Best rant of the week. Kudos, you won BS. But misplaced, I think, as both the Camp Fire and the Park Fires amply illustrate. I have a soft spot for Smokey as he was a regular at the DC zoo when I was in my pre-pubescent zoo-going youth. I saw him half a dozen times growing up. (Unlike the pandas which I have never seen in maybe a dozen visits to the zoo. Those f*****s are always sleeping/hiding when I am there.)
40 years ago the greatest film in the history of cinema was released. It's all been downhill since then. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
55 years ago, August 15 to 18, 1969, Woodstock, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, NY, was happening.
58 years ago tonight, September 8, 1966, Star Trek premiered on NBC. (Apparently, it premiered in Canada two days earlier.)