It’s Their Fault

A great post from from the Daily Kos:
Perhaps…what I find most infuriating about pieces that call out Millenials for their perceived inaction [is] that there is no corresponding chastisement of the Baby Boomers or the millions of other Americans who also have the ability to engage in “real world” activism.
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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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Obama takes the Bill Cosby angle.
Gandhi for the globalization era.
How we read now.

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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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I’ve been meaning to link to a recent opinion piece by Bob Herbert about the Millennials.  I don’t love this particular term for the generation, just like I don’t love Generation Y (or Generation Screwed) but, in any case, it’s well argued and relevant, so I’ll let him speak for himself.    
This is a generation that is in danger of being left [...]

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Much of the reflexive anti-baby boomer anger that we younger generations carry is stirred up in discussions about real estate, especially in these post-bubble days.  Perhaps it is natural then, that one of the most drawn out forum debates on the issue of boomers shows up on a relocation website.  Let the flame war begin (actually [...]

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Victor Davis Hanson, in the National Review, has his own theory on the birth of what he deems our most selfish generation, and it is worth a read:
Sociologists have correctly diagnosed the perfect storm that created the “me” generation — sudden postwar affluence, sacrificing parents who did not wish us to suffer as they had [...]

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A handy, if morbid, tracker. 

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