The Questioning Librarian

In the last few years, there have been a slew of articles all managing, in one way or another, to disparage and malign millennials. From the NPR articles engaging in controlled hand-wringing about how the economy needs millenials to buy the cars and houses that they aren't buying, to articles about how millennials are having kids without marriage as a matter of course (gasp!), or worse,  don't want kids  at all (scandal!) and are leaving the church in droves, all the Very Serious People agree that millennials are all-around terrible human beings who would rather go back to living in their parents' basement after college instead of becoming Highly-Responsible Adults with grown-up jobs. Even other millennials have jumped on the millennial-hate bandwagon, feeling it their place to tell us all to just grow up already! Millennials are deeply entitled, and may not even be " cut out " for today's job market, the Very Serious People decree, after having been cod...

If there was any doubt as to who Congress works for, it should have evaporated after the passage of the so-called "Cromnibus" spending bill last week. Included in the funding bill were provisions so odious to good sense that more representatives in Congress should have stood up in protest. One of these, a provision repealing certain regulations on derivatives trading, is so outrageous an act that every single member of Congress who voted for the bill should be ashamed to return to their home districts for Christmas. To make it even worse, the provision was drafted by Citigroup , one of the rogues whose reckless gambling through derivatives trading helped wreck the economy in 2008. Adding insult to injury, the same bill contained a provision raising the maximum allowable political donation so that a couple can now contribute a maximum of $3.1 million to a political party of their choice, as though our system of government was not already awash in money.  It is fitting th...