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PART THREE

And here’s even more …

BILL CLINTON – THE FIRST BOOMER PRESIDENT
Boomers grew up without having to face true evil, unlike the generation before them (Hitler, Stalin and Mao) and our generation (Osama and co.). This ignorance of evil means Boomers don’t know the difference between right and wrong, and have a hard time spotting a bad guy when they see one. It was fine for a while, when the worst thing a Boomer without a moral compass could do was throw “swinger parties” and occasionally go off the rails like Charles Manson and Jim Jones. But things got serious when Bill Clinton, the “first Boomer president,” was elected. Not knowing the true face of evil meant he was unable to recognize the genocide in Rwanda until after a million innocent people were hacked to death with machetes. It also led to President Clinton not being able to recognize the threat of Osama bin Laden and killing him when he had the chance. There was even a White House memo that outlined the threat of bin Laden, which apparently had handwritten notes on it from President Clinton himself, dismissing the threat of bin Laden. We say “apparently,” because nobody will ever know for sure. See, last year, after being subpoenaed to the 9-11 Commission, Sandy Berger (Clinton’s National Security Advisor) snuck into the National Archives, stole those memos and shredded them (a crime for which he will be sentenced in September 05).

THEY TRIED TO BRING COMMUNISM TO AMERICA
Remember “Communes?” And the origin of the word “Communism” is…

When America was first settled, they tried the commune model, following the “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” model. Unfortunately, it was such a total failure that by 1623 people were starving to death left and right and the future of the “new world” was in jeopardy. See, the problem with commune-ism is; there’s no motive to do things better and to work harder to deliver something of value to your fellow men. It never, ever, works. Just ask Russia (people waiting in line forever to get bread and toilet paper) and the Chinese (30 million dying from starvation thanks to Mao’s commie agricultural plan). Unlike the Russians or Chinese, when our forefathers saw that things weren’t working they changed, trying capitalism, private property, and individualism, rather than a system geared toward the “common good.” The result? The birth of the greatest, most powerful nation in the history of the world – which went on to create jazz, manned flight, and the computer. Commune-loving Boomers tried to get rid of all that in the 60s and 70s. Like all true communists, they failed.

MORE CLOGGING UP THE JOB MARKET
Boomers have been clogging the upper echelon of the job market for years. A 2002 Time magazine story entitled “Young and Jobless” put it this way; “Boomers are refusing to budge,” and “they are clogging up the system.” To make things worse, Boomers are now figuring out ways to live longer so they don’t have to give up that corner office to someone from our generation. Then, like actor Michael Douglas – bam – they’ll get old all at once like a ripcord’s been pulled, at which point we’re going to have to pay for the Boomers’ retirement through Social Security (it used to be that 16 workers supported 1 retiree. Today, 3 workers do, and in the future, only two of us will be supporting each retiree). Think of it as an extra set of grandparents living in your home, eating your groceries and sending you the bill for their nine thousand different pills – a bill you can’t pay, because you don’t have a job.

CLOGGING UP THE MUSIC BIZ
Boomers, clogging up the hierarchy of the music biz and Grammy Award voting structure, are responsible for choosing Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature as album of the year in 2001 (over Radiohead’s Kid A) and Bob Dylan’s Time out of Mind over Radiohead’s OK Computer in 1998. Then, in an attempt to cover their asses, they go overboard, trying to act all “hip” and “young.” Of course, they get it all wrong, picking Evanescence as Best New Artist in 2004 (how’s that career working out?) and Kylie Minogue for Best Dance Song (beating out Cher and Madonna, for added irony). These Boomer-clogged voting blocks also have no idea what black people actually listen to, consistently picking acts like Black Eyed Peas and Nelly for best hip-hop, and middle-of-the-road R&B artists like Beyonce. They’re like that weird old guy at a party bopping his head to the music (out of time) and trying to blend in. It’s creepy and uncomfortable.

THEY THINK TERRORISM IS SEXY
To many Boomers in the 1970s, members of the Weather Underground were heroes. Convinced that America’s presence in Vietnam was illegal, they engaged in a series of domestic attacks designed to overthrow the United States government. They waged street battles with police, bombed the Capitol building and broke Boomer icon Timothy Leary out of prison. Today, we call these sorts of people terrorists. In 2003, a documentary about this terrorist group was nominated for an academy award and fully embraced by Boomer film reviewers:
“A great story! The young, violent, and glamorous anti-establishment militants of the 1960s. Terrifically smart!”
-Elvis Mitchell, NY TIMES

These are the same people that conveniently forget Mandela went to jail for terrorism. His boys, the ANC were famous for bombing government buildings and delivering “tire necklaces” (when you put a gas filled tire around someone’s neck, light it, and laugh their head off).

