IS IT WRONG TO CALL THE #OCCUPYWALLSTREET TYPES “HIPPIES?” Reader Jeff Orwick writes:

Real Hippies are independant, get off the grid, and are “leave me alone” types. My wife and I are meeting a lot of them in our quest to Go Galt. I feel the liberal ones have their politics considerably confused given what they say they want and how they live , but personally we have similar goals, even though the granola gets deep in some spots. These people in OWS are almost nothing like them. Maybe we just need a new term to distinguish between the two? Given the negative connotations, let the OWS crowd have “Hippies” – Call the rest of us Neo-Hippies.

Yeah, you’ve got your Stewart Brand hippies, who are very different from your Jerry Rubin hippies. Of course, just look how Jerry Rubin turned out.