SFist: Remembering Jonestown: Post Office Renamed / Memorial Unveiled

TSOL

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:19:58 -0800

Don't worry- the cult of Obama has successfully carried the Kool-aid meme into the 21st century!

wsanders

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:54:17 -0800

I was never 100% certain whether the kool aid meme referred to Jim Jones' Bad kool aid or Ken Kesey's Good kool aid. I am pretty sure in most people's minds it's the Bad, even though I never heard it in use until the 90s, by which time both Jonestown and the Magic Bus were the distant past for most people. Besides, the Clinton and Bush administrations have given us an unlimited supply of fresh ironic memes, so we can put the old ones to rest.

hillarys_quivering_lip

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:52:51 -0800

Nice to see a fitting memorial and the renaming of the post office is a nice touch as well. I was too young in 1978 to understand what happened. I no longer use the "drinking kool aid" meme any longer.