Epstein: Files in the Ointment

[H2O Man]

27. Right.

I think that years ago, we discussed this. I think I even mentioned that my understanding was that a retired therapist and Berkley professor had come up with a joke to aim at the christian right. If memory serves me correctly, it may have come one evening at a small party of old YIPPIES! and one former underground fellow, as they consumed strong pot -- obviously, the types that ignored Nancy Reagan's dire warnings. Legend has it that a discussion of Abbie Hoffmans claim to have been baptized in Pat Boone's swimming pool as proof he could be trusted to come out of hiding that started the whole thing.

Kallstrom is an interesting character. His background experience in Vietnam is impressive, no matter how one viewed that war. He is said to be a serious man with a sense of humor.