L-O-V-E LOVE, IT'S COMING BACK, IT'S COMING BACK

I bought this shirt a couple of weeks ago.

Now, as a teenage punk, I developed a considerable disdain for hippies. Not so much due to their blinkered idealism, but more for the way in which their attachment to sex and drugs overwhelmed their attachment to radicalism, and led in a straight line to discos, coke spoons, and The Love Boat.

But given the tenor of our times, I find myself in sympathy with the idea of a politicized youth movement.

The one peril that goes with the shirt? Conversations with real hippies, as I learned on a weekend walk through Georgetown...