Al and Tipper Gore announced they’re separating last week. Thank God, the tabloid scene hasn’t found much with which to blow this story into un affaire celebe.

But here comes good old AARP, the geezer’s guide to everything, with the coverage nobody asked for. You can count on AARP to behave like a traditional pop-magazine these days. It’s no longer enough to be the Third Rail of Politics.

And here they are, trotting out Boomer media shrink Pepper Schwartz to dash off a quick hundred-or-so words of predictable pop-psych analysis of the long-marriage-breaks-up phenomenon-syndrome. Never at a loss for a diagnosis, Dr. Schwartz concludes it’s because we’re living longer, and maybe we can’t stand the thought of hanging in there for maybe twenty or thirty more years of the same-old. And she never misses the opportunity to point out that this is another sign of the Boomers-Invented-Everything explanation. Here’s your pie, Pepper.