Obituary for a Good Dog in California: LM Said:
Fare-thee-well to Millie the Hound Dog. She was 15, our most long lived canine companion. Came to us as a three year old escape artist from Red Bluff. She continued her wandering ways in Manton and could clear a standard four foot field fence like a blue ribbon high jumper. Also sailed through the air at head height to snag tennis balls. The girl could fly. Eventually she realized she was living in doggy paradise and stopped running away.She was a pure bred Blue Tick Coon Hound without a lot of the usual speckles or barking. A quiet hound who was good with people, but particular about other dogs. The first time she met the dynamic duo of Artie and Danny (lab crosses who were about her age) she tried to crawl over Liz in the car to attack them. It didn't take her long to figure out they were more useful as her soldiers than enemies. The three of them made up our Best Pack Ever for several years.
Millie was one of the healthiest dogs we've known, rarely needing any vet care beyond annual shots. She aged gracefully, slowing down but always moving - that's a clue, humans. She went on the twice a day field walk every day until last month. At the end she could still climb stairs, eat a full meal, let us know she needed to go outside, and even bark warnings at the new girl Lucky, who quickly learned that Grandma Millie meant business. She was low maintenance, high energy, and a lot of bluster. She tolerated cats, but let them know she wasn't their buddy. She looked like a baby dragon with velociraptor feet when she coiled up to sleep and was stingy with her soft kisses. She could be aloof, but she loved her pack and made us laugh with all her seriousness. We miss you already Sweet Millie. Run, Jump, Fly Good Girl! We'll see you on the Other Side.
and on a different Subject: SE Said:
Some of the so-called "boomer" posts are memes which reminisce about the past, and they sometimes say things like, "Those were the best times" or "We grew up in the best times" or "We had the best cars, the best music, etc." For some reason, those types of sentiments have "boomer energy." I realize that every generation probably feels the same way. You reach a certain age, and you look back on your past, and there are certain things which suddenly seem really special. It doesn't matter if you're a boomer or Gen X or a Millennial or Gen Z, when you reach a certain age, you will most likely feel that way about the music, fashions, and cars that were popular when you were young.
So why the endless, ENDLESS references to the boomers? These are Gen X groups. Gen X people are sharing those memes. Millennials are probably sharing similar memes in their groups. Why is there so much focus on the boomers? It's getting really old. People can't help when they were born. The boomers can't help the fact that they're boomers any more than I can help the fact that I'm Gen X. And the older I get, the more I look back on my childhood, teen, and young adult years with nostalgia and a certain sense of wishing certain things were still the way they were then. This is not something only the boomers feel, it's universal.
I hope there comes a day in the not-too-distant future when people tire of using the word "boomer" as an insult.
JB Said:
Those who love to bash “boomers” are also willingly overlooking the fact that the “boomers” are responsible for things like the EPA and Roe v Wade.SE Replied:
I've always been fascinated with the things boomers got to experience when they were young. I often wished I'd been born earlier so I could have experienced the Summer of Love and Woodstock. But like I said in my post, nobody chooses when they are born. My generation had cool things too. Every generation does. But the boomers had some REALLY cool stuff in their time.CW Said:
It irritates me too. Not because I'm a boomer (I am) but because it's so bloody unoriginal! It's like the "Karen" thing... People are, seemingly, incapable of producing new tropes or even insults beyond every decade or so. So they trot out "boomer" or "Karen" and enjoy the frisson of thinking they've needled someone to the core... When in fact they're just flagging themselves up as part of the slack-jawed, stumbling herd.AK Said:
It's a bit odd that Gen X would be making fun of baby boomers. Usually the people that say Boomer are millennials (people who turn 18 around the year 2000) or what they call Gen z (Born after 2000). The whole generation thing is dumb. The reason we were called Gen X is because WW2 arrow was the greatest generation, and then baby boomer generation was after that until 1964. People born from 1965 to 1980 or Gen X and were called that because we were supposed to be the lost generation or the generation without a title. And people misunderstood what that meant, and names the next people Gen y and then Gen z. So people like that calling people Boomer and making fun of them is just another way of showing how clueless they are. Who cares what age somebody is
as if the insults by a Gen XYZ have any Importance... and I Said:
One thing We had the opportunity to do as Boomers... Taking LSD at a Grateful Dead Concert... That was a priceless Experience...
and SE aid:
I knew a LOT of deadheads in the late 80s and early 90s. These were people my age, so definitely Gen X. There was plenty of LSD at Dead shows then, too. Definitely not just a boomer thing. I worked with Deadheads back in those days. They were awful to work with because they missed a lot of work due to the fact that they were stuck in some far-off place following the Dead. So people like me had to pick up their slack.and I Replied:
I guess you are right... I wasn't paying attention to the age of the other people... they WERE much younger than me... but I didn't care... we Were all family...
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
"In 1984", Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure."
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. ~Neil Postman
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
"In 1984", Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure."
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. ~Neil Postman
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