Interesting. On other threads, have gotten into it with anti-illegal drug positions (based on clinical experience with legal and illegal compounds). As a matter of interest, came across the incomparable Shel Silverstein (who wrote, among many other big money tunes) “ I was stoned and I missed it”. Got zero reponse when I posted the youtube link to it.
Small trivia- knew for a short while, the actual writer of “The Gambler” (he wrote for Tree publishing, nashville), and told everyone he met how he sold the song to one of the other staff writers, Don Schlitz. Schlitz never acknowledged it (of course not for the potential royalty suit) but the feller said he sold if for $100 to pay his light bill.
Seeing that nickname Jewish Alps— made me think of a film way back that was a study of that Catskill scene (social context)— The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz— a nervous film with a very young Richard Dreyfuss (who later in Smithsonian mag compared his character to..Bernie Madoff! Oy!
Do admire David Horowitz— intellectually honest and a long path to his complete reversal of all those lies- from personal experience. He gave a lot of backup learning to the Shapiros (and Andrew Breitbart)— these people know this movement of commies from the inside.
#11. If you want a secondary “Jewish Alps”, see “Dirty Dancing”.
I went to one in the early 60’s called Shawanga Lodge and it was great. Later, in college, I fixed up a good friend of mine with the daughter of the lodges’ owners. He married her. Those were the days.