Summer of Suck

Fans, as you know I'm not a big lover of the Baby Boomers, the self-congratulatory generation. The SF Chronicle is doing a big series on the Summer of Love, which is confusing because it seems that every year someone is having an anniversary party for it. I've also mentioned before that I hate when the Chronicle publishes these insipid, pandering, nostalgic features to appease its present (aging) subscriber base, rather than doing much to encourage new subscribers to it. I'd say this series will do more to distance people of my generation from the Chron than endear people to it, and from the looks of the postings on the Culture Blog I'm right. It's amazing how many blog posters encourage this generation to "fucking die already." I thought it was just me!


Indicative of the Boomers is that they have absolutely no idea why anyone would dislike them, when they were so helpful to the world. In another ten years they'll probably outlaw euthanasia just to make sure they live for as long as medically possible, while bankrupting Medicare as they do it. Waiting for this generation to die off is like waiting for the end of the Bush administration- you know it's definitely going to happen and life is going to be *so* much better afterwards, but it feels like it's taking forever.