Today, our university faculty rooms are filled with these hippie leftovers, preaching the gospel of their stoned and violent youth to the next generation. Todd Gitlin, former president of S.D.S. (a precursor to the Weather Underground) is now an author and professor of journalism at Columbia. Here’s what he had to say about the murdering terrorists of his youth: “‘Like Bonnie and Clyde, many of them were attractive personally. They were into youth, exuberance, sex, drugs. They wanted action.” And Osama is the epitome of tall, dark and handsome.

THEY STILL LOVE EASY RIDER
It’s extra sad when they buy all the gear, too. Then, they put their wives on the back of their hogs and drive cross-country with nothing but a MasterCard and whatever they can stuff into a pair of saddlebags. That means one change of clothes – for the entire country. That means everything, from day 2 onward, smells like Dad balls.

THEY STILL SMOKE POT
Boomers always have a bag of weed around the house and marijuana use among adults aged 45-64 is up a whopping 355%. This is great when you’re a kid, stealing enough for a joint, but halfway through smoking it, you’re like, “Damn, this is Mom’s high I’m feeling right now.” The good news is there’s been new evidence linking heart attacks to marijuana use. Doesn’t “marijuana-induced heart attacks” have a nice ring to it?

WOODSTOCK
At Woodstock #1, it rained buckets on Boomers, causing mudslides and the biggest outbreak of Trenchfoot since the second World War. At Woodstock #2 in 1994, it rained buckets on the sons and daughters of Boomers, causing mudslides and the biggest outbreak of Trenchfoot since Woodstock #1. By way of contrast, Toronto’s Gay Pride Day parade, as long as I can remember, has never – ever – been rained on. In fact, it’s always sunny and warm for the homos’ big day. That either means that God hates Boomer Hippies or God loves Fags. Likely both.

DRAFT DODGERS
Can you believe they’re actually building a monument to the more than 125,000 draft-dodging cowards who fled America to Canada between 1964 and 1977? The monument is being designed now, with plans to unveil it in Nelson, British Columbia in 2006. Early sketches of the statue include a fat idiot running away in a tie-dyed shirt while his brothers die on the battlefield, and a reclining bearded asswipe holding a joint and getting blown by a pair of buck-toothed Canadian girls.

MICHAEL SCROCCARO



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Comments:

Subject: steely dan
Date: Feb 16 2007 01:50:56 PM
Author: ron jeremy

even steely dan knows their grammy winning album sucks, they laughed all the way to the microphone. they shoulda said it belonged to someone else, maybe even radiohead, they would've come across as wise mature baby boomers then. maybe they woulda sold an extra two cd's in that instance.



Subject: radiohead sucks
Date: Nov 18 2006 03:05:47 PM
Author: radiohead sucks

Yeah, they're not that good. Steely Dan didn't win because of baby boomers, they won because they're awesome and don't need to record entire albums of electronic fuzz to get thier point across.



Subject: baby boomers
Date: Apr 22 2006 09:33:20 AM
Author: pat mc crotch

i work in an estate agent full of those cunts.let me tell you, thanks you ticked every box, infact, the fresh and wild in stokenewington that bought out the little vegan - i can see it from my desk.



Subject: American Communists
Date: Nov 23 2005 05:43:19 PM
Author: Xtine

Um, Communism existed in America way before any baby boomer was even born. The first people to form Communist parties in the United States did so in 1919. That was a full generation and then some before the boomers started to appear. Who do you think they were going after during those Senate hearings during the 1940s and 1950s? Babies???



Subject: Mandela, grad school
Date: Oct 21 2005 11:43:26 PM
Author: duck

To the best of my knowledge Mandela himself was never implicated in any of the ANC atrocities at the time but this is not to say the ANC was lilly-white (haha). They chose to ally themselves with socialists/communists back when the Cold War was raging and deserved a good kick in the pants for that. Vice published an article a while back about the recent decay of South Africa.

As bad as undergrad is for having to deal with hippie commie professors, grad school is 10x worse. Classes are smaller, attendance is semi-mandatory and calling BS BS knocks you out of a lot of opportunities. Students just shut your mouths, get the diplomas, and go out and make money so you can destroy the parasite hippies and bums of the world through donations to good charities and advocacy.



