[broadsword]

It's good that you mentioned art, since I was an art major in college and I've been a professional designer for over twenty years.

And you STILL missed the point. How sad. But you must keep in mind that unverifiable claims of authority mean absolutely nothing on the net. Anyone can claim to be anything, and still be just an other chest-thumping keyboard warrior with coke-bottle glasses and a greasy bag of Doritos next to his Beastie Boys mousepad.

That said, I have no reason to doubt your claims of authority, nor to doubt that your special CA sensitivity caused you to miss the guy's greater point.

Liberals and Islam are the enemy of the age, not the article or the author of the article, my friend.

BTW: The liberal morass and flood of illegal aliens is taking CA right out from under your nose. It is ceasing to be CA and will be a third world dump at some point unless something is done. But you knew that already.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I may not have inferred the point YOU took from it, but that's the problem with relativism, anybody can take away anything they want. Yes, the culture of cool is shallow and transient, and so was swing dancing in the 1940's, but that didn't stop GI's from heading to the dance hall every chance they got. And portraying the military as wholly unconcerned with pop culture is to say it consists of automatons apart from the rest of the country

The funny thing is, I tend to agree with his "greater" point, but I object to his characterization of Orange County, and nobody seems to get MY point. A far better article would have contrasted the traditions of Tustin Air Station, and the half million Orange County residents who annually viewed the El Toro Air Show for thirty years with the creeping "culture of cool" that now infests places like the Irvine Spectrum, which is located ironically DIRECTLY across the freeway from the empty El Toro Air Station.

I repeat, to ignore the deaths of Orange County's youth in the War on Terror is not an expression of CA sensitivity but a demand that their sacrifices be recognized.