other decades had generational change so why is it all about the 60s? to answer that question we have the legendary village voice editor, old friend of mine richard goldstein, author of a great new memoir of 6 60s youth called another little piece of my heart. the 60s, yes it was because i was young, a forge of what the country is today. multiculturalism feminism even soy burgers come from the 60s. soy burgers. tofu burgers come from the 60s. many of the things we take for granted today were born in the 60s. it s a forge. it was very hot. of course the music, right? yeah, the music is the tom-tom of the decade. everybody listened to the same songs coming out of every window. black music was much more front and center than any other time before then. and that carried the message to every young person. the beatles. i mean a part of me always
what i can say is this. when mitch mcconnell and john boehner sat down together with their caucuses, by the way, in hershey, pennsylvania the sweetest place on earth in januarys they promised they d work together to pass legislation, to stop obama, to repeal obamacare, blah blah blah blah blah blah. now we enter speakhave speaker boehner calling the senate transportation bill, i can t say it but i ll let you bleep it a piece of well that doesn t sound like the house and senate republican leaders are getting along so well. so to quote the talking heads, same as it ever was. same as it ever was. republicans still cannot lead. talking heads. i love the talking heads. me too. yes, yes. something we can all agree on. once in a lifetime. look the other piece of this is as you know the past is prologue and we re dealing with a lot of ground rules and funding standards that were set when the tea party threatened the full faith and credit of the
on this wing and figuring out anything an where it might have come from, what might have happened to this plane? sure, toure. first of all, as tom reported we have an enormous task ahead. this debris does several things. one, the global concern of how a jet can disappear with ubiquitous data streaming, gps today, how could this plane disappear and the conspiracy theory that it was safely on the ground? that s gone. secondly, it reinvigorates the search tome search. we know the indian ocean gyre can move a piece they bookended the place where the search could be. so what they re doing now with this little piece, the flaperon is trying to get any forensic evidence off of it. the front leading edge wasn t damaged. the back trailing edge was. that may tell about the angle of attack. the barnicles are interesting because they know where the barnicle that type of barnicle lives in the ocean so
cosmopolitan type of barnicle, if you will, the everyday barnicle, that really is kind of endemic across the entire indian ocean, so unlikely that there may be anything specific. so you know we have one tiny piece of evidence to now pretty much give us a pretty good clue that, in fact mm-370 went into the indian ocean. that was a suspicion all along, but we need the black box recorders. the flight data recorder. the cockpit voice recorders. and those are still most likely at the bottom two to three miles down underneath the surface of the water, and if you believe the australian search commanders, probably 1,it 200 miles off the coast of australia. they have a herculean job to find them as they ve been working this for 15 months. you know by the way, one lastpoint, there s been some reporting out there in the last 15, i should say 15 hours or so 24 hours, suggesting that there s new information to which says that this plane was intentionally crashed. that s pretty much been the
game, too. she is not want to be called a hero but if it weren t for her, erica might not have turned 30 this year. did you appreciate this birthday more than others? i definitely think i did because i almost wasn t here for it. and you never think that you might not see your next birthday. erica is most at ease in her classroom where her elementary students call it her super hero lead. what is different about me? what am i sitting in? wheelchair. after 18 surgeries, she is thrilled to be teaching again. they became my babies and my kids and they had a very big piece of my heart, it was hard to be away from them and it was like i was not completely full. a year later, she is now