Are sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll taking their toll? Steve Sailer thinks it's possible, as he analyzes the increasing death rates among the baby boom generation. Excerpt:
I think there is definitely a pattern in that coming of age in the Late 1960s / 1970s seem to have taken a toll on people, leaving them more vulnerable to dying of overdoses, suicide, and alcoholism later in life.
It's kind of like how homeless people and AIDS sufferers started showing up in the 1980s. There are all sorts of explanations for these separate effects, some valid, some tendentious, but a common theme that's almost totally overlooked today is that the 1970s were a Big Party and that took its toll on some people.
Another Sailer piece about America's best and worst small cities. Pretty funny that California has all of the bottom 13.
