This was the title of an MSNBC article this evening. The implication, in part, was that boomers will need accomodotions. The other implication is obvious. The former is what I am here to rant about. As I have posted before, I am in a grad program as my post career adventure. With a modicum of common sense and motivation, I feel that I am more adaptive, work savy and physically fit than the average twenty- something that I encounter in my progarm which includes taking courses and some teaching. This ageism BS, that boomers are a looming burden, really galls me. There is a resenstment against boomers that is sometimes insidious and sometimes obvious. When it comes to hypocrytical politics, I undestand. But when it relates to capabilitiies, I take issue. Many of my younger counterparts chain smoke and groan at having to put in what would amount to an "old fashioned" (I love saying that ) days work. I am still paying huge taxes, lobbying for social change and hoping that the young'uns don't get caught up in a 21st Century selective service draft situation. But, sometimes, I feel like I am getting kicked in the teeth just because my birth decade begins with a 4.