or, How One Becomes A Subversive
May 3, 2007
Rod Serling/The Twilight Zone
Take 5
Rocky & Bullwinkle
MAD Magazine
Viet Nam
Flower Power
1968
Robert F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
The Chicago 8 Conspiracy Trial & seeing the drawings of Bobby Seale gagged & tied to his chair (I was living in the Chicago suburbs at the time, it was a nightly story on the local news).
Mike Royko
Kent State
Watergate
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Seventies
The Reagan/Bush years
Clinton’s impeachment for not keeping his pants zipped
Bush II (esp. the 2000 election)
Invasion of Iraq (before “mission accomplished” in Afghanistan – Bin Laden’s still on the loose).
—– Edit in: May 4, 2011. / Sunday, May 1st, President Obama announced Osama bin Laden had been killed by Navy SEALs earlier that day. Some jubilation ensued, the next day “the Right” was alternately praising President BUSH & complaining the operation wasn’t legal. Reminds me of the old MAD Magazine feature “You Can’t Win With A Bigot”. ——-
Actually, it’s only through to Vonnegut that I was molded; everything after has just reinforced my beliefs & mis-trust of authority/ government. But, change is good, no? Throw the bums out!
Politics & Plants 
I love your zest for life, Pegs! As you are a gardener, I should have dedicated this one to you:
http://deniswright.blogspot.com/2011/10/rain-clouds-gardens-and-cowdung.html
A walk down by the lake in Chicago just before it got too warm and with the winter chill on the wind from the water would be pleasant.
Nothing seems to want to let me post today. I tried commenting on your blog, but it won’t let me post anon, or choose a profile, or preview without choosing a profile. So, here’s my reply for your blog:
Glorious gardens, Denis! Also love the stories in between, I’m from cow country myself, even though I never lived on a farm (but across the street from one).
My own gardens have suffered the last two years, esp. this with the drought & extreme heat. Next year…
I’m glad you’re still well enough to continue the blog, I always enjoy reading your thoughts. : )
Hoping this posts, last time I tried it just sat there & then refused me (*sob*).
Thanks, Denis. I would love a trip to the pumpkin farmer’s in Barrington, next town over (after passing through farmland/woodland).