Are you a woman? USA: 'So not our problem'

(The Babylon Bee) Satire, sexism, or sex role stereotyping? Signs you might be a woman

(The Daily Show) "So Not Our Problem" segment

Science: Psychology of GenX Metalheads

(Loudwire) Beavis & Butt-Head's worst takes on music (MTV)

(Frank Talk After 50) The psychology of Gen X metalheads: What science found

• Generation X
• Tipper Gore (Al Gore's prude wife)
• Parents Music Resource Center
• Moral panic

What was the PMRC?

This 'l save our kids from capitalist exploitation

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was a bipartisan U.S. government committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of "increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes."

The committee's work led to the widespread adoption of the Parental Advisory sticker. The PMRC was known for its prejudicial targeting of heavy metal music, which drew opposition and criticism [2].

Beavis & Butt-Head ROAST some metal

(Loudwire) Top 10 MTV's Beavis & Butt-Head metal ROASTS

Tipper and Al Gore get married in 1970

On political and religious grounds, the committee was supported by American Protestant televangelists, Reaganites, and the larger Christian evangelical movement, who accused hard rock and heavy metal music of harboring Satanic and occult related themes.

The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with the government power elite in the Washington, D.C. area.

Those female founders of the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore... More

(RetroVibe) Funny songs every Gen X kid grew up hearing

Who cares what B&B think?

(Rock N' Roll True Stories) White Zombie was flopping...

then two losers on MTV said the band didn't suck

Gen Z mindset is like Medieval China's

Then as now, it's all about looksmaxxing to be tough and look tough! Bang your face!

(Medieval Mindset) Why Gen Z culture is basically Medieval China

Crazy Alex Jones wasn't wrong about gay frogs? - RFK Jr.: "I'm declaring war on fat gay kids"

Ghetto snack foods, alcohol, sugar, caffeine. - Vote MAGA or Dem to be naive and stupid?

• VIDEO: Alex Jones, financially ruined, cries on TV
• Atrazine (gender bending pesticide toxin)?
• Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) - PMC

(PopMojo) Ariana Grande, comedic genius, acts out, SNL impersonations

Generation timeline simple - Gen Z in the United States - Wikipedia

• Gen Z is Generation Z in the United States
• Ariana Grande: more Millennial, Z, or Zillennial?
• Tang Dynasty and the History of China
• Outline of ancient China

Media myth: Gen-Z protests change world

(NTV Kenya)

Gen Z uprising goes worldwide?

Gen Z protests: this is just the beginning

How One Piece Is Shaping A Generation of Protests

(DemocracyNow.org) U.S. and World Headlines, Oct. 9, 2025

5 days in Israel's desert prison: Jewish flotilla activist David Adler on ordeal

(Middle East Eye) Prof. Grande on Israel losing Generation Z

Gen Z rises, turning on Asia’s ‘crazy rich’

(SCMP/South China Morning Post) Corruption all over Asia

(Movieclips) Crazy Rich Asians eat lunch

Crazy Rich Asians | Crazy Rich Asians (novel)

Did Woodstock '69 really happen?

These boots were made for walking? Nancy Sinatra is a phony: fake hair, nose, boobs, cheeks...

Dear Abby, my dumb son's a 'Peter Pan'

I don't give a gosh darn whom you date or marry, but get a job to pay for it. Work, Son, commit.

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I'll marry your son IF you buy us a house, Mom.

DEAR ABBY: I am blessed with two sons who live with me. They are in their mid-20s.

The younger one is an amazing young man. He’s strong, confident but not cocky, and happy. He’s in college, works part-time, and plays in a band, among other things. 

My older son is the opposite. Since he was 16, he’s had countless jobs and is (again) currently unemployed. He has been fired from every single job except one.

• How to lead a good Buddhist life 1: Poisons

Dr. Jordan Peterson: The Peter Pan Syndrome* - Pan prefers kinky Tinkerbell to normal Wendy

You, listen to your Momma, Boy! - *Laughter*

He always has some excuse to blame others for his failings. He thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us, thinks he knows better, etc.

I’ve tried to tell and show him the issue is with HIM, not his previous employers. He refuses to accept responsibility for anything wrong in his life.

