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Saturday, July 3, 2004 |
THE QUOTE:
"I didn't think naming your child 'Orgasm' was the best way to maintain a good relationship with their grandparents."
- - Ina May Gaskin (From the "Weekend Bottom Line" article)
THE HISTORY:
July 3rd 1978 -- US Supreme Court rules 5-4, that the FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting Filthy George Carlin's "The Seven Dirty Words you can't say on Television".
JULY 4th, 1776 - Liberty Bell rings, but it's not all it's cracked up to be.
RHINO HERE:
Suggestion for a patriotic 4th of July field trip: Take friends to see "Fahrenheit 911."
After all, every American deserves to know how Paul Wolfowitz gets his hair to look so great.
On the front page of last Sunday's Los Angeles Times Calendar Section was a nicely written piece featuring the Rhino's Alma Mater, "The Farm" in Summertown, Tennessee. Entitled, "Aging of Aquarius:
Graybeard Capitalists Keep Hippie Dreams Alive As Communes Learn To Adapt," it is the Bottom Line.
THE SITE TIP: Safe, Cheap Fireworks
http://www.njagyouth.org/Liberty_.htm
THE OPPORTUNITY: Seeking Indian Home For Extreme Makeover
ABC TV seeks to remodel the home of a Native American family for its popular show, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." If you or someone you know has a home on a reservation between 1,200 to 2,000 sq. ft. with a decent-sized yard, contact the casting department by the July 14, 2004 Deadline! Applications at http://abc.go.com/primetime/extrememakeover/casting.html or contact Lock & Key Productions, c/o Casting, POB 38670, LA, CA 90038.
IN MEMORANDUM: C.J. 'Pappy' Hart, 93; Drag Racing Pioneer
You Had To Drag This Pioneer Off The Track
By ROBIN HINCH, The Orange County Register , June 30, 2004
If you'd asked C.J. "Pappy" Hart if he was the father of drag racing, chances are he would have just shrugged and said, "Oh, me and a couple of guys just liked running our cars, that's all." He was a modest man and did nothing for personal credit. But in drag-racing circles, Pappy is considered the father of the sport - the one responsible for creating one of the few motorsports that originated in the United States. When he came to Santa Ana in 1944, he found a bunch of outlaw kids drag racing dangerously in the streets and wanted a safe place for them - and for himself and his wife, Peggy - to test their speed. There wasn't much in Orange County then - just a lot of trees and bean fields and the occasional house. And a small airport with runways that weren't even used....
MORE: http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2004/07//01/sections/local/obituaries/article_151562.php
Top Ten Bush Complaints About "Fahrenheit 9/11"
10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing
9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election
8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words
7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported
6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger
5. Of all Michael Moore's accusations, only 97% are true
4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe
3. Where the hell was Spider-man?
2. Couldn't hear most of the movie over Cheney's foul mouth
and
1. I thought this was supposed to be about Dodgeball
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/archive/ls_topten_archive2004/ls_topten_archive_20040629.shtml
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Aging of Aquarius
Graybeard capitalists keep hippie dreams alive as communes learn to adapt.
By Anne-Marie O'Connor, LA Times Calender , Sunday June 6, 2004
Albert Bates grows nostalgic remembering the freewheeling days when hundreds of hippies left Haight-Ashbury in a caravan of psychedelic buses for a celebrated back-to-the-land pilgrimage. Bates was a law student when this electric circus rolled through New York in 1970, and he found it irresistible. Soon he followed, joining a young, affluent exodus to the American countryside that would be one of the most profound social experiments of its time.
His long hair and beard have grayed, but Bates still lives at The Farm, the storied American commune he helped build in backwoods Tennessee. Sipping Mystic Brew organic coffee at its eco-village, he chuckles at the memory of the trippy energy that once inspired some communards to boot up their "Marijuana Macintoshes" and design a Geiger counter they sold, for almost nothing, as a dashboard ornament for anti-nuke protesters.
"It was a novelty item, but it turned out to be very accurate," Bates says with a grin. "It was pretty funny."
The homegrown Nuke-Buster is no joke now. Today, the computerized, satellite-accessible nuclear detectors are used worldwide by police, military, firefighters and federal disaster officials...
IN DEPTH ARTICLE & PHOTO GALLERY (Free registration required) AT:
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ca-oconnor27jun27,1,1743366.story
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