This Is What They Mean By "It Takes All Kinds"

Good Morning, Sunshine!

Here's another TMR reminder of "who you really are" - a little pat-pat on the head for "My Main Man" - because we love you sooooo much!

You're going to wake up one day and make us all so proud!

Remember "back in the day", like between the 1930's and the 1960's - or just way back when - where, if you were a guy, you were some girl's "Mystery Date" and got three choices for your character?

In the real world, that translated into you growing up be this guy.

Or you could be this guy.

Or you could be this guy.

Now - before any of our fellow blacks get upset with us - this guy was the same as what we put behind door #2, O.K.?

Shit, forget "Mystery Date" - that was the game girls tried to get you to play - in the real world, when it came to cool, there wasn't nothing but door #2!

We know - your manhood's already getting beat up already - but chill out and follow us here, we're simplifying shit:

See, the problem, from a societal point of view, was the goofballs who chose the guy behind door #3.

That guy.

Not these guys.

The shape-shifter.

He was the hypocrite who hung out with communists, gave you drugs, while telling you to "fight The Man" - and then informed the Feds what you were up to - what he told you to do!

If you want to think biblically (and, though we don't know why, we know many of you still do) this guy was the snake.

Now, if you had half-a-brain (!) and weren't going to be #1 (and, if you were coming of age back in the 50's, who wanted to be #1?) you wanted to grow up to be #2.

#2 was the guy who took drugs, but still knew he was an American, first and foremost.

Guy #3 was always trying to worm his way into your life, but left you (and everyone else who listened to him) to figure it all out - including what he was up to - for themselves.

Now, flash-forward to today:

Your choices haven't essentially changed.

In the real world, you can be this guy.

Or you can be this guy.

Or you can be this guy.

So what's different, you ask?

Well, a lot - but then, not much if you think about it.

American guys converged, and then split up again.

Guy #1 has tried drugs, but come back home.

Guy #2 may have been caught up in drugs, but he ultimately got much, much smarter because of it - and is now trying to lead us out of the wilderness.

And Guy #3?

The shape-shifter?

He's still up to his old tricks.

But he done lost his goddamn mind a long time ago!

Don't get confused by what you see on the surface.

No matter what he does, or how he tries to make things look, don't let him fool you.

And, whatever you do, don't join those standing on the sidelines - they're dead meat:

Just know Guy #3 is still the same shape-shifting, trouble-making, ass-wipe freak he's always been.

And you still don't want to be that guy.

Popular? Giving Advice? Probably A Scumbag

"In 1963 [Timothy] Leary and Mr. [Richard 'Ram Dass'] Alpert were kicked out of Harvard for their exploits, which included giving drugs to undergraduates. One of the men behind their expulsion was none other than Andrew Weil, still an undergraduate. Jealous at not being fully admitted into their world or, Mr. Lattin suggests, being given the best drugs, Mr. Weil helped engineer an exposé of Leary and Mr. Alpert in The Harvard Crimson. He took the pair down, Mr. Lattin writes, 'with the zeal of a jilted lover. The older men never fully forgave him."

-- Dwight Garner, suggesting America's weirdest NewAge witchdoctor started his career as a classic snitch and addict - no surprise there - because, ultimately, Andrew Weil has (along with the '60's "scene" that spawned him) never revealed anything to me that said he cared one iota about anyone else, or anything about right or wrong, and the same goes for The New York Times.

40 Years Later: It's Leather And Fishnets (Thanks)

These kids aren't hippies - they're seekers. Today was a serious religious occasion."

-- Allen Ginsberg, after the first "Human Be-In", in the book, "The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America" - getting that first obvious "spiritual" lie out before the even more dubious dissembling began - because NewAge falsehoods (and drugs) were all they had to sell, and - more often than not - all they needed, when speaking to The San Francisco Chronicle.

Al Qaeda Needs A Band

"As my eyes grow more jaundiced with age, I can only wonder who took honorary Boomer Timothy Leary seriously when he proclaimed the Beatles "evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with mysterious powers to create a new human species." I mean, if God had indeed sent them on some top-secret bio-spiritual mission, the Men's Wearhouse would now be selling Sgt. Pepper uniforms, and al Qaeda would have realized all they needed was love rather than a one-way ticket into the World Trade Center."

- From >Kevin Kusinitz >, writing for the Weekly Standard