The iPod Nation and Bowling

Putnam was wrong about bowling and community, as anyone who knows one of the greatest films of all time can tell you. The Coen brothers' classic "The Big Lebowski" is a hymn to the community formed by The Dude, Walter and Donny, bowlers who ultimately triumph over The Nihilists ("We believe in NOTHING, Lebowski!".) The Dude, one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement ("the original, more radical one"), would have an iPod, but he would never bowl alone.

--Mark