With economic recession, recriminations about American military actions, an increasingly obtuse and sanctimonious White House, prognostications of environmental catastrophe, and plans to spend tax money on non-carbon energy, it's all been feeling to us like the 1970s all over again. And for those who actually lived in the 70s, that's not a good feeling.
And now we have the swine flu, a throwback to 1976, when dear old Jerry Ford ordered every American immunized after a private at Fort Dix died of the disease.
It all makes us want to drive a Ford Pinto to Riverfront Stadium to watch the Big Red Machine, sporting some tartan, polyester slacks, with K.C. and the Sunshine Band providing the soundtrack.
3 comments:
1976, those were the days! How I long for those simpler times.
I think swine flu will probably be a lot like so many other scares recently. Well, we need somthing to take our minds off things like the ecomomy.
"...with K.C. and the Sunshine Band providing the soundtrack." - Or, for some of us, BS&T.
Check out this video of scientists from OSU's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center working with and discussing swine flu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRxLvs2Xo-g&fmt=18
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