I love him, but he is driving me crazy. I want to help him but, honestly, I’m over it. I’ve reached the point where it’s difficult to be civil to him.

The last time he was out of work lasted three months. When I gave him a “drop dead” date to find a job or I was kicking him out of the house, miraculously, he found one in the nick of time.

But won't marriage solve all our problems, Kramer? - Seinfeld and Kramer grow old alone

I'm a Buddist, MOM! - I wish! You're full of it - If you don't get off my back, I'm gonna base jump

We are back at that point again. I hate to do it, but I need him to either straighten up or get out.

No matter what I do, I’m the bad guy — for enabling him or for forcing him out. I would love some advice.

— FED-UP MOM IN FLORIDA

• DEAR THE BOTH OF YA: C'mon, Mom, I have lots on my plate! Pot, porn, pervy dating adventures, my cellphone, chasing chicks, gambling and boozing with my buddies, craft beer sampling, hanging out, smoking the herbage, my retainers, school, um, lots of stuff. And shut the front door, Abby! Who's even writing your column for you?! Get off my back.

(Ego Podcast) Where are you stuck? Answers from the Buddha

You're a lazy bum, dumb!

DEAR MOM: Your son is no longer a child. He needs to learn to stand on his own two feet. Give him another deadline to find a job or be out from under your roof.

While he is employed, tell him you expect him to save enough money for a security deposit on a place to live.

Do not expect him to like it or be grateful to you for having subsidized him as long as you have. The biggest favor you can give him now is a chance to grow up....

• Dear Abby: My deadbeat son keeps getting fired from jobs — should I kick him out?
• This is why Gen Z aren't applying for jobs — shocking

Mom, I have Peter Pan Syndrome. Sorry

• Seinfeld; Dear Abby via New York Post, Feb. 23, 2025; Jack Black, "Jeepers Creepers," "Slackers," "Gay Son/Grass Valley Greg," Mr. Show with Bob and David (HBO); Psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson (analysis); Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Shauna Schwartz, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Vigilante" Luigi Mangione?

The Failure, Fear, and Frenzy around Luigi

(Josh Johnson) Dec. 17, 2024: Just announced, the first half of JJ's 2025 tour. Check out joshjohnsoncomedy.com/tour for dates and to sign up for the waitlist to be notified when performances are in a nearby city.

Hi Friends, This week I wanted to share my thoughts on everything that is going on with Luigi Mangione and UnitedHealthcare assassination. Most people already know the story, but what I think few understand is the wider context of people’s anger at health insurance companies and the lifting up of someone they see as a vigilante.

(Sam Obeid) Stand up comedian reacts to Luigi Terror charge

Under Obamacare more people are insured than ever before. It getting passed meant companies could not deny one based on preexisting conditions or family history. Even with the coverage the actual likelihood of one paying into one's health insurance and actually being insured when we need it is unreasonably low.

Doctors, labs, and hospitals are out of network depending on who you have and whether we have Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Elevance, CVS Health, Kaiser Foundation, Humana, Centene Group, Cigna, or other health care services corporations are not immune to the possibility of having to pay more out of pocket than one can afford and being saddled with bills one has to fight with the insurance provider over.

All of us have to figure out a way forward. Some believe that it will be through legislation that curbed insurance companies' ability to deny and delay claims until the problem, or the person, goes away. Luigi Mangione has been hailed or condemned on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook by what feels like everyone in the United States.

If viewers love these stories, Josh Johnson has a podcast that comes out every week: bit.ly/3NQmpio Hit me on them internets: Instagram - joshjohnsoncomedy TikTok - joshjohnsoncomedy Facebook - joshjcomedy. Video recorded at Soundstage in Baltimore, MD.

