Posted on 07/16/2007 9:41:39 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Is that first word supposed to be "It"?
No, it’s what a vacuum cleaner does.
Good points, well articulated. The title of the piece was such a put off I almost didn’t read it.
As someone ten years older than the lovely and talented Anna, I’d lend her an extra dime if she was a little more original, and wasn’t already farting through silk.
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Age gives wisdom..................
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I told her upon graduation that she wasn't going to get a European vacation, a new car, a new wardrobe . . etc as a graduation gift. I gave her the gift of no debt as her graduation gift. She made the most of it and is doing well. She tells me that I'll have my pick of the bedrooms for my retirement - we'll see.
It is true that the media has been talking down to Generation X for a long time. I remember the talk about how the hope of the world was on the next generation (meaning those were in kindergarten at the time). We were still in high school and already the media was saying my generation wasn’t going to do anything worthwhile. I still remember commercials calling us Generation X, Generation Nothing. I don’t whine about it. I just say the media sucks.
Soundgarden broke up?
Nicely put (but not original). I rather liked Burning Chrome but it's a long way from social commentary in the Voice to imaginary dystopias. No, on the other hand, it isn't, is it?
Does it suck to be young? ( I think I can say that.) That depends on how young. It certainly sucks to be a pre-teen. Everybody's bigger, stronger, and richer than you are. You eat and sleep what and when you're told. Sort of like the Army without the guns.
It sucks to be an adolescent. Zits, no power, no privacy, and sex is a weird hairy monster that is more likely to get you in trouble than anything else. That, of course, doesn't really change much now that I think about it. Still, you're only the master of your own fate insofar as you can screw it up with drugs, reckless driving, reckless sex. Funny how that keeps coming up. It's hard to make it better on your own.
However, if you live to reach the time of life Kamanetz is bitching about my sympathy reservoir tends to run a little low. Yes, you often have to worry about school debt. You don't have to worry about puerperal fever, polio, sudden death from marauding barbarian invasion, the draft...let's face it, every generation faces problems and every generation bitches about it. Not every generation has the luxury of doing so via text messaging and streaming video.
Dang kids.
Don’t misunderstand - she loved going to A&M and knew it was a fine school. She thought that graduation from an Ivy would give her a better start. She started checking into it and found that A&M really was the best opportunity for her. You can go almost anywhere and find an A&M grad. They’ll hire fellow grads because they know how hard it was to get that diploma and ring!
I used to know the A&M Mafia (meant in the kindest way possible) when I lived and worked at Ft. Hood. Your post made me miss Texas.
What a revolting whiner..... this ignoramus is so deficient in knowledge of economics, history, etc. that she should be laughed right out of the world of (so-called) journalism and publishing. Instead, she will probably be a big hit among fellow whiners and wankers of a liberal persuasion.
The irony is of calling my generation Generation X is that Generation X actually should have been the generation that was around when I was born. Those who were working during the Big ‘80s. I read the actual book the term came from. I guess who ever decided it applied to my generation didn’t. LOL!
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