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The Shallowest Generation

"Past U.S. generations invented the airplane; invented the automobile; discovered penicillin; and built the Interstate highway system. The Baby Boom generation has invented credit default swaps; mortgage backed securities; the fast food drive thru window; discovered the cure for erectile dysfunction; and built bridges to nowhere. No wonder we’re in so much trouble."

You left out personal computers, the Internet, and enough medical advances (beyond penicillin) to raise the average healthy lifespan a good 15+ years. The article dumps symptoms of every stripe onto a chimerical disease--sorry, "laggardship" falls short of a compelling diagnosis--with a therapy as jejune as the underlying motives you ascribe to the culprits who brought said malady upon us.

The argument and its prose are the utter stuff of glibness.

Looking for a Cause for Thursday's Sell-off? Blame Greenspan

Talk about lip-flapping diatribes--this is about as loose a cannon as it gets.