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>>>>>Good post. My first foray into political activism was in my freshman year in college when we were running letter writing campaigns and phone banks in the spring of 65 to support the Voting Rights act. No meet-ups, or blogs, or emails. Lots of doorbells, mimeograph machines and stuffing envelopes ;-)
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>>>>And lots of women, I bet ;-)
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>>>Well, as everyone who remembers that period will tell you, one of the most erotic things you could discover in meeting a woman was that she was politically liberal and activist. It inspired many young men to take an interest in learning to talk passionately about issues (and I don't think that has changed ;-)
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>>>I am grateful this was before becoming a vegan was encouraged by earnest young women.
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>>>I rank that gratitude right up there with being so glad I was born early enough that I was never require to wear a ball cap with the bill turned around - the code which in my youth said clearly "Beat me up, take my lunch money and stick my head in the toilet for a swirlie"
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>>Oh, that drives me crazy. One of my neighbors, in his 40s, wears that all the time. Sometimes he invites his buddies over and you see them all out in Lyle's yard, all of them wearing backwards baseball caps, dressed like their sons. In fact one of them just bought a Hummer. Perfect!
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>I've worn my ballcap backwards many times. On the shooting range, in particular! From the prone position, it's about the only way you can wear it.

Or you can take it off ;-) If it ain't bullet-proof, it serves no purpose.