tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707659413638310445.post7608390402618573432..comments2023-10-28T05:48:46.961-07:00Comments on The Lacuna: This week so farLindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01286112910289098215noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707659413638310445.post-71577451040745898462008-02-12T15:19:00.000-08:002008-02-12T15:19:00.000-08:00ALSO, I read an article where the author was conce...ALSO, I read an article where the author was concerned about a survey. In it, college students were asked whether they considered themselves "special" and, unlike previous generations, we gave a resounding yes. "They're self-centered and don't care about others," the author determined.<BR/><BR/>HOLD ON. Did they ask, "Is everyone else special?" I don't think they did, and I think there would also be a resounding yes to that. Self-centered? Yesish. Appreciative of others? Also yesish. So hush, article writer. You are making stupid inferences.<BR/><BR/>::steps off soap box::KJWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297199798326451665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707659413638310445.post-69606720783986281492008-02-12T15:16:00.000-08:002008-02-12T15:16:00.000-08:00I think not a whole lot has changed in the last 10...I think not a whole lot has changed in the last 10 years, and the 30-year-olds are just bitter that they are no longer the 22-year-olds. I'm half-serious. How much do you want to bet they had those same unrealistic goals when they graduated?<BR/><BR/>And, yes, I think that we/younger folks are told we can have and be anything, but that's why we/younger folks are actually voting. Ani Difranco told me (personally) that she went to a convention about women's rights, and she was the only one in her 30's. Most were in their 50's+ or 20's-. Tell those Generation Xers to shut up and yes, we're a little whiny, but we'll figure it out like they did. Or better.KJWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297199798326451665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707659413638310445.post-10497028677467629292008-02-12T14:19:00.000-08:002008-02-12T14:19:00.000-08:00yay for blind dates!i'm currently their biggest fa...yay for blind dates!<BR/><BR/>i'm currently their biggest fan!<BR/><BR/>i think that even if the old people are right (and old people have been saying that kind of stuff longer than the 30 and 40 year-olds of today have been alive, right?) but anyway, even if they are right, you are in the same boat as all of the recent graduates, and we'll all struggle to figure out life together<BR/><BR/>and we WILL figure it outAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07955289007245996416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707659413638310445.post-27969962145150516662008-02-12T11:39:00.000-08:002008-02-12T11:39:00.000-08:001. Boo maniac ovaries. you can just have the cra...1. Boo maniac ovaries. you can just have the crazed one removed, and the other will still spit out eggs for you. <BR/><BR/>2. Oh, blind dates. Maybe you could send Nicole on my second date with Greg. It would be blind for her, and perhaps he won't remember what I looked like (he is blind, after all). <BR/><BR/>3. Have I mentioned . . . I love crooked mouthed Peter Petrelli? I have? well, I do. Could you finagle a blind date for him and I?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com