It Was a Cold, Cold War

[Recycled from 23:12, 31 December 2004]

_Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Quit Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb_, should be part of every school's history curriculum. It would explain everybody over 40 to everybody under 40.

My son once heard the "Huntley-Brinkley Song" ("There's rioting in Africa . . . They're starving in Spain . . . .") on the radio. When they got to the part about how nice it is that the world would soon be blown up, he was horrified. I told him you had to be there: we really were going around saying, "The world is probably going to be destroyed -- but it looks like we deserve it."

Just count me as one more traumatized veteran of the Cold War.

//The Magic 8-Ball says, "You never fully recover from your childhood".\\