Clear skies this way-too-early Tuesday on California’s north coast and we’re forecast for another ‘hot’ day (65 degrees) in a slightly modified heat wave.
Weather is wherever you are.

I’m a ‘baby boomer’ — those people born between 1946 and 1964 in that frantic post-WWII sexing frenzy, and they’re making the news this morning. One famous boomer, actor Michael Douglas, 69, has said he obtained his recent throat cancer from oral sex — he was eating too much…ah…let’s see, too much ‘pizza,’ easier word, same number of letters, and I’m afraid if I use the other/correct word, my boomed-out, dried-up brain would end up in a riot.

(Illustration found here).

Douglas dropped the eating ‘P’ bomb in an interview this past weekend with the UK’s Guardian in which he put aside all the drinking and cigarette-smoking in his early years as the cancer cause:

“No,” he says.
“No. Because, without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus.”
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“From cunnilingus. I mean, I did worry if the stress caused by my son’s incarceration didn’t help trigger it.
But yeah, it’s a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer.”
He shrugs.
“And if you have it, cunnilingus is also the best cure for it.”
Right, I say. OK. So what he is suggesting is that it all evens out?
“That’s right,” says Douglas.
“It giveth and it taketh.”

Douglas tried to walk back the above, via his spokesman Allen Burry: “In a discussion with the newspaper,” the Associated Press quotes Burry as saying, “they talked about the causes of oral cancer, one of which was oral sex, which is noted and has been known for a while now.”
The Guardian, however, says it stands by the story.

Baby boomers always appear to shock — we’ve been doing this shit for 40 years. The term “baby boomer” didn’t supposedly first appear until 1970, but the moniker seemed to fit.
According to Wikipedia:

One feature of Boomers was that they tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had come before.
In the 1960s, as the relatively large numbers of young people became teenagers and young adults, they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the change they were bringing about.
This rhetoric had an important impact in the self perceptions of the boomers, as well as their tendency to define the world in terms of generations, which was a relatively new phenomenon.
The baby boom has been described variously as a “shockwave” and as “the pig in the python.”

A shockwave no doubt. And old age for boomers is also a shock.

One of the most-pure of tragedies is suicide. The news this morning of Indian actress Jiah Khan hanging herself in her home is just another ‘celebraty’ example of suicide — she was only 25.

And now it seem baby boomers are lost in the aging process and are killing ourselves at an alarming rate.
From the Washington Post this morning:

It has long held true that elderly people have higher suicide rates than the overall population.
But numbers released in May by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a dramatic spike in suicides among middle-aged people, with the highest increases among men in their 50s, whose rate went up by nearly 50 percent to 30 per 100,000; and women in their early 60s, whose rate rose by nearly 60 percent (though it is still relatively low compared with men, at 7 in 100,000).
The highest rates were among white and Native American and Alaskan men.
In recent years, deaths by suicide has surpassed deaths by motor vehicle crashes.
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There are no large-scale studies yet fleshing out the reasons behind the increase in boomer suicides.
Part of it is likely tied to the recent economic downturn — financial recessions are in general associated with an uptick in suicides.
But the trend started a decade before the 2008 recession, and psychologists and academics say it likely stems from a complex matrix of issues particular to a generation that vowed not to trust anyone older than 30 and who rocked out to lyrics such as, “I hope I die before I get old.”
“We’ve been a pretty youth-oriented generation,” said Bob Knight, professor of gerontology and psychology at the University of Southern California, who is also a baby boomer.
“We haven’t idealized growing up and getting mature in the same way that other cohorts have.”
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Instead, compared with their parents’ generation, boomers have higher rates of obesity, prescription and illicit drug abuse, alcoholism, divorce, depression and mental disorders.
As they age, many add to that list chronic illness, disabilities and the strains of caring for their parents and for adult children who still depend on them financially.

A lot of us boomers realized too late the great American Dream was all bullshit. And eating ‘P’ is part-n-parcel for a generation that spawned ‘free love’ and ‘if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with’ mentality.
Or, maybe, we were all ‘daydream believers’ where reality crashed the party.