Subject: sv
Date: Oct 21 2005 03:12:30 PM
Author: qwerty

HEY COCK SUCKER.

MY POINT.

is that if this wasn't attempted mind control they'd lob steaming piles of shit on the WORST boomer president.

but no.

that'd cross party lines.

vice is now officially in big business' pocket.

so instead they choose the "democrat".

and blame him for fucking RWANDA? please.

and then of course sieze the opportunity to stick the blame for 9/11 on clinton. CLINTON? (when of course the five-year-old mind of bush is far, FAR beyond the realm of resonsibility)

in so doing they reveal what this is all about.

it has nothing to do with boomers.

it's amoralist right-wing propaganda. (in other words: this is still the ultra conservative right wing. just because it isn't the ultra religious anti-abortion right doesn't mean it's not right wing)



Subject: Music Biz
Date: Oct 21 2005 11:59:08 AM
Author: Death-the O.D. (Original Death)

Who gives a rat's queff about a fuckin' Grammy. Sure, give it to Radiohead so they'll get so popular I can buy underwear in Walmart to the soundtrack of Kid A Muzak covers. Hey MICHAEL SCROCCARO, who the fuck let you write this shit? Can I suck his dick, too?
Die in '05,
Rad Company



Subject: qwerty
Date: Oct 19 2005 08:58:19 PM
Author: sv

Hey Dumbfuck! Clinton was the FIRST boomer president, what the fuck's your point, qwerty?



Subject: qwerty
Date: Oct 18 2005 11:43:40 PM
Author: FUCK VICE.

HEY ASSHOLES.

William Jefferson Clinton - Born: August 19, 1946

George Walker Bush Jr. - Born: July 6, 1946



Subject: Some errors..
Date: Oct 17 2005 09:02:33 AM
Author: Dan

Sir George Cayley was the first person to achieve powered flight, Ok the Wright brothers achieved powered flight by sticking a motor on a glider 50 years later but try being more specific. Americans invented computers? Hmm, Charles Babbage would disagree as would disagree as would Sir Thomas Flowers who invented the first programmable electronic computer, Colossus, developed in England during the war.
As for Jazz, you're right, American. Of course black American, a group despised & refused civil rights until very recently (in the broader scheme of things) and so probably not buying into the whole "Team America" thing. as for the rest of this well researched and articulate piece, like reading a 12year old spitting venom at it's parents "'cos I never asked to be born you know!".
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/Cayle
y/DI15.htm



Subject: dittohead
Date: Oct 15 2005 01:17:42 AM
Author: pinko

I can't get over how weird it is to have a hipster magazine trash the Weathermen, draft dodgers and Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela? I guess you're just counting on most of your readers not knowing what the fuck you're talking about. You sound like a drunk skinhead at a party.



Subject: marijuawhatwa
Date: Oct 13 2005 05:11:05 PM
Author: spaz

Hey man...you guys should lay off the whole "pot is bad" thing. Sure these are the people that do nothing but sit around and say clever things like "i love the smell of bong hits in the morning. smells like....victory". But you know what the coke kids are just as bad. Sure they actually DO THINGS with their life (if you consider smashing plates and arranging the little pieces into an effigy of Liberace doing something). But they are buying their muse at 135 an 8ball. Like the naked cult of hickey says..."everyone's a whore". Don't get me wrong, I'm whiffed up right now. In fact I just had to take a freezing cold shower to get my body temp below sautee'. What was I saying? Oh yeah, you gotta have weed for the comedown. Weed and xanex. Anybody got any xanex? I'm twitching.



Subject: hold up...
Date: Oct 10 2005 01:56:09 PM
Author: shintriad

Osama bin Laden is NOT handsome. Let's not fetishize the guy any more than we have to.



Subject: Wait
Date: Oct 09 2005 11:32:09 PM
Author: confused

Are you saying you DON'T like Nelson Mandela?



Subject: The links you use
Date: Oct 07 2005 02:39:20 PM
Author: Damien

are embarassing, plain and simple. I can prove the jews orchestrated the first and second world wars if you'll just follow me to www.stormfront.com . Or, alternatively, I can prove the first and second world wars were orchestrated by capitalists, if you'll take a quick hop over to www.marxist.org Or maybe, it was the fault of aliens, or pixie fairies, or magic dust! Just use the internet!

As for communism, a better yardstick of success is this: Are they better off now than they were under communism? Let's see. Russia? Nope. Eastern Europe? Nope. Nicorauga? Nope. Angola? Nope. Don't over simplify, and don't talk out of your ass about opinions you formed from foxnews, newsmax, and red dawn.

