Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed Friday he’s staying on the nation’s highest court, weeks after a swell of speculation about a possible retirement.
“Obviously, I’m here for another term,” Alito, 76, said in an interview published in The Wall Street Journal’s editorial section.
Discussion of Alito’s future hit a fever pitch in June, when a mistake by a veteran Supreme Court reporter at National Public Radio resulted in the erroneous publication of a previously prepared retirement story.
Baby boomers were not exposed to that much leaded gas when they were younger, that didn’t become a huge problem until the 60s and peaked in the early 70s. Genx is actually the generation with the highest amount of **led exposure.
The whole lead brained baby boomer thing is pop theory** that attempts to explain the reason why baby boomers are so shitty, in reality it’s more likely socio economics rather than physiology.
A lot of baby boomers were raised by a society that was experimenting with replacing the idea of communal upbringing with the nuclear family. Sacrificing the stability of a community for the economic advantage of being able to move away from a larger family structure for economic advantage.
If you had loving parents who worked to socialize you in your new surroundings, it’s not so bad. If your dad is an alcoholic suffering from undiagnosed PTSD from the war… You’re probably not going to learn a lot about the importance of empathy.