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“We’re here. We’re old. Get the f**k used to it.” [Edited for those of you who find the English language offensive.]
Mark Cuban, the dude who sold broadcast.com for $500 million before the internet bubble burst, recently vented about the media constantly writing articles about how anyone over the age of 30 seems incapable of adapting [...]

It sounds good, doesn’t: the medical costs for seniors is increasing at a slower rate than for those poor suckers who are under 65. Gee, why is that? Our guess: The Bush administration has allowed the health care and insurance industry to shift the cost burden onto working stiffs who have no clue of how [...]

A collector is born the day she discovers that owning two or three or four of the same-but-different thing allows them to appreciate how the human mind likes to endlessly reinvent common shapes and forms in order to put food on the table. A collector is really a historian in disguise. What’s crucial for this [...]

Can’t sleep at night? Worried about the banker down the street who sold you a high-priced mortgage buried in hidden details? Did you take a out a second mortgage to live the good life only to discover you actually could lose your home entirely? Well, researchers have learned that “sleep does not change much from [...]

It’s been a while since we scoped out singles ads on Craigslist. Here’s the most recent offering of over fifty women seeking men in the Los Angeles area. Hey guys, feel free to jump on a plane if something excites you like the poetry in ad #1:
I’ll sleep under your bed
and watch TV in the [...]

Once upon a time staying in touch with your friends meant getting off your butt and walking down the sidewalk to your next door neighbor’s for a cup of coffee. Now, everyone drinks their coffee at Starbucks and lives a million miles away from most of their family so the idea of staying in touch [...]

Here’s the deal: when Baby Boomers started working for U.S. corporations, there was an agreement to fund retirement and health care benefits. As the years passed, the obligation to pay out these benefits continued to accrue. There was no doubt that one day these benefits would be paid out. There was no doubt about the [...]

There’s nothing like coming across an article that offers up a point of view that otherwise never would have considered. Maureen Kahlert from Australia questioned whether Baby Boomers are likely to have an impact on public library systems. She reached some provocative conclusions, including:

Currently libraries offer a range of services for both active and [...]

Get ready to bend over and take it like a desperate polar bear floating on an iceberg from the heating oil companies this winter. Like clock work, analysts are predicting the cost of heating oil will rise as if there were no Congress to regulate the companies selling us the stuff. The markets, these days, [...]

Did you require a night light as a kid? Did the dark frighten you so bad that falling asleep seemed more like an episode of the Twilight Zone instead of a Disney nursery rhyme? Since fear is hard-wired into our emotional system (don’t get all academic on me), it’s no surprise that our experience of [...]

Good news for Ohio senior citizens! The Ohio Department of Taxation now allows seniors to apply for a property tax reduction under the Homestead Exemption. The exemption “will allow all eligible homeowners, regardless of income, to shield $25,000 of the market value of their home from property taxes. To be eligible, a property owner must [...]

This old-new story blows me away. The executive director of the New Hampshire Republican party thought it was a good idea to jam phones so seniors and others being offered a ride to the voting polls were unable to request a ride. WTF!!! This is how a democracy works? A partisan official decides to implement [...]

There’s been a lot of talk lately about how Baby Boomers are migrating to big cities for retirement. The idea is simple: buy a condo, walk everywhere, and live in close proximity to culture. HelpAge India conducted a survey to find out just how welcoming Delhi India was to seniors. The results: not good. “The [...]