I ruined newspapers

I got careless and destroyed the great American newspaper. Not only that, I destroyed the next generation, too!

Well, I didn't do it alone. I had help from the entire Baby Boom generation. My full confession is at whapwhap.com. WhapWhap sounds kinky, but it's not. It's sort of technology, journalism, Fred Willard, Christopher Guest, Old English and other stuff all rolled into one.

My close encounter with DB Cooper

Well, it could have been DB Cooper. I do live in the Pacific Northwest and all.

Anyway, there was this guy behind me in a check-out line at Fred Meyer. He was wearing black-rimmed glasses and a jacket. He looked like DB Cooper. And, there's more evidence it might, possibly, as in I can't say with certainty it wasn't DB Cooper, in this posting on my main blog ...

When did the Baby Boom go bust?

We railed against corporate America and the war machine, and then we created the most corrupt corporate war machine in American history. We practically invented environmentalism and then destroyed the environment in ways never dreamed of before.

We laughed at "Little Boxes Made of Tickytacky" and "Little Pink Houses for You and Me" and then created the ugliest suburbs imaginable.


Free speech? Didn't we invent that? No, but we did invent the monolithic corporate media machines that stifle dissent today.