OMG! We're in 1976!

Kevin Maney gasps: So I'm reading The Washington Post this morning, and realizing that we're reliving 1976 -- which would be OK except it brings back memories of the Captain & Tenille doing "Muskrat Love."

Anyway, there on page one, within inches of each other, is one story that discusses how Barak Obama became "the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to wrest his party's nomination from the candidate of the party establishment" -- and a second with the headline, "Rising Prices, Falling Dollar Stoke Memories of the '70s." Criminy!

And then in the business section is a story about the Hummer's demise because gas prices are so friggin' high. I feel the malaise coming on already.

Viking landed on Mars in 1976; Phoenix landed on Mars in 2008.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" was wildly popular in 1976; "Bohemian Rhapsody" is wildly popular in 2008.

I got my driver's license in 1976; my eldest will get hers in 2008.

I tell you, it's frightening.

It was a technologically interesting time, too. Microsoft was founded in 1975, and Apple in 1976. Seymour Cray built the first supercomputer. Bob Metcalfe was just developing Ethernet. Makes me wonder what budding technologies are popping out of garages right now.

1976 World Series: Cincinnati Reds vs. New York Yankees. Hmm. A repeat? I don't think so...