Funny Truth or Truthful Fun?

I don't expect something this hip to be in the Charlotte Observer, which just shows that I don't know everything. Check out this funny column by Tommy Tomlinson, one of their regulars. He draws some very droll, and relatively accurate, parallels between the conservative movement of today and the hippie movement of the 1960s. For example:

Right-wingers are the new hippies.
They're Rippies.
These days Rippies are the ones disrupting town-hall meetings and shouting down authority. They're the ones chanting for a revolution. They turn on (Fox News), tune in (to Rush) and drop out (of the taxpaying public).

Read the whole article, there is lots more fun stuff there.