• Bill Burr; Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com); Josh Johnson; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

A life of white privilege is nice (NYU)

How to be an Antiracist (Kendi)

The thing about white privilege, like implicit bias, is that we don't know we have it. We would notice if we lost it through sudden poverty or loss of looks. We enjoy it, fail to check it, and offend a lot of people who are not similarly privileged in a deeply racist society. It's deep because it's not always on the surface, like when someone says we had a Black president. That proves we're not racist as a country? Let's ignore who has been president every other time (except for the first nine, who were also Black, and maybe Lincoln, but those nine do not count because technically we were not yet a country due to the Articles of Confederation not yet being ratified or something; we've covered this). We don't see our own privilege, yet seeing someone else's can be painfully obvious when we have been sensitized to what others have been talking about. It's good to be in the know rather than oblivious. Generational wealth, health, better treatment by police and clerks, courts and officials, being given the benefit of the doubt constantly... Watching Matt Walsh's recent "Am I Racist?" movie did more to make us think whites really are oblivious to the advantage(s) they enjoy and take for granted or who others are systematically mistreated and disadvantaged. White guilt is not the solution, but neither is white fragility. We have to awaken and work toward equality and equity or something approaching fairness and inclusion, not just those in power deciding what's "fair" enough.

We stand for justice...for lions.

The local Shambhala Buddhist Center in Los Angeles used to have an occasional white sensitivity class to discuss our privilege and issues that never get talked about but affect us all. Remember on "Seinfeld" how when race would come up, everyone would go silent and awkward? It's really like that. Was it because Kramer was in the room (on the set) and he might ad lib something? It would have been great to have a national conversation. Walsh's film didn't advance anything, only shining negative light on a new industry of DEI profiteers, as if it were all only them. Oh, before they came along everything was all right, right, Matt?

the mosaic of me (the video that got me rejected from NYU)

(NatalieAlbaugh) Sept. 24, 2024: I needed to make a video about myself to submit for my NYU college application back in 2023. This is that video, and although I may have not gotten into NYU, I'm so grateful to have this video to represent the first few chapters of my life. :)* Please watch until the end!

• Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation)

Summertime and the livin's uneasy (video)

If anyone grew up in the 70s, they remember...

Cops came, but we got off. Why? White privilege

(The History Lounge) USA. Join Kevin for a nostalgic look back at what summer was really like for kids of the 1970s. (Or skip to the death metal version). In the glorious days before cell phones and social media, North American kids experienced a level of freedom and independence that today's kids would just not understand.

Memories are modified every time we remember

Generation X children were the original latch-key kids. Our adventures began after a big bowl of sugary cereal (full of toxic acrylamides and synthetic flavors, colors, and preservative) in the morning and came to an end when the streetlights came on.

This video has us saddle up on a banana seat of the old Schwinn Sting-Ray for a visit back to the playground, community pool, and roller rink, ending the day with some night games in the neighborhood.

Double Take "Hot Problems" (official)

 

This isn't the blond way. We watch Gaia and think

The world was winding down in preparation of an apocalypse (unveiling), the end of the Mayan Calendar, when a song arose that Timothy of The Tim Conway Show really fell for. We were all suffering through Rebecca Black's unexpected hit, but this was different -- no autotune, sassy, tongue in cheek, and if one were to squint and turn askew, cocking the head just so, Double Take was almost hot.

One summer Lana Del Rey covered Sublime's hit song "Doin Time" for her

second summer classic and all the top selling copycats who now do Lana

LYRICS: "Hot Problems"

(Official single by Double Take "Hot Problems" on iTunes)

I'm so hot you'll have to deal with it!

Look at me and tell me the truth/ What do you do/ When people don't know/ What we go through?// They see my blonde hair/ Blue eyes and class/ But they don't know/ I have a really big heart// Please don't get me wrong/ I know that I'm hot/ Textbook perfection really takes a lot/ Weird guys call my phones// And girls call me names/ Like Miley said, "I can't be tamed"// Hot girls we have problems too/ We're just like you, except we're hot/ The world needs to open their eyes/ And realize/ We're not perfect/ And sometimes we lie// I've got the look/ I've got the butt/ But those things don't make me a slut// Boys call me stuck up/ Girls say I'm conceited/ On behalf of all hot girls those comments are not needed// Just cause I'm pretty/ I have to be dumb/ I don't care about which/ I just wanna have fun// People start rumors/ And say things about me/ Funny thing is I didn't go to the party// Hot girls we have problems too/ We're just like you, except we're hot (hot hot hot hot)/ The world needs to open their eyes/ And realize/ We're not perfect/ And sometimes we...// Hot girls we have problems too/ We're just like you, except we're HOT/ The world needs to open their eyes/ And realize/ We're not perfect/ And sometimes we lie/ Why oh why/ Can't you see/ You are all/ Just like me// We make mistakes/ And get in trouble/ Now you know our hot girls trouble// Hot girls we have problems too/ We're just like you, except we're hot/ The world needs to open their eyes/ And realize/ We're not perfect/ And sometimes we lie// Hot girls we have problems, too/ We're just like you, except we're hot/ The world needs to open their eyes/ And realize/ We're not perfect/ And sometimes we lie// Just kidding/ We're perfect.

