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Read up on your history PJ.

I'll tell you what, cynicom. I CHALLENGE you to take a History Quiz contest against me right here on the FR. Christmas Day would be a good time for me. What we can do is have other Freepers post American history quiz questions to us in REAL TIME. The winner of each quiz question is the FIRST one to post the correct answer (to prevent the possiblity of spending time to look up the answers on the Web). Then all of the winning answers posted by you and me are tallied up to determine the final winner.

So that is my challenge, Cynicom. I was planning to get drunk as hell on Scotch on Christmas Day and I may still do so since PJ drunk will still beat cynicom sober. So are you going to continue to talk the talk or will you walk the walk?

That's another habit of cynicom that I notice. Whenever he starts getting as good as he gives, he blows us off and tells us curtly to "have a nice day."

Anyway, upon re-reading the thread, I do regret the wording of my initial reply that set cynicom and others off. I did not mean to insinuate that everybody who went to high school in the 1950s became pot-smoking hippies in the 1960s.

My way of going about it was wrong but I wanted to make the point that many people do tend see the past (especially their past) through rose-colored glasses. That is to say, that they believe that their generation was the greatest whereas "the kids of today" are so inferior to them. That was the attitude I was trying to attack.

The 1950s era had its societal problems and faults too. It was not the perfect and "idyllic" time that many would have you believe it be. I think if anybody thinks long and hard about it, they would not want to go back to that era. (Especially when you consider that the 1970s was still lurking ahead!).

Many comments are made about how this new generation of kids coming up is going to ruin America. I do not go along with that way of thinking. I think there are a lot of bright kids out there who are going to do great things. Also, the people making these comments shouldn't be so smug. After all, it was the 1950s generation that played a major part in the socialist "Great Society" that took root in the 1960s and still plagues us to this day.