January 10, 2014
Familiar yet mysterious band names
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Dead or Alive, Men at Work, Missing Persons, General Public, Talking Heads -- these are all standard phrases or idioms, as well as the names...
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January 9, 2014
Education bubbles and rising inequality
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Below are a series of comments I left on a post at Steve Sailer's. They look at the history of the relationship between rising inequali...
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January 6, 2014
Human-scale vs. Earth-shattering stakes in movies
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Here is an article about how movie audiences these days require the entire universe to be at stake, or else BORRRING. The counter-trend is ...
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Is nostalgia narcissistic? Or only for Boomers?
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Here is a WSJ column by Terry Teachout arguing that Baby Boomers' nostalgia is narcissistic. He also argues that they are Peter Pans, a...
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January 4, 2014
Another case of subversive children's culture disappearing
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Kids these days don't sing subversive schoolyard songs anymore, something that is bizarre to the generations who grew up learning ...
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January 1, 2014
The class of '63: History through yearbook impressions
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Tonight we had a lot of fun looking over my aunt's yearbook from the year she graduated, 1963. This was an interesting time because it w...
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December 30, 2013
Smaller family gatherings at Christmas during nuclear family-centric times (pictures)
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After visiting my brother and his wife last week, we're flying out again tomorrow to see more family members who we normally would have ...
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December 29, 2013
Southern girl sexuality
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For Christmas this week we went to visit my brother and his wife, both transplants living outside of Fort Hood, itself outside of Austin. On...
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December 27, 2013
Toys most popular with today's less empathetic children
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Here is a review of the hottest-selling toys this Christmas season at major retailers, for both boys and girls. I checked it out on a hun...
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