Despite what the numbers say, I think the sixties started with Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and ended with the Watergate break-in in 1972. In between, there was this feeling for a while that things really could be different, that maybe there could be a new revolution. I don't know if that kind of feeling could capture the whole country again as it did then, now that everything that happens anywhere is instant-messaged everywhere and coopted by Microsoft and McDonald's. But hey, we still have the memories -- and the music! And Seattle showed that "power to the people" isn't dead yet, so who knows?

Aloha,
Mark