She's interviewed on video here , by Glenn Reynolds. Most of the interview is about art in America and her new book "Glittering Ima...
How the NYT refers to Emma Koenig's "FUCK! I'm in my twenties." The NYT article fusses (inanely) over "fuck." W...
Easing your way down life's off ramp. Why not? The boomers are aging. The death panels will be handing out prescriptions. Turn on, tune ...
"Time for shoveling a little blame on these 'greatest' folk."
Todd G. Buchholz and Victoria Buchholz complain about "The Go-Nowhere Generation": The likelihood of 20-somethings moving to anoth...
"And federal and local governments will have to shoulder much of the cost of their care. Unmarried baby boomers are five times more lik...
The question: If liberal baby boomers stubbornly refuse to see the damage that their idea of "progress" has wrought, what about yo...
So said David Byrne, explaining his song "Life During Wartime." I'm thinking about that song today because I'm reading Gr...
(Thanks to ndspinelli for emailing me this.)
"We need better teachers and talk about more relevant stuff in class... Maybe they should ask us for some advice." Hey, that's...
"... there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes. I do remember the first time I saw bright...
"I’m like everybody’s next-door neighbor, only a little bit smarter." That sounds like something a blogger might say, but it was A...
... in an effort to avoid looking like a Baby Boomer guy , who is looking more slovenly by the year in his baggy jeans and sweaters? In an e...
It's the "renaissance generation": [T]hey are eco-conscious; they take their cues from nature so they are willing to accept pr...
Ruth Anne observes. She -- not a boomer -- is pleased. Back in April, I wrote: I had been thinking that if Obama wins, it will mean that we...
Did that era not breed leaders? I had been thinking that if Obama wins, it will mean that we are done with Baby Boomer Presidents, after hav...
" It's having been native to an era and a culture in which self (and sex) was almost ideologically paramount, which, unless you...
Or is narcissism the essence of the Summer of Love? Anyway, take note. This year is a milestone. It was exactly 40 years ago. “Much about t...
It's me and Annie Gottlieb of Ambivablog . Episode title: "Sex with Older Women." Topics: Are you a first-wave baby-boomer (l...
Luc Sante reviews Robert Greenfield's new biography of Timothy Leary: He was initially known as an expert on personality assessment, bu...
