Sixty Two and Still Pathetic

After hearing about Tipper and Al Gore divorcing this week, I couldn't help but chuckle.  It was about time the poster children for their generation did what all Boomers seem to do and that is go their separate ways.

Al and Tipper Gore were the worst couple of the worst generation.  As a mother and Senator's wife, Tipper Gore decided to burn record albums.  OK, she didn't exactly burn albums but she tried to ban them for their content.  It wouldn't be so bad that she warned parents of explicit language on records but when asked who her favorite band was she replied "the Rolling Stones."  Excuse me! The hypocrisy of liking a band that constantly used explicit lyrics about sex, drugs and depravity while telling us we couldn't listen to others like them, made Tipper the poster child of her lousy generation.

Al, had his on problems.  His environmental charade is probably his most egregious.  After Al Gore lost the infamous 2000 Presidential election, he went on a quest to end the world from global warming.  Like his wife, it wouldn't be so bad that he did this but Al also lived a life of hypocrisy as well.  Flying in private jets and living in a huge mansion, Gore probably has one of the largest carbon footprints of anybody in the world.  Gore also suffered from hypocrisy since he berated President Bush for not doing anything to stop global warming, while as Vice President for eight years, he, nor President Clinton did nothing as well. 

So, this is the end of America's worst couple.  Good riddance.  I can't wait until they each write their book about the difficulties of staying married in the modern world.  Blah Bla Blah Bla Blah.

Over Forty Five and Still Pathetic

According to a newly released survey by AARP,  "Americans 45 and older are far more open to sex outside of marriage."  Gee, what a surprise.  The generation that perfected divorce and made a travesty of the institution of marriage wants to pervert it even further.  So, when Stephen Stills sang out "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with," the Boomers really took that as gospel.

The Baby Boomers obviously did not invent divorce but they did become the most divorced generation in American history.  According to the Americans for Divorce Reform, the divorce rate started to increase in the 1960's and then peaked in the 1980's.  This is another example of Baby Boomers not actually changing things, as they always claim, but taking an element of society and running with it or in this case destroying it.  Currently, one out of every two marriages fails.  However, there is no doubt that when Boomers finally stop getting married and divorced (which should happen when the finally get in their seventies and Viagra doesn't work anymore), the divorce rate will surely decline.