"Any man who's not a socialist at twenty, has no heart. Any man who's still a socialist at forty, has no head." -- Winston Churchill (attributed)

"And any man who's one at sixty has *neither*!" -- Skorpion

I'm memorizing that, Vanderleun. Where are the Philly flash mobs of yester May? We could use a nice brutal flash mob on these folk..oh wait, never mind. Same crowd.

Support democrats, get them out of office and back home now!

"Support democrats, get them out of office and back home TO OCEANIA now!"

They'll be better there.

Youth is wasted on the old.

Not again! I had to live through all all these kinds of useless demonstrations before in the 1960s and simply assumed the protesters were just young and naive. A half century passes. The protesters grew up, aged, and are no longer naive, but have become senile.

I thought these idiots were idiots when I was a teenager in 1970. My opinion of them has not changed in the intervening years.

@Bill Jones, as Gerard noted in the article, these assclowns demand that the US become some socialist Borg Collective (we've seen how well that worked in places like the former Warsaw Pact, Cambodia, Cuba, and North Korea). The Tea Party is essentially 180 degrees out from that, with its emphasis on the individual. Really, the only point of congruence is the belief that Big Business (to include banks, in many cases), is screwing the ordinary folks. But the proposed remedies are diametrically opposed.

Most pampered and useless generation ever.

Yeah, they're the establishment but think they're fighting the man. Few things are more pathetic.

There's an old commie who stands on the corner by our county admin building once a week.

He waves a sign that says, "PEACE." I once asked him, "If I attacked you, would you fight back?"

His answer, "Of course."

Then why the Peace sign? Because he wants to show how morally superior he is.

"Any man who's not a socialist at twenty, has no heart. Any man who's still a socialist at forty, has no head."

That may have been true a hundred years ago, but not today after a century of socialist disasters.

More on Gray Laison: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=348576

I'm living in housing for old folks in what is to date the leftiest town in which I've ever lived. These life forms are everywhere, like grubs in humus. The day I moved in, two separate couples in their '70s asked me "What's your sign?"

Without irony.

I used to think that The Invasion of the Body Snatchers was an allegory about yuppies. Now I think it's about Baby Boomers and their older siblings who saw a way to avoid growing up. All of 'em, as I've pointed out before, seem primarily dedicated to getting high school to finally work out right.

Gloom.

I reckon by now they know the words to Kumbaya. What we need is Joan Baez. Oops, is she still alive?

My anger and hostility against these smug shits is overwhelming at times.

Gerard, you bastard! Why do you have to insult the dung beetles? Dung beetles are probably the best way to deal with these old shits.

I've always felt that I was under the ominous shadow of the boomer generation. Born at the tail-end, I missed out on the party but I'm here for the cleanup.

"but noting her address so that I could reserve her a seat in the tumbrils"

You've give her a seat?

Point taken.

Whiny, delusional old Boomer pukes. Understand their frozen-in-the-Sixties frames of reference, and you'll get why they're so insane.
To them:
* Every domestic issue is *The Civil Rights Movement*
* Every foreign issue is *Vietnam*
* Every Black leader is MLK
* Every Black male accused of a crime is Tom Robinson
* Every street crazy is Randall P. McMurphy
* And every President is either LBJ (if he's a Democrat) or Nixon (if he's a Republican)

I am pleased that my work with "tumbrils" did not go unappreciated.

Time to get the Joan Baez songs out, dab on some patchouli oil and really make a difference.

The 'progressive' mindset seems to be some combination of altruism, idealism, self-righteousness, the arrogance of ignorance, and the drive to be recognized as doing and being something worthwhile.
To reject this attitude is to reject oneself, with what one has self-identified. This would be a suicidal act. Easier to hide the great lie of their life by rejecting consideration of opposing evidence.
Thus the need to defend their dead end facing away from the light and going deeper into the tunnel of shadows and shame.

Yes, Howard, denial is not that river in Egypt.
There is nothing quite so sad as an aging hippie.
Libertarians take them in out of pity.

The Democrats convention of 1968 held in Chicago was the pinnacle and singular achievement of the Hippie, Yippie, Abby Hoffman rebel movement.
The Chicago Seven, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner— all had their fifteen minutes of fame.
They later swung over to more conservative positions once they figured out where the money was coming from. Hayden was a CA state senator.