The American Spectator

Rolling Stone would refuse a paid-for ad from anyone. I think that this is more of an image driven rejection than it is an ideological one. Rolling Stone still likes to think of itself as ultra-hip, even though the sun has long ago set on its mystique. The magazine has taken to substituting glitz for content, and toeing the liberal line for independent thought. Ah, but there was a time, a heady celebratory time when one could find a multiplicity of viewpoints and ideas between its covers. But who can blame the magazine for prostituting itself when virtually every other media organ in the mainstream has done the same. Whenever I see one of those 60-year-old hippies, bald dome shining in the sun, gray disheveled pony tail flowing down his shoulders, I think of Rolling Stone and the glory it used to represent. Now it has to make do with articles in which John Kerry uses the F-word to show what a cool guy he is. Sad! br> — Joseph Baum br> Newton Falls, Ohio /p> p> PERPENDICULAR PARALLELS br> Re: Andrew Cline’s The Lessons of Reconstruction :