Archive for December, 2010

Baby Busted?

Friday, December 31st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Brett Arends is looking at the possible repercussions the extension of the Bush-era Tax Cuts will have on an nation full of aging baby boomers. With the new Tax Deal expected to tack another ...

Elderism #100

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." -Eleanor Roosevelt.

Elderism #99

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"...[O]ne critical measure of the health of a modern democracy is its ability to legitimately extract taxes from its own elites." -Philosopher Francis Fukuyama, in an essay in the current issue of the "American Interest" re whether or not the U.S. ...

This Week in Old

Saturday, December 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

- Bernie Madoff is miffed that he spent all his stamps on that jar of toilet wine for nothing. (Gawker) - "Precious Moments" figurines will always be the safest investment in Boca Raton. (CNN) - Barbara Walters was only joking when she ...

Fodder for the Conversationally Impaired

Sunday, December 19th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Stuff to talk about here. (New York Times)

Such a Little Fatal Pause

Saturday, December 18th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

In the current New York Review of Books, critic Helen Vendler has written a somewhat thorny review of "The Best of It," the new collection from former Poet Laureate Kay Ryan. But we get the full "After Zeno," a lovely elegy ...

This Week in Old

Saturday, December 18th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

-Jimmy Carter goes with the "short answer" when discussing his biggest failures as president. (Big Think) -Joshua Hammer airs out Nelson Mandela's dirty Batik shirts. (The New Republic) -Meghan Daum's reality check on Larry King's legacy. (Los Angeles Times) -Early-detection Alzheimer's tests are ...

Elderism #98

Saturday, December 11th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"Why would anyone be interested in wiggling?" -My mother, on overhearing that my boyfriend is considering taking up whittling.

Elderism #97

Saturday, December 11th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -Albert Einstein. I wholeheartedly agree. At age 16, desperate to be liked by my peers, I was a bit of a goer, and managed to get myself kicked out of the ...

This Week in Old

Friday, December 10th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

-Prehistoric humans may have been hunted by giant storks. It turns out your crippling fear of Big Bird is instinctual. (LiveScience) -Pair of Queen Elizabeth II's underwear up for auction expected to go anywhere between one "Oh my!" to two "Why I ...