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Call it the great mouse schism. Last week 16,000 delegates of America's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, kept very busy in Orlando, Fla. They elected the 16 million-member Convention's first baby-boomer president, James Merritt, 47. They announced a couple of headline-grabbing conservative policies: support for the death penalty and an explicit ban on women pastors. But for all its productivity, the meeting was awfully quiet. This was because most of the usually rancorous, relatively liberal opposition sat it out. The rebels, who call themselves the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will also meet...
...mumbled something about how Bruce helps keep us young--to which Schwartz responded that we're like every other youth-obsessed boomer couple. "It's not so much Bruce as what he represents for you," she said. "Vitality, romance, adventure. That's more important than being part of a fan club." Maybe we won't need rehab after...
...above nonsense aside, the betting here is that Miller will do all right. He's a serious fan, an Iron City native who probably knows more about the Steelers than Terry Bradshaw, and has the poise and wit to make predecessor Boomer Esiason seem like, well, Boomer Esiason. Plus, he's a natural for the prized college-male demo...
...bigger, in stories and ads, on SUVs, watches and sports apparel than on diapers and baby equipment. Dads and Dadmag.com an unrelated online fathering magazine, also favor the sports hero as parental role model, with cover stories on Cal Ripken and Bo Jackson, and a regular column written by Boomer Esiason. Helpful parenting websites with solid dad components--but a bit less testosterone--include father.com slowlane.com and familyeducation.com...
Sewell's class is small--just eight women, all boomer age or older--and was clearly designed with the forgetful in mind. Though the group meets six times over six weeks, the participants all wear name tags at all the sessions. Members who forget to attend a class are free to come back in the next six-week cycle--especially helpful for absentminded folks like me who may still be trying to make up missed dental appointments originally scheduled...