The Most Expensive Way to Be Alive

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There is a quiet tax now, and it does not arrive in the mail. No government votes on it. No minister announces it. No one even has the honesty to call it what it is. It is the tax on being alone.

Not solitude in the poetic sense. Not the noble retreat of monks, writers, or the occasional sane person hiding from the species. I mean ordinary modern singleness: paying … Read the rest

Baby Boomer Jamboree And Generation X,Y,Zee

by Eric Le Roy

Content 18+ This is written in response to Mr. Anderson’s most recent eruption, which is called “Goddamn Millennials”. For reasons I am not sure of, I – as the designated Baby Boomer – am cast as the smug and ornately slippered villain tucked away safely in some state-of-the-architectural- art-suburban castle gazing from lofty windows and out beyond the Security Gates, glass of Jack Daniels in hand … Read the rest

Goddamn Millenials!

Content 18+ Typically, it’s Eric who responds to me, but presently, as I peruse his articles, I find I’ve got a thing or two to pass on to him. You discourse on contemporary existence, nascent generations, ignorance, and technological enslavement…

Ah, the very word ‘Millennial’ seems to drip with disdain from the lips of many a Baby Boomer. They look upon this younger generation and see a landscape littered with … Read the rest