“The Past Isn’t Dead. It Isn’t Even Past.”

[avram]

postvixen pointed out right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt (And isn’t that a terrible name for radio? “Hyoo Hyoo-it”?) saying “The sixties ended on September 11, 2001, but they were interred on the morning of November 3, 2004.”

My first thought was Idiot, the sixties ended when the Beatles broke up in 1970.

Just a few minutes ago, lying in bed, trying to sleep, I remembered John Ashcroft and Southern Partisan magazine. How do I know he’s not talking about the 1860s?

John Kerry was forced to refight the Vietnam War this summer.
Ashcroft and his fellow relics are still fighting the US Civil War.
There are probably still people fighting the English Civil War.
Osama bin Laden is refighting the Crusades.

No matter how the War on Some Terrorism goes, people will probably still be fighting it a hundred years from now.

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

"There are probably still people fighting the English Civil War."

Yeah, like George Bush and the cabal of warmed-over followers of Leo Strauss who've grabbed control of the US government. They're cavaliers, trying to settle the dissenters' hash once and for all -- it's been getting clearer and clearer ever since they tried/temporarily succeeded in abolishing the inheritance tax (a vital prerequisite to re-establishing a hereditary aristocracy).

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

Hmm, my roomie in college thought the 60s ended when McGovern lost. And the 50s ended when Kennedy was shot.

It'll take a hundred years to find Osama, at the rate Dubya is going.