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By: Adrien

Adrien — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:19:42 +0000

Paul Burns – What were/are Baby-Boomers up to? Making money after we’d had a riotous yoof.And now we’re into spending the kids’ inheritance and thanking Gaia we’ll probably be dead before the worst of climate change hits.
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More boomer sanctimonious triumphalism. Well not so fast buddy. We’ve got plans for you lot.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:18:00 +0000

That old rascal Sting and his execrable Russians loving children tooooo schtick kinda summed it up: old buggers playing poker with nukes was no way to run a world.
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Indeed the best thing Sting ever ~~ripped off from Prokofiev~~ wrote.
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It’s much better these days. Instead of playing poker with nukes. We’ve got people playing Russian Roulette with ‘em. Vast improvement.

By: Patrick B

Patrick B — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:10:04 +0000

Now I’m really confused, the SMH leads with
“Boomers bust: Election ends Gen X, Miranda Devine says”
but Mandy commences with
“Either way next week, the US presidential election is the kiss of death to the short, unhappy rise to power of the baby-boomer generation.”
Her waters run so deep that not even the subs at the SMH can fathom them.

By: Jenx67

Jenx67 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:02:15 +0000

I’ll be linking to this post. I agree – it is a more complex assemblage of themes. Great post.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:33:35 +0000

Why is there this constant need to put people into appropriately labelled baskets? boomers, Gen-X, leftys, RWDBs, Greenies, bogans….. whatever.

Reminds me of that classic Life of Brian scene….

Brian: ‘you are all individuals’
Crowd in unison: ‘yes we are all individuals’
lone voice: ‘I’m not’

By: Katz

Katz — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:55:44 +0000

Shorter Miranda: My head has exploded.

Any analysis that claims to talk sense while asserting that Clinton and Bush have anything in common except for the accident of some reasonably contiguous birthdates doesn’t deserve to wrap fish.

If baby boomers have achieved noting else they can at least go to their graves content that they have driven Miranda Devine mad.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:24:10 +0000

What were/are Baby-Boomers up to? Making money after we’d had a riotous yoof.And now we’re into spending the kids’ inheritance and thanking Gaia we’ll probably be dead before the worst of climate change hits.

By: Patrick B

Patrick B — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:18:57 +0000

According to M. Devine in todays SMH whatever the outcome of the US election the Boomers will have failed, totally and utterly forever and ever Amen. Hooray! Of course I’m still in the dark as to what it was they were up to in the first place. In fact maybe she was talking about our national mens basketball team, they’ve always had problems with the Americans. Bit of a tenuous hook for an op-ed piece though.

By: Chookie

Chookie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:29:10 +0000

I have been intrigued for some time about how most of the people my own age that I get on well with are Gen-Xers with pre-Boomer parents. We’re in professions that we enjoy (even though most of us aren’t high-flyers), tend to the bleeding-heart lefty, think it takes some effort to bring children up (as opposed to expecting life and the universe to do it for us), and none of us live in McMansions. (Caveat: Many of my friends are Christians and this obviously has an impact on how we run our lives — but some of my agnostic/atheist friends live similarly.) Anyway: am I correct to assume that those 4WDs and McMansions belong to Gen-Xers with Boomer parents? Or just to younger siblings?

By: James Rice

James Rice — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:21:55 +0000

On these great issues of our time, we must turn to the world of men’s cricket. Here are the 10 best-ever Australian batsmen and bowlers, according to the International Cricket Council’s rankings.

Best-Ever Australian Batsmen (Tests)

(1) D G Bradman (b 1908) – pre-Baby Boomer
(2) R T Ponting (b 1974) – Gen X
(3) M L Hayden (b 1971) – Gen X
(4) K D Walters (b 1945) – Baby Boomer
(5) R N Harvey (b 1928) – pre-Baby Boomer
(6) M E K Hussey (b 1975) – Gen X
(7) S R Waugh (b 1965) – Baby Boomer/Gen X
(8) C C McDonald (b 1928) – pre-Baby Boomer
(9) C Hill (b 1877) – pre-Baby Boomer
(10) G S Chappell (b 1948) – Baby Boomer

Best-Ever Australian Bowlers (Tests)

(1) G D McGrath (b 1970) – Gen X
(2) A K Davidson (b 1929) – pre-Baby Boomer
(3) S K Warne (b 1969) – Gen X
(4) W J O’Reilly (b 1905) – pre-Baby Boomer
(5) C V Grimmett (b 1891) – pre-Baby Boomer
(6) W A Johnston (b 1922) – pre-Baby Boomer
(7) R R Lindwall (b 1921) – pre-Baby Boomer
(8) H Trumble (b 1867) – pre-Baby Boomer
(9) D K Lillee (b 1949) – Baby Boomer
(10) S R Clark (b 1975) – Gen X

It’s obvious that Generation X (as well as pre-Baby Boomers) dominate these rankings. Baby Boomers are worse cricketers than Generation Xers and Generation Yers are nowhere to be found…

QED