New Scientist: “The US could be rife with ‘internet addicts’ who are as clinically ill as alcoholics, according to psychiatrists involved in a nationwide study….Most disturbing, according to the study’s lead author Elias Aboujaoude, is the discovery that some people hide their internet surfing, or go online to cure foul moods – behaviour that mirrors the way alcoholics behave.”
Year / 2006
(Middle Class) Smart Women Don’t Necessarily Finish Last
Yahoo: “The Center for Economic and Policy Research reports that women ages 28 to 35 who earn more than $55,000 a year (roughly the top 10%) are just as likely to be married as other women who work full-time. Indeed, Whelan’s survey found that 90% of high-achieving men want a spouse who is as smart as they are, and 71% say a woman’s success makes her more desirable as a wife. Maybe it’s because these men do want to marry Mommy – 72% of moms of high-achieving men worked outside the home as they raised their sons.”
A Literary Question With Thrust
Various authors, including Nell Freudenberger and Meg Wolitzer, have been asked by NOW Magazine to reveal which literary characters they’d like to sleep with. I like Freudenberger’s answer. Wolitzer’s response, on the other hand, is the kind of canned response I’d expect from an English undergraduate. Mr. Darcy indeed. Right. And Paul is your favorite Beatle.
Witold Rybczynski: Chickenhead of the Month
Journalistically speaking, Witold Rybczynski is like a paunchy, loutish drunk guzzling MGD at a dive that was cool in 1995 but that’s gone steadily downhill, incapable of citing specific examples (Maybeck had plenty of homegrown architectural followers, you foolish fuck), while he’s castigating two thirds of the bar through his rambling and uninformed generalizations and bitter dismissals, and who people would beat the shit out of if he weren’t so pathetic in articulating arguments or if it weren’t so easy to get the hubristic toad to buy you a drink because you smile and nod as he can’t stop boasting about his apparent “genius.”
(In other words, nobody fucks with my city and gets away with it.)
Pesky Muppet Quizzes
I’m Elmo too! I protest with Gwenda. Why not the Snuffleupagus!