Shawn wrote:

The Greatest Generation.

Sycophantic journalists named them that. They won WWII and we should be
forever grateful, but what's so great about building a hyper-consuming,
unsustainable economy? Just how I see it when I try to look from my
children's perspective.

They are "the Greatest Generation" now on the planet, especially when
compared to the one that whines about too much success.


For the sake of his reputation, I hope they find a medical reason for
the crash.

I got one right here -- he was eighty friggin' six, Shawn. I think his
reputation is well enough established, whatever the contributing factors
in his demise, that it will withstand the flaccid criticisms of those
fools who are not worthy to pull his chocks.


Jack