Marijuana is unique among controlled substances in that ithas an unprecedented counter culture that surrounds it. Just Google marijuanaand I will guarantee that that you will find an overwhelming amount of forums, activistpages, magazine websites, medical marijuana dispensaries, conventions,arguments for and against prohibition, paraphernalia stores, and of courseblogs dedicated to the subject ;). There is such a large following that if youdidn’t know marijuana was illegal you would have a...Read Full Story
Love this image. It really mirrors my thoughts on societal rules... I have just never been able to grasp falling in line and doing things just because some self-serving regulating body tells me it's a good idea and "in my best interest" or because I see my peers doing it. I was recently having a heated conversation with a business associate about life and my attitude toward societal rules. It was pointed out to me that "societal rules, policies etc. exist because they work"... Ha! Well...Read Full Story
BREAKING NEWS - In Praise of the Planet just received from sources in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin who inform me that there is a new concept in Wisconsin Festivals on the cutting edge of the entertainment industry landing on the historic Door County shoreline. It's called Steal Bridge Songfest and it is being held for the third year in a row. The Festival is held on the weekend of June 14 - 16 2007 as a fundraising event to preserve the Historic Memorial [Street] Bridge. The Bridge spans the...Read Full Story
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If you were to tap on the shell of a snail with a tip of a pencil, it would retreat into its shell. Psychologists call this an orienting response. If, however, you were to continue tapping on its shell, the...Read Full Story
The library is running a trial to a new database from Adam Matthew Group called "Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest." This database is available athttp://www.rockandroll.amdigital.co.uk/The trial runs for four weeks from today. Download options are not available as part of the trial.Here's the publisher's description of the database:Music, Politics, Fashion, Youth Culture - the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic...
The other day an actor friend
of mine told me he got a small part in A Streetcar Named
Desire.
"That's great," I said. "I heard that's a good show. What's it
about?"
"It's about this doctor who takes a crazy lady to a nuthouse,"
he said.
That's what's going on in this appearance on Thom Hartmann's
The Big Picture.
It starts out being about ABC's news ethics in adding the
Marianne Gingrich interview to the Public Trust's permanent...
The counterculture has arrived in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI. Well, maybe not all of it. But plenty of its icons were hanging out and sitting around at the Indiana State Museum, when Colts Owner Jim Irsay hosted his Super Bowl party for ...
Editor's Note: Reprinted from How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser. Copyright (c) 2011 by David Kaiser. Used with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Click here to see a Scientific American video that explains quantum entanglement. [More]
The T-shirt I happened to be wearing that day, somewhat ironically, bore the image of Cheech and Chong from one of their late-‘70s/early-‘80s stoner flicks. While these films were popular in their heyday, they retain but a cult status in the pantheon ...
** Paul Goodman Changed My Life An attempt to reclaim a lost counterculture mentor - a thinker/writer/activist who helped make possible the New Left of the 1960s before he was outrun by it. As documentaries go, it’s an able introduction that doesn’t make its subject as relevant to our current discontents as it could. (89 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)
... small car that came to symbolize America’s 1960s counterculture and went on to become the world’s top-selling car model. Author Andrea Hiott transports readers through the most turbulent decades of the 20th century, from the rise of Adolf Hitler ...
Counterculture is a word used to describe a cultural group whose views run counter to the contemporary social mainstream. Share your thoughts and interesting background reading on counterculture across the 60's, 70's, 80's, and beyond.
In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of ...
San Francisco Gate - And as befits a place that helped give birth to the Goldwater Right, the New Left, the counterculture, environmentalism, modern libertarianism and the tax revolt, California doesn