Baby boomers need to redeem themselves, time is running out.
Nice post.
So true. Bill is the epitome of the long haired hippy leftist freak of the 60's, the jerk I dated in high school who still trolls for the chicks, and has an elevated opinion of himself. ( His mom is to blame imho)
The 60s was a wasted decade.
"...now they will be living out an old age that they themselves have created -- an old age bereft of the respect old age once commanded..."
Not even old age, but middle age. A resume with 20+ years'of solid work history simply does not carry the same weight these days.
Experience counts for nothing anymore, especially given that technical skills are required for more types of jobs. All it means is that you are old and that your experience is in obsolete technology.
They'd rather hire some youngster who doesn't cost so much and will be more pliable.
I wonder how many generations it will take to clean up the mess that mine made.
I quietly chuckled when they announced that Clinton had managed to sit up by himself, and walk across the room with assistance......here comes grandpa.
Ping
Marking.
Torture! I hate 1960s music. It is so self-important and pretentious. Everytime I hear 1960s music, it conjures up horrifying images of aging hippies hanging out at Starbucks, sockless, in their stupid Birckenstocks, as they fiddle with their Mac laptops and sip their $4 cafe lattes.
Whenever I hear Procol Harem's "Whiter Shade Of Pale," I think of that unctious movie "The Big Chill" where all these aging baby boomers trade stale quips and get each other pregnant. I hate that song. I also hate the Rolling Stones of the 1960s. The Rolling Stones of the 1970s were much better. Led Zeppelin was a 1970s band too. If Led Zeppelin were around in the 1960s, they'd probably have some horrible "Sgt Pepper" knockoff that would have Hindenburged their careers right then and there.
Whenever I hear Mungo Jerry's idiotic "In The Summertime" song, I think of Ben and Jerry's ice cream and then I want to throw up.
1960s music was terrible. The much maligned 1970s had far better music. I even like hearing pop songs of the 1970s more than what passed for 1960s pop (think 1910 Fruitgum Company).
The babyboomers include those born between the years 1945 to 1965. Many of us were to young to have gone to Viet Nam or participated in the protests and other 60's events. For me it's as though it's an entirely different generation from my own and we had little in common.
Die, hippie scum.
The problem was he was jogging from one McDonalds to the other.
Sorry, but I don't know. The only person I know of the institutionalized the "Reagan Revolution" was the former President Reagan.
As surely as I sit here none of the Presidents since then has.
I agree with Johnson. Having read several of his books, I found his comments accurate and insightful.
M2C, this description of Kerry by Emmett Tyrrell nails in words exactly what you and I have been demonstrating in photos with the "dork" threads. The contrast between the two halves of the 60's generation is starkly demonstrated in the differences between Kerry and GWB, not just in policy, but simply as men.
RE: "Johnson is thinking (as I am) of the left-wing students of the 1960s who rebelled against authority and promised to "reform" all the hoary institutions of their parents."
And these just happened to be the "urbane," liberal, wealthy, urban, coastal kids, or the wannabes thereof from other areas. The hardscrabble, modest ones, who went into the military and thenceforth into society as hardworking contributors never had the time to contemplate their navels and plan utopian monstrosities.