Showing posts with label hippies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hippies. Show all posts
Saturday, April 02, 2022

Remembering The Great 1972 Rainbow Family Scare in Colorado

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The Colorado Sun reposted this piece by Jason Blevins in the Outsider newsletter: The Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes  plans to return t...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2019

The Fourth of July bash at the National Mall will feature lots and lots of Trump and big tanks -- don't forget the tanks!

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In February, when Trump announced plans for his grandiose Fourth of July celebration, conservative commentator Bill Kristol responded on Twi...
Friday, September 08, 2017

The Summer of Love; the Winter of Our Discontent

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I laughed when I saw the cover of the Aug./Sept. issue of AARP: The Magazine. Over a Peter Max original illustration was the header: "...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Flashbacks: Denver 2008 and Fear & Loathing 1972

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It's not Flashback Friday or Throwback Thursday, but we are venturing back eight years to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. ...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Remembering Watergate Summer

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Remember the summer of '74? Watergate summer. CNN's Special on "The Seventies" last night took me back. "America vs...
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Friday, May 01, 2015

For Baby Boomers, the arguments go on forever

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Big news from the Brookings Institution: Baby Boomers are in each other’s faces – again. According to a Brookings report: “The primary po...
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Friday, July 05, 2013

Hitchhiker's Guide to the West

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As of July 1, hitchhiking is legal in Wyoming. And just in time for the summer travel season. This new law came out of a need for skiers...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

1972 Colorado: A flashback without the nostalgia

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A few days ago, I mourned the loss of poet and poetry promoter Kurt Brown. His latest book was a look back at Aspen in its heyday, “Lost She...