Kids [and Republicans]: What's The Matter With Them Today!

Tues. May 7, 2013:

1.  Moderate conservative David Brooks calls out the fringe G.O.P. members who are lining up to kill Marco Rubio's immigration reform bill.  Let's face it, folks, the Far Right has its head wedged:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/opinion/brooks-beyond-the-fence.html

2.  Lil Wayne, like a gazillion other American kids, has no clue who Emmett Till was.
Studying the American civil rights history could have spared Lil Wayne the Mountain Dew account.

                                                           
                                                    Emmett Till                       Lil Wayne

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/business/media/mountain-dew-drops-lil-wayne-over-emmett-till-lyric.html



3.

Children These Days

“Today’s Teens: More Materialistic, Less Willing to Work,” announced San Diego State University in a headline that was surely catnip for baby boomers. The conclusions came from a study comparing the attitudes of three generations of American high school seniors, from 1976 to 2007, based on responses to a survey. “Kids surveyed from 2005 were most materialistic and least willing to work hard: 62 percent said that having lots of money was important, compared with 48 percent of those surveyed between 1976 and 1978,” as New Scientist put it. “However, only 25 percent said they thought hard work was important, compared with 39 percent of those asked in the ‘70s.” Jean M. Twenge, the psychologist who led the study, offered this take: “That type of ‘fantasy gap’ is consistent with other studies showing a generational increase in narcissism and entitlement.”