Digby is one of the smartest and best writers on the web. With that said, I think she has  unintentionally figured out what is wrong with the baby-boom generation and perhaps given an example of the problem with the lamest generation.
One of the things I think people may not completely grok about us loathsome and reviled baby boomers is that our politically formative years were a little bit unusual — when we were young our leaders and heroes kept getting assassinated. You can imagine how that might shape a person’s view of politics. Fortunately that hasn’t happened in a long time, which is something we should be grateful for. But for a while, in the 60s, it seemed to kids like me that this was normal.
Sorry boomers you are not that unique. Every generation has unique things that happen, whether it is a rash of school shooting or the dumbest president in history. What about people who were going through their “formative years” at the time of 9/11?
What is unique about baby-boomers is their ability to make everything about them, and their absolute belief that they are owed something by virtue of being baby-boomers. In addition they seem to have an uncanny ability to over-react to almost everything, which is really just another way to make whatever has happened about them.
One of the many reasons that I think Obama would be a good president is that he seems to have gotten beyond the self-involved stupidity of the boomer generation.
BTW the Beetles suck