Friday, July 11, 2008

Posterity of the 'Silent Generation'

Will the generation now grasping at the rheins of political control be known to posterity as 'that whining generation of nightmare visionaries'?
Or perhaps 'the pathetic generation'?

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/06/speaking_truth_to_power_1.php


I was surprised to find the words 'rhein' and 'rheins' absent from the 'Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary'. Considered too 'cavalier' perhaps?

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