It's seven minutes before the Open Thread should go up, and it looks like JtC has gotten the site back up. As always, thanks for all your work, JtC. We all hope you weren't up all night working on this.
I'd like to ask you to join me in listening in on a conversation that took place in February of 1967 in San Francisco, shortly after the Be-In attracted 25,000 people to Golden Gate Park to celebrate what they thought would be a psychedelic revolution. The speaker is Alan Watts, a British-born philosopher and writer who was teaching at the time at the American Academy of Asian Studies in the Bay area:
