Although your comparison photo is far from accurate. You are comparing a group of school aged children in their family’s back yard to a pair of older (late teens, early twenties) people at an adult gathering of some sort. The contrast is amusing, though I doubt any ten or eleven year old is going to be permitted to wear miss Camel Toe’s costume even in 2009

I love seeing old photographs, though! Thank you for sharing. Although perhaps you could find a more accurate comparison photo rather than comparing apples to oranges

Bakunin: It’s a shame that “Guy Average” didn’t take any pictures of Teabaggers comparing the healthcare bill to the Holocaust.You know, the one reportedly directly in front of the podium and visible to every politician or pundit who spoke at Michele Bachmann’s event?

holocaust sign at “house call”

This is OT but I wanted to let you know: I was at the “House Call” in Washington DC on November 5th. I saw Medea Benjamin there (never would have recognized her except that I read Zombietime). I snapped a couple of pics of her. When I snapped her pic I said “I’ve seen you on Zombietime”. I wish you could have seen her expression…had I been anticipating that, I would have snapped a pic of that as well. Thanks for the education, Zombie!

I posted the pics at Guy Average if you want to check them out.

stuiec:
As selective as this?

A classic.

One of the things I really enjoyed about the recent IFC Python documentary was hearing Terry Gilliam go on about “right wingers”.

When this photo was taken, segregation, Jim Crow, and lynching was the norm in a large part of the country. But hey, at least they didn’t dress up like penises!

Starless: If the game is a way for older generations to talk about how those damn kids have ruined everything, then yeah, it’s just an exercise in selective memory and nostalgia. But if it’s a way to see where we’ve gone and how we got there by looking at the past, it has some value. Of course, that depends on how selective you decide to be with your memory.

As selective as this?

Maria: The danger of playing the “it used to be” game is that at some point you have to draw the line of how far in the past you’re going to go back and then once there you have to decided which bits of it you’re going to look at.

If the game is a way for older generations to talk about how those damn kids have ruined everything, then yeah, it’s just an exercise in selective memory and nostalgia. But if it’s a way to see where we’ve gone and how we got there by looking at the past, it has some value. Of course, that depends on how selective you decide to be with your memory.

Hmmm, that almost sounds like we could be talking about identity politics.