tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post687233624163212302..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Okay, Brooks, The Genie Grants You One Wish: Hippie For A Night Circa 1967, Or Teabagger Backstage At A Lee Greenwood Show. You Have Five Seconds.James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-71731844106855279182010-03-08T14:25:12.454-05:002010-03-08T14:25:12.454-05:00All this talk about “Walmart Hippies” seems mispla...All this talk about “Walmart Hippies” seems misplaced – when my girlfriend and I were in [a Denver] Walmart on Saturday trying to kill some time before a movie, the patrons primarily were Hispanic, not a demographic for either hippies or teabaggers !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-28374552953534474522010-03-08T10:56:03.592-05:002010-03-08T10:56:03.592-05:00Brilliant! Pulitzer material, I dare say.Brilliant! Pulitzer material, I dare say.nanutenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-12752167359146877822010-03-07T13:18:10.836-05:002010-03-07T13:18:10.836-05:00Doghouse,
You never asked "where can I get a ...Doghouse,<br />You never asked "where can I get a deck?" to cement your hardcore druggie bonafides? Shoulda got some musically inclined guys together to do a rendition of Cab Calloway's "Reefer Man" during assembly. When I was in highschool, half the teachers would have applauded, since they smoked with the students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-25489238911114213072010-03-07T09:37:39.420-05:002010-03-07T09:37:39.420-05:00Maybe I made this up, but I remember it coming fro...Maybe I made this up, but I remember it coming from the sainted Hunter S.: "tea shades" were the sunglasses you wore to hide a bad case of reefer-induced red eye. And it wasn't a real slang term, it was something some hophead made up on the spot and sold Harry Anslinger's goons after being pinched, the cops being particularly keen to keep up with the lingo. "Yeah, you James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-57183725007461102392010-03-07T09:35:38.914-05:002010-03-07T09:35:38.914-05:00Nice way to wake up today. Thanks, DHR.Nice way to wake up today. Thanks, DHR.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-71262441555881997322010-03-07T08:54:46.785-05:002010-03-07T08:54:46.785-05:00This one is for the ages. Thank you!--Fiddlin'...This one is for the ages. Thank you!--Fiddlin' BillFiddlin Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083633111240927563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-31344700769604956872010-03-06T21:50:08.229-05:002010-03-06T21:50:08.229-05:00Brooks doesn't seem to understand that the Tea...Brooks doesn't seem to understand that the Teabaggers are the New Confederacy. <br /><br />There are all sorts of debates as to whether the Civil War was fought over slavery, or over states' rights. The reason those debates were never resolved is that the "slavery" crowd never understood <i>why</i> it was fought about slavery. <br /><br />Nobody really gave a hoot about the Dr. Harl Deloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17424071404764987713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-47721803771774106272010-03-06T19:41:05.918-05:002010-03-06T19:41:05.918-05:00Ahh, sweet relief, blessed be thy name Doghouse. Y...Ahh, sweet relief, blessed be thy name Doghouse. Your title made me instantly think of Lenny Bruce's Lena Horne/Kate Smith question, another dilemma for our boy Brooks. Bravo.<br /><br />More than anything else, what aggravates me most about Brooks is that he's just so relentlessly full of shit. Keerist, you can't even make it though the four words of his title here without stepping R. Porrofattonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-44474949283748783362010-03-06T18:46:01.918-05:002010-03-06T18:46:01.918-05:00Brooks:The New Left then, like the Tea Partiers no...<b>Brooks:</b><i>The New Left then, like the Tea Partiers now, had a legitimate point about the failure of the ruling class. But they ruined it through their own imprudence, self-righteousness and naïve radicalism.</i><br /><br />Meaning... what? Name something great that was ruined by hippies.<br /><br />I love that, 40 years later, any pin-head can huck rocks at the hippies without having to Christophernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-11151683959767919732010-03-06T18:19:02.923-05:002010-03-06T18:19:02.923-05:00I don't know why I read Brooks, unless that ge...I don't know why I read Brooks, unless that getting mad is a good way to get an adrenaline rush and sort of clean out the mental crud. The Dirty Hippies of the 60s were inspired by a war fed by an unfair draft that could get them or their loved ones killed. The Tea Partiers are inspired by fear of paying their fair share of taxes that supply them with highways and other benefits of Rugosahttp://dzikaroza.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-50646430397063972342010-03-06T17:16:40.418-05:002010-03-06T17:16:40.418-05:00Shorter comment: What the hell are "tea shade...Shorter comment: What the hell are "tea shades?"<br /><br />Some time along 1968 or so I was enjoying one of the better Berkeley street demonstrations-- it was part of the "People's Park" series, which was centered around a patch of dirt off Telegraph Avenue that the university wanted to build on, so street people planted carrots in it and took the two-by-fours lying Blisterãonoreply@blogger.com