Ted Nugent’s summer without love
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Ahh, Nuge, such a big heart you have. In an op-ed today at the Wall Street Journal (subscription required, alas), the bow-and-arrow-toting 2nd Amendment defender had this to say about Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Mama Cass:
‘I often wonder what musicial peaks they could have climbed had they not gagged to death on their own vomit.’
He admires the musical talent they had, really he does. It’s just that they took drugs, and Nuge has no respect for that. Or for just about anything that happened in the 1960s, evidently, beyond the civil-rights movement. There’s no word in the piece about how Nuge feels about binge drinking, but it’s safe to assume that’s he OK with it ‘cause it’s legal.
Nuge also states in the piece that divorce rates, school drop outs, drug use, abortions, STDs, crime, taxes and government have gone up (exponentially, in the case of taxes and government) since the 1960s. He may be right, I don’t know, yet I’d love to see the actual numbers. For example, I believe the tax burden may actually be lower now than it was in the 60s, and that it’s actually been relatively constant since then. Somehow I don’t think Nuge checked the data, either, but take it from me -- we in Opinion Land try not to let research hobble a cracking point of view.