The Anti-Gap Generation Gap

(Millennials: they put the “I” in “identity”)

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I was spending an evening recently with my girlfriend (Netflix) and she suggested we watch a few episodes of an ancient black & white sitcom called The Dick van Dyke Show. Netflix is unpredictable like that, the inscrutable minx. That’s why I love her.

For those of you out there too young to remember that Ringo was the Beatles’ second drummer, The Dick van Dyke Show was a 1960’s classic about a comedy TV writer (Rob Petrie) and his fam...