From the way things look, maybe this time the end is near

Back in the '60s when the world seemed like it was coming unhinged every other day, I was walking through Greenwich Village, home of the beatniks and the nitwits, and radicals of every size, shape and ideology, when I came upon a man dressed suspiciously like Charlton Heston as Moses in "The Ten Commandments."

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