HOLLYWOOD HAMMER

IT'S A BURDEN THAT MY BRAIN TRAVELS INADVERTENTLY WITH ME AT ALL TIMES. MY UNHAMPERED MEMORY RECALLS THAT DRINKING, DRUGGING AND SMOKING WERE THE "IN" THINGS OF THE 60'S AND 70'S. AT THE 2006 ACADEMY AWARDS, A CELEBRITY REMINDED AMERICANS THAT THE ARTS ARE A HAMMER FORMING THE SOCIETY. DURING THOSE 60'S AND 70'S, HOLLYWOOD HAMMERED SOCIETY INTO BELIEVING THAT TO BE A HIPPIE, TO BE BEAUTIFUL, A STAR, AN ELITE, IN THE VANGUARD OF ENLIGHTMENT OR INTO INFORMED ACTION, A PERSON DRANK, DRUGGED AND SMOKED. MEN AND WOMEN ALSO WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTEST AND DROP OUT OF MAINSTREAM CULTURE. THE CORRECTNESS OF SUCH IMPROPER BEHAVIOR WAS HAMMERED HOME TO COMMONERS LIKE ME, BUT WE REJECTED IT. BUT MANY SCHLEMIELS FELL INTO LINE AS LIBERALS LED.

FAST FORWARD TO 2006. THE OLDER AND WISER SYNAPSES IN MY GREY MATTER OBSERVE A REVERSAL OF FORTUNES. NOW ALCOHOL OBLITERATES THE MORALS OF OUR YOUTH, ENHANCES VIOLENCE AND DEATH ON THE HIGHWAYS, AND INHIBITS EDUCATIONAL AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS. NOW THE USE OF DRUGS (THOUGH SOME LIBERALS STILL WANT THEM LEGAL), CAUSES CRIMES, MURDERS AND OVERCROWDED PRISONS. NOW, NOT ONLY IS SMOKING VERBOTEN, BUT ALSO INHALING ITS PUTRID FUMES, BECAUSE TOBACCO IS A KNOWN KILLER. WHAT WAS ONCE A TRIDENT CARRIED PROUDLY BY THE HAPPY-GO-LUCKY KING OF EVERY LIBERAL MARTI GRAS ORGY, HAS NOW BECOME A CERBERES IN A FORBIDDEN WORLD.

NEVERTHELESS, SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE. THE LIBERALS, THE EXTREME LEFTISTS AND HOLLYWOOD WITH ITS SOCIETAL HAMMER, ALWAYS OUT OF TOUCH WITH POPULAR LIVING, CONTRADICT THEMSELVES AT WILL. THEY THINK AMERICA SHOULD DO WHAT THEY DO AND DO WHAT THEY SAY NO MATTER IF THEIR ORDERS ARE 'NUTS'.