Please, dear friend, DO take the time to click on the title of this post and read the New York Times Book Editor Dwight Garner's NY Times blog, Paper Cuts. Its a piece about Jack Kerouac and the 50th anniversary of the publication of his second novel, "On the Road." I am one of those people so left of center that I consider the NY Times kind of central-to-right on most issues. My sister on the other hand, finds it the big loud mouthpiece of nasty liberals. Go figure. Anyway, back to the point...in his blog, Garner cites the 1957 review of "On the Road" by Gilbert Millstein as the most important book review the Times ever ran. And Bravo for that! So many of Millstein's observations about the Beat Generation (so named by Kerouac himself) and the critiques thereof apply to the Punk Generation. In a paragraph headlined The 'Beat' Bear Stigmata, Millstein writes: Much has been made of the phenomenon that a good deal of the writing, the poetry a...