It’s Their Fault

Apologies…I’ve been quiet lately due to a busy week and an impending move.  Expect me back in full force by this weekend.

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But with each passing year, the pressures on the nest eggs of those older people will only grow. The truly rich will be fine, as they usually are. But a lot of other people, even retirees with net worths well into the seven figures, could end up spending every dime before they die.
From the Times.

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A good Newsweek article.

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McCain doesn’t like feeling old.
The old-fashioned internet.
The 20-something alternative to old-fashioned network TV.

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Dennis Prager today has an pretty annoying column in which he says that youth supported movements are often naive and narcissistic (based on just two examples from the same time period), and uses that observation to proclaim that he therefore distrusts Obama. While his leap from distrusting historical youth movements to distrusting Obama’s [...]

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Today - despite popular stereotypes:
Taken together, …various indicators — what percentage of teenagers have had “many” partners, what percentage has ever had sex, and what percentage has a common STD — all argue for a period of cultural decline starting in the 1960s, perhaps as early as the late 1950s, which lasted until about 1990. [...]

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Obama takes the Bill Cosby angle.
Gandhi for the globalization era.
How we read now.

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It is ironic that, in a presidential election year with both racial and gender firsts, age will likely end up being the most important dividing line in the electorate. The Times looks at this phenomenon today, with a focus not on the generational dividing lines that I’ve concentrated on, but more on the general [...]

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I’m happy to say this site was recently accepted into the Blogburst network… so, welcome new Blogburst visitors.
Blogburst is a site that publicizes selected blogs by providing relevant links to major news publications, like USA today and The Washington Post. For more info, check out the link:

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A pretty devastating article about McCain’s treatment of his former wife, who he left after she became disfigured in a car accident.
Parents are still crazy.
A Dan Drezner essay on public intellectuals:
…the growth of blogs and other forms of online writing have partially reversed a trend that many have lamented:  what Russell Jacoby labeled the “professionalization [...]

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