There are a near unlimited amount of morons on the internet. What they say often has little or no bearing on reality. And lest we forget, the weathermen never killed anyone. Osama bin laden and his buddies have been responsible for thousands of deaths world wide.

Vice magazine is a pillar of this great nation's journalistic integrity. Don't throw it all away for dead hookers and republicans agreeing with you.



Subject: The first two
Date: Oct 07 2005 01:57:01 PM
Author: PORKTAMER

The first two Guides... were better. This one in way more inflammatory than funny or informative.



Subject: and uh-oh for you VICE writers!
Date: Oct 07 2005 01:33:25 PM
Author: Johnny Monkey

That stuff about marijuana giving boomers heart attacks also includes this little line:

"While smoking marijuana was found to be less risky as an immediate trigger of heart attack than using cocaine, it is roughly as dangerous as exercise for a fit person and more dangerous than sex for a sedentary person..."

Damn. Pot's as bad as... exercise for a fit person? Huh? And it's still better than Coke? Double damn!

Hate to be a downer for you guys at VICE.



Subject: sigh
Date: Oct 07 2005 09:05:17 AM
Author: Johnny Monkey

So you guys are listening to Rush Limbaugh now? Awesome. Good to know you're buying the horseshit from the right whole hog now. Keep drinkin' that Kool-aid.

Yeah, it sucks that Clinton didn't get Bin Laden. But the difference between Clinton and Bush not getting Osama is that Clinton defeated a terrorist plot (the millenium bombings) after missing Bin Laden, while when Bush got pretty similar information (August 6th 2001 PDB) he fucked up, took a vacation, and we got hit. Plus, he fucked up AGAIN not getting him in Tora Bora.

But whatever. Yum... Kool-aid.



Subject: Seriously...
Date: Oct 07 2005 07:04:58 AM
Author: Daniel

Dudes, you are not expected to take this seriously! I mean come on, doesn't the mentioning of Radiohead give you a hint that the article isn't dead serious?

But of course, the easiest way of winding up people nowadays is assuming a neo-con pose and yak about draft-dodgers being "cowards" and whatnot. Anyone who feels offended – you brought this on yourselves with your lazy Michael Moore rethoric.



Subject: ok
Date: Oct 06 2005 05:11:56 PM
Author: g'bless

dead fucking on, vice...except- wtf makes madonna so much better than kylie? no, she didn't do it "first." there's always been an i(dio)t girl, no? all them suck so badly anyway that they're actually brilliant. what does it mean. might as well judge appearances instead and kylie wins anyway. britney's a queen. if not for them there would be no kim gordons running around on this earth. no light wih out dark, blablabla. i think hegel put that better.



Subject: sneakers
Date: Oct 05 2005 10:35:31 PM
Author: red bull marketing manager douche bag

what is the cut off age for wearing "hip" shoes, i.e. early 70's adidas shoes? Just curious.



Subject: Hey pops!
Date: Oct 05 2005 12:38:28 PM
Author: Kostya


Gavin, we know its you, and whats more.. its freaking us out!



Subject: radiohead?
Date: Oct 05 2005 12:18:49 AM
Author: kevin

huh?



Subject: uhhh
Date: Oct 04 2005 04:06:31 PM
Author: yeah

um Kylie Minogue is much better than Cher or Madonna. you fucking idiots



Subject: arrgh
Date: Oct 04 2005 12:57:05 PM
Author: chodask

i think it would be a good idea to hit our dad's joint again and lay off the yay and maybe some Bolivian won't burn thier flesh off making that shit for disaffected student loan hipsters. what's up with everybody being christian and a buzzkill and looking like tim burton characters with sailor jerry tatoos, what are you a historical character? everybody sucks! Everyone is guilty! I'm gonna show this issue to your parents and then they won't buy you any more nintendo games



Subject: reality
Date: Oct 04 2005 02:35:47 AM
Author: gargamel

dont hate on neil young brody, why does this whole issue have the scapegoat theme



Subject: .
Date: Oct 03 2005 11:12:53 PM
Author: filipo

I sincerely hope that the readers of this magazine are over the age of 22. If you are not, and you are reading this, heed these words: Please resist the urge to turn your teen angst and suburban disillusionment into hatred and zealotry at the hands of some fucked up, hypocritical alcoholic.
If you are over the age of 22; how are we to understand this?
This is a historic occasion. Never has a publication like this deliberately alienated its audience in such a crazy and confounding way. Where will they go from here? Will they keep publishing this kind of radical neo-con psycho-drivel? Will we keep reading it?



