Oh grow up, grown ups.

The New York Times ponders whether 20-something workers are "ambitious and eager to learn" on the one hand, or "self-absorbed and presumptuous" on the other. The Washington Post ponders whether 20-something voters, which it describes as "the disaffected young citizens of America," "will set aside their sense of abandonment and apathy and [I kid you not] flash-mob the polls."

Glad to see that two of the best newspapers in the country have put aside boring, insubstantial stereotypes about Gen X and Y in favor of insightful analysis.

For the record, this recent law grad is ambitious, eager to learn, self-absorbed, presumptuous, disaffected, abandoned but not apathetic. And I think this characterizes most folks in our generation. If the Dems would learn to pay attention to the first 6 adjectives, and not use the 7th as a cop-out for not expanding their voting base, this party might get somewhere.