Blog Heap of Links for the day 20 November 2017

What good is answering items in the Morning Report thread when all the commenters have moved on?

First thing I read today is Chuckie Manson is dead again? Can't be sure until the body is burned. In the sun.

In response, cranky old JJ ranted: "About the most I can say is that "peace, love and understanding" is not the legacy of the 60s and the Baby Boom generation. That myth has been exploded…"

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Manson is what the 60s were about! Woodstock was an illusion! Altamont is the truth! Donovan was secretly a terrorist. Hippies = Antifa!

Whhhuut? Yeah, let's boil it all down to one thing so we can dismiss it all. Works for the Left.

My personal takeaway from the 60s was not so myopic or monodimensional. Neither typified by the violence nor the pretensions to utopian ideals, it was … complicated. So much awful, so much beautiful. However, by every measure, thems wuz certainly interesting times. Consciousness razors.
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Stay dead, this time, Chuck.

…On this day in 1974 the Department of Justice under RINO Gerald Ford filed its final anti-trust suit against ATT Corporation. This suit later lead to the breakup of ATT and its Bell System. In the end people's telephone bills went up and service became poorer. The only people that made out were businesses and folks who made a lot of long distance calls.…