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A Stream of Consciousness
Your June 24 cover story, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, brought back these memories: Three-finger lid (stems and seeds included). Dime bag. Acid. Purple Haze, Orange Sunshine, Windowpane, Sandoz, Owsley. Clear Light. Albert Hofmann. Electric Kool-Aid. Magic Mushrooms. Mary Jane. Pot. Doors to Donovan.
Fear and Loathing as well as consternation and wonder from the straight set. How can we capitalize on all this? asked by the government all the way down to street vendors/dealers (who added oregano and cumin to pot and hash for substance ). The Farm. The Brotherhood of the Sun (Sunburst). Back-to-the-land hippie movements: Taylor Camp, Hawaii.
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The Sound of Silence. It could be the theme song of the Utah Democratic Party.
When Republicans, such as U.S. Reps. Chris Stewart or Burgess Owens, paint the Dems as socialists, or smack them with other derogatory labels, there often is no response or pushback just a very disturbing quiet.
There is no one like Jim Dabakis (the now-retired state senator from Salt Lake City) or Randy Horiuchi (the late Salt Lake County Councilman) to blast back at the GOP as cheap-shot artists whose talent for name-calling often seems to dwarf their other skills. And so, the effective Republican bumper-sticker sloganeering continues to eat its way through the Utah body politic.
An unabashed activist, the Rev. Tom Goldsmith battled for the climate, immigrants and LGBTQ individuals and against nukes and the LDS Church’s Main Street Plaza.
The Rev. Tom Goldsmith, longtime pastor at Salt Lake City's First Unitarian Church who became a minister of sorts to Utah's political left, is retiring.