In big cities and small towns, people--thousands, hundreds of thousands--gathered April 5 to say "Hands Off": hands off Medicare and Social Security and veterans' benefits and science research and women's rights and all the rest.
Will it stop the tsunami of dread? Of course not. But it's a start. And isn't that what we need now?
Neil Offen, one of the editors of this site, is the author of Building a Better Boomer, a hilarious guide to how baby boomers can better see, hear, exercise, eat, sleep and retire better. He has been a humor columnist for four decades and on two continents. A longtime journalist, he’s also been a sports reporter, a newspaper and magazine editor, a radio newsman, written a nationally syndicated funny comic strip and been published in a variety of formats, including pen, crayon, chalk and, once, under duress, his wife’s eyebrow pencil. The author or co-author of more than a dozen books, he is, as well, the man behind several critically acclaimed supermarket shopping lists. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.
