Sure, my birth certificate claims that I am only 32, but I am old. How do I know this? Because people my age are looking at the apparently "disgusting" Miley Cyrus video and using it to disparage the music of "the youth."

Good lord, I'd hoped we were at least eight years away from this, but apparently not.

Full disclosure, I haven't watched the video, being well assured that it would be a waste of my time and a blow to my respect for humanity. I'm sure it was in poor taste, don't get me wrong. For a VMA performance to be called "disgusting" must have been some achievement.

But seriously... who the hell am I to use this to attack anybody? Britney Spears is one year older than I am. Thank goodness SHE never tried to use sexuality to declare her "little girl" act was over in favor of something more "mature." So I can't use Miley to discount "the youth" anymore than Britney somehow undermines the music of my generation.

Try telling that to my friends, though. This is when you know you are old. Not when you watch the antics of younger people and shake your head, but when you do it in a way that implies that your own generation had no such antics.