I suppose it is too many of us all at once (I didn’t really know Dyre and Moran were baby boomers).  If we didn’t post our pictures or reveal our age, would anybody know?  Isn’t there something unconditioned about an online mind?  The whole point of being out here is not being weighed down by one’s particulars.  When you read Reynolds, does his age have any affect on your laughter?

FWIW, my single largest cohort of kindred souls online has been guys under 30.  It just happened.  We just got along.  It’s been a kind of surprise consolation for the son I don’t have.

. . . Michael van der G, are those supposed to be chicken wings?  They look horribly like deep-fried human embryos.

Still- no one has explained the sudden AGING of PoliGazette??  It’s most troubling…. especially for an aging Boomer like me who comes here to see what young people think!  Reynolds may be young at heart- but he’s challenging McCain in the geezerhood department.

It is troubling I agree. What can I say? Claudia is 27 though. So she’s keeping it young!

As for ‘wunderkind’, I looked it up before posting.  Figured I was dancing on your turf with that one! 

Still- no one has explained the sudden AGING of PoliGazette??  It’s most troubling…. especially for an aging Boomer like me who comes here to see what young people think!  Reynolds may be young at heart- but he’s challenging McCain in the geezerhood department.  (Don’t tell him I said that.)

But the English language is almost as accepting of immigrants at the United States.  (Comes of starting life as a merger of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French, I suspect.)  Which means that words like "wunderkind" have wandered in and been embraced.  Along with a lot of others - from most of the languages on the planet.

And: wonderkid, or wunderkid, not wunderkind.

Yes, my judgment isn’t that good, but I’m willing to cut them some slack / give them a 3rd / 4th / 5th chance

When I first saw this post’s caption, I thought "van der Guillen’s stealing from Reynolds".  Then I saw that Reynolds had been invited onboard- which caused an immediate reassessment of MvdG’s judgment.

Reynolds, Moran, Amba, Dyre.  Holy crap.  It’s the Takeover of the Boomers.  I thought the 24 year old Wunderkind was doing just fine.  :)  

I’d wonder about the Money! wing of the party though. Some are certainly fiscal conservatives, but there are others, especially the ones who are poor and laid off, for whom making Wall St. healthy doesn’t appeal as much. Huckasaints populist message might resonate with them, even if they aren’t as much into the "Constitution to Gods standard" part.

Romney strikes me a bit like the Republican’s Clinton, he says the right thing, but you can’t bring yourself to trust a single word that comes out of his mouth. McCain at least seems to believe what he’s saying (so does Huckabee, unfortunately, the things he says are terrifying). He also has bonafide national security credentials, real ones,  not "I put on an orange vest and shoot a hamster" Disney credentials.

The Jesus! wing might abandon entirely if anyone BUT Huckabee gets the nod. Huckabee is not getting the nod (unless the GOP is now suicidal) so you have to look to a candidate that will be able to pull a considerable number of Independents. McCain strikes me as more able to do this than Romney.