Ugh. The optics of this are just terrible, however much Hillary's campaign may assert that this was in fact a voluntary pledge.
Most likely, this was just an attempt at harvesting the attendees' details, to add to a database of potential supporters*, and someone thought it would be cute to reference the GOP's recent loyalty-pledge in the process. That's not the way it will be reported however. A stupid unforced error.
Can it really be fifteen years since Kirsty MacColl was killed/murdered ? I couldn't believe the numbers when I looked, but it seems to be so. So many societies drift along without justice ever done. Presumably it was an accident, of some sort, but with the plutocratic default of our system, one can't but suspect the worse. I had originally assumed a blameless but horrific accident, from the event, and the more I read, the less I want to know.
Still, I somewhat envy Kirsty and those of a similar generation, for having an optimism and a hope that has never seemed rational in my generation (whatever keeps the millennials going I'll never know). How much of that is the one or the other, or something else entirely I could hardly say, though not having known her of course myself, Kirsty always seemed to me one of the blazing bright lights of humanity, and a credit to her generation. I want to believe in the Kirsty's of this world. They inspire, they encourage, they give hope. They take on the world, take on racism and misogyny and their ilk, and tell whoever gets in their way to go fuck themselves. And then, some rich privileged asshole comes along and runs them over in a speedboat...and gets away with it.
One thing I could say is, that although she grew older, Kirsty never got old...never dull...never lost her edge...never lost her passion. And she went out in her prime...as a confident mature woman, and as an unshakeable talent. Hers is one fire that'll never fade.
Millennials, or individuals born between 1981 and 1997, are set to become the most populous generation in the U.S. this year, eclipsing the baby boomer generation, according to newly-released data from the U.S. Census Bureau cited in a Pew Research Center report.
Baby boomers, or those born from 1946 to 1964, will drop into second place and then third place by 2028, when Generation X (those born between 1965 to 1980) will beat out baby boomers.
The 74.9 million people born as a result of a post-World War II population boom — hence the name baby boomers — are seeing their numbers decline through increasing mortality rates, while millennials are seeing an upsurge in their population from immigration, the Pew findings show.
