his/our age haven't.
I'd love to know where the original 45k came from.