Hiatus. Again.

I’m off for the holidays so this will be the last post I write for a while.
But before I go, I want to say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Eid Mubarak, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza to you all.
I wish everyone a restful and relaxing holiday season, and a joyous, prosperous, and bountiful 2008. Let’s hope it’s a better [...]

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Dressing for Other People or, The Sexualization of Girls.

 
I’m being lazy today so, rather than write my own thoughts on this issue, I’m pasting an excerpt from an article in the Guardian:
This is an economic imperative, pure and simple. It makes sound business sense to identify tweenaged girls’ image-related anxieties and offer them the clothes, cosmetics and pop culture characters they envy of [...]

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Long Before Chuck Norris Put the “Laughter” into Manslaughter, He Was Putting the “Pro” into Propaganda.

Chuck Norris has been around for ever, it seems. In addition to discovering the fountain of youth and famously brawling with Kung-Fu legend Bruce Lee, he’s also been in a bunch of movies. For much of the last twenty years, however, he’s been flying under the radar, having spent much of this time as the star of “Walker: Texas Ranger” [...]

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In My Other Life, I’m an Addict.

It’s not every day that I blog about celebrities but sometimes, I stumble upon an especially juicy story on a certain gossip blog. Today was one of those times.
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen (aka the Olsen twins) have always been in the spotlight but the attention has not always been good, with stories coming out about eating [...]

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Surprise! A Person’s Intelligence is Not so Closely Linked to Genetics After All.

Writing in the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell argues that IQ is not fixed, and it has nothing to do with race but everything to do with the environment in which a person is raised. And also on the type of IQ test administered. Apparently, the standard IQ test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), [...]

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Dawn of the Foodies, America’s Most Obnoxious Clique.

I don’t remember when exactly I first heard of foodies, but I do remember the exact moment at which I decided they were my new least favorite group. I was in my car, listening to The Splendid Table on National Public Radio (NPR). Right about now, those of you who are familiar with my thinking are probably [...]

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