Thanks for finding the web site. I had read that they were calling themselves the World Council of Elders, or something like that, but there's some older hippy dippy outfit using that name.
It's fun to think of people who would be accepted into The Elders. Margaret Thatcher? No way. But Fidel Castro? If he "retired", I'm sure they would welcome him with open arms.
I also thought of people like Rigoberta Menchu and Arundhati Roy, but it turns out they're around my age. This is depressing.
Posted by: Angie Schultz on July 19, 2007 11:10 AM
The Elders can kiss my ass.
Posted by: Jonathan on July 19, 2007 12:53 PM
I just keep thinking about the recent scandal in The Villages, a tony retirement community up the road from where I live (near Orlando, Florida), when it was revealed that various venereal diseases were on the rise in said community because of all the naughty shenanigans among the residents.
Posted by: Andrea Harris on July 21, 2007 11:12 AM
...but then again, these people just make me want to toss. "...build on the cumulative moral authority of their parents and grandparents..."? Shudder. Sort of a U.N. meets Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I guess.
Posted by: David Fleck on July 23, 2007 08:11 AM
Our reason for the trip is in furtherance of one of the most intriguing possibilities in recent memory.
Hmmm...the existence of time before the Big Bang?
The eradication of aging?
Female-female reproduction?
Artificial intelligence?
Extraterrestrial life?
How many "intriguing possibilities" guesses do you suppose it would take me to get to, "The descendants of some famous people gather in a gassy confab to pathetically bathe in their ancestors' (sometimes dubious) reflected glory"?
Posted by: Angie Schultz on July 23, 2007 12:04 PM
But....the presence of Saint Jimmy makes it all good. Doesn't it?
Posted by: Brian on August 23, 2007 07:30 PM