• 15 amazing things to do in Mexico's chillest surf town

The song's not ha ha funny, but something's funny about it. It's cheeky, ballsy, not good enough for the radio (except Tim's show on KFI AM at iheart.com), but it is amazing some better singers haven't done a serious version and gotten famous for it by now. Imagine Ke$ha and Lindsay Lohan, or maybe Nelly Furtado and Christina Aguilera. If autotune could fix Britney's vocals and producers could extract something useful out of Cher or FrankenMadonna, someone should have been able to mold these two rugrat frat brats and made them a pair a sorority would accept. It's summer, and the temps are high, so we're hot.

What must our parents have been

up to as summertime teens?

Feel free to share your 1970s memories in the comments so we can all be reminded of those great times when we were kids. (NOTE: As of Sunday, June 16th, early am, comments are occasionally shutting off automatically. YouTube has been contacted for assistance and hope to get this issue fixed ASAP).  Thanks, Kevin #1970s #1980s #genx

• Kevin, The History Lounge on YouTube, June 15, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Leap in solar energy technology achieved

Jeremiah Budin, MSN News Technology, 2/25/24; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

If this is really what the solar system contained, we'd have a photo of everything in one frame

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, have succeeded in creating a system that can capture and store solar energy for up to 18 years and can produce electricity when connected to a thermoelectric generator. The implications of this breakthrough are major: with it, solar energy can be stored and sent anywhere in the world then converted into electricity on demand. More:

• Researchers achieve breakthrough in solar technology: a radically NEW way of generating electricity from solar energy and storing it for many years
• VIDEO: Time-lapse from space of huge tornado on surface of the sun captured
• Total solar eclipse coming in April 8, 2024
• James Webb Space Telescope finds neutron star mergers forge gold in the cosmos: 'It was thrilling'
• Scientists are designing a supercollider so powerful it could push the boundaries of modern physics

Dating the NEW way: Versus 1 (IRL)

Ashley Wells, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

50 strangers swipe on each other | vs 1 (IRL: in real life)

(nectar) Feb. 10, 2024: Just in time for Valentine's Day 2024, which happens to fall on a major religious holiday of abstinence, self-control, and sensual sacrifice, it's time to find a date before the big V-Day event to get lucky by finding a lifelong mate with whom to buy a house, have healthy children, and divide all of our possessions in divorce court with. Is cupidity stupidity, or are we just having fun until someone gets into his/her feelings? Dumped. Next!

• When there's "nothing higher to live for," a Buddhist view of romance

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On Friendship, Feelings, FanGirls, Fitting In

Kate Kennedy, (312) 379-9676 (amazon.com, Jan. 23, 2024); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen Bradford, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

One in a Millennial (Kennrdy)

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In came out in January of 2024, written by Kate Kennedy. It has 4.5 out of 5 stars with only 38 ratings. But it's an Editors' Pick Best Biographies & Memoirs.

From yet another pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, it's a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist.

One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, and the life lessons learned (for better or worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation.

Kennedy is a commentator and host of the popular podcast Be There in Five, which focuses on millennial issues.

Part-funny, part-serious, Kennedy navigates the complicated nature of celebrating and criticizing the culture that shaped her as a young woman, while arguing that great depths can come from surface-level interests. [In other words, being shallow isn't all bad.]

With trademark style and vulnerability, One In a Millennial is sharp, hilarious, and heartwarming all at once.

