TRAPPED BY YOUR PREJUDICES. Newmark's Door links to a San Francisco Chronicle survey that cannot conceal its surprise that a majority of the Baby Boomers support Operation Iraqi Freedom. Key mistaken inference, by Republican pollster Frank Luntz: "They went through college in rebellion, and have been trying to make amends ever since." (Todd Gitlin can be excused his claim that the results are "counter-intuitive." He probably runs in the circle of people who to this day remain surprised that Ronald Reagan won (or John Anderson lost) in 1980, because nobody they knew voted for Reagan (or everybody voted for Anderson, mutant but true.) Here's a little demographic reality: the majority of the Baby Boom cohort is born from 1954 or 1955 on to 1962 or 1964, depending on whether you look at birth rates or the Kennedy assassination as determining the end of that epoch. That means they came of age during a time marked by a rising tide of social pathologies and ran smack into the downside of the Great Society programs so enthusiastically supported by their next-elders (the folks who were born on third base and devoted their adult lives to stealing second: never in human history has so much been given by so many to so undeserving) whose nostalgia for process, nuance, and failure manifests itself in their disapproval of the liberation of Iraq.