>>The people in the article, and most posters, are Gen Xers, and they have never seen, let alone lived through, an economic downturn.

Let me explain something to you. Firstly, it's the millenials with a sense pf entitlement. When we, and I'm very much a GenXer, came to adulthood there was a massive downturn, in the early 90s. Then later that decade there was the dot-com crash. For those of us in California, this was compounded by the Enron crisis and nailed into place by 9/11.

I went through all these and more(then there was the permanent recession in Chicago most of this decade), but have a hard time remembering any major benefit in the supposed "good" times. I've been struggling now for as long as I remember and even had a marriage destroyed by the effects of the economy.

I also think the writer of this article is irresponsible, stupid, and that Salon is surreptitiously trying to groom itself for travel ads with this piece.

But you know what? Most of us GenXers have always lived in a world where no one gave a crap what happened to us and we had to do for ourselves. So shut the fuck up about all of us feeling "entitled." It's the ones raised rich that do. And the Boomers ALWAYS felt "entitled"--it's their defining characteristic. But unlike your sort, we were never homogenous.

Shut up and enjoy your retirements, Boomers. We have to deal now with the world you sucked dry.

Amazing how they saved their outrage for when there was a Democratic president trying to fix the problem, rather than a Republican causing it. Now they'll attempt to pretend Bush was never president. If McCain had been elected, would they be twisting in constipation now?

Ridiculous, and the media should be ignoring it just as they did the anti-Iraq protests. But they're not. Wonder why?

A way of showing in the media that women over 40 are still sexy is somehow bad?

So having them so self-conscious they hack up or botox their faces to look young is better? Or perhaps men my age(I'm 40) should go after younger women? (which I've never been into anyway; I think women under thirty are boring)

Look, people use the word "cougar" not to demean but because it's sexy. If a woman were called a "tigress" I doubt she'd mind. Nobody who uses this word is trying to dehumanize women.

That said, it's still a silly word and I don't use it, but please. People finally noticing that women over 40 can be really hot is NOT a bad thing.

Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius(tm) once remarked that you can find at least 500 people willing to die for just about any cause, no matter how stupid. ("If Jim Jones could get 900 people to commit suicide, I was sure we could get 500 people to send us a dollar.")

In the case of the CotS, these would be the "Bobbies," the most mindless true believers(who actually believe J.R. "Bob" Dobbs was real) who were to be thrown as snacks to the space gods on X-Day. I imagine that these folks serve a similar purpose in the Republiverse.

I'm not worried about them voting. I'm worried that they will eventually commit violence over their completely fictionally-based paranoia.

Oh wait, some already have.

I wrote this some time back. Is this enough of a declaration of nakedness?

http://www.helium.com/items/287351-short-stories-fairy-tales

No? Ah well.

...his own side doesn't trust him anyway. That same Wikipedia entry mentions, at the end, that he is alleged to be an FBI informant. Criminals usually don't care for stool pigeons, and criminals(specifically, domestic terrorists who also may be subject to racketeering charges) is what neo-Nazis are.

It probably explains why he's so loud and overtly threatening. I would imagine that a real neo-Nazi would not be trying to attract so much attention. Not to say that they're not dangerous, just that this guy is merely loud and has no influence, thank God.

>>Cheeseburgers will become prohibitively expensive.

You fear the marginalization of the "truth-tellers" as you characterize them, and you begin the list with something this trivial-sounding?

Seems...counterproductive. Also funny, but that's just me.

>>In Nuremberg the Nazis were NOT defended by their Lawyers because these lawyers knew the extend and depravity of their crimes.

What planet are you living on, where the language is spoken out one's ass? They WERE defended by their lawyers because that's the job of a lawyer, and with no defense there would be no legal trial. Indeed, Bormann was defended in absentia by one of the defense team. I can even provide you with some names of the defense lawyers and their strategies here:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nurembergaccount.html

It's not advisable to declare something in ignorance. Whether Bush is comparable to Nazis is one thing, but the idea that the Nazis had no defense lawyers at Nuremberg, which is tantamount to calling it a kangaroo court and therefore invalid, is false and ludicrous.

...from myself and all Seattle cartoonists. When you do move up, I'll buy you a coffee.

Now.

Reagan is their Che. He means nothing, and therefore anything they want him to, depending on how they feel like wearing him.

It's. A. SOFA.

So, having watched it, I wonder what the frak is the problem. It's well-cast(Polly Walker AND Trixie from Deadwood? My two favorite actresses from my most-missed shows, I'm in), intelligently written, engaging, and I think they've created something that can be built upon. And it explores the already-implicit in BSG Frankenstein theme. And, not to give anything away, but Eric Stoltz is an interestingly amoral son of a bitch in this(amusing that his daughter's name is "Zoe")and, after watching it, I think I can see where it's going as far as why the Cylons hate humanity.

It could go either way--better and richer than Galactica, or worse than Kings.