I know I am breaking a cardinal sin of social networking but our correspondent and vital connection to Heuvelton has announced on Facebook the birth of his and Laura's bambino. As Hans is an adult male, there is no reference to time of birth, weight, height, gender or name of the child.

Some days it's hard to find a story that will please and inform Hans. For all I know, he's on vacation or in a white painted ward somewhere for people with internet addiction but my role here is clear: make sure Hans gets a story a day. But the dog days of summer can be tough in terms of fodder if …

You have to suspect any article that includes quotes like this:  •  “I don't think people will recognize the work force between today and 10 years from now in terms of...the way we work, the people who are engaged in the work force and the work that people are doing.”  •  You can replace work and …

This is just funny. Remember how almost twenty years ago we had to put up with the self-reverential crapfest that was the TV show Thirty Something wherein a bunch of yuppies moaned and groaned about how tough life was now that their youth and the seventies were behind them? It was a smash. Well …

You find so little about Gen X in the news, the mere mention is noteworthy:  •  “A Statistics Canada study released yesterday found that those born between 1972-1976 — the later wave of Generation X — had the highest probability of moving back home after a period away: 32 per cent for men and 28 …

Is this it? Is this the actual moment when the Gen X generation of Steve Harper starts to make good on the years of knowing that some time the boomers are going to have to go?  •  “The key move was one of Harper's first: pulling Kevin Lynch back from Washington where he was an executive director …

Even though this place is named after Generation X, I really do not directly yap that much about demographics (as it is all so deeply implicit) but this piece in the BBC caught my attention with its accusations of bad boomery:  •  “Baby boomers like to trumpet their generation's achievements. But …

When I was a kid there was a phrase kicking around: "generation gap." It generally referred to the folks older than me and the folks much older than me. It would be raised by the WWI era vets in our early 1970s church tisking when looking at long haired college kids wearing tie-dye and jeans, that …

For a guy writing on something with Gen X in the title I hardly ever reference it. I like to leave that to implication. That's it.  •  But I read Ian's bit this morning about parenting and the generations and I thought...that's a theme I can conveniently latch on to with little real effort...and …