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Uh-oh. We ARE Our Fathers’ Generation! “The problem . . . is not the net generation but befuddled baby-boomers, who once sang along with Bob Dylan that ‘something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is,’ yet now find that they are clueless about the revolutionary changes taking place among the young.”
Editorial Comment: The times, they are a-chan..gin'...
Barbie Update: It was SRO at the REINVENTING BARBIE BASH at Utah State University on Tuesday, as awards were presented for the most moving, funny and inventive repurposed Barbies. More than 160 dolls (not counting animals and vehicles) were part of the month-long exhibit celebrating Women's History Month, and Barbie's 50th birthday. Click here for story and photos from the Deseret News.
BARBIE MAKEOVERS—As part of the REINVENTING BARBIE BASH at Utah State University on Tuesday, the Women & Gender Studies team received makeovers by Broadway makeup artist Gary Arave (second from left). The newly Barbified are (from left) Katie Reeves, Arave, GLBT director Maure Smith, WGS director Brenda Cooper, Katie Jo Matekovic, Amy Mattson and Jess Collett..
And of course, the (presumably youngish) Economist author may understand the revolutionary changes happening among the young, but is clueless that it wasn't Bob Dylan but Steven Stills and Buffalo Springfield who sang "Something is happening here" ...
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Being of the parent-to-Boomers generation, I DON'T think "the kids are alright". I think they don't have a clue to the worth of professional journalism, and are going to be sadly awakened when there is no in-depth coverage of all the news and all the worst starts to happen.
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I'm with you, Granny. If ignorance is bliss, then bliss = Wall Street meltdown. That's what not paying attention will buy you. And us.
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