Sunday, June 13, 2004

YOU GO TO THE ZOO, BUT YOU CAN'T FEED GUERILLAS: Picking up the meme I started last Saturday (whether advertantly or in-), the WaPo's David Segal asks today: why is it that "no president in history ever inspired more vitriolic pop than Reagan"?

edited to add: Spencer Ackerman has more, including this choice quote from Bob Mould:
At the dawn of the Reagan era, pioneering singer and guitarist Bob Mould was a student at St. Paul's Macalaster College. "I remember watching these kids getting up in the morning on my dorm floor, putting on a suit and tie and a briefcase, talking about this guy from California named Ronald Reagan and how he was going to be the next president," Mould told journalist Michael Azerrad. "And I'd be sitting there arguing with those fucks in speech class and poli sci and just hating that, thinking 'This is not acceptable behavior. This is not what we're supposed to be doing with our late teens.'"

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