Billy Glad started an interesting discussion last week about  whether or not the Boomer generation should turn over  their power to those who are younger because "it is their turn."
The initial response by-passed the issue raised in favor of attempting to divine what motivated BG to make such a statement: did he mean it? or was it rabble-rousing?
Only when that issue was settled -- by consensus among those who have been around TPM for a while -- did the discussion shift to the question raised. Strong opinions voiced by both young and old, resulting in  much food for thought.
Whether or not  Nicholas  Kristof read that thread, his column in the Times today addresses the same issue:
Geezers Doing Good
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/opinion/20kristof.html

And, for those who are still busy working to do good works, but who love nothing better than to  wind down at the end of a busy day by indulging an interest in either fine poetry, or in the theory of parallel, if dysfunctional lives that talented men and women often lead, there is also:

Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/arts/design/20dwye.html

Discuss, or, for your own sakes, go out with someone you care about to enjoy a summer day.... or at least read a related sonnet:

"Shall I Compare Thee To A  Summer's Day
 
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou  art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds  of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot  the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And  every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing  course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose  possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in  his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men  can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to  thee."
    --  William Shakespeare (1564-1616)