I’M NOT COOL 

By David Perlstein | March 29, 2024

A comic strip and a New York Times article recently defined my key personality trait.  Zits, by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, good-naturedly skewers teenagers and their parents. Their 15-year-old Jeremy was incredulous that his father once had a waterbed. “A lot of people did,” Dad explained. “Well . . . A few. Okay, nobody.” Jeremy’s zinger:…

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