Saturday, July 20, 2013

Despite the unconscious ironies of this piece, Rolling Stone mag is a blight!


For instance, I don't assume the writer is pro-Bush or pro-Romney, but one could easily get that impression.

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/l-brent-bozell-iii/terrorist-rocks-rolling-stone
Terrorist Rocks Rolling Stone

It certainly is good to see the music mag made the subject of scandal after all the sensations it has helped whip up through the years. And to complain about Bush being satirized as an ape is certainly tragicomic -- Bush is an ape, after all, in fact the sometimes sanely leftist smirkingchimp.com was originally named in (dis)honor of this fact, featuring a brilliant photographic logo on Bush as simian fool.

40 years ago Rolling Stone was a fun, informative magazine for those not yet advanced into the real world. Now it's just decadent with a little fun thrown in for window dressing. The book Gone Crazy and Back Again: The Rise and Fall of the Rolling Stone Generation is more ironic than it knows as well, being a brilliantly-written chronicle of how the mag has sometimes mirrored but has often scripted the ruin of two generations of world youth. The book's author is clearly a leftist but just jaded enough to want to call down some of Rolling Stone's excesses.

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0385131143

Time for a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
Cover Of The Rolling Stone-Dr.Hook

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