Then again, numbers always confused me. And math was never my strong suit in school. Besides, I had a nice qualifier when making that statement…

“perhaps the first time…”

To err is human. To admit it if you’re a blogger is divine. See my post today about the Truthout.Org mess and the Rove indictment that never happened.

As someone said in a movie once: “You never have an egg timer when you need one.”

From the Wall Street Journal, June 20. Third news story:

“The Dow Jones Industrials declined 72.44 to 10942.11 and the S&P 500 fell back into the red for the year on worries about stagflation.”

The way the WSJ has changed over the years, I would not look at this as deep economic analysis, but it shows some people are thinking about it.

OT: My time home was short lived and I`m back in Japan. Keep up the good work Rick as your site is one of my reality checkpoints

Some generalizations have roots in a partial or perceived reality, which is why I would never take offence at the self-absorption allegation levelled at boomers, even though I don’t agree with it. My GenX indictment above was a flippant and frustrated comment that grew from a multitude of experiences with the slacker menrality (and I have been a high school and college teacher for more than 30 years).

Thanks to the entirely appropriate (in my view) umbrage that you took at being lumped into a generalization, I will most assuredly be more careful of the injustice of such statements here and elsewhere.

You were welcome to make exactly this sort of generalization even without mine, and I’m sure you know that people have made just such a generalization.

While I of course would not agree with it, it is certainly a point of view worth serious discussion, as the implications of the bb generation aging into retirement are profound for Gen X and everyone else younger.

Rather than attempt a generational defence here and now (might be a good idea at some point for my own blog), I would simply point out on my brother’s right wing website that much of the success of the conservative revolution of the last 25 years has been due to these self-same Boomers, the ones who regarded the excesses of the New Left of the late 60s with enough disdain to work for decades to counteract what they regarded as the excesses of a fringe element of their own demographic cohort.

>>you still make generational generalizations. I supposed I can therefore make some of my own about the Boomers, who are a bunch of self-centered spoiled brats