Quipped my next-door neighbor when I pointed out that his eight-year-son shooting BBs at the deer that browsed through our yards was against the law, “Well, we never cared much about the law now, did we?”

By “we,” he meant boomers, the rat-in-the-snake configuration of those born between 1946 and 1964. He had a point.

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