My friend Jo Jo in San Francisco sent me a copy of the newspaper from up there. The front page had a story commemorating the 50th anniversary of the day the poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg was found to not be obscene by the California supreme court. The funny thing is, public radio stations wanted to air a reading of the poem for the anniversary, but were told they would be fined by the FCC if they did. I guess not much has changed in the last 50 years.
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