April 15th, 2008
Letter From Foster’s Home For Incurable Throwbacks…
From Atrios… The hard part about discovering that you are over the hill is realizing that it happened quite some time ago.
I spoke in an undergraduate class today. As a friend of mine has said a few times about her students, pretty soon you’re going to have to explain to them what the Lewinsky scandal was. This isn’t a comment on the quality of the students, just that the degree to which 19 year olds have shared cultural and historic experience with me is shrinking fast. Bush v. Gore happened when they were 11. What’s recent history to me is a vague recollection for them.
I suppose I need to stop comparing Bush and Reagan, let alone Nixon…
April 15th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Why not? Thatcher happened 6 days before I was born, yet I still compare her to Blair & Brown fairly regularly.
I do have difficulty contrasting them though…
April 16th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I guess Thatcher must have left her mark over there. I just remember her and Reagan as being best buddies. Oh…and her government’s passing of Section 28. From what I understand now, conservatives over there have evolved a good deal more on the issue then conservatives over here have. Ours are pretty much digging in their heels because they’ve wedged themselves into a state where they cannot win elections without the bigot vote.