baby boomers

Forget reading glasses. Get distance glasses.

The NYT has an article today -- it shot to the top of the "most emailed" list -- about the indignity of the far-sightedness that comes with aging... and how especially distressing it is for us Baby Boomers. The article…

Public radio needs classical music?

Andrew Ferguson, writing in the Weekly Standard, doesn't like that his local NPR station is going from classical music to all news and talk. And he's arguing that this format change is a reason why public radio ought to …

The Kerry that roared.

The New York Times begins a news article about a Kerry speech this way: Roaring back at his Republican rivals, Senator John Kerry called President Bush "unfit to lead this country" for "misleading'' Americ…

Sixties songs and The Sopranos finale.

Since songs of the sixties became a theme of this blog today, let me say the one thing I wanted to say about The Sopranos season finale. When Tony was on his long walk home, he stops and sits on a step outside an elementary schoo…

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