Yes We Can: Obama Pride, Through Kicks

“The tension of wanting to say more than the tradition can allow explodes the tradition.”

“Stoned silly most of the time, more than half a million freaks from all over the country made the painful pilgrimage to Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm to play in the mud.”

"It was weird, and it was wild. It was freaky, and it was freedom. It was lunacy, and it was love. It was beautiful."

“What happens when the myth of a particular place is trade­marked by a corporation? Can you trad­emark Detroit? What about Stonewall?”

"His buddies are LSD cultists, Hell's Angels, peace marchers, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac hangers-on, a bookshop owner, a helicopter pilot wounded in Vietnam, and people who prefer anonymity, like Mountain Girl"

"Do not the dead deserve an accounting at least as irreproachable as the survivors receive with each week’s edi­tion of Billboard?"