Being a kid growing up in a nuclear world meamt fear of total thermo-nuclear annihilation. Yesterday, I read a story in the New York Times about a nuclear plant in Ohio with a 30-foot hairline crack in a reactor. All I could think of was, I really wish I could stop worrying about these...
“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we...
…I know times are getting hard But just believe me, girl Someday I’ll pay the bills with this guitar We’ll have it good We’ll have the life we knew we would… –From the Plain White Ts and Hey There Delilah If Generation X was born with or raised in the shadow of...
Japanese lanterns by David Paneven via Flickr with Creative Commons License Is this spirit of America close at hand? Generation X braces for War, Revolutions, Natural Disasters, Economic Collapse, Nuclear Accidents, Secession and Pandemic. Who knows what tomorrow brings — From Cocker and...
I have seen in your eyes a fire of determination to get this job done quickly so that we may all return to the shores of our great nation. My confidence in you is total. Our cause is just! Now you must be the thunder and lightning of Desert Storm. —General Norman Schwarzkopf Photo left, courtesy...
Cold War cartoons like Bullwinkle shaped our fears of Russia. Featured above are Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Yesterday, CNN reported that Russia has tested its first stealth fighter jet, the fifth-generation Sukhoi. The plane is the country’s first fighter jet based on stealth...
This is my story about how I discovered The Garden of The Finzi-Continis, a story about Italian Jews in World War II by Giogio Bassani. Micol Finzi-Contini I became acquainted with Micòl the year I turned 14. A beautiful, blond Italian Jew, I guess you could say she kept me company every day after...
A Navy Reservist who has been mobilized to serve in Iraq has started a blog, Gen X in Iraq. He’s currently training in Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. The average age of U.S. Soldiers killed in Iraq is 30. In World War II it was 26 and in Vietnam, 19. There are many different sources for this...
Today, while rocking Sully to sleep, I prayed I would become more fully mother; that I would seize the next few years of early childhood and adolescence and joyfully wrap myself in the painfully perpetual tasks of mothering: sorting laundry, washing laundry, drying laundry, folding laundry,...
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