The Wall Street Journal ran this piece by Ted Nugent yesterday. If you're at all inclined to check it out, do so soon, because the password protection will kick in at some point.
More or less, Nugent uses the 40th anniversary of "The Summer of Love" to rail on against drugs and "stinking hippies." There is a bit of a point in there -- that illicit substances can be destructive -- amid all the broad brush strokes, self-congratulation, and castigation of certain aspects of the 1960s cultural movement.
The line that caught our eye was his dismissal of our city as "ultra-liberal San Francisco -- a city that once wanted to give shopping carts to the homeless."
Excuse me? the best example of ultra-liberalism in San Francisco? Hurrumph. That's nothing. So much for keeping up with the last few years, sir.
And, seriously, how cool would the piece have been if one of those little WSJ headcut drawings of Nugent had accompanied it? We love those things. We think it'd have looked a little like this. Or not.
