We know from Drum Circles.

For several years, in a number of capacities, we were involved with the Oregon Country Fair, a three-day summer crafts and music event that (during our time) drew 30,000 visitors to the woods outside Eugene.

Founded in 1969, it was already a multigenerational hippiefest by the time we messed around in the late ’80s. Over time, we worked security, helped in the front office, even played trumpet in the Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Band/Orchestra, which, after two daily parades featuring “Teddy Bears Picnic”, would sit in as the house band for the juggling Flying Karamazov Brothers.

It was very, very, very fun. Especially the night we dropped acid and kept the camp awake singing Gilligan’s Island.

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And another Nice Old Lady finds herself the victim of the GOP voter-supression scam:

Ninety-one-year-old Virginia Lasater has voted and worked in campaigns for some 70 years. But Wednesday she ran head-long into the barrier Tennessee’s new voter photo ID law is throwing up for some elderly people.

Care to guess?

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“A group of tea-party activists in Texas will host a ‘modified Lincoln–Douglas debate’ between Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich next month.” [NRO, via Political Wire]

“The Massachusetts healthcare law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance.” [LAT]

Public-service comics usually don’t fare well, mainly because the Message tends to undermine the Fun. But when the Centers for Disease Control tackles an outbreak of the Undead, it’s a match made in Zombie Apocalypse — you do have an emergency kit, don’t you?

Plus, this:

“I’m pretty sure Mrs. Clements was trying to attack her own cat, and she just nearly got me!”

Our only quibble is the cop-out ending, where the CDC enjoys a happier fate than it does in The Walking Dead.

Centers for Disease Control’s Zombie Comic Teaches General Emergency Preparedness [Comics Alliance]

“An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of ‘Angry Birds,’ a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down the birds.” [NYT, via @pourmecoffee]

Title: “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”

Author: Pat Buchanan

Rank: 20

Blurb: “America was born a Western Christian republic, writes Buchanan, but is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world.”

Review: “Pat’s thesis is clear throughout the book: America is disintegrating before our eyes. ‘What happened to the country we grew up in?’ It’s a question that I, as someone born in 1960 and someone who shares Pat’s Christian beliefs, can identify with.” (Fr. Charles Erlandson, Tyler, Texas)

Customers Also Bought: “Why Catholics Are Right”, by Michael Coren.

Footnote: If you’d like to return to the days when Papists were scorned by polite society, fine by us.

Suicide of a Superpower [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]