Blasts from the past

Since I have a rare day off (that is, a day when I am neither working nor overwhelmed with household chores), I am indulging in the pleasant pastime of listening to the radio and reading my old Usenet posts.

Doing so, I re-encountered this portion of a post by pnh

Given the evolution of the anti-government strain in American life, I suspect they'll get their wish. And I suspect we'll come to look back on the late twentieth century as a golden age of relative freedom.

Sometimes one gets no satisfaction whatsoever from being right. --James Childress, "Conchy", c. 1973