Boomers I like

Let's face it. Not all boomers are bad. (Most, but not all.) If we were to make a graph of the types of boomer behaviors that we find abhorrent we would see that it makes a nice bell curve. The majority of the boomers right there doing boomer stuff and a few stragglers out on the sides.

Jim Kunstler might fall at one end of the bell curve. His blog is one that I like to read. How can you not like something titled Clusterfuck Nation. (Which reminds me, I've been meaning to add a "boomers I like section" to the blog roll.)

Jim's basic beef is with how our society is organized around the car and because of this why we are completely fucked. He posts weekly and it can be great fun.

This week he is writing about Georgia (the country not the state) and our bogus policy towards that part of the world.

Not a story that you would think I could find something with. At least not at first. Then Jim gives us this:

We could have spent the past ten years getting our own house in order -- waking up to the obsolescence of our suburban life-style, scaling back on the Happy Motoring, reconnecting our cities with world-class passenger rail, creating wealth by producing things of value (instead of resorting to financial racketeering), protecting our borders, and taking the necessary measures to defend and update our own industries. Instead, we pissed our time and resources away. Nations do make tragic errors of the collective will. The cluelessness of George Bush is nothing less than a perfect metaphor for the failure of a whole generation. The Boomers will be identified as the generation that wrecked America.

Thank you Jim. Today, you made my job easy.