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Saturday, July 01, 2006

What a joke. The only commentary you'll ever need on the political scene in the United States of America today comes from those very funny guys on Comedy Central. You know the ones - Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. These two Gen-Xers skewer the older generations who run the show in D.C., mocking up video clips of them making idiots of themselves, and having a grand old time of it.

What these guys are doing - you're missing out if you don't watch their shows - is chronicling the last days of the Silent-generation led government in power. It's so easy to make fun of because it really is completely washed up and incapable of accomplishing anything meaningful. The old guard just futzes about and lets the Boomers rant on about moralistc "issues" like gay marriage, video games, and flag-burning. Meanwhile, real issues like mounting public debt and crafting working War on Terror policies are ignored or treated timidly with "non-binding resolutions."

As for the "serious news" shows on other TV channels, I think they're reporting on Star Jones and Barbara Walters cat-fighting, and on George Bush's love affair with the soon-to-retire Japanese Prime Minister. Oh, and whether or not Jon Stewart is a threat to Democracy.

I repeat: what a joke.

Posted by Steve at 7:43 PM

Current ages of the living generations
Lost	106+
G.I.	82-106
Silent	64-82
Boomer	46-64
Gen-X	25-46
Millennial	?-25
Homeland	?

Millennial Saeculum
High	1946-1964
Awakening	1964-1984
Unraveling	1984-?
Crisis	?-

The Roaring '90s vs. the Raging 2000s

the count at the ageless project 8/15/2006

G.I.	7
Silent	65
Boomer	278
Gen-X	1095
Millennial	265

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