The Summer of Corporate Love
Chances are you don't watch it, but there is a TV program on Sunday called CBS Sunday Morning , that for my money is better than 60 Minutes . The biggest difference is that the morning program is buried in Sunday morning TV wasteland, while the big-time news show is on at the perfect time for a big-time news show. This morning, there was a story about the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love , of which I have vague memories, mostly because I was 9 years old and not yet into psychedelic drugs, and partly because my father had died in May of that year, and for me it was summer, but there was precious little love. The focus of the Sunday Morning piece was the nostalgia that is brought about by the so-called Summer of Love. I say so-called because for most of those involved it it, the Summer of Love was 1966. The following year was the summer that the media latched onto it and made it the cultural event that it has become. That's where I come in. Most of us in the Blogosphere be...