Soylent Green -- It's Made from ... Boomers!

When Christopher Buckley wrote about the tobacco lobby, he made an industry flack his anti-hero. His skewering of Washington and the legal profession featured a First Lady on trial for murder ... of her husband, the President. So when he turns his darkly comedic eye on Boomers, they should be prepared to take fire ... and laugh.

In Boomsday, Gen Y blogger Cassandra Devine has a Swiftian modest proposal for easing the enormous burden borne by workers paying for retired Boomers' Social Security: offer the seniors tax incentives to euthanize themselves. But the idea really gains momentum when a presidential candidate, seeking the youth vote, gets behind "transitioning." Will Boomers get off the golf course and back into the fray?

Buckley's publisher, Hachette imprint Twelve, quotes Fortune magazine describing the author as "the quintessential political novelist of our time." "Thank You for Smoking" and "No Way to Treat a First Lady" were hilarious; if "Boomsday" follows in that vein, readers of a certain age should thicken their skins and enjoy.