The Great Die-Off

I think this says alot for the future of the party, not sure if people will stick to party lines though. Either way I am nominating myself for president in 2020.

Unfortunately for your theory, people tend to naturally become more conservative as they age, marry, buy a house, and move to the suburbs.

Young people have always tended to lean leftward, but they eventually do grow up...

Blaming the boomers for the Eagles on muzak is like blaming the Japanese for bad sushi.

What would you prefer to hear while you wait for your receipt?

Besides doesn't everything sound the same on the muzak, isn't that the point?

Or is this about some unresolved issue with father?

"Unfortunately for your theory, people tend to naturally become more conservative as they age, marry, buy a house, and move to the suburbs."

I'd dispute this premise, but fortunately, even if this were true, we are given free will so that we don't have to be mere slaves to our natural tendencies. Why do you hate free will?

Muzak actually has hundreds of channels, most of which don't consist of watered-down instrumentals. So sometimes you get the Full Eagle Effect, which can cause listlessness, boredom, spontaneous napping, and upset stomach.

Fortunately, I have a very good relationship with my father. I think he doesn't like the Eagles either.

As a 51 year old baby boomer, it irks me that the next generation thinks we're all content will the results of the Tuesday debacle. I think Bush sucks, but face Kerry was no prize package. When are we going to have an election with a real choice, not these bought and sold shmucks that parade as real alternatives. This country is going to go to hell in the next four years and if Bush gets to choose Supreme Court justices, it'll be worse. Their impact will effect us, and your generation in particular, even worse. Either get used to it or get off your butts and do something. And unlike my generation, don't sell out for moral values and stock options. That I am a member of this group is a great disappointment, but I can't change my age. By the way, I hate musak and the Eagles suck. I'll take The Rapture and any number of other current bands over them any day. Ask my 19 year old son. We'll be dying off sooner or later but unless you do something, don't assume things will get any better. Make them better. Fight the fight.

Since people live to around 80-90 years, just don't vote until about 2050 when the rest of us boomers are buried. By then, you'll be retired and on medication yourself, so will have plenty of time sitting around in your own retirement home to blog and get shuttled to vote.

Come on, what a silly notion.

The less you contribute, the more you are effect. Let's get to work again. I'd rather hear some ideas on how to improve things than all the grousing about how bad things are.

As an over 50 year old boomer who voted for Kerry (like many of my boomer friends), and knowing some younger folks who felt the need (from fear or ignorance?) to vote for Bush, boomers dying off won't solve the problem. Activism (my preference is peaceful) with group numbers to back it up and making sure the truth doesn't get buried in double-speak, are two ways to try to get the U.S. back on track. Giving up now doesn't seem to be a useful option.