Numbers - The PiPress' Laura

Numbers - The PiPress' Laura Billings writes this editorial about how her generation - the so-called "Generation X" - missed its chance to put its imprint on commercial society.

Comme ci, comme ca, - if nothing else, it proves that over-weening self-obsession with one's own generation wasn't limited to Baby Boomers - but the part that got me was:

As a result, Chrysler is targeting its products toward the 82 million Americans between the ages of 38 and 57...

The Baby Boom starts at 40, hon. Or, to be demographically correct, it includes people whose parents were of child-bearing age at the end of WWII. As my dad and mom were 9 and 5 in 1945, respectively, I'm sorry (and by "sorry" I mean "overjoyed") to say that, at 39, I'm no @#$@#%^#$^ baby boomer.

I can take a lot of guff, but I have my limits.