As far as the State of Address:

I missed most of it. I'll read later.

I did see all of the rebuttal.

Lemme try this again, to deadhead this stupid idea of "the peace that our parents bequeathed to us":

I'm a baby boomer, too, if a late one, 1957, and the only secure environment I knew was the one my parents gave in my own home.

1. Duck and cover drills at school in case of nuclear attack

2. Assassination of a sitting president

3. Assassination of a presidential contender

4. Assassination of Martin Luther King

5. The Vietnam War. My brother went.

6. Riots at the Chicago convention of '68

That was by the time I was eleven. I did not grow up in a golden era of civil polity. So shut up about it already, Nancy, or anybody else.

Or was she talking about the times I would crouch in my mother's closet and inhale her dresses. They always had a faint smell of Tabu.

UPDATE: Bob Schieffer mediating one of the presidential debates brought up that same idea.