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WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
On the Road Again
Iraq’s Shiites burning ancient books and four thousand year old Assyrian pottery cracked to shards.
Civilization starts and ends here. Time is burning to a cinder and forgotten. McDonald’s was always here so were Televangelists and GAP sweatshops.
Hitch hiking on the Road to Damascus. Bob Hope is 100 Kerouac is dead. What retired American general will be annointed Viceroy of Syria. Does he have to be blonde?
STEW ALBERT runs the Yippie Reading Room. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com