Subject: Babbage
Date: Oct 03 2005 01:22:10 AM
Author: timothy leary

Since when did an America invent the computer?

That was invented by a British dude way back when "Americans" were slaughtering natives.



Subject: go back to your money
Date: Oct 02 2005 10:36:39 PM
Author: .

It's funny that you mention Nelson Mandela's acts of violent protest as he only resorted to them after methods of peaceful protest had been brutally supressed. Ever heard of the Sharpeville massacre?

The way you write, I wouldn't be surprised if you were a 50 year-old republican only really resentful of the fact that you chose the losing side of the last century.



Subject: dfd
Date: Oct 02 2005 04:58:28 PM
Author: ddf

this article is full of Dadballs



Subject: finally understanding my own position
Date: Sep 30 2005 07:10:48 PM
Author: Mr. Buckley III

Hey! This is better than the National Review because I can actually understand the articles! YAYY!



Subject: millions of SE Asian civilian casualties
Date: Sep 30 2005 01:32:45 PM
Author: and fuck the Vietnam war

will spit down on you in hell.



Subject: fuck you
Date: Sep 30 2005 01:23:22 PM
Author: see below

"See, the problem with commune-ism is; there’s no motive to do things better and to work harder to deliver something of value to your fellow men. It never, ever, works."

Gee whiz! Thanks for explaining that to me and my 20 hour-a-day working, street hustling, starving family living outside the US with no huge stretch of land to steal and dark race to enslave to generate wealth to generate interest to entitle our comfortable conservative offspring 100 years from now.

"Just ask Russia..."

Ask them about how real income's been cut in half since the fall of "Communism"? Or about how their leaders exploited people in the same way our government uses people in other nations as toilet paper?



Subject: subject
Date: Sep 30 2005 10:19:28 AM
Author: nelson?

i must say that i couldn't think of any other place that i would put a statue like that than Nelson BC, you'd call them hippies or whatever but they're still dirtbags to me.



Subject: whose writing this shit
Date: Sep 30 2005 01:03:01 AM
Author: wtf

this guy is obviously a stupid republican



Subject: bill clinton and omsma bin laden
Date: Sep 30 2005 12:59:20 AM
Author: what the fuck

the bush family gets millions of dollars from the corrupt bin laden family....
GET IT IN YOUR HEADS STUPID IDIOTS, OSAMA BIN LADEN IS NEVER GOING TO BE CAUGHT! while bush is in power.




Subject: thanks
Date: Sep 29 2005 05:57:25 PM
Author: Tom

I like my parents.



Subject: My Best Friend
Date: Sep 29 2005 03:16:14 PM
Author: Kellie Hates a Hippie

My best friend Marni and I were walking down to a street festival a couple weeks ago. I saw some thirty-something-hippie fuck-tards hanging around the "save whatever fucking animal is dying" tent with their raggety ass dogs and Jesus style shoes. I said to Marni "I fucking hate hippies. Does this make me a bad person." She replied "A little." But she's a vegitarian, so...you know.

I'm so glad to hear that there are other people who harbor the same type of hatred that burns like when a hippie pisses.



Subject: Nelson, BC
Date: Sep 29 2005 07:12:57 AM
Author: GHB2005

Nelson BC is the epitome of Canadian Hippie hell-hole, talk about dumb fuck 50 year-old potheads



Subject: uggh
Date: Sep 28 2005 06:44:56 PM
Author: pops

ahh i love vice; fantastic work like always. i'm only 18 and this is much more on par with my thinking than whatever my tweed blazer wearing professors are talking about



Subject: make em say
Date: Sep 28 2005 05:59:07 PM
Author: uggh

ahhh i hate vice



Subject: HAHAHAHAHA
Date: Sep 28 2005 02:02:31 PM
Author: peter murphy

Either "gustaf's" post was the funniest prank post ever or this guy is a German "university" student who thinks Bush is the real Nazi and wishes fat, lazy Americans would all just die.



Subject: GUHHHH
Date: Sep 28 2005 02:04:32 PM
Author: Lola

Hey stupid Gustaf, how about you give me one example of a modern communist society that isn't failing miserably?



Subject: Communists
Date: Sep 28 2005 01:36:49 PM
Author: Gustaf

Hey stupid Americans, why such _hate_ of the idea of communism? It always comes down to the argument 'Hrumff, hey buddy, people aren't meant to live and work together without money or oppression.'



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