Tampa
The kids are alright. That’s what everyone always says. Or in any case, it’s what old fogeys, who don’t want the kids to realize how fogeyish they are, always say. Don’t worry about the kids! They dress funny and listen to that rock-and-roll music, but deep down they’re just as smart and serious as kids have always been, from before all ages.

When Pete Townsend entered the phrase in the lexicon in 1965 he was talking about, and to, the Baby Boomers. And as it has turned out, this view was somewhat Pollyanna-ish. The kids of the Baby Boom generation have grown up to wreck the entitlement system, the institution of marriage, the popular culture, America, and a goodly part of western civilization. So far.