at Business Insider: “You need to keep your skills fresh,” said a commenter in a recent post about the finances of parenting, referring to the concept of a mother staying at home with the kids. “In case of death or divorce.” I didn’t argue, but I shook my head and . . . . Continue Reading »
The survey also found that family satisfaction varies somewhat by race and ethnicity. Nine-in-ten blacks (90%) in the lower class say they are satisfied with their family lives, compared with about eight-in-ten Hispanics (83%) and whites (79%). (link; and this paragraph was pointed out by the . . . . Continue Reading »
Viscount Milner writing to a friend in 1903 about his reason for leaving politics, one of few such explanations not to sound either self-righteous or self-pitying: I am too far, too increasingly out of sympathy with our political system, and with the political attitude of the bulk of my countrymen, . . . . Continue Reading »
Where we left ALMOST FAMOUS was with a question I say the film deliberately raises: How is a rock-writer like a groupie? 1)In the film, the rock-writer character is made very similar to them: William is “on the bus” and is underage. Yes, the latter fact is from Cameron Crowe’s life, . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the purposes of the Republican convention was to give us some insight into the good, faithful, and hard working Mitt Romney. The stories about Romney as a Mormon religious official caring for his fellows were genuinely moving. Romney’s business experience and his experience in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Dennis Barlow, protagonist of Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 novel The Loved One , is an employee of Happier Hunting Ground, which provides funeral services and burial grounds for pets. When Arthur—-the pet Sealyham (terrier) of Walter and Theodora Heinkel—-dies, Dennis sells the Heinkels . . . . Continue Reading »
According to Krauthammer: “The problem for Romney is that there were only four events [that] could change the course [of the race]: the three debates and the conventions, and he apparently squandered the first.” Charles focuses on the tactical error that was Clinton Eastwood. What . . . . Continue Reading »
The World Health Organization has published guidelines to help prevent suicide. From the WHO:Effective interventions Strategies involving restriction of access to common methods of suicide, such as firearms or toxic substances like pesticides, have proved to be effective in reducing suicide . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is a good day to reread R.R. Reno’s explanation of how we misremember the attacks. . . . . Continue Reading »
Jacob Sullum reports that Thomas Szasz, one of the most vigorous critics of the psychiatric profession, died over the weekend. Jeffrey Oliver explained the importance of Szasz career in the New Atlantis : Nearly one hundred years after Eugen Bleuler invented the word “schizophrenia” . . . . Continue Reading »
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