Social scientists—-long the vanguards of labeling--have served as solemn stewards of putting generations into neatly alphabetized boxes ever since Generation X first marked the spot. After following that one up with Generation Y, and the next one Generation Z, they bravely christened those born from 2010 to 2024 as "Generation Alpha" (perhaps "Generation Z" seemed simply too final). And in so doing, they eschewed my sage suggestion to rename the post-Gen Z cohort Generation AI, reflecting its coincidence with the rise of artificial intelligence as a force bound to shape society from here on out.

Well I tried.

They have since, naturally, named the next cohort after Alpha. And what gem of creativity have they, through their meticulous methodology, unearthed for those born from the year 2025 onward (at least for the next decade and a half or so thereafter)?

Yep. It's "Generation Beta."

Children born for the foreseeable future will be Betas,…

Not jaundiced.

“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes – never!”
-– Mikhail Bulgakov

A medical term, specifically as it relates to my last HEENT assessment¹, aneritic refers to the absence of jaundice, which is characterized by a yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes due to elevated levels of bilirubin in the blood. (My last

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It's done. Donald John Trump has been elected again is President of the United States. America has its first convicted felon as its President. Not our first rapist, after all the relationship between Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson cannot be called consensual. Trum is our first felon. Our first seditionist too.

Four years ago Trump incited a bunch of his true-believers to assault the Capital, to intimidate Congress and Mike Pence into

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