Tomarken.com is a valuable forum for diverse opinions to be aired. There is no limit to the topics contributors feel that they want to post. I was struck by the contrast in tone of the last two articles that our moderator thought worthy of our attention.

08.23.02. Many want look back at the late 60s with a twinkle in their eye as they ask of today’s Baby Boomer generation:What happened?. With scandals, greed, intolerance, mass death, destruction and a war nobody quite understands not yet irradiated from the planet, have the boomers lost their way since they took charge? Maybe not…Birds of Passage-a study into the Class of 1970 at Washington University in St. Louis-submitted by Daniel P. Beckmann

As I stand less than three weeks away from receiving my very own Masters in the Science of Journalism I am offered more proof that even the monuments can crumble. Journalism School/Shmornalism School-submitted by Daniel P. Beckmann

Its a story of unions, corporations, drugs, and the rock ‘n roll between them. How they all used Double Vision to get the job done.

I have always loved quotations, epigrams and the like. It goes back to the Sunday mornings of my childhood when I would jump into bed with my father with a copy of Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap book. It was loaded with pithy sayings chosen by Hubbard and was my introduction to the wisdom of the world. I would read each one to my dad waiting for his opinion…