While I’m pleased to see McSweeney’s morphing into a middle-aged publication, some of the humor hews too closely to Gen X Erma Bombeck for comfort. Then again, satire has never resonated with me much.

This is dangerously close territory to “I’m trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a 16-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.”