[Amelia]

You people are generalizing and stereotyping just as much as the "author" here is.

Yes, some Boomers ended up being druggies, hippies, and liberals. The press loved them and they got lots of attention.

Others quietly went about the business of growing up and becoming responsible. They went off to Vietnam when their country asked them to, because they thought it was the right thing to do. When they came back, they were reviled as druggies, baby killers, and war criminals by Kerry and Clinton type Boomers and some of the WWII generation.

Undaunted, they went back to college or got jobs, started businesses, and raised families.

President Bush is one of the responsible Boomers. Kerry & Clinton were and are the kind you revile.

Perhaps your parents are also the hippie-type boomer?

[Moose4]

That's why I threw in the "liberal baby boomer" specification. I know not all boomers are liberals. My brother's one, he's 53 and a hard-working small business owner. My parents are actually from the WWII generation (I'm 37, my dad was 47 and mother was 41 when I was born).

Sorry about that. Her self-righteousness pushed a few buttons. :)

}:-)4

[pending]

"Perhaps your parents are also the hippie-type boomer?"

Those kids lived the effects of abandoning "traditional values".
Hopefully they wont repeat it. It looks like it could be trending that way.

I like the Xers, myself. I think there is great potential there, but lets face it, you got your share of Doh.

"generation X will be the greatest", repeats the worst aspect of the very unlikeable ego driven stereotypical "Me generation shallow hippie turned SUV lovin yuppie".

One difference is todays boomers who spent summers on acid dont have the tattoos and piercings to prove it.

You will be living those down to your kids... Ha ha.
Just teasing...

[Paulus Invictus]

I was refeerring to the clintinoid boomers, not all of them.