You have got to have some sympathy for the younger generation these days. The economy is in the tank, the media regularly blasts out stories that assert that the environment is going haywire, governors are making embarrassing speeches about affairs with women half their age, and every week a new Ponzi scheme is being uncovered.
We had it pretty good in the 60's and 70's. All you needed was love. America was a country where anything was possible, whether it was going to the moon or becoming the next millionaire.
So where can you look today for some bit of optimism?
Enter Levi Strauss & Company with a new ad campaign that plays on the aspirations of the young. Their Go Forth campaign is a sad attempt to revive the spirit and optimism of the younger generation. The campaign's web site is littered with photos of young, attractive, and often half-naked people with silly sayings scrolled across their photographs, such as "All I need is all I got." That will get me up in the morning - not! Perhaps it will work on the victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. With their life savings gone, they can attempt to console themselves that everything is really okay.
Or view some of the homemade videos uploaded by people declaring their "new declaration of independence" here. One young women asserts, while toying with her hair, "My new declaration of independence is that (pause and small smile) . . . everything is sacred." Behind her you can see the big letters "Waffle House" on the side of a building, which compliments her message perfectly.
I think America can do better than that.
Everybody wants one, but few are those who actually have one. The Estadounidense media would have you believing that every second Mexican has, or is in the market for, an assault weapon. You know, the garden variety AK-47s that are flooding the borders southward, a dozen or more in exchange for every northbound illegal immigrant, one of those balance of trade deals. And then there are those foreigners who seem to think that it’s illegal to possess a gun in Mexico. Dead wrong, of course, they are.
You thought Frank Constanza was joking about the manssiere. He wasn’t. Leave it to Nebraska native Julie Carmann, better known as 





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