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Tweeter Before He Was a Jersey Girl

Summer is winding down, and that means another round of midterm elections is almost upon us. The regime's policy of fueling bloodbaths abroad and economic chaos at home has met a public reception on par with a post-Starship Troopers Verhoeven movie. The High Party was facing its own electoral massacre,…
August 25, 202228 Comments
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The Death of Metal

Members of older generations have taken to lamenting the musical taste - or lack thereof - displayed by Generation Z. It's easy to understand why. Every generation from the Boomers to the Millennials was raised on rock & roll. That definitive American music genre not only served as a cross-generational…
July 28, 202217 Comments
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Gen Y Profiles: John Connor

James Cameron  may have gone full Pop Cult in a frenzy of giant smurf Gaia worship, but his past career leaves no doubt as to his visionary status. Starting in the 80s and throughout the 90s, he displayed an uncanny knack for getting out in front of Hollywood trends. And…
July 12, 20222 Comments
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Unforgiven

The Democrats are making noises about student debt relief in the run up to the elections. That assault on fiscal and personal responsibility has roused principled Conservatives from their Barcaloungers to crusade against forgiveness. Joking aside, this blog has covered how making interest-bearing loans not backed by collateral to teenagers…
May 30, 20228 Comments
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Jaimie’s Island

Jaimie Mantzel is a toymaker and inventor who got out of the rat race, sold his Vermont house, and moved his family to a secluded Island in Panama. You may be familiar with the small but growing trend of people bugging out of America to do homesteading abroad. But Jaimie…
May 16, 20226 Comments
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Spiritual Ground Zero

Hat tip to author JD Cowan for bringing my attention to the following chart: According to those numbers, religiosity - read: Christianity - among Americans aged 18-35 plummeted from near 90 percent in 1991 to 75 percent in 1998. My, what could have happened in between? The mean age of…
April 6, 202217 Comments
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Nickelodeon Syndrome

There's no ignoring that the Millennial generation is in crisis. Just take a look at their skyrocketing incidence of depression. While most Americans are feeling more depressed, we've seen the sharpest increase among those who were aged 16-25 as of 2017. Those ages encompass the birth years 1992-2001, which is…
March 15, 202227 Comments
Gen Y Ephemera

Gen Y Ephemera

Reader Rudolph Harrier and author JD Cowan unearth more evidence that Generation Y is a separate cohort from the later Millennials. Consider some data points from a 2006 article published in the Oberlin Review: College admissions offices, employers and marketing companies are going into a frenzy over Generation Y, a…
March 10, 202222 Comments
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Internet Citizens

Commenter Rudolph Harrier provides insightful context for Monday's post promoting JD Cowan's Generation Y compilation. We can take an average member of Gen Y as being born in 1984 and an average millennial as being born in 1995. Let’s look at some key trends and consider the relevant ages: Cell…
March 2, 202211 Comments
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Generation Why?

Announcing a special joint project by authors JD Cowan, David V. Stewart, and yours truly ... Generation Why? There is an epidemic in the modern age: a crisis of meaning. Why is it the world we were promised back in the 1980s and 1990s seems so far away now? Whatever…
February 28, 202220 Comments