Lyndon B. Bush

Craig and I are currently in a—we love documentaries—phase.

This week we watched a documentary on the 60s. This was produced by PBS and was titled something like—The 1960’s: The Decade that Shaped a Generation.

The film was absolutely fascinating and led me to two conclusions: 1) no wonder we don’t protest anything anymore, getting massacred by the police doesn’t look like much fun and 2) Wow—history repeats itself SO fast.

Craig and I found ourselves looking at each other with dropped jaws and astonished guffaws each time we heard a phrase that could have been re-worked and used to describe present day America. Once we ended the documentary, we concluded that by using the following substitutions, PBS could re-market this video.

Original Title: The 1960’s: The Decade that Shaped a Generation
New Title: The 2000’s: Another Decade that Shaped Another Generation…In the Same Way.

Original: Vietnam
New: Iraq

Original: Laos and Cambodia
New: Afghanistan

Original: Communism
New: Terrorism

Original: Johnson or Nixon
New: George W.

Original: Bob Dylan, or Peter, Paul and Mary
New: Green Day or Sheryl Crow

Finally—this one is up for debate—who was the Barack Obama of the post Vietnam War period?