I might be senior here, except for thenewgreen's grandfather who used to grace us with his lurking. As for curmudgeonlyness, kb, you'll have to take that honour. I have been curmudgeonly, it's true, but only about hyphen usage, and I might be on the verge of becoming a writing reconstructionist. As for this statement, kb: Were boomers sheltered and overprivileged? I think you mean the gen y'ers. Boomers, you may recall, ran away from home en masse; burned their draft cards; went to San Francisco or somewhere and started communes, recycling, and the counter culture; benefited from the combination of antibiotics for STDs and the pill which led to free sex, before AIDS fucked that up. Then they got straight jobs and did all the bad things that their parents did when they got affluent. I don't know what I'm talking about. I shouldn't generalize about generalizations. Over and out. btw, I'm a boomer and was not sheltered NEARLY E-FUCKING-NUFF. Edit: I will read the article too, when I get a chance.(1) Their parents are Boomers, who grew up sheltered and overprivileged.