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I smoked a lot of pot and cast my first presidential vote for George McGovern.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, right out of the Woodstock playbook. In 1987, when Harvard law professor Douglas Ginsburg removed himself from being a U.S. Supreme Court candidate after admitting to having smoked pot in the early 1970s, I wondered if the nation realized that he\u2019d have been considered an oddball had he not.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2418\">Darializa Avila Chevalier and the far-left DSA are snubbing the minorities they claim to represent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So when the Knicks won in 1970 and \u201973, I felt only one thing: joy. I loved those teams for how they played as much as for the \u201cNew York\u201d on their uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=2416\">Praise for the Obama Center ego monument highlights Trump haters\u2019 hypocrisy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City dwellers were on their own to celebrate the Knicks&#8217; title as they deemed fit. Thus my worst, conditioned fears were realized. 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