Our good friend Cangrejero pointed out (via another medium) that Barack Obama is, in fact, younger than Jello Biafra. This amused me at first. Then, thanks to the wonders of the InterTubes, I found out that our incoming president is also younger than:
Henry Rollins
All of the original Ramones
Paul Westerberg
Bob Mould
Elvis Costello
Morrissey (but he’s a couple years older than the rest of the Smiths)
All of the original members of the Clash
All of the original members of R.E.M.
…and on and on.
So what, you ask? Well, aside from the fact that I now …