I ran across an innocuous-yet-aggravating-anyway argument on the Twitter machine this week.¹Say not so! In this instance, a member of one so-called Generation^TM took offense at someone from another Gen^TM who claimed that theirs was indeed the best of all possible G^TMs – because look at all the wondrous innovations theirs could claim – while the other G^TMs were a bunch of wankers due to their inclination to war, racism, laziness, lousy taste in music/film/etc., and other particulars. The exchange was lively, generally pointless, and, as these things do, escalated into name calling of all sorts. read more