"What's wrong with your people?"

Victor Davis Hanson thinks we've had it too soft, being born on third base but thinking we hit a triple. That resonates with me. Previous generations had to work hard to get where they got. In many ways, we're coasting on their efforts.

Oh, and read what he had to say about Michael Ware's rant on CNN. An excerpt:

Q: What is the disease in the media? Where did it come from?

VDH: I think it came . . . between the journalism schools, the academic training of a lot of the people, and this affluent, elite culture, to be frank, that comes out of the unversities on the left and right coasts, that's divorced from the tragic view, because these people are not...they don't open hardware stores. They don't service cars. They've never worked physically with their hands. They have an idea in this international culture of the West that somehow, all of their affluence, all of their travel, all of their freedom came out of a head of Zeus, and it's not dependent on the U.S. military, the United States role in the world. They have no appreciation for the very system that birthed and maintained them. And they've had this sort of sick cynicism, nihilism, skepticism, and the height of their affluence and leisure, that they don't have any gratitude at all, which is really one of the most important human attributes. [Italics are mine]