A Message from Sixty Years Ago, to the Old Farts of Today

This very hour might be a really good time to re-read this editorial by Paul Jones. It appeared in newspapers, one day after The Beatles first appearance on Ed Sullivan, sixty years ago tonight. The cultural historian in me wonders: Did anybody ever go back to Jones later, and see if he changed his mind? […]

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“OK, Boomer” and Generation Jones

Recently, I was having a debate with a GenXer about the whole stupid “OK, Boomer” phenomenon. He was defending it, and I was not so much offended by it, as bored; by both the meme and his snarky insistence that he knew things this old man clearly did not. For my part, I was trying […]

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