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Baby Boomers In Ruin

October 31, 2013 by

Why do they ruin everything? They don’t. Joe Klein, the crackerjack political writer, looked at the day and said, “Baby Boomers Ruined The Government.” He hammers the spike further into the ‘Peace, Love, and Understanding’ generation with, “The U.S. can lay the blame for its current political mess at the feet of my generation.” Boomer PDX […]

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No-Divorce Baby Boomers

October 21, 2013 by

Just when it seems everyone’s had enough of boomers, there’s more. They’ll work long enough to keep younger generations out of the big jobs. They’ll live long enough to bankrupt Social Security. And they’ll complain enough until they get what they want. What do they want most?

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Baby Boomers Used To Know That

October 4, 2013 by

Boomers took the first slap from the Do It Yourself movement. Old timers had a saying: “If it was build by a man, it can be fixed by a man.” They usually said it before they reconditioned a scrapped tractor with bubble gum and bailing wire. Those were the garage wizards building cars before the […]

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Baby Boomers And The Kid Car

August 20, 2013 by

So Many Choices Where are the days when you turned sixteen and your daddy handed you the keys to your new ride? The boys got a muscle car and the girls a cute pink convertible. Those days are still around somewhere. Is this what happened when you turned sixteen: “Here, honey, take the keys and […]

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Baby Boomers vs Millennials

July 26, 2013 by

Do we baby boomers have pity on younger generations? Are their problems bigger than the obstacles we faced and continue to face? Katerina Rosen thinks so in her Huffington Post article, “Millennial Problems: 7 Issues Boomers Didn’t Deal With.” Issues? Obstacles? Problems? And only seven? We came out of a social upheaval called the Cultural Revolution […]

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Putin To Portland Baby Boomers

July 10, 2013 by

Boomer Dating Gets A Boost. News of Russian President, Prime Minister, Party Leader, and Head of KGB Vladimir Putin’s divorce shocked the homeland. While his fellow citizens in the ultimate red state reacted to their leader’s decision, Portland boomers have a new role model. Putin is a man of the people, in that he’s as frightening […]

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Five Ways Boomerpdx Clears The Fog Of War For Baby Boomers

December 8, 2012 by

December 7, 1941 “a date which will live in infamy.” What about the day after? What do Baby Boomers call December 8, 2012? Do you call it Saturday, and let it go at that? Is that good enough? You can do better. Let’s start.

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USEFUL BOOMERS FOR MATERIAL CULTURE

September 16, 2023 by

Useful boomers should know things, the sort of things that show a certain level of awareness. Awareness is useful, so is cleanliness. Directing that awareness to history is even more useful. But it can’t be funky history, so let’s start with the basic question: What Happened? People need to know the right stuff.

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ONE PORTLAND BABY BOOMER DECADE

February 9, 2023 by

My Portland baby boomer decade began in 1980. It began when I stepped off the bus after a three day ride from Manhattan. (Hey, B.) For twenty-six year old me it was a life changer. By 1990 I was heading out.

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LOVE LIFE HISTORY OF THE BABY BOOMER

January 14, 2023 by

For a successful love life you need to make the decision all English majors make: Do you throw yourself into the fire, or coast along for the ride? Do the required reading? Or go to Cliff Notes? Checking in on an old Baby Boomer favorite from Facebook.

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