Yeah, where are all the boyzz?

Elephantman, Norbitboy, turkey, shooter000, Benny74, ShimmeringShithammersofHate, tiberian, zoltan_dewberry, et. al. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Why aren't they here, attesting to their foresight and accuracy, their sense of fairness and brotherhood that they've so patiently explicated to the rest of us lo, these many months. I want to re-air their points-of-view because they added so much to our discourse and in the light of a new day I'm sure their rapier-like insights and wit would shine even more.

Come out, come out, where ever you are.

You wrote:

"I think that it has been convenient, for the election, to just ignore everything that happened over the course of 20 years in Chicago's South Side ghetto."

Neither Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright or anyone else to whom you insinuate is from the South Side ghetto. I'm writing from Chicago and you're a liar.

I also note that this your second of two posts on this site, that you've never posted before today and dollars to doughnuts that you're just one of our beloved trolls who's enrolled under another name to continue your filthy spew.

Good luck with that.

Oh yesyesyes, please retreat to the dark nether corner of the playground and continue to mutter to yourself and pull apart insects.

Oh and try not to blow yourself up with your homemade bomb like that fool from the weather underground.

shoo fly.

Nothing more needs to be said except: "prosecute".

Heather's generation was one of the first to not be subjected to an educational system based on "dead white men" that the boomer's parents and earlier generations had endured. The boomers (in general, it really depends on your specific age) were also educated under that heritage but it had begun fraying around the edges with a lot of "alternative" sources beginning to creep in.

Heather and her cohort experienced the disservice of the "anything/everything is valid" point-of-view that lacks discrimination. That was combined with a new cultural emphasis on materialism and consumer culture (see: Naomi Klein "No Logos") that made brand name/logo culture important reference points in society. A great example is Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" where the lead character is obsessed with brand names and the "right" stuff. It became important to be identified by one's consumer choices.

Combine this with the very real pressures that the Reagan era imposed upon them and the unfortunate effect this had was to make Heather's generation appear shallow and money-obsessed. It's true that "yuppie-ism" began with the boomers. But it was a term of derision. The GenX cohort removed much of it's onus and adopted the life-style with a vengeance. A lot of what the boomers originally held dear, civic involvement etc., was held contemptible by the Republican ascendancy and the younger people took their cue from that. It's one of the reasons that folks who attended street protests were derisively called "hippie".

Pardon the mini-dissertation. I think this column is amazing in it's intention. Thank you Heather.

Thank you, that was excellent. Clear and concise.

Why don't you just go off to some dark corner and kill yourself?

You'd be happier.

You didn't ruin my crisis, bubba, I wasn't having one.

You're like Paul's grandfather in A Hard Day's Night, a total drag. Nothing to contribute but whining.

Well, I actually have a life so I'm not going to waste any more time on you, aren't you glad?

But please reconsider the idea of suicide. At least in your decomposition you'd be helping the flowers grow. As it is now, when you walk in the room, everything dies.

Government bureaucracy and organized, formal charities are black holes of waste and inefficiency. If someone needs to beg in the street in a country like this then you should simply give them as much cash as you can, whenever you can.

It doesn't matter what they use it for, they will use it for what they need and that's not for you to decide. For you to decide is to further debase and humiliate the beggar and empower you in a way for which you have no right.

Our American culture has bred a type of mean, judgmental person who wouldn't help a sick dog. Oh right, they'd help a sick dog but not a human being.

Yeah, holiday gift guides are really appropriate this year. Especially luxury gift guides.

Well I guess the upper middle class who runs Salon still feels buffered and hasn't caught on yet.

Here's a great holiday idea: pay my utility bills for xmas, volunteer to be a surrogate to the IRS for xmas, be depressed around the holidays on someone's behalf, sit and shiver in an unheated apartment for a day.

What the f%$k! Now I'm pissed-off.

That's one more stalwart Republican Senator who can thwart the nefarious Obama Agenda no matter how much good it attempts to accomplish!

Sure looks like it to me.

Wonder what they think...about patent violations.

We see this in Salon's output all the time as well as much of the rest of the media. If anything falls outside the experience of someone who hasn't matured past, oh, 28, then it never happens.

When the reproductive imperative continues to chemically addle one's ability to maintain any kind of journalistic perspective, one gets articles like this.

Wrong for so many reasons.

...with plenty of money who will continue to build houses with bidets and jacuzzis for their pets while you and I scratch for survival.