[Sicon]

Look at it this way: the money you've been saving on dentistry - because we gave you flouride in your drinking water - is the equivalent of the tax rise you'll need to come up with on our behalf.

This is a joke, right? I've ALREADY had to come up with considerably more for the boomers than the cost of braces, bridges, gold teeth, and whatever else I may have supposedly been spared in dental costs, thanks to the "flouridation" (sic) of our drinking water.

Pompous, self-important, self-delusional... Yup, that's a Boomer alright.

[Mr. Bird]

If this is a serious screed, it touts a tremendous amount of misleading statements. Boomers were not the teenage malcontents of the 50's. The first Boomer would have turned 13 in 1959. Elvis was not a Boomer. Neither was Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Bill Halley, Muddy Watters, or any other founder of rock and roll.

It seems that Boomers like to believe that if they are the target of some pop culture product or shift in the zeitgeist, they invented it.

Simply put, they were the benefactors of two very remarkable generations who preceded them (the "Greatest" and the "Lost"). They obviously had no control over this, but they like to take ownership of individuals and ideas that pre-date them.

They don't get it: John Lennon wasn't one of them. They were fans of his. They did not march in Selma, vote for civil rights legislation, go to the moon, or defeat Communism.

But my mom's a boomer, and I love her. So she's got that going for her...