Serious.
Put up a world map in their room.
First it teaches them colors and shapes. Then numbers and letters. Then history and science.
When they walk into kindergarten and the teacher sees they know things like directions and what the word ‘island’ means, they’ll be the favorite pupil.
Cohn ran Joe McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Scare
They put his name on the AIDS quilt.
Trump threw Epstein under the bus when Jeff and Ms. Maxwell got arrested.
I thought the caption was something about a ‘golden shower of confetti.’
The real one is nice, too
Everything is an ‘existential threat.’
In the 1950’s Elvis Presley and Rock and Roll were going to drive america’s children insane with lust.
If they didn’t have rage they’d no emotions at all.
The analogy I like is that MAGA is like those high school seniors who have figured out that they are never going to college or get a good job. All they can do is disrupt and make everyone else miserable until graduation.
The last actual friend Trump had was his mentor, Roy Cohn. Cohn had been Joe McCarthy’s attack dog during the Red Scare, and went on to become one of the most hated lawyers in New York.
Epstein used Trump, but I think even Jeff would have been hard pressed to come up with something nice to say about Donnie.
Reminds me of an old sports joke.
I root for two teams. My home town team and whoever is playing against the Yankees/Patriots/Bulls.*
*Highly successful and extremely hated for it.
I always think of the line in the movie “Erin Brockovich.”
The person had been treated for numerous cancers, including a double masectomy and a hysterectomy.
“I have no breasts and no uterus. Am I still a woman?”
You focused on the trees and lost the forest.
OP’s question was about people actin a particular way that originally seemed ‘unrealistic.’
Whatever the actual music was, it was McLaren et al that got people wearing purple mohawks and using safety pins for jewelry.
“The Man Who Sold The Moon” is wrong about pretty much everything, but it’s still a great read.
HG Wells and Jules Verne are never going to go away, because their books are still fun.
Get a backpack that fits well.
Always carry a full liter of water in a heavy bottle in the bag.
It will remind you to keep your shoulders back and your abs tight.
Luna - New Moon by Ian MacDonald is a fun read. Luna is controlled by a few great families whose ancestors were among the first colonists. It’s been about a century since industrialization really got going.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/luna-new-moon-ian-mcdonald/234de09fb351d5a7
On one hand, it’s a really good. On the other, the future it predicted failed.
Let’s start with the author’s ideas about prison. When the book was written, cartels and prison gangs were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today. The idea that there’d be no gangs running the Lunar prisons might have made sense in 1966, but not today.
I also get a chuckle out of the idea that it’s easier for a computer to achieve self-awareness than it is for that same computer to create a realistic video image.
I use the term ‘antique science fiction’ for older books that are fun to read but can’t be taken seriously.
A British writer named Nick Cohn wrote a story in 1976 for New York magazine. He’d gone to a couple of local discos and made up most of the story. The article became the movie ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ and the rest is history.
Punk rock started in America, with people who were sick of the overproduced music they heard. A Brit named Malcolm McLaren heard the phrase and ‘invented’ the Sex Pistols band out of his own imagination.
Going back further, the riot that told America they were about to be invaded by motorcycle demons was another example.
Just run…
Let’s jump into a major war just before midterm elections.
What could go wrong?
Fidel Castro came to New York at the height of the Cold War and no police agency touched him.
And as an aside. Castro was told that he couldn’t go anywhere except Manhattan. He agreed and took rooms at the Hotel Terresa on 125 Street in the middle of Harlem. He was a big hit with the locals.
I like that attitude.
I’d be dead after running 26 miles, but even dead I’d start a fight.