and maureen dowd, in the new york times, reminds her readers that the 60s are in fact over.
i have an obsessive need to resist the culture of the baby boomers, so i am maybe oversensitive; but every other news story i see about iraq makes me think vietnam, vietnam, vietnam, they’re talking about vietnam, not iraq. you’d get the impression from thousands of conversations happening every day that soldiers are returning from iraq to be yelled at by war protesters, which, i believe, never happens. that only happened in the 60s, with the baby boomers.
and every time i see college students gathering for a “protest,” with their smiling teacher looking on proudly, i think “you bunch of traitors to your generation. acting like boomers, as if that ever got anyone anything.”