She tackles AOL Instant Messenger, purity culture, American Girl Dolls, going out tops, Spice Girl feminism, her feelings about millennial motherhood, and more.

Kennedy’s laugh-out-loud asides and keen observations will have browsers and readers nodding heads and maybe even tearing up [the text]. More

• WQ Review: It's better than it sounds.

The Buddha on friendship

I'll be your friend. - Really? - No, I'm busy.

Not that a Kennedy isn't a great source of information on friendship, it's just that the ancient historical Buddha had a few things to say on that subject.

Noble friendship

The most famous thing he said about metta (Sanskrit maitri, "friendliness" or "loving kindness") was said in regard to noble friendship, or thinking kind and friendly thoughts toward noble ones. Who are the noble ones? They are those on the stages of enlightenment (bodhi, awakening).

They are guides and resources for us on the Path to the ultimate end of suffering that is called nirvana, complete liberation from all kinds of rebirth and suffering.

One day his famous and beloved attendant, Ananda, had an idea from things he had observed in the Monastic Community (Sangha). He saw how some enlightened persons were very friendly to others, and those others in turn advanced very quickly to the goal of liberation.

So, thinking he had a clever observation to make, he approached the Buddha and respectfully said: "It seems to me that noble friendship is half the spiritual life!"

The Buddha condemned this, saying: "Do not say so, Ananda, do not say so. Noble friendship is 100 percent of the spiritual life." Far from actually condemning what great Ananda had said, the Buddha asked him to intensify it, to proclaim just how valuable noble friendship is.

He goes on to explain WHY it's so valuable and important on the road to enlightenment. Because of friendliness, respect, and wise association, we approach enlightened people. And on account of approaching we give ear and hear the Dharma (the Buddha's Teaching of the Path to enlightenment).

We bear it in mind, practice it, see it modelled for us. And of all our noble friends in the world, the Buddha is the greatest noble friend (kalyana mitta). Why?

It is because he set rolling the Teaching, made known the Path, articulated the Dharma for everyone since then to practice and reach the goal. In that sense, he our best friend even if he is not here to thank. However, he did say there was a way to thank him, to honor him in the highest way. Worship? Sacrfice? Donations? No, no, and no.

He said he is paid the highest honor when someone puts into PRACTICE this Teaching he strived for so many years (45) and so many lifetimes (countless) to uncover and bring forth into the world again as "supremely-enlightened" or samma-sam-buddhas do.

What about normal friendship?

Did the Buddha have anything to say about regular things (you know, ordinary friendship, feelings, fangirls, and fitting in)? Yes!

In one long sutra (DN 31), a discourse called the "Advice to Householders" (Sigalovada Sutta), the Buddha talks about two kinds of "friends," the good friend and the bad friend.

• He talks about making money, getting rich, having a family, a good marriage, a well-organized house, fun, entertainment, and all sorts of things few would guess he knew anything about.

We all love the "bad friend," who is willing to do all sorts of bad things with us -- gambling, getting drunk/high, whoring around, going out to concerts and endless entertainments, and all sorts of legal troubles. How do we recognize people like this? There's a hidden danger to such people -- all they borrow and take, the crud they talk about us behind our backs, the trouble they get us in, the way the encourage our worst traits.

He talks about the "good friend," who protect us, help us, speak well of us, introduce us to and encourage good and useful things, accompany us in good stuff...the sort of people we usually take for granted, quiet and humble, having our backs when we need help or to borrow something. They're not like those two-faced jerks abusing the term "friend."

• In fact, some people might say the Buddha had more to teach ordinary worldly people (householders who just want money, love, a house, a relationship, kids, and all that weight) than he did the people with spiritual aspirations.

It's as if people think spiritual types (holy rollers) should just all ordain and become monastics, hermits, wandering ascetics, and spiritual nomads.

They can. But no one needs to do that. Every and anyone can practice right where one is. Just determine a goal: a better human rebirth, rebirth in one of the many heavens, the end of all rebirths, full enlightenment here and now in this very life... the first stage of enlightenment ("stream entry") with at most only seven (7) more lives to go....

Once that goal is determined, the rest is easy. There's a teaching for that in the Buddha's Dharma. What a friend the Buddha was to all living beings.