Moving On from MoveOn.Org

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Dear MoveOn.org, 

    Thank you for flooding my inbox with fake emails from some of Hollywood's biggest stars and D.C.'s biggest politicians. It's been a pleasure having you ask me for money two or three times a day for what has felt like years. I'm guess I should say sorry as I wasn't able to donate a single penny to you. No, in all that time you told me you needed my money to pay for the most pressing social issues in the country, I haven't been able to find a  job. I think you talked about unemployment once or twice? Hey, seeing as how you've got 7 million people that you're also spamming on two or three times a day, can you ask if they'll pay my overdue parking tickets? I could really use a kickstarter to pay off some of these doctor bills. And that credit card debt! Shit... I wish I could move on from that.

 But alas, MoveOn.org, it is you from whom I must move on from. (I'll bet you didn't see that one coming! lol jk jk) Anyway, if you could send me a few grand as a consolation, that would be much appreciated. 

So long,

Todd

5 Reasons Why People Hate Millenials

1) We write like we're gurus, experts, or know-it-all's - Truth be told, every blog out there, from the high-ranking to the low ranking - has a stench of "I know better than you" reeking from here to high heaven. I don't think millenials are alone in this. Linked In seemingly pays assbitches like Ariana Huffington to expound on her experiences... which will probably not be anything like yours... unless you marry a rich closet case and rip off writers...

Check out Penelope Trunk... Who's probably closer to Gen X/ Baby Boomer status. Her whole site is devoted to how awesome she is and how she knows best.

2) We call ourselves Gurus

Having a blog doesn't make you a guru. It makes you somebody with a blog.

3) We say inapporpriate things on Twitter and Facebook

When's the last time you tweeted something about your dinner? How about a curse word? How about your opinion of your parents? Or your boss?

They all hate you, by the way.

4) We don't finish what we start.

But who does?

If I Hear One More Baby Boomer Call Me Entitled...

To those of you in your forties, fifties, and anything older than that, I ask you once, politely, please consider what it means when you call an entire generation "entitled."

It's completely ironic to hear an older generation, a generation which invariably raised the next generations (that's kind of how it works), call millenials lazy, entitled brats. The fact is that the baby-boomers, many of whom were our parents, mentors, teachers, and existed elsewhere within the peripheries of our lives.

It was they who suggested we work hard in school. It was them who decided for us that we would attend a four-year school.

It was within the framework of these demands that we had to figure things out... However, what we figured out was that complete lack of forethought that was put into the demands placed on us. I can vividly remember thinking about the logistics of moving out on one's own. What was it like to pay all of your own bills? How much did it cost to live?

This is a picture of me just not getting it.

Growing up in the white-bread world of the San Fernando Valley, I couldn't shake the feeling that they were hiding something from us kids. Watching two adults fight over who pays the bill for dinner always confounded my childhood self. It's not to say that I haven't, in my own brief adulthood felt the urge to pay, but my question is: what is a kid supposd to think:

Obviously if I can't pay, someone will pay for me. Or, there's definitely enough to go around.

My, oh my, how the truth shocked me.

After the painful realization, sometime during college, that things didn't have to work themselves out. That my attention was required, I realized, too, that there was no beaten path. That the beaten path that existed was being crowded by the ever-increasing pool of applicants.

Still, during the mid 2000's, banks were encouraging debt like it was their job. You can pay it off slowly. Oh crap, the entire country is paying off their debt way too slowly turned to, they're not paying it off at all.

At some point, I realized there wasn't much difference between the older generations and the younger ones. Not anymore. Everyone seemed volatile... What seemed to buffer oneself was their contacts. I started seeing less qualified people form an army against the millenials. My sister who didn't go to college had a great job. Contacts. It's all about knowing people, and knowing how to know people.

It was the M.O. of the baby-boomer to hide these statistics. The stench of pride in themselves, of inherited pride, to varying degrees, makes me sick. The same generation who propagated the value of truth, and who told nothing of the sort.

It's up to our generation, Millenials, to not repeat the mistakes of the past. To those who millenials bold enough to be having children: Tell them the truth. A culture of lies, leads to a clueless culture. To those baby boomers, and Gen X'ers who have teenagers, tell them the truth about life. Tell them to start thinking about what they want to do. Tell them to pay attention to what they do. Make sure they take care of their health, and make sure they take care of their teeth (the dentist is a bitch and a half... tell them that!)

And if one more Baby Boomer calls me entitled, I'm going to ask them to clarify... definitely not the strong suit of the baby boomers... you know, that whole articulation thing.

The Word 'Evolved' Is Bull-Shit

Obama did it. Hillary did it, too. Rob Portman did it. Hell, practically every political figure in history has done it.

I'm talking about evolving.

Squirtle evolves into Wartotle.

Matt Salmon, a republican congressman from Arizona, says that is gay son has not "evolved" him to being in support for gay marriage.

“It doesn’t mean I don’t have respect, it doesn’t mean that I don’t sympathize with some of the issues. It just means I haven’t evolved to that station,” he said. “Rob Portman apparently has.”

What I don't get here is the usage of the word 'evolved'. Evolved implies that you've grown, become wiser, older... the word evolve, in other words, doesn't simply mean to change, but to grow, and move forward.

At least if you haven't yet evolved somewhere, the thought is that one day you will.

Let's just drop the word evolve in political discussions, especially around gay marriage. It's nothing but a silly cliche. Let's call it like we see it guys. No more evolving, politicians.

Is transparency in political office an absolute impossibility. Even Obama had to evolve backwards to say he didn't support same-sex marriage to win the 2008 election.

If Obama did it so successfully (Hillary also did it that year, though I'm not sure she's on the record saying she supported same-sex marriage as explicitly as Obama), then does that justify every Republican saying it?

Is this the fine line between acceptable truth and acceptable lies? Gay marriage? Really? People are so quick to throw minorities under the bus.