The less asked, the better! LOL!!

But if youre curious, here are (really) two more recent pics of the forme Culture Club singer:

http://media.onsugar.com/files/images/boy_george.jpg

http://hastyruminations.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/boy_georgerosie.jpg

Yep, he’s probably missing the ’80s too.

I hadn’t thought about Boy George in a long time. I wonder what became of him. (I guess that’s what Google is for…)

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SteveH, I’m not trying to beat you up about this, but I have to point out that I am not a member of any “team”, baseball or otherwise, just because of my birth-date.

And I will again ask you: Where do you fall on that time line. How did your age group do in that 2008 accounting that Neo linked to?

If you are older than 65, then congratulations, you are a member of the only demographic that is more conservative than the boomers. If you are younger than 45, then you are overdue for a dose of the slings and arrows you and your demographic have been throwing at us boomers. And if you are a boomer, well then, all I have to say about that is self-loathing is somewhat unbecoming.

Melanie has described herself as being ” a total Libertarian.”

As for me, let me make a pitch for the time of my own adolescence, the 1980s. If theres one thing I can relate to the boomers about, its that every time I hear some song from my teens . . . in my case the quirky, synth-crazy, melodic music of the ’80s, I do get a bit nostalgic. The ’80s, like the ’60s, had its own “British Invasion,” around ’83, and instead of Shindig, we had MTV, back when they truly were Music Television.

But the songs: “Our House,” “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Every Breath You Take,” “Karma Chamelion,” “Sweet Dreams (are made of this)”, “She Blinded Me With Science,” “I Ran (So Far Away),” “Promises Promises,” “Don’t You Forget About Me,” “Burning Down the House,” . . . and Reagan in the White House. . . indeed, those were the days.

(For the record: yes, I am into a lot more music than ’80s synth-pop . . .including a lot of ’80s stuff that wasnt synth-heavy stuff. . . but I would be lying if I denied that hearing those old melodic songs doesnt make me feel good!)

Roy, i never suggested all boomers. In fact i think i noted about half seemed to me to be the problem. But even a baseball player who has a stellar career but does it playing for .500 teams has to suffer through some criticism. That is the way the world is be it percieved as fair or not.

“…America probably needed more like 7 in 10 of this age group to have their heads screwed on straight to avoid our country’s slide into a possible decades long funk.”

Then tell me why it is, SteveH, that the boomer generation – all of us – gets saddled with this responsibility, yet the generation that preceded us earns the moniker “greatest generation”, though they were the ones who gave us the “Great Society”? And the generation before that – my grandparents generation – gave us the “New Deal”, which was arguably our first major excursion into socialism. Yet those two generations get a pass, while the generation who gave us Sarah Palin and Chris Christie and the first real push back against this creeping socialism continues to suffer the slings and arrows by people who think that because of our birth-date we are all Paul f#$king McCartney.

Must we suffer the slanders of those who would lump us all into that same 60’s radical group think? (By the way, where do you fall on that time line. How did *your* generation do in that 2008 accounting?)

Voting is done by individuals – not groups.

Somethings wrong when any generation of 45 to 65 year old Americans leans even a little toward electing a marxist con man who was going to lower the seas. America has always counted on this age group to be a major offset of the young and dumb plus some elderly and minorities who just worry about entitlements.

So we can say about half of boomers failed America. Which sounds respectable until you figure out America probably needed more like 7 in 10 of this age group to have their heads screwed on straight to avoid our country’s slide into a possible decades long funk.

I have no idea why people think boomers are some sort of monolith of the left. They most certainly are not.

Scroll down here and look at the chart entitled “Age and the Issues.” You’ll see that boomers (basically, the 45-65 age group on the chart) were fairly conservative in 2008.

So much for xhtml. I guess it’s back to plain old text for me. (Ya cain’t teach a boomer nuthin! )