A TikTok celebrity hailing from Gen Z complains of being confused with millenials.
“Just because you’re so old you can’t remember the difference, doesn’t mean it’s OK to lump us altogether,” she said.
(Poppy Noor, “So Gen Z-ers hate millennials now? A handy guide to the generation wars,” theguardian.com, 6-22-20)
Wait. Did I say alert the media? These ARE the media!
The least not-OK thing about this forgettable puff of tiktokery in The Guardian is the shit-eating photograph used to illustrate it.
In the same issue, however, the newspaper redeems itself from Poppy’s folly with this photograph illustrating the prettiest word of the day: “noctilucent.”
And with this photograph illustrating the prettiest whimsy of the day: a concert for plants in Barcelona.
(c) 2020 JMN
EthicalDative 
Hello Again to All That
… A land whose… mountainous terrain renders it all but impossible to conquer. American soldiers deployed to the country as recently as last night had trouble articulating what their mission there was, short of making it home in one piece.
(The Editors, “A War Without Winners Winds Down,” NYTimes, 2-29-20)
Stan is a suffix from Persian and Urdu meaning “place of.” This stan is a place of poppy fields, fractious crags, and lofty tribes; a limestone cave-land that has swallowed and excreted its invaders for millennia.
Eighteen years, two trillion dollars, thirty-five-hundred troops — lapsed, spent, dead.
Words fluted on the wind: “We didn’t know what we were doing.”
(Army General Douglas Lute).
(c